WordPress Or SBI!?
It All Depends...
Thinking about blogging about something you know and love?
Use SBI! to turn that same knowledge or passion, having just as much fun, into an income of hundreds or thousands of dollars per month. Build an online business, like tens of thousands have done with SBI!.
SBI! is the unique all-in-1 package of process, software, guidance, and help that enables anyone to create websites that build profitable businesses at unmatched rates of success.
WordPress ("WP") builds blogs. But it does not build online businesses. SBI! does.
That, in a single line, is the difference between WordPress and SBI!.
"SBI! out-of-the-box" is all you need to build an e-business. There is nothing else to add.
"WP out-of-the-box" cannot build a web-based business. You need more than that. You need...
- well-organized "how to" info (video, written, mobile) that covers all of online business-building
- the right plug-ins and other software, all built-in (thousands of dollars to equal SBI!'s set of tools)
- real Support by the company & business-building help by 1 community where members have no ulterior motives, no vested interests other than your success
- constant updating/upgrading of every piece of information, every tool, as the web changes.
You need all of that, all in one place. But WP delivers none of it, nothing about business.
It is not impossible to succeed with WordPress. But you'll need help from many third party sources.
It's "apples to oranges." WordPress blogs. SBI! is the way to build an online business.
Few understand this success-vs-failure difference. In a single word, the difference is...
Business
"Online business" and "web-based business" and "e-business" are terms that refer to how tens of thousands of people, working spare-time or full-time (often from home), build sites or blogs based upon topics that interest them.
That's what most people think, but it's incorrect. The act of site-building or blogging is NOT e-business. It only plays a small part. You do not have a business until you grow substantial income and equity (the amount that someone will pay for it).
To do that, you must do much more correctly before, during and after you build a site or blog.
That is what WordPress does not include.
The good news? SBI! does.
The better news?...
No need to be a geek or professional writer. You do not even need to be a recognized expert in your niche (instead, you will become one!). Just do it correctly... Use the right process and tools. If you do, Google and other engines send you free traffic, which you turn into serious income.
How you earn that income varies from selling advertising to services, from adding an online store to offering your services, from promoting products of other companies to selling your own hand-crafted products, from renting or selling real estate to building a large network marketing team, from promoting your local offline business to taking your local business global, from driving your auctions to crazy heights at eBay to selling your own software or e-books...
Focus on 1 method to monetize (ex., sell real estate), or use many income-generators (greater revenues and more stability). Once you have traffic, monetize however you like.
How Many Times More Traffic Does SBI! Average?
SBI!'s business-building focus results in much more traffic (and therefore income), according to WordPress itself.
Guess how many times more traffic the average SBI! site gets...
Then click to see why you guessed too low. Do your own math.
How much you earn depends on how hard you work and on how well you follow a proven process and use the right tools to choose your site's topic (your niche), to grow your site and its traffic/income. It ranges from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands of dollars per month.
The rewards are great, and the risk is far less than building an offline business (ex., a shop). Once your traffic (visitor count to your site) grows, you'll generate revenues in many ways, even while on vacation, even if ill for months, due to significant and growing "passive income."
Best of all, that passive income builds substantial value ("equity"). For example, if your site delivers $100,000 per year in profits, it is worth 3-10 times your profits to someone else.
Most people don't think "build business" when online. They think "blog." (To make matters worse, they may also fall for "make money" schemes.)
Build a real business instead, one with long-term income and inherent value.
How Should You Build An E-Business?
People who want to earn income online tend to drift into blogging because "everyone's doing it." But there is a superior e-business-building option for most (not all) individuals...
SBI! Since the year 2000, SBI! has been designed from the ground up to build e-businesses.
WordPress Launched in 2003, WP is free software that enables you to blog. It does not provide you with all the information, tools, updating, guidance and support that you need to build a web-based business.
Blogging (or building a site of any kind), is only 1/10th of building an online business. WP lacks the other 9/10ths of growing a profitable e-business. This is where people ruin their chance for success.
SBI! provides everything you need (info, tools, updates, guidance & support) to build an e-business.
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SBI! is the way to grow an online business. WP will only build a blog.
You now know enough to start SBI! immediately and risk-free, protected by The Money-back Satisfaction & Success Guarantee. Given SBI!'s unmatched rates of success, the only important question that remains is...
"Is SBI! right for you?"
The fastest, best way to know is to try it, risk-free. If it turns out that you and SBI! are not right for each other, simply refund, no reason needed. More likely, though, you'll be heading towards business success.
Strong upside. No downside.
All you have to do is...
Who The Rest Of This Page Is For (And Not For)
There's more to this page than meets the eye. All you have to do is click on the "Click here to show and read the rest of this page" link (just below this box).
Who should click on that link? The rest of this page is not for you if...
- you love WordPress and/or blogging more than building a strong and growing e-business that generates substantial income and equity
- you don't mind that Wordpress is vulnerable to security hacks, including a very recent attack (puts your e-business at risk) -- more on this below
- you are stuck on "free," even at the expense of time, money and low traffic/income ((WordPress is not truly free, not if you want to build an online business)
- you already own a significantly profitable Web-based business (you don't need SBI!).
