Retirement Income Planner

We also need to keep mentally alert, keep that mind thinking... and this is my solution!

WHY I BUILT THIS RETIREMENT WEBSITE (and how you can do this too):

1. Why this is relatively simple
(even for me, a non-technie!)

2. Choosing your niche website topic
(I use my employment experience)

3. Write your website pages
(I've always loved writing... do you?)

4. Getting pages on the website
(you can write pages anywhere, watching tv, on lunch hour at work, on vacation, then later pop them into the website)

5. Getting visitors to your website
(this is automated, it just happens, if you do it right.. and traffic finds you).
P.S. there are things you can do to enhance your visitor counts too!

6. Making an income
(my Google ads are a simple cut and paste into my website page.. visitors click, I make money and you can too... really.)

7. Don't Retire, Re-Invent Yourself Online...
(I know, like everyone else, I will lose my work identity when I retire... but I will also gain a new identity as “ Wendy from retirement-online.com”.

8. SBI Help:
SBI has oodles of ways to guide yourself through the process... I'm not alone on the web. They provide a written Action Guide, video Action Guides, conferences, classes, SBI coaches, and they even have Do-It-For-Me help... finally there are SBI forums where you can post any question or problem and an SBI user will help you. This is the most sharing and caring group I've ever encountered online... they really do help you.

Retirees are perfect as website owners... We have it all:

SBI and Retirement, the Perfect Fit

SBI (Site-Build-It) can truly change your life! I honestly and truly believe this... thats why I'm adding this page to my website. I owe oodles to SBI and the masterminds like Dr. Ken Evoy (SBI owner) and his team behind this comprehensive website building system.

As a Retirement Manager at work, I've attended Retirement commission meetings for 25 years. The retirement trustees use “due diligence” when they review retirement plan assets. As a website owner, I feel I've done my own “due diligence” with SBI... and I can most wholeheartedly recommend it to any retiree who needs an income... I totally trust SBI and the process.

If you are curious how I made this website, Read On!
I answer these questions over and over via private emails, so I've decided to take the time to share SBI out there and then I can refer visitors with questions to this page!

Why this is relatively simple, even for a retiree (like me, almost...)

SBI has an Action Guide that leads you, step by step, through the website building process: from selecting a topic to making an income with the website. There are Action Guide videos, as well, that will take you, verbally, through each step. You can review the screen shots to guide you through the software. If you read and work the Action Guide, you are almost guaranteed to succeed. They help you with every single aspect of your website. Everyone learns differently... whatever works for you.

One huge benefit for you, with SBI, is that nothing is left to chance. The Action Guide is logical, methodical, and tried 'n true. It works as evidenced by approximately 40,000 SBIers out there... many with multiple sites like me.

This isn't a "get rich quick" scheme.. I am committed to writing on my website. If you get into this and don't read the Action Guide and expect results, forget it! Grin! This is "simple" if you follow their lead,... and if you don't (many get too excited, I think, and go off on their own, then wonder why the process didn't work for them like it did for others... but they didn't FOLLOW it...) It IS work, but for ME its "play" as I love every bit I do.. it's ALL ME, ALL MINE!

With my first website, www.friendship-by-mail.com, I knew the topic as I published a pen pal newsletter for many years now. I did ok with this website (Aug 2009 - 8800+ unique visitors per month, and 692 pages). Now, if I had paid more attention to the Action Guide, it could have been much much more... even with a funny website topic like pen pals! I do get lots of orders for my penpal newsletter... it just could have been even better! I hope to revisit this site after I have time in retirement!

My second website is www.retirement-online.com, has 324 pages and gets approximately 7500+ unique visitors each month and they read 11,000+ pages a month. I read the Action Guide this time and really tried to follow it. I do admit I picked a large niche -- hard to “win” but I'm doing fine, thank you!

Back to the SBI Action Guide - It's positively addicting! The Action Guide is like a college education on website building (and I'm not kidding either). It's simple to read and understand but gives you a ton of information so you understand what you need to do and why. (Personally, I need to know the WHY so I understand, not just Do).

