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By Steve Pavlina

Because I’ve been running successful online businesses for many years, people always ask me how they can achieve a similar level of success. How can I build a high-traffic website? How can I make money online? What do I have to do to quit my day job? Will you mentor me?

These questions have always frustrated me.

The problem was that I couldn’t readily teach people to do what I do, at least not the way I do it. I’m too old school. I’ve been using the Internet since 1989, and I built my first income-generating website in 1995. Most of the money I’ve earned in my life has come from my online businesses. But my approach has been virtually unteachable. Believe me — I’ve tried. After delivering a few workshops on blogging, it became obvious to me that I couldn’t teach this. I was overwhelming people with more info than they could handle. People got excited by the ideas, but they couldn’t implement them. In truth there’s just way too much hidden complexity in my approach.

Another frustrating element was watching people who were inspired by my articles “How to Make Money From Your Blog,” “How to Build a High-Traffic Website,” and “10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job.” The first article even clearly states that 99 out of 100 people won’t be able to do this, but that didn’t stop people from trying to duplicate (or surpass) my results anyway. Nearly all of them gave up within the first six months. We’re talking hundreds of people that I know of. Starting a blog is dead simple these days. Creating a highly profitable, high-traffic website from scratch is very, very hard if you’ve never done it before.

An Unexpected Solution

The reason I’m writing this article is that I finally found a practical solution for people who want to build a successful online business without getting lost in a sea of technical details, using essentially the same business model I used to build StevePavlina.com. I’ll explain the details in a moment.

When I started StevePavlina.com, I’d already been running a previous online business full-time for nearly a decade. StevePavlina.com didn’t succeed because I was lucky or brilliant. It succeeded because I’d already invested thousands of hours and thousands of dollars in an earlier business. I paid my dues the hard way. The articles I wrote merely scratched the surface of the complex lessons to be learned.

Eventually I gave up trying to teach people how to build an online business. Recently I received two more invitations to do my blogging workshop, and I turned them both down. I’d rather invest my time and energy where I can be more effective.

Late last year I had an interesting phone call with a successful entrepreneur named Ken Evoy. A mutual contact put us in touch, suggesting that we definitely needed to work together. Ken founded an interesting business called Site Build It!, a fascinating service that helps people build income-generating web sites. They provide complete hosting as well as an extensive suite of tools to help you build traffic and generate meaningful income.

Well… Ken and I had such similar business philosophies that our phone call lasted more than 2-1/2 hours. This guy is really passionate about helping people build businesses online, and he found a way to succeed where I could not. Ken realized just as I did that the technological complexity required to build a successful online business is just way too high for most people.

At first he tried to teach people how to do it — even writing a book on the subject (it sold over 100,000 copies, so he knew what he was doing) — but he ran into the same frustrating problems I did. No matter how clearly you explain it, it’s just really hard for people to grasp the details, so they always screw it up. But instead of trying to teach people how to handle every little technical detail, Ken decided to build a service that would do it for them, automating as much as of the process as humanly possible. Ten years later Ken’s vision is a huge success, with thousands of “raving fan” customers who’ve built real income-generating websites via Site Build It!

Ken is an incredibly hands-on entrepreneur with a rare level of dedication to his customers. He’s extremely active in the Site Build It! members-only forums, with more than 4,700 posts of his own. That’s way more than I’ve made in the StevePavlina.com forums, and I thought I was pretty active. Ken makes a tremendous personal effort to help people succeed, and from talking to him myself, I could tell that his interest in people is authentic. Ken isn’t alone though — there are lots of highly active members in their forums who are passionate about helping each other. This definitely isn’t a take-your-money-and-run operation.

How to Build a Profitable Online Business

Site Build It! is designed around a simple formula, which they refer to as CTPM. This stands for Content -> Traffic -> Presell -> Monetize.

Find out more about Site Build by clicking here.