The rest of this page is for you if you want to grow an e-business and if you are...
- new to all this (perhaps even skeptical about the idea of building profitable e-businesses)
- aware that it is possible to earn life-impacting income online, but have yet to succeed
- highly Web-savvy, trying for years, and can't figure out why significant profits elude you.
We want you to try SBI! (risk-free). But only if it is right for you. Take your time and read the rest of this page carefully, critically. It is all proven fact. It is important for your future...
Click here to hide the rest of this page.
Taking SBI! home for a test drive delivers the only conclusion that matters... your experience. It saves a whole lot of reading, too! So fast-track to find out if SBI! is right for you immediately, risk-free.
If you first need objective, straight-up WordPress-or-SBI! information, keep on reading! SBI! is ideal if...
- You have knowledge or passion about anything from Aardvarks to Zambia.
- You are serious (SBI! requires commitment) about growing a real, long-term web-based business, one that builds income and equity that will impact your life
- You want to reach your profitable e-business goal in the most time-and-dollar-effective way.
If you match the above 3 criteria, let's proceed...
Why Do 99% Of Bloggers Fail At Online Business?
Millions of people choose to blog for three reasons...
- WordPress is free software for blogging.
- WordPress makes it simple to blog.
- WordPress is good for blogging.
Yet 99% of people who want to build an income-earning e-business fail.
Why? Two Reasons....
Business-Breaking Reason #1: The Red Herring
Blogging is a red herring.
The "red herring" is an idiom derived from the practice of dragging a smelly red herring across a fox's track to mislead the dogs in a fox hunt.
It now means whatever diverts attention from the matter at hand. In this case, the matter at hand is what it takes to build a thriving e-business.
WordPress is a "red herring" because...
Blogging is the wrong format for most e-businesses. It does not matter how good any tool is if it is not the right tool for the right job. It does not matter how "cool" blogging is because blogging is the wrong way to build an e-business for most people.
In other words, choosing WordPress is one big step backward if your goal is to build an income-generating e-business with growing equity.
We are "PRO blogging." We are "PRO" whatever helps you build a profitable e-business. That includes two types of businesses where we recommend blogging over SBI!...
- The News You want to cover "the latest" in your niche.
- The Pundit You want to post frequent, clever comments or articles.
If you want to build a news or commentary site, blogging is for you. Both, though, are hard and limited ways to build a business. For most people, building a website is the best way to build a profitable, long-term e-business, with the least amount of time and pressure.
Business-Breaking Reason #2: The Free Hammer
Besides being the wrong tool, WordPress is not enough.
Think of WordPress as a free hammer.
It's a strong hammer.
The hammer is good at what it does. However, not only is it a great tool for the wrong job (red herring), the hammer is not nearly enough on its own for your purpose, which is to build a business from scratch...
- No Complete Step-by-Step Business-Building Manual You don't know if you should build a restaurant or a toy shop (no blueprint), let alone how to build, promote or monetize the business.
- No Other Tools You not only have no information, you lack every other tool necessary to research, conceive, build and grow a profitable business.
- No One-Stop Community It does not come with thousands of like-minded, friendly people who help you at every step of the way, all speaking the same "process-and-tools language."
- No Up-To-Date E-Business Information And Tools. You have to spend time following "what's new," much of it distracting, confusing noise. That time should be going into your business.
WordPress, the hammer, comes with nothing else. SBI! includes a hammer (i.e., a sitebuilder). You can even use your own hammer (something you cannot do with WordPress). More importantly, though...
Your choice of hammer is not important. Any hammer will do.
It is everything else that determines your success.
SBI! includes everything else. WordPress includes nothing else.
Everything Else You Need? WordPress Vs. SBI!...
Do you want to build an online business, one that will impact your future? You are going to need a lot more (the "everything else") than blogging software because WordPress does not...
- help you decide if you should be blogging or building a content site (the difference is huge)
- do critical keyword brainstorming/research to develop the best possible Master Keyword List
- assist in site-planning, turning that list into a Site Blueprint before you type your first word
- provide the process and software to evaluate competition intelligently
- give you the tools and guidance to measure your niche's monetization potential
- guide you to the perfect niche (with advanced decision-making software) for your e-business
- show you how to define your positioning, differentiation & voice, leading to the perfect domain name
- help you establish and refine your site hierarchy, including internal linking structure
Can't Wait To See How This Ends?
Building a business can't be explained in a few words. So this page is not short. However, some people can't wait to see how a good book ends. If that's you...
Skip to the end. Or continue with the list of what WordPress does not do...
- provide tools that enable visitors to create full web pages for you (comments only)
- assist you to become a better writer, progressing to the level of excellent communicator
- instruct and train you about on-page and off-page search engine criteria
- provide process and software to build a strong links program (important for high rankings)
- include search engine aids such as analyzing, rank-checking, link-verifying, and others
- build traffic (including all you need for optimization for Google and other engines)
- teach you all about PREselling and how to strengthen the "visitor relationship"...
