About Me and My SBI Secret

Hi there...My name is Helen.

This site was created with what I like to call my SBI secret.

I'll reveal my little SBI secret later but first...

Do you have a passion for something?

The exhilaration of standing on top of Kili, gazing down at the world below, fuelled my passion for the outdoors even more and we travelled all over the world in search of greater adventures either on foot or on our bikes.

I was lucky enough to have a great job in the retail world which paid for our exotic trips to countries like Bolivia, New Zealand and Ethiopia.

Then I lost my job after years of hard work and dedication to the company I worked for.

That was a HUGE kick in the teeth and left me feeling pretty low and unloved.

But sometimes a big setback can be a blessing in disguise. For years, I had longed to escape the day job and start my own business. We had even been planning it but hadn't quite plucked up the courage to just do it!

So we took a big gamble, sold our house in the UK and followed our passion for the great outdoors by starting our own mountain bike (MTB) business on the beautiful island of Cyprus.

We bought some land on a hilltop overlooking the gorgeous Chrysochous bay, built our dream home which is also our MTB base (an accommodation base for our MTB holidays, bike workshop and bike hire centre) and have never looked back.

We planned our new life carefully, making sure we would have sufficient finances in the early years whilst our new business was building.

But it's always tough starting your own business and we knew we would need a second form of income to help us through the early years.

We needed this second income to be home-based, to allow flexibility with our MTB business so I started scouring the internet for ideas.

And one day, I stumbled upon SBI...

I don't even remember how I found it but I do remember reading about these amazing, inspiring and PASSIONATE stories of people who had started their own internet business, from scratch, by building their own websites.

Could I do that too and build a website about Cyprus travel that wasn't just another site selling Cyprus property abroad, offering budget Cyprus car rental or cheap Cyprus accommodation?

Could I create a site that offered real information to visitors that would make them see how beautiful Cyprus is and what an amazing destination it is for outdoor sports and not just sun, sea and sand?

I could feel a new passion burning and I got really excited.

My husband was hugely sceptical (he already knew how to build websites and had done our cycling website)

But I wanted to have a go.

I waited a few weeks...

I kept mulling it over...

Then I re-read the information I'd gathered including watching a quick VIDEO GUIDE and I asked a few QUESTIONS.

I then decided to just take a chance and go for it!

We'd already started on our biggest adventure to date booking a one way ticket to Cyprus so I figured this was worth a go and I knew I could try it for free for 30 days and get a refund if I really hated my PC by the end of it!

I was totally amazed not to say totally overwhelmed, for the first couple of weeks. But I worked my way carefully through the SBI secret action guide and made full use of the FANTASTIC network of support in the user forum.

Before I knew it I had built my first page. Boy that was when the passion for website building was truly ignited!

I'm having SO MUCH fun building this website. I can work on it when I'm not out riding or doing the accounts (!) and it's also providing us with a second source of income. That income is small right now but I KNOW it will get much bigger as traffic to my site grows and grows.

And THAT is what the SBI secret really is - an easy to understand set of tools that shows you how to build a website and get lots of visitors to it by just putting great information down on paper (or rather on screen!). And it's NOT expensive! If you have a passion for something you can turn that PASSION into a second income.

If you'd like to discover my SBI secret that helped me build this website and introduced me to an exciting new world, click HERE or maybe have some fun watching and listening to others who have had their lives transformed too.

By the way, our favourite is this video from Elad, a lovely guy who makes money online from his passion - his KIDS!:

If you can't play the video, just visit Youtube.com to download the relevant software.

If you want to know more, you can contact me - I'll be happy to answer any questions. I will say now that building a website from scratch is NOT easy and it takes a LOT of hard work, but boy is it good fun!!!

[UPDATE Sept 2007: Monthly visitors are already at the 3000 mark after only 6 months and we've already generated several bookings for our mountain bike business. The site is also making money from targeted adverts and referrals.

UPDATE March 2008: Traffic is increasing by 25% a month and I now have over 6000 visitors a month. I've made over £1,000 in the first year with money coming from ads and referral fees, my Cycling guide eBook and companies contacting ME to place ads - what a compliment!

UPDATE June 2008: The traffic snowball has begun...over 300 visitors per day/9000 per month and income is rising by the day. This is SO exciting!]

Finally, I'll leave you with a quote that sums up how energised and enthusiatic I feel right now.. and it's not just to do with all the mountain biking!

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Need some enthusiasm? Build YOUR dream - Follow your Passion - Build a website that works!

With the SBI secret.

Best Wishes

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