About Us and Why We Started This Website

I completed high school just like everyone else, but took a year off to travel through Europe before starting University.

I fell in love with the freedom and the adventure. It warmed my blood and made me feel alive for the first time in my life.

But I was diagnosed with the Travel Obsession Bug upon my return.

So, I entered the Work ... Eat ... Sleep (9 - 5) job force right out of University. I thought it might cure me of the Bug, but it never really took.

I was addicted to being free. I knew what it was like to choose where I went and when I went there. Despite that, I trudged on in hopes of shedding that sinful need to control my own life!

8 years later, I was still in the same job and living in the same old rented apartment. But the travel bug (or Freedom and Happiness Bug) never really went away.

I didn't have such a bad life, but time had gone by so fast that I'd barely noticed ... Nor accomplished anything in the meantime.

But, I still dreamed of traveling the world and living free of the 9 - 5 work.

It was a difficult decision to finally quit my Job. It paid so well that it was frankly a whole lot easier just to stay where I was.

Looking back, I think I had such a hard time leaving that job because it offered a guaranteed destiny with comfort, safety and security.

But I felt like I was just crawling deeper into a cave during a rainstorm and wasn't able to come out again once the sun was shining again and life began passing me by.

I knew that if I stayed where I was, I might never get to experience any of the things I'd dreamed of doing in my life.

I started to speak to co-workers and friends about quitting my job. They called me everything from 'Foolish' to 'Cool but Foolish'. (:-()

They couldn't believe I would trade a steady income for an over-sized traveler's knapsack that could carry no more than a week's worth of clothing.

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."

I love quotes and that one encouraged me to finally quit my job. Or maybe it was because my co-workers at the Christmas party had all come to expect my imminent departure? My big mouth.

I remember how badly my hands were trembling when I booked that one-way ticket to Hong Kong on New Year's Day, 2001.

I had a party in my house a week later. I invited everyone I knew in the world and told them to bring along their friends.

I needed a lot of people to turn up if I ever hoped to sell everything.

I walked around my house a few hours before the party and slapped price tags on absolutely everything I owned.

Heck, I even slapped one on my car, bed, pillows and even the towels in the bathroom.

I did manage to sell everything, but that's probably due to the free beer than any sales or pity inducing skills I'd used during the night. My green velvet couch became a 'Satin Original' and my multi-blotched colors became 'Artistic'!

I expected to take a huge loss, but the alcohol evened the playing field.

And it was all gone ... everything that couldn't be replaced by an insurance company in the event of a house fire.

The next day, I walked into work and quit my 9 - 5 Job. My boss looked at me like I was an Idiot. Then again, he'd looked at me like that everyday.

I walked some 22 blocks home after that. The door was now closed and the deal had been sealed. I was finally in a place where there was a chance, however small, that something amazing could happen.

I landed in Hong Kong a few days later. I was truly Freaking Out and was almost convinced that I'd made a mistake. But I stuck with it (Mainly because I'd arrived on a one - way ticket).

I soon realized that I didn't have the money to remain in Hong Kong for very long, so I flew into Thailand a week later and headed straight for the beach in Ko Chang.

The month I spent on Ko Chang was probably one of the best of my life. I began to wonder if there was a way to live free of the damn 9 - 5? I still wanted to work but I wanted the freedom to choose what I did and when I did it!

I got a taste of it during that month in Ko Chang. I woke every morning to the sounds of the sea crashing against distant rocks and lapping the beach no more than 100 feet from the front of my door.

Despite that taste of freedom, life hit me as it always did and I soon found a job working as an English Teacher in a private school in Bangkok. I still count those 4 years as the best of my life even though I worked most of the time I was there.

I met my wife while I was living in Bangkok. She's was (and is) one of those people that change your life forever (in a good way). When I went anywhere, I could no more leave her behind than one of my own limbs (Romantic eh?).

It was something amazing when she agreed to marry me four years later. I sometimes wonder if there really is a fate we can't escape. I followed it when I quit my job and was being rewarded for it.

And that's when the second reward for risk came. (Second to finding my wife!)

SBI! is the sole reason I was able to build an online business without knowing anything about building a website. All I knew was how to surf the Internet and send Emails.

The days are finally gone when people with 4 Year Computer Science Degrees ruled the internet. SBI! gave me the tools to build my own professional, popular, and profitable business about my passion.

And I still don't actually know how to build a website!

That's because you don't need any of the web-building, HTML and Javascript skills with SBI! (Whew! I had to look those words up!)

Needless to say, I don't work 9 - 5 anymore. And I travel a lot.

You can learn more about Site Build It! here.

"While Noah's Ark was Built by an Amateur, Professionals Built The Titanic."

Have you heard about this Economic Downturn? It's leaving a lot of smart, well educated people and their uneducated, yet smart counterparts without work.

I only see an opportunity.

A Dental Hygienist can built a Website on how to maintain healthy teeth and recommended the best rated dentists in the area.