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give you specialized software to deepen PREselling, such as ...
- e-zine subscription-&-mailouts
- form-building, data storage and autoresponders
- Content 2.0
- show you how to find and use the most valuable conclusions from Traffic Stats
- provide unique visitor behavior tools like Click-Through and Click-In tools
- help you convert traffic into many streams of income, building growing cash flow and equity.
SBI! does all of the above.
SBI! Does Everything Else
SBI! owners ("SBIers") succeed at unmatched rates (have you ever seen proof like this?). They do so because they have "everything else" from Day 1. They have the process (Action Guide in web, video, and mobile formats), all the tools, help and guidance by thousands, and constant updating and upgrading of it all).
Meanwhile, WordPress is blogging software. The lure of free-&-simple is irresistible for most. But...
WordPress only delivers everything you need to write a blog, not to build a web-based business. Scan this Computerworld review of the most recent WP upgrade. This authoritative review by a highly respected magazine never talks about any business-building features because there are none.
Explore WordPress's Getting Started page and you will notice two facts immediately...
- Despite what they say, it's not easy to get started. With SBI!, you just get started.
- There is much technical instruction about building a blog, but nothing about building a business. SBI! is all about business.
While WordPress does nothing but blog, SBI! does everything else. And it does much more, including automated processes that work silently in the background for you, 24x7.
SBI! delivers everything you need to build an online business. Every one of its 80+ integrated modules contributes to the building of an e-business.
It Doesn't Matter Which Hammer You Choose
Free-&-Simple web-based sitebuilders have doomed most would-be owners of e-businesses since 1997, the year they became widely available. The same pattern of failure repeats year after year after year...
- Build a site without proper research and planning, limiting your e-business potential.
- Get no traffic due to the cumulative effect of many mistakes.
- Research traffic, finding many strategies in many places (some of them wrong).
- Buy e-books, membership sites, tools (free-&-simple becomes expensive-&-complicated).
- Fail to build much traffic. Repeat 2-3-4-5 until...
- Give up to low traffic and poor monetization planning (missed many income options).
It does not matter which "hammer" you choose. Why?... Because blogging (or building a site) does not lead to automatic success. You must do "everything else" to avoid the above pattern of failure.
WordPress is merely the latest in a long line of "free" sitebuilders. Like all other free builders since 1997, it steadily pulls you deeper into the pattern of failure because it is not enough.
What About Free Blogging/Hosting?
Never take the free blog-hosting offers. Own your domain and pay for your hosting.
If you are long-term-serious about your future, you must own and control your business. You want total flexibility, no restrictions. If you read the Terms of Service of free blog-hosting companies, you will realize all the dangers. For example, they have the right to terminate your service, or the entire service, at any time.
Free-hosting is not a foundation upon which to build your business.
What About Unlimited Cheap Hosting?
Many self-proclaimed web gurus suggest that you put up unlimited sites/domains for a grand total of $5 per month. How can cheap hosts make this offer?
Because all of the sites together add up to near-zero traffic. For those few who do generate some serious traffic, your account is taken offline until you pay a price increase (read the small print of the Terms of Service).
Aside from that, building many blogs at the same time is bad advice. It shows a failure to understand the difference between writing a blog and building an e-business.
Only build one serious e-business at a time. Research the niche and execute well. Once it generates good traffic and income, you then have time to start a second. The first earns you passive income and grows with minimal work (thanks to Content 2.0.)
More than half of all SBIers build more than one profitable e-business. They do it, though, one at a time because a serious business takes your undivided time and attention.
What About Using WordPress To Build A Regular Website?
Blogging has a problem. Visitors read "the latest" and then leave. That makes it hard to monetize. Google (in Google Analytics 101) confirms the obvious when it states that "normal visitor behavior is to read the newest post and then leave." People don't bother reading month-old newspapers. They feel the same about blog posts... "old news."
WordPress has been trying to address this inability to build a "non-time-journalized" website (the kind of site that SBIers build) for years. But the world does not need another sitebuilder?
There are already hundreds of sitebuilder software out there, all with the same shortcomings. They don't provide the process, all the other tools you need, nor the support and guidance and updating that SBI! delivers.
Whether you use WordPress to build a blog (wrong format) or a site (just another site), you are left on your own to figure it all out. You are still missing "everything else."
WordPress Is Not "Free" Because WordPress Is Not Enough
WordPress is free blogging software. If you want to build a business, you're going to need much more information, software and help from third parties. Here is a basic example...
Hosting is not included with WordPress, nor is your domain name. So add $100/year to "free." That's the first hundred of many hundreds of dollars. The price (in time and dollars) is going to skyrocket. Why?
WordPress will not take you through a process, nor will it give you all the tools you need. It will not guide/advise/help you towards building income and equity for you, nor will it keep you up-to-date.
You will pay for all of that. How much? A lot, in both time and dollars. Another example...
It's not simple to customize the look of your blog. Want to move a feature to a different location on the page? There's no manual or guide to instruct you. Learn PHP, HTML, CSS, etc., or hire someone to do it.
