I wasn’t able to start the classes for the first round that they offered me because of a personal commitment, so the start of my SBI experience was delayed by about two weeks. Wednesday night, we had our first class.
I made a commitment to myself that I was going to fly through this program; however, as I was starting to do the lessons that SBI sends out, it was clear that SBI didn’t want us to go ahead to quickly. The two weeks before I was finally able to get into the class, I had spent writing notes, articles, and doing research – heck, I had even started to think about domain names… I thought I knew exactly what I was going to be asked to do.
However, once I had the registration stuff for SBI and had a chance to go through everything, I realized that I was moving way to fast. In fact, SBI told me that I should NEVER be moving ahead like this.
You see, SBI lays a foundation of basic understanding of the web pages, e-commerce, and how the most successful websites work BEFORE you begin to actually create “content” (web site information). The instructor told us to stay with him, not go ahead.
The first class was what I would call a “Get TO Know You” class. Bernie, my instructor, and all the students who are in the class (or at least on the call that night), got together on the conference call and talked about their goals and experiences. It was a lot of fun, I have to admit.
My biggest “WOW” moment during the class is when Bernie showed us a website about poems . The site looked like &#$! No bells and whistles. But Bernie explained that it was one of the top web sites because the “spiders” from Google would come to the site and “liked it” so they link to it more and more. It makes sense – spiders can’t see the cool graphics and such on most web sites.
Since the class, I have done the other homework, but I also have been doing some random searches on Google just to see what and who is in the lead for different key words – there is a reason why the spiders like these sites. If you do a generic keyword like “Camping” you’ll find a lot – but there is a reason why the spiders chose those in the top ranked sites over others.
So, now that I’ve had to slow down and do everything different, I’m analyzing things differently than I used to both on the web and in my goals and dreams.
I’ll keep everyone updated on how next week goes – we get more into the philosophy behind how SBI works.