A high-school drop-out paved people's driveways for 16 years. Along the way he learned the skills needed to do-it-himself.

Now he sells do-it-yourself kits online and will never be a laborer again. He runs his own business, selling the kits online, and all the world over.

Check out these examples of highly successful websites built with Site Build It!

Some of the sites were built by teenagers looking for extra income while others were built by retirees supplementing their measly social security checks.

If you provide good, solid answers to the questions people want answered, then you have built something of value. Value attracts people and people attract the advertisers, who will be signing your future paychecks!

Yes.

That's exactly the idea and SBI! gets that. Make money writing about the things I love is the dream.

I studied everything about this company before I bought anything. I read one of their books called "How to Make Your Knowledge Sell" and never looked back.

You can get your own free copy here.

The book made a lot of sense and the money back guarantee persuaded me to finally sign up.

There is only 1 possible reason for the ridiculous money back guarantee ...

They're absolutely certain no one's going to ask for their money back. That's probably because of the business mantra they have called .... 'Over-Delivering'

This means providing the customer with more than they thought they were getting when they purchased the product in the first place.

The trick is in finding the right topic that people are searching the internet for information on. Then, provide them with MORE than they expected.

Have a look at this video. The speaker is a man named Dr. Ken Envoy, the founder of Site Build it! He is talking about building travel websites with SBI!.

In the following years after we started this website, we visited almost every major city that's on the travel Asia pathway.

We visited Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Hanoi, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Vientiane.

We studied each place carefully and wrote about it, taking photos and shooting video along the way.

We also became keen bargain hunters and uncovered gems galore. We wanted to share what what we'd learned from living and working in so many cities in Asia.

And so our Web Site slowly began to take shape.

Great. Then you already know the benefits of having a web site that's open for business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can be maintained from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.

SBI! is not just for newbies! Sophisticated Webmasters can increase their productivity and save time by using SBI! along with their favorite tools (FrontPage, Dreamweaver, GoLive, CSS, JS, Flash, Etc.).

All you need to do is drive traffic to your website. Site Build It! will take care of all the techie stuff to get you ranked highly at the search engines. All you have to do is create in-demand, high quality information on the topic you chose.

I earn money by using advertised links from Google that point people to other websites of the same topic as mine. It helps people find what they are looking for and the other websites pay a small amount for the referral, not the visitor to my web site.

It is work. Any business is. It's just that this company, SBI!, does all the webmaster stuff so you need only write about a topic you know and perhaps upload a few photographs.

But travel websites do work and make buckets of cash. Just look at these examples of travel websites that have made it.

Notice that they target a small piece of the travel industry instead of my website, which targets the whole of Asia and thus is in direct competition with EXPEDIA.COM, TRAVELOCITY and YAHOO TRAVEL (Just to Name a Few).

I needed help competing with these multi-million dollar companies. Perhaps the most amazing thing about Site Build it is that this website beats some of the huge travel sites for in some areas.

I was making a few hundred bucks a week. But none of that could have ever happened without Site Build It!

Nowadays, I still teach English but I can now very easily find a job in almost any city in Asia.

We are currently located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia but plan a holiday back to Canada (Our Home Base) to recharge our batteries and also add some major new sections to the website.

A weird thing happened along the way. More and more people came to our website looking for advice, recommendations and pricing on just about everything.

And very soon after that, Hotels and tour guides began to contact us, wanting to advertise on the site. From then, until today, we only allow advertisers that we've used ourselves and know are a good value.

Have a look at the SBI! Video Tour that will give you answers to any questions you may have..

Even if this website utterly fails to earn a penny, I have gained something much more valuable.

My mindset has most changed from what I've learned from building this Web Site, reading the free books and asking questions of the experts.

Not only do I think a web business alone can earn you the freedom to work when where and how you want, but it will change the way you see the world of business. I was blind to it.

In fact, they count on you being blind to it. They need people to slave all day and then spend 30 minutes talking on a cell phone, spending that money.

Lin and I now run 2 successful Web-Businesses. I blame SBI! for all of it. And I thank them as well. But sometimes I'm not sure what to do with all the extra time.

None of it could be possible without SBI! This is a company that simply does everything that takes web designers 4 years to learn. If you don't have 4 years to learn how to rank well on the web, then these guys are exactly what you need.

SBI! levels the playing field. All for less than a dollar a day!

Thanks for taking interest about us and asking yourself why the heck you should bother taking any advice from us at Travel-Budget-Asia.com... I think we can help because we verify all the facts and have lived in over 80% of the places mentioned.

We cherish this video greatly. I put it here because it's also a representation of what's most important to us.

We try and make a yearly trip back to Canada. Once we get there, we try and spend as much time as we can with family, friends and other people who occupy a big space in our hearts.

Here's a video of our Nephew, Andrew, taking his Aunt Lin out for a ride in his new electric powered truck. He loves that car so much yet refused to start it until his passenger had put her seat-belt on!

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