I'll tell you the reason I started GuruDAQ in April 2004. I'd been a web developer for over 4 years. I provided bespoke shopping carts and web sites for clients. I soon realized that if I could find a good product to sell, I could become self reliant and be able to work the hours I chose. (The Dream).

Me Dreaming

Little did I know that when I typed in those 5 words "How To Sell Stuff Online" that I would be caught up in a whirlwind of self proclaimed experts who were trying to outdo each other with the next great "Internet Marketing Breakthrough".

Trying to fathom out who were the people to listen to and who were the snake oil sellers became a bit of a quest. After a couple of months of weeding out the good from the bad I came across the idea of ranking the ones I found and knew to be respectable marketers by their popularity online.

You may have seen the Alexa Website. It ranks websites by how many people visit them. It became the benchmark that I could use to rank individual experts and see if they really were getting a large following of visitors to their site.

I secured the domain name GuruDAQ.com and began to update the site. Each time I discovered a new expert, I'd put them on the site. And the site would then track their popularity.

People would start to send in the names of experts and I was struggling to keep up with the submissions at one point (for every respectable marketer I probably got ten spam entries!)

One name that was on the list to be checked was Ken Evoy. I'd seen his name a few times from browsing the web but it seemed to blur into all the other names I was researching at the time. That was until I checked his background, and his popularity.

I realised at the time that if I ranked him by the same criteria as all the other experts that he would be 200% higher than his nearest rival! There was something different about how this guy ran his business!

You can see the site here when I added him in June 2004!

http://web.archive.org/

And for 4 years Ken Evoy has been at the very top of the list.

Why he's stayed at the top can be answered simply.

Ken has one of the best online business packages available - Site Build It (SBI) - which includes all the tools required to plan, host, produce, manage, and monitize your website.

SBI! is the only product that takes the time to prepare you to build a profitable business, before you jump into building your site. For the beginner, your learning curve will be shorter and you'll bypass any show-stopping errors. For those experienced in site-building, SBI! deepens your level of understanding. No matter who you are, you are guided all the way until you succeed.

SBI! comes with unlimited Customer Support. SBI! owners often call it the best they've ever experienced. And the SBI! Forums complete the picture. They are the most friendly, help-and-be-helped set of e-business forums in the world.

Choosing your best site concept is not always as obvious as you might think. Brainstorm It! and Niche Choose It! show you the best path for your particular business, reveal some surprises, and help you make the right choice.

Since SBI! is compatible with popular HTML editors (ex., Dreamweaver) and image tools (ex., Photoshop, Flash, etc.), you can easily use advanced page-building techniques, if you like. This allows for maximum creative flexibility for all skill levels.

Fast, reliable, state-of-the-Net Web site hosting is all included with SBI!. You don't have to worry about choosing the right "hosting" features (size, capacity, etc.). Web hosting is included, no nonsense, no hidden clauses.

Traffic Stats and Click Analysis help you understand what your visitors like most. Understanding them helps you know what to write about, which in turn leads to more and more business.

List-building and e-mail marketing are included (usually these expensive features are bought separately). Sign up visitors to your e-zine subscription list and then mail an issue to them. This repeat exposure builds a stronger bond with your visitors and allows for direct promotions to them. Deeper PREselling = More Monetization.

Automatic site blogging turns your site into a blog easily. You'll enjoy all the benefits of a blog without needing extra skills or additional software. For those experienced with blogging, auto-pinging for your SBI! blog keeps your site on the Search Engines' radar. All of this helps attract more traffic.

SBI! has a no-risk, 30-day money back guarantee. It's a risk-free decision that you can make with confidence and peace of mind.

The SBI! private forums provide friendly, helpful support from other Site Build It! users. Help is available from folks who are in the same place as you. This peer-to-peer support gets you over the humps along the way in a stress-free environment. Help is available even for advanced questions. The forums are a business-building support community ready to help you succeed.

SiteSell.com was established by Ken Evoy in 1997. His series of books (now free) have helped hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses. Make Your Content PREsell! and Make Your Words Sell!, formerly books sold by SiteSell, are now free. They are literally the dynamic duo of "Web-writing."

Ken Evoy provides a rare level of dedication to his customers. He's extremely active in the SBI! forums with over 5000 posts to date. He makes a tremendous personal effort to help people succeed and is highly passionate about helping people build businesses online. Anyone who owns SBI! can benefit from this extraordinary Internet business visionary.

Take a look around Ken's Sitesell site or let him explain the benefits of SBI himself below in just over 2 minutes: