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My StoryBefore I share something special with you...
Namibia is a country in Southern Africa, just northwest of South Africa. The region where Uitspan Hunting Ranch is located, is also known as the "Kalahari Desert". It is a wonderful, adventurous and exciting place to live.
Our father, Hendrik, started the conservation of certain plains game animal species on Uitspan Ranch years ago. During the years we saw these herds growing and it strengthen our love for nature, the Kalahari and all the species now to be found on the ranch. In the last decade more and more hunting guests visited the ranch (introduced by different outfitters, friends or family). We learned to love the encounter with people from all over the world who share our love for the outdoors. All our visitors were astounded with the special experience hunting in the Kalahari offered. We decided that we want to make hunting and accommodation of guests our business – additional to our farming activities.
Uitspan Ranch is 105 km (65 miles) from the nearest town, doctor, shop, church and school. To live a bit remotely like this, has a lot of advantages. The disadvantages are that we didn’t have running electricity, automatic telephones and tarred roads for long years. Power lines were built about three years ago and we got an automatic satellite telephone two years ago. You can imagine that we didn't had much knowledge of computers and other related things like the Net – due to our previous circumstances. So how could we run a business, reach clients and hunters all over the globe - from here?
The most famous way for African hunting outfitters to advertise is to visit shows (exhibitions) in the USA and Europe to meet prospective clients and to sell hunting packages. Since our children are still very young and the ranch needs a lot of care and attention during the warm summer months of January till March (the exact months during which the outdoor shows are hosted), Michael and I
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decided that we need a more suitable way of advertising. The Web was the logical choice... we could reach millions!
We went to a professional Webmaster for the designing of our first website. He did a nice job, but...
How could we change all of these problems we had with our website (which is our most important marketing tool)? I realized that our business needs US to build our own website, BUT... I didn't have any technical knowledge of computers, the Net and website-building! I read a lot about SBI, and liked it more and more since it seemed to suits our situation so perfectly. The idea started growing on me and then... we took that final step and ordered SBI (Site Build It). Well, I did not know the HOW yet, but I took that leap because I really were motivated to learn everything about e-business. I have chosen SBI, because:
SBI took me on a great, enjoyable and absolutely amazing journey of learning to make a local business successful online. SBI and its president, Ken Evoy, over-deliver in every way. It includes EVERYTHING you need for a successful online business and gives excellant service for all its owners. I have never been part of such a friendly and eager-to-help group of people than the owners on the SBI Forum. This forum helps out with ANY question or difficulty you may experience during the process of building your website. Even the most common questions are answered here in a detailed and professional way. I am so fortunate to do something every day that I really enjoy: sharing my love and passion for the outdoors and hunting, our beautiful Kalahari and its animals – with people everywhere in the world. It is wonderful to be able to change data, info, pictures of recent hunts and everything else on our website – just with a few clicks... here in our own home. Our business is growing even when we sleeps..;-) since SBI is managing all the technical stuff that goes with a website. Creating our hunting business’ website is one of the most rewarding things I have ever done in my whole life. You are a local business owner who do not have the time or the will to create your own website? What if your current website isn't doing well at all - and you are actually paying a lot for something that isn't even generating some income for you? What if you haven't made real money through your website specifically? I mean, every monkey can put up a website thesedays. That is a known fact. And they want money for it. But you know... it's not about putting up a website. It's about WEB SUCCESS. It's about doubling your client base. About extending your reach. About targeted traffic for your specific business. About extending your local business to GLOBAL MARKETS. If this is what you as a local business owner experience (having an unsuccessfull website and YOU don't have time to create a better one yourself), there is another option for you. Get a Specialist to leverage your CURRENT business. To build a high-traffic site requires special online business-building expertise that your local Webmaster doesn't have. Start getting real value out of a website. See how it differs from a failing website. Remember - we had this experience ourselves! And in this era you surely know that the Web has come to stay. Let a SPECIALIST handle it for you - while you are busy elsewhere with your business. I tell you about this because I know how disappointing it is when you have to pay a lot of money for an unsuccessful website. Do yourself a favor and just have a look at SiteSell Services here. It may be PERFECT FOR YOUR BUSINESS.
Our business is growing with our website. To give you an idea of the growth, I included here part of our site’s traffic statistics. See how it grew! SBI helped us to get targeted TRAFFIC to our website. How do I know? I see on my traffic stats that people looked on Google, Yahoo, Live and other search engines for keywords like Namibia hunts, African trophy hunting, Kalahari hunting, etc... and FOUND US near the top! We get a lot of enquiries from hunters from all over the globe. We may visit global clients and markets soon, but the point here is that it is, because of Web success, not essential for our business - merely optional. And what could any website want more than WEB SUCCESS? The best is... I did and still do get more with SBI... These are some of the tools (yes, there are more) you'll get included in SBI when you try it for your own website: Even if you don't know what some of these things are (like I didn't know before), rest assured that SBI will coach you every step of the way. They also manage and handle a lot of the technical jargon for you in the background. You can focus completely on quality content - and that is what visitors to any site are looking for! If it does... make sure to read to the end of this page. Yes! Just visit...
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We live on a hunting ranch in one of the remote areas of Namibia, in Africa. 
