Nature and Wildlife Photography Career

Jennifer and I both used to have nine to five jobs with most of our bosses leaving much to be desired.

A wildlife photography career was our dream as this was our hobby and passion but we were stuck in a corporate world where we got to go to the national parks once a year - on our annual vacation.

Can you relate to this? We thought so!

In 2005 we realised the power of the world-wide-web and decided to create a web site to see if we could make a wildlife photography career from our hobby.

We knew nothing about HTML and not much about creating a web site. We hired a designer who created the following web site for us...

• It was created in 'flash' - not a good idea if you want all the search engines to find you!

• The pages were not centered but left-justified, leaving a lot of barren white space to the right of each page

• The site had about a dozen pages - not very impressive to visitors or search engines

• And lastly the designer would take from a few weeks to a month or two to make changes. And then some of the changes were not what we wanted, leading to more waiting - all of this is what drove us mad!

So much for our wildlife photography career!

Then in 2008 we heard about SBI! (Site Build It!) and how many people were able to give up their day jobs as they were making a good living from the internet. We were skeptical and procrastinated for the whole year.

We tried to find other ways to build a website but by the end of the year, and after much research, we realized that SBI! was the way to go for our dream wildlife photography career.

We could create our own website without having to rely on unreliable designers and we did not need to know anything about web design or HTML! And any changes we wanted to our web site could be done in minutes!

With SBI! you create a business and not just a website.

The beauty about SBI! is that they have a template that you populate with your information - you then preview the page, click 'analyze', and if it meets the search engine spider and human visitor criteria, you then click 'Build' and viola! - you have a page that is live on the web. You then repeat this with each page and follow their ten-day program to success.

We are selling our images, the web site is making money for us and we are now able to visit the Kruger Park, Kgalagadi, Etosha the Pilanesberg and any other national park a few times each year. We wish we had started with SBI back in 2005!

Keep in mind that creating a business with SBI can work for a wildlife photography career as well as many other careers.

You need to take what you are passionate about - be it wedding photography, sport photography, travelling to certain places, dogs, cats, health, sports, finance or anything else - and then provide information to other people who will benefit from your knowledge.

You can also sell a product or service - the sky's the limit.

SBI! Owners Explain in Their Own Videos How It Changed Their Lives...click here.

If you would like to visit the Site Build It! Main Site, click here.

Oh, we almost forgot to mention that SBI notifies all the major search engines of your new pages, they notify you of any broken links, they provide forums where you can learn from others and they show you how to work smarter, and not harder, by letting others contribute to building your web site.

Back in 2005 our web site cost us about US$500,00 and we ended up with a 'dead' website. The designer designed the site as best he knew and then left the rest to us - we would need to notify the search engines, market our site to the directories and so forth - with SBI! this is all included in the annual or monthly subscription - they do this for you or show you exactly how to do it.

A website without traffic is pointless as it is visitors that will ensure your site grows and becomes successful - with SBI! their primary goal is to get you the maximum numbers of relevant visitors. With our SBI! website we get the same number of visitors in two weeks that we got in twelve months at the old website!

This frees you up to focus on your passion! So don't be like us and procrastinate only to regret it later, be proactive and start your new career with SBI!

A one-year subscription costs just US$299,00 and they often have special offers such as getting two sites for the price of one.

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