About This Site

How This Site Came To Be.

I'm not sure where it started exactly, it was somewhere around the time Captain Joe and I bought the sailboat. Oh the dreams we have for our upcoming life.

Did I mention that the boat is in Mexico?

We're not retired and we're not independently wealthy either so we come home in the summer to work (we have a job that allows us to do that).

The plan is to spend the winter months on the boat in Mexico and the summers in Canada, near our growing Grandsons.

At about this time our daughter announced that she was going to start her own website, which we found rather interesting since she had purchased her first computer less than a year before.

With no real computer skills she developed a lovely and well trafficked site. Once the traffic started coming she started placing ads on her site. Some ads paid per click and some required a purchase. Within a year she was making a tidy little income while staying home with her 2 sons.

We were asking lots of questions by this time. While we were working our butts off we spent time thinking how a year round income would free us to spend more time with the young grandsons when we were home.

I certainly had all the proof I needed.

With a great deal of encouragement from our daughter I began to do some research and mental juggling. I had no doubt that it could be done it was whether I could do it that puzzled me.

The idea took on a life of it's own and almost without my consent, ideas popped into my head and scrap pieces of paper would fill with hastily jotted notes.

SBI! recommends that you have 3 different ideas about subjects for a website. I had 10.

I had about the same amount of computer savvy that Michelle had (which included e-mailing and surfing the web. I had made purchases over the internet but had not yet learned to include an attachment with an e-mail) and was ready to give it a try. I purchased my SBI! site and began work.

The learning curve was steep but relatively short and SBI! held my hand the entire way. From selecting a profitable domain name to monetizing my site.

They don't let go til you do.

Every technical tool I needed was provided in my package. No extra fees for domain registration or search tools. All I had to focus on was getting the keyword rich content on the pages. They even send me a message if there's a broken link on one of my pages.

On the boat we use solar power extensively as do most cruisers. Because solar energy plays such a key role in our cruising life we've spent countless hours researching it. What better to do with what we've learned than pass it on.

I was looking for the same thing as over 75% of the population is looking for. More control over my work situation.

All these people wanted the same thing.

I'm not afraid of work, in fact I like to work... at things that I find rewarding. I also want to keep my brain active and learn new things.

It turns out that for me, a website (or two or three) can be fun, educational and financially rewarding. I've found the perfect job and I decide when I work. I couldn't have done this without SBI!

If you think it might work for you too have a look.