I am happy to see that not everyone is afraid of Cult Leader Ken Evoy. I was with SBI for a few years and due to lack of time I never bothered to check for resources outside of SBI. I have to say and admit I also fell into the whole Pappa Ken to the rescue and do as he says. Everyone in that forum is blinded by Ken Evoy, he posts everyday acting like he actually cares for SBIers when in reality all he really cares about are his affiliate sales and he gets you to do that by making you feel like he actually cares about you and your success. If it wasn’t for the good people that blindly buy SBI and and blindly fall for his demand for free marketing he would NOT have a business. More and more anyone that even remotely criticizes SBI, his company or disagrees with him gets chewed out, embarrassed and the SBI troop of zombies run to defend him, it’s VERY CREEPY.

He tells people to keep blinders on, he preaches against Word Press and any other host like they are the devil and how you should stay away from them because if you dare to try them you will fail. Reality is SBI sites are doing terribly, they got slammed by Panda, thousands of people lost their income and as zombies they are waiting for Ken Evoy to move his magic wand and fix the problem… I have never seen such ridiculous, childish and downright SCARY behavior in a professional setting. SBI sites are doing badly because what Ken tells them to do is outdated, the builder and the designs available are from the 90′s and readers want more than sites built for Adsense.

When SBI’s Facebook account got removed, he told all his ZOMBIES to go and bombard Facebook, they all went and they did get their page back, any time a bad review is posted, he sends his troops to defend him.

If people disagree with him at the forums, he practically embarrasses them and tells them they are not welcomed there.

By the way, their builder sucks, and they made it basically practically impossible for customers to move their sites, they certainly know how to make moving to another host painful so they stay after a few hundred pages built.

Oh, and did I mention, they have access to your sites, and they go in whenever they want, use your stats to market SBI like you owe them your traffic and then post it without your permission. They also post your site on the results page so basically anyone looking for a niche, find a good niche to copy and gets the ideas you worked on and paraphrases your work and then he says you just need to deal with it.

The list goes on and on, STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM SITESELL, KEN EVOY AND ANY OTHER CRAP THEY OFFER. You can get anything you need these days for free online to be successful.

My gravatar seems to be missing but I am not a terrorist, honest.

I have been with SBI for a while now and just posted about them on my blog. I then found your post via a comment/link on Lissie’s blog I think it was.

Cult is a word that crosses my mind too but sycophant is sometimes just as appropriate. Ken Evoy (SBI founder) does seem to be upheld by the sycophants at an artificially high level, in fact, too high to be natural.

He has put together a package that includes most of what an average website owner would need but it is somewhat inflexible.

For the money it would be difficult to pull together all that is made available to each SBI owner BUT (really big but) and I am guessing, the average SBI owner probably does not get anywhere near the value out of the package that they could.

I have posted about my experience on my blog – no affiliate links – promise .

I think SBI has had its day. There are some that will continue to swear by it and yet others who will swear at you if you dis it. SBI will continue to exist for some time to come as there is an army of affiliates who will promote it regardless of their own level of success with it.

SBI suits a particular type of person. It is not likely to suit those who have developed a range of website building skills or who like full control over many aspects of their online presence. It will suit beginners BUT (another big but) some of the stories told by affiliates (eg making 16,000/month on a site with < 50 pages and just adsense) will eventually leave a bitter taste in the mouths of many wannabes who after 2 years forking out $300/yr for SBI will quietly skulk away into a corner looking for the next opportunity to "make it online".

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