By the way, the best template, one that is easy to customize (ex., Thesis) costs $87. The "price of WordPress" goes up again. We are now at $187. For this amount, all you have, so far, is hosting, a domain name and a "theme" (look and feel). You'll need to learn some tech stuff, too.
WordPress, as you can see, is far from free. You pay more than half the price of SBI! before you even start. And you will spend much more (in time and dollars) for the "everything else" that WordPress lacks and that third parties sell. Speaking of those third parties...
An entire "third party" industry has grown to meet the needs of "The WordPress Gap." Bloggers who blog about blogging make their money by promoting products that fill that gap. They have grown into a massive industry, one that you will have to navigate with care...
The WordPress Gap Industry
Most bloggers generate little-to-no traffic, which generates little-to-no income.
When that happens, people either give up or they search for information and tools. That is when they discover that a huge industry exists to fill "The WordPress Gap."
The following discussion only applies to those who follow WordPress-as-red-herring down the wrong path (blogging is the wrong format for e-business). Stop blogging and investigate SBI!, the only all-in-1 e-business building product. With its unmatched track record of success and its Money-Back Guarantee, just try it.
The discussion below also applies if you want to use WordPress for a valid reason (ex., you want to build your brand as an author or you want to cover "the latest news" about your niche). Click here for when to build a site vs. when to blog.
Wherever there is a large enough need, a product will be created and marketed. Where there are many needs, an entire industry springs up. The WordPress Gap industry divides into 4 types of products...
- information/process
- tools/software
- help/guidance
- updating/upgrading.
All are included in SBI!. Since none are included with WordPress, you will have to piece together a combination of products (and services) from the 4 categories...
1. Information/Process... The "Blogging About Blogging" Info-Gurus
There are thousands of self-proclaimed experts who try to fill the info-gap by making you their business. Some are excellent. Most are not. Some are scams. The firehose of conflicting information is overwhelming.
There so many areas related to building a business online. Most bloggers specialize in one area (ex., how to write well, keyword research, search engines, competitive research, etc.). You must find the best of each and master it all to generate significant e-business income. However, there's a problem...
You do not receive information in an orderly fashion that you can follow step-by-step. Bloggers write about a topic of the day. You have to organize this torrent of jumbled content into a system that works for you.
It takes forever to sort out it all out. Naturally, these bloggers have products to sell you, sometimes e-books or other products that they have created, sometimes as affiliates for other products...
2. Tools/Software... Third Party Products
Some bloggers claim that "you can get it all for free." Then they recommend expensive products ("bait and switch"). Others are honest, earning their income by delivering good info and recommendations.
No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
What about free software? It will upsell you to a "paid" (superior) version or something else. And consider all that you must do to find, figure out and choose free software...
Let's take, for example, Google's free keyword research tool. It provides keywords and data for those who want to buy ads. At first glance, you figure, "if a keyword costs an advertiser a high amount, that's a good keyword for me to write about." And that, in itself, is true...
Soon, though, you realize that Google's tool is selling advertising. It was not created for you, the publisher of information. It does not provide you with enough good keywords for your purposes, nor does it provide any process (all the help is for advertisers)...
You are a publisher of information who sells ads...
- How do you choose the best keywords for you?
- How do you find lucrative areas to re-brainstorm?
- How do you organize the keywords (future topics of your site) into a proper site structure?
None of that is covered by Google's free tool.
That's just one example of a free tool. There are many free tools for each type of software. The free tool is not good enough (often on purpose).
Do you have the time to assess all these tools? Has each company been around for 10+ years, with a top reputation? Does it release free upgrades often? Sorting out all the software tools is almost a full-time job.
Even if you choose the good tools, many are expensive. And none are integrated (i.e., they don't fit together or "talk to each other" since they are from different companies).
You'll spend multiples in time and dollars, compared to SBI!. You still will not have all that SBI! offers.
What About "Plug-Ins?"
Some software applications are called "plug-ins." That means that you can plug it into WordPress or your browser. New word, but same old problems...
- Plug-ins are made by different companies, so they don't fit together or talk to each other. They are not built-in.
- Free plug-in? See "free software" discussion (just above).
- Some plug-ins are good. It takes time to figure out which.
- Plug-ins, paid or free, can't cover even half of what you need.
- The best software, plug-ins or not, can cost hundreds of dollars.
Like everything else, WordPress leaves it up to you to figure out the best plug-ins.
3. Help/Guidance... Answers To Your Questions
What about when you need advice, guidance? WordPress does not provide direct support when you have trouble implementing WordPress, let alone when you have business-building questions.
As a result, you will discover countless forums and discussion groups, each with "regulars" who have widely varying expertise. Some contributors have their own hidden agendas (ex., promote a product). They have different approaches, some good, some ineffective, and some of which could get you into trouble at Google.
It's hard enough to evaluate all the "gurus," but how do you figure out who is honest and competent in all those forums? There's only one answer... spend yet more time in an area that is not your business.