One more thing, there is no website coding using this SBI website building system... that's why I love it! I used to do html coding for ten years... and hated every second. I do use simple codes to bold something, but otherwise, its all behind the scenes.

With SBI websites, you pick a topic, write pages and pages about it, visitors start to find you, and VOILA! You are a website owner... it really can be that simple.

I do oodles more than the basics, as I really want to get my website moving. I want a second retirement income... it just depends on how far you'd like to take this, how much income you want, and whether you'd like one large website or maybe multiple smaller ones.

Choosing your niche website topic

When you consider website topics, consider ideas that excite you. Think about hobbies, knowledge from previous employment, something you loved from childhood but never had time to pursue. This page from the SBI website shows how OODLES of sites, from a variety of niches, all rank in the top 1% in Alexa... I love to review it simply to see the huge variety of websites SBIers have written about! Pretty amazing! You need a real passion and interest on your website niche topic. The Action Guide will help you choose a niche too. Pick your niche well.... it will carry you for years!

Write your website pages

With SBI, you simply write about your topic... write, write, write. For me, that's the fun part! We call this InfoPublishing and I'm simply sharing what I know, with a little research on the side to assure myself my memory is correct...

You write using specific keywords you've already researched. Keyword terms that folks use in search engines, but that aren't overused in other websites already... see how smart this is? You are helping people find the information they need, and yet, you aren't wasting time if your keyword has been way overused already.

Getting pages on the website

SBI makes this really simple. You log on, open a “new page”, add text for the website page name, keywords, description, and headline... then you simply cut and paste from your text program into the text window. You've just made your first website page!

SBI has pull down menus for each item. Do you want to add a headline? Select “headline” and you type in the name of the headline. Ready to add text? Select “text” and cut/paste the full article into the text box. Want a photo or graphic on the page? Select “graphic”, then pick one you've previously uploaded for use, and that's done also. There is no coding, it's all behind the scenes making it so darn easy for the website owner.

Getting visitors to your website

If you select a good topic (and you will with the help of SBI keywords)... you'll know how many folks search for your keyword, write a good page about it, and visitors will find you.

SBI automatically submits your pages to Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc and when they get you listed, visitors will find your website just waiting for whatever they seek.

Build an interesting website, and visitors will come... by the thousands!

Making an income

Google Ads -- just a simple cut and paste into your page. When a visitor clicks, you earn an income.

Affiliates -- simply lots of companies will pay you to advertise their products. This is an education in itself.. so I'll leave this alone.

As with any other SBI website process, the Action Guide will take you, step by step, through the process.

Don't Retire, Re-Invent Yourself Online...

We can't sit at home in a rocking chair like previous generations of retirees might have done. We are more active - physically and mentally, and need to keep our youth as long as possible.

SBI Help: Here are a few links to read about the services they provide if you are gutsy enough to try SBI!

SBI E-Learning - take a class and learn as you start your own website!

Site Sell Services - for the Do It For Me types!

I hope you enjoyed the tour of my personal Retirement Income Planner! If you have any questions at all, ask the SBI Question Guys! They know SBI inside and out and if you are curious about anything, or whether it will fit your idea... call them for answers!

Want a Free Trial of SBI website building?

Better yet, do you want to ORDER SBI? Click the pink box above! You won't regret it... and I'm here to hold your hand with thousands of SBIers on the forums too!

If you have questions, like always, just hit the CONTACT ME button on the left navigation bar!!

Happy Writing! Wendy

P.S. SBI has many tools to help you build a successful online business including:
domain name registration
web site hosting
simple pages
blogging
market research
traffic stats
search engine optimization, all automated
auto-responders
form builder for visitor participation
graphic manager
customizable templates
sitemaps
RSS feeds
web mail
newsletter management

Many functions are completely automated, and some tools work for you in the background even when you aren't aware of them! That's why I love SBI!

I know this sounds very "computer geek" but I truly am not computer literate as some are... SBI does most of the work, I simply write pages (which I love to do!)

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