Not only do you have to sort all this out, too, you have to keep up-to-date on all of it...
4. Updating/Upgrading... Keeping The Information And Tools New And Shiny
Offline, business people keep up-to-date on topics related to their business. They do not have to constantly read books or magazines about "how to do business."
Online, things change so fast... SEO or "making money online" or blogging itself. Blogging is the right format to use if you want to cover "the latest" in your niche and that niche has a constant flow of news.
You have to keep up-to-date with all the info-gurus, new and upgraded software, WordPress updates, and so on. You have to decide whose opinion is right (most of it is disposable noise-of-the-week).
It's no wonder that many people who wanted to start a business about something they know and love (ex., Barcelona or banana recipes) end up in the business of providing e-marketing advice.
They have learned so much about building a "money-making site or blog," they figure they are experts. And so they join the "Internet Marketing rat-race."
SBI! eliminates the need to figure out the 4 mazes of product types before you can build an online business. You need only SBI!. It provides one process with a proven track record, one complete set of tools, one consistent set of forums and one source of regular updating and upgrading.
SBI! is the only product that requires nothing else to build the business you love and know.
Why Should You Try To "Do SBI!" The Long And Expensive Way?
Only the exceptional 1% can withstand the firehose of advice from so many,
put it all together with the tools that are truly "best of breed"
and take only the best advice from the top forums...
Fewer still can assemble it all into an action-oriented, step-by-step process with all the necessary tools, and then get positive results. Those who do are basically "doing SBI!" the hard and expensive way. And even then, they lack many key software modules like Content 2.0 that push your success even higher.
We have already discussed how long and hard it is to do all the research and 1) put the right information together into a process that works, and 2) research and find the best software, and 3) find the #1 places to go for help for different types of help, and 4) stay up-to-date.
After all that work, here's how much it costs to fill "The WordPress Gap" with "everything else"...
1) Information/process -- Some step-by-step books cost more than all of SBI!, yet are not as good as the Action Guide (video, written, mobile), the online help, and the specialized HQs (ex., Monetization, Traffic).
2) Software tools -- Good software tools are expensive. For example, the best keyword tools cost more than all of SBI!. Ditto for e-zine and autoresponder software. See the value of SBI!'s set of tools.
3) Help/guidance -- Membership sites can also cost more than SBI!. Well-run, free forums can suffice, if you find the right ones and if you can find the good contributors (quality answers, no ulterior motives).
4) Stay up-to-date -- This type of membership site can also cost more than SBI! They don't integrate new info into your process (nor delete old info). Nor do they tell you about software upgrades. SBI!'s updating and upgrading are automatic. You have nothing to do. It just happens.
Researching and buying the best products in each of the 4 categories (process, tools, help, updating) would cost thousands of dollars and hours. So beware the "pitch" that comes after anyone who tells you that "you can get all this for free."
Not only does it cost much more than SBI!, it feels like you have a messy "drawer-full" of applications, plug-ins, third-party software. They do not tie into a process for you to follow and they do not integrate.
It is likely that you will also waste another $1,000 per year on bad products, e-books that you don't need, and perhaps "that scheme that sounded so tempting." The drawer-full of tools gets messier, the junk sliding to the back of the drawer.
Put That Time And Money To Much Better Use (Your Business!)
Figuring this all out, and making it work, is near-impossible. It's why 99% have failed since 1997, and still do. WordPress makes it harder because blogging is the wrong choice for most e-businesses.
Beyond that, you will spend thousands of dollars on software and other products over the years.
And consider the time you'll lose... all that time on figuring out the gurus, the software, the advice, and keeping up-to-date. That lost time could have been building your online business.
The WordPress Gap will cost you thousands of dollars and hours. "Free-&-simple" becomes expensive-&-complicated. It stops you from building your business.
No One Makes Money By Doing What Everyone Else Does
There is a lemming-like rush to WordPress that blinds people to three critical facts...
- blogging is not the right format for most types of online businesses
- "everything else" needed for success is missing and can only be replaced at great cost and time
- you do not win at business by doing what everyone else is doing.
You do not fail or succeed at your e-business because of the sitebuilding or blogging software that you choose. As mentioned earlier, you can see that it really does not matter which "hammer" you use...
You fail or succeed due to the absence or presence of "everything else"... the information, tools, help and updating that handle all the hard parts of building a business. WordPress lacks that "everything else."
For the 99% who fail, it is just too hard, too tedious, and too expensive to fill "The WordPress Gap" with replacements. Even for the 1% who succeed, it's harder, longer and more expensive than it needs to be.
The Solution? Outsource Everything, Even Security.
So You Take Care of Business
Any time management expert would ask you, "Why are you doing it the hard way, wasting your time trying to navigate all the mazes? It's not your expertise. It's not even your job. Find someone who does it all so you can focus on your business."
That is what SBI! does...
Use a proven process and the right tools to execute the hard parts well. Use SiteSell Support and the SBI! Forums for guidance. Let SBI!'s team sort out what is new and important (updating the process-and-tools as needed)...
It's the difference between the messy drawer (above) and the Swiss army knife to the right. It still takes time and effort to build your business. But it all goes into building the business, not figuring out mazes.
WordPress Hacked... Security Issues Persist
A little-discussed issue is WordPress security. It is not secure enough. You regularly read about "security fixes" after hackers have attacked WordPress blogs.
This Google search for "wordpress security issues 2010" reveals "mass compromise of WordPress blogs," that "WordPress has become a prime target for hackers," numerous plug-ins that you must install to protect yourself, and so forth.
This Google search for "wordpress security issues 2011" show how WordPress is still a prime target, including a breach in April 2011 where hackers got rool level access (serious).
WordPress has been hacked many times, with bloggers losing time and effort, even entire blogs. WordPress does take security seriously, but it is a cat-and-mouse game. They can only know about a security hole after an exploit has already hacked the blogs.
SBI! sites have never been hacked. They are safer due to the nature of the product itself. You will never have to figure out all the steps to secure your blog like you do in this article on the problems with WordPress security. Like everything else in SBI!, we do it all for you so you can focus on what you know... building your business.
Boiling It Down...
SBI! is all about e-business building, not merely sitebuilding or blogging. We proudly provide you with documented, verifiable proof of success. (WordPress and other companies would too, if they could!)
The "elegance" and "coolness" of the blog-building features of WordPress are unimportant details compared to SBI!'s business-building combination of process, tools, updating and guidance.
So... WordPress Or SBI!?
Millions of people follow each other to WordPress without thinking about business. For most people, that's a fatal mistake because there are only 2 types of businesses that work well with the blogging format (and even then, you are going to need the "everything else" that WordPress lacks)...
- "The Latest:" You want to cover the latest news in your particular niche
- The Pundit: You want to post frequent, clever comments or articles in your particular niche.
WordPress limits your business possibilities severely...
- Maintaining a news site is hard, constant work.
- Punditry is useful only for a certain few with special talents who want to build a personal brand (ex., you want to be a published author).
Avoid wasting time and effort and dollars on the wrong platform. Avoid the pain of trying to fill the WordPress Gap.
Instead, invest your energy into building an evergreen "Theme-Based Content Site." The C 
T P M process builds a long-term, profitable e-business that generates income in so many ways...
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The Right Tools At The Right Time To Execute The Right Process
The difference is simple, powerful. Focus on one tested-and-proven process...
Content Traffic PREsell Monetize
- Content: High quality Content (text, images, video), properly developed and formatted, attracts free, targeted visitors.
- Traffic: These targeted visitors that arrive through search engines like Google are, by definition, interested in your niche. They are impressed by good content.
- PREsell: Your high-value information develops trust and confidence. Your targeted visitors like you.
- Monetize: Then, and only then, can you convert that targeted, PREsold traffic into growing income in a variety of ways.
Use one complete set of integrated tools to execute the process, one set of forums when you need some help, and never worry about updates or upgrades....
New and important information comes to you, including advice and strategies. Software is upgraded automatically, nothing for you to do, and new modules cost nothing. This is important...
SBI! constantly updates the process and every tool you need to execute it. New tools are added as the web evolves. Top notch support, guidance and coaching is available 24 x 365. WordPress does none of that. Let's summarize the comparison in two tables...
| SBI! (full explanation of tools) | WordPress |
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| All-in-one package of process, tools, automatic upgrading & updating, help & support. | Requires extra purchases and time and effort to find out what tools you need and how to use them. |
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Action Guide (video, text and mobile formats) provides step-by-step guidance through a proven process.
( Content Traffic PREsell Monetize )
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No process-oriented guidance for building a business. |
| The best help-and-be-helped small business forums in the world... a friendly, hand-holding community of success-oriented SBIers. | Scattered resources all over the Net. Many of which are filled with spam. |
| Risk-free. See Guarantee. | There is no guarantee on many of the necessary additional purchases (that SBI! includes). Trial-and-error is non-refundable. |
| Prompt caring customer support, 24/7. | Limited support. |
| Brainstorm It! - the smartest brainstorming, niche-picking and keyword-researching tool on the Net. Reduce hours of manual keyword brainstorming and research to mere clicks. | No keyword research tool. Another add-on purchase is required (costs as much as SBI!). |
| Wide collection of free and high quality design templates (2 or 3 column layout) that are easy to customize. | Extensive collection of free and paid templates. Hard to customize (requires technical knowledge). Free templates usually require a link back to the designer, have no support and often upsell to paid (better) versions. |
| Page-building options... Easy-to-use block-by-block building, through your web browser (create pages on any computer). And/Or upload your own HTML pages to the SBI! database, and CSS, JS, Flash, etc. SEO training. | Easy to use, through your web browser (create pages on any computer). Cannot upload your own HTML pages. Severely limits what you can do outside of your site template. |
| No FTP. But Infin It! module allows you to add FTP-dependent features (ex., custom CGI programming, forums, membership sites, etc.). You can even add a WordPress blog to SBI!. | No FTP. You cannot add an SBI! site to your WordPress blog. |
| Analyze It! guides your page-building to ensure optimal search engine ranking. | No SEO guidance. |
| Little-known fact: Blog It! module automatically creates RSS file and pings major blog engines, converting "site" into a simplified blog with rapid distribution. Best of both worlds. | Automatically creates RSS file and pings. |
| Automatic creation and updating of sitemap XML file. Ability to prioritize pages. Automated entry into robots.txt file and pinging to engines. (If you do not know what any of this means, it does not matter.) | Not built-in. Requires plug-in. (If you do not know what any of this means, it does matter. You will have to figure this out.) |
| Unlimited visitor-generated content pages and commenting via Content 2.0 (no spam). Your visitors build your site. Fully automated, quality-controlled. |
Old-fashioned blog commenting. You still have to create the primary content, adding new posts in order to stay relevant and maintain traffic. Little-known fact: Comments are so spam-plagued that you pay for anti-spam software. |
Unlimited pages and hosting bandwidth. 
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Additional hosting costs. |
| Built-in Social Media Marketing ("Socialize It!"). | Have to find and install plugins that may not be compatible with your blog. |
| Newsletter publishing software including subscriber list builder, spamchecker and open rate reporting. Extensive guidance. | Not available. Must purchase elsewhere - annual fee alone costs more than SBI!. |
| Easy to understand Search Engine Reports (spidering, indexing and ranking), Keyword and Image Search Reports, and Traffic stats | Must install free and paid third-party software. Spidering reports not available anywhere (invaluable clues to search engine behavior). |
| Form Build It! with CAPTCHA graphic-challenge automated forms and sequential autoresponders | Not available. Third party equivalent costs more than all of SBI!. |
| Monetize It! module (content-building, ad-selling and PPC-buying tools) | Not available. You are left to your own devices to identify profitable income streams. |
| Secure web hosting and automatic file back-up | File back-up against crashing or hacking is your responsibility. Paid third party. |
WordPress's "Advantages"... Exposed.
WordPress is hot. WordPress is "cool." WordPress is perfect for blogging. But...
Blogging is not right for most types of e-business. And...
WordPress is missing "everything else" you need to succeed at business.
Rational thinking should help to suppress mass-migration to WordPress for e-business. Let's extend this thinking to commonly repeated "advantages" of WordPress...
These "advantages" are never analyzed in the context of the real world, where everyday people are starting online businesses. It's time to objectively uncover the truth.
| WordPress "Advantages" | The Truth |
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| WordPress is free software. | If your goal is to build a serious e-business, it's useless without your own domain and hosting ($100/year). Add $87 to buy "Thesis," the template that many bloggers choose. $187. You will spend at least hundreds of dollars more. |
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WordPress is simple. -OR- "SBI! is complex." |
WordPress is actually more complex to make it a business-builder because it is missing "everything else." By the time you figure it all out, you will have spent far more time and money to get to the same place as SBI! starts. |
| WordPress is easy to use. | Yes, but only if your only plan is to blog, not if your goal is to build an enduring, thriving, profitable business. Also, there is some work in setting up WP. There is NO work on getting set up with SBI! -- you just start. |
| WP has an infinite number of site templates to choose from. | Many free ones are plain. The better ones require a link back or you have to pay for them. The best ones are "paid only." |
| With WordPress and $100 unlimited hosting, you can have an infinite number of blogs. | Web hosts offer this because the blogs they host get near-zero traffic! Anyway, it is only possible to build 1 serious e-business at a time. |
| WordPress has hundreds of free and paid plug-ins to add functionality. | "Plug-ins" is a new word for the same marketing technique used for over 10 years. Free and paid software that you have to find, figure out, and avoid viruses, upsells, etc. ("free" has a cost). |
| Everyone is using WordPress right now, so it must be good! | It is excellent blogging software, but it is not an all-in-one business package. 99% of people are failing to build seriously profitable, online businesses. 62% of SBI! sites make it into the top 3% (see proof). Which makes sense to you? |
| WordPress is always updated with new and exciting features you can use. | Features are about blogging, not business-building. Upgrades corrupt some third-party plugins, making them incompatible. Other errors and bugs and new security holes follow. You are responsible for fixing this (or pay someone). SBI! constantly upgrades its complete system, so you never see any of these issues. |
| You can now set WP to build a "regular" site, a blog, or a blog within a site. |
WordPress is trying to become a sitebuilder and a blogger, but this results in a large flaw...
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| If you set WordPress to build a full site (i.e., no blog), you can arrange your content into tiers. |
Instead of mechanically organizing tiers, weave links directly into your content. Visitors will find them more interesting, and you'll have a better chance of ranking highly at the engines.
This reduces WP to just another sitebuilder. |
| WordPress has a built-in commenting feature. | Why bother approving one-line "me too" blog comments, when visitors can create hundreds, even thousands, of brand new content pages for you with Content 2.0! |
| WordPress is more flexible than SBI!. |
The opposite is true, in terms of design, business models, ability to integrate important third party software, and monetization...
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| You can install plug-ins to make WordPress do everything that SBI! can do. | The statement is untrue. And there is nothing new about "plug-ins" (see above). SBI! is the complete process-tools-guidance-updating system, with 80+ tools. Brainstorm It! alone is worth more than SBI!'s annual subscription of $299, as are the MailOut, Autoresponder and Content 2.0 modules. Much of SBI!'s software cannot be bought on the web at any price. See the value of SBI!'s tools. It cannot be reproduced by adding free and paid plug-ins. |
| If you get a good template designed, your blog will look like a professional site. | Customizing free WP templates is difficult. Design costs are steep. SBI!'s extensive collection of professional looking design templates (2 column or 3 column CSS-driven templates) are free and easy to customize. |
| You can learn everything you need from the various blogs and forums that are available. | Learning, figuring out, and then keeping up with all of the latest trends through all the relevant blogs and forums would take a massive amount of time. That is time better suited to working on your online business. SBI! gives you all the information you need in one spot, then keeps you on the cutting edge of the new and important and enduring, filtering out the noise. |
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"WP is great for Search Engine Optimization." -OR- "Google likes WordPress blogs." |
Wrong. You will have to learn SEO with WP and find a plug-in. SBI! trains you in best SEO practices as you build each page, using the built-in Analyze It! module. (And the only thing that Google "likes' is excellent content, well formatted and linked.) |
The Tortoise And The Hare
WordPress is stuck in its world of building blogs. Blogs are useful for news and to be entertained or educated by the wit of clever commentators.
But billions of searches per day seek information, the type of information provided by evergreen Theme-Based Content Sites. These types of visitors don't just read your latest post and leave. They explore. This is how C T P M turns a site into an online business.
WordPress has tried to adapt to become a sitebuilder, but it is suboptimal in that capacity. In any event, there are many excellent sitebuilders. And writing a site is only one step of the 10 required to build a successful e-business.
While there are many excellent sitebuilders, there is only one complete e-business builder... SBI!.
And it works. Here are the types of stories that you'll find from SBI!. Here's the proof. Can anyone show hundreds of Top 1% results like this? Come to think of it...
Where Are All The WordPress Success Stories?
There are more blogs than websites now. But where are all the success stories?
You likely have friends who blog. If they're honest with you, they'll admit that they aren't generating traffic or income. Aside from a handful of highly prominent bloggers, the number of successful bloggers who build rewarding e-businesses is small.
They do exist. As discussed earlier, there are people who have "figured it all out" using WordPress and are making money. But they have done it the long and hard way. They are few and far between, compared to the proven high success rate of SBI!.
And there are good reasons for that (in addition to the need to figure it all out on your own). Blogging requires 24x7 dedication. It's hard work to be "first with the news." Or it requires born-with-it-talent to be a clever commentator... the wildly creative cartoonist or the author with brilliant business insights.
As a result, blogging delivers a few extremely successful online businesses, and a 99% business failure rate. Not many bloggers fall in-between. However, as shown above, SBI! has a high "in-between percentage," earning anywhere from hundreds, to thousands to ten thousands dollars and up, per month.
These everyday people would not have overcome all the hurdles by themselves. They would have landed in the 99% failure group without SBI!.
Blogging Spreads Blogging Buzz
SBI!? It Merely Works
Blogging pros blog about blogging. Professional reporters love to write about bloggers and blogging since they understand the newsy/commentary approach well. So the buzz spreads about blogging.
But the "business success layer" is paper-thin. Most have unique gifts that can't be taught, combined with enough technical savvy and the ability to "sort it all out."
SBI!, on the other hand, is for the "rest of us." It's for regular people who want to build an online business, not start a hobby blog. It's for anyone who has yet to achieve life-impacting goals online. "Life-impacting" can be big or small. For example, some SBIers...
- quit the day job (then earn more than the day job)
- earn enough to stay at home with the children
- supplement retirement income, permitting travel and higher quality of life
- leverage a local business.
If you have a passion or hobby or expertise, and if you want to build that into a long-term, income-generating business with equity, SBI! is not only the right choice, it is the best choice. It cuts your learning curve down and moves your chances of success way up.
With SBI!, you build an e-businesses with increasing, long-term, diversified income, a business with high intrinsic value. That is equity that you can ultimately sell, just like a well-built offline business.
Those who use WordPress?
They get off to a head start, making posts while SBIers are using SBI!'s tools to do intensive research.
But WordPress hares don't perform the 9 other important steps needed to build a profitable e-business.
So they don't build traffic, income or equity.
The hares go fast, but are destined to long and winding roads to nowhere.
This is the reason that the SBI! mascot is the tortoise.
What about SBIers?
We'll let the SBI! tortoise show you the feeling...
How To Be 100% Sure Of SBI! At No Risk
As good as it is, SBI! is not for everyone. No product can be, of course.
The real question is, "Is it for you?" The fastest, most objective way to know for sure?
Give SBI! a good try. Let your experience with SBI! speak for itself. After all is said and done, only your experience counts. Try SBI!. Like most others, it will change your life.
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