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And Why I Built A Website Filled With Grandma's Dessert Recipes

Hi. My name is Don Bell, and I decided to add this About Us page because people often ask who I am and how I came to build a website featuring old-time dessert recipes. They are often surprised to learn that this website actually pays my bills. But even more important, creating this site has been a truly rewarding experience, and this page tells you how.

First, please let me share a little of my background with you.

I work out of my country home in the beautiful Kawartha Lakes tourist region near Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The acreage was once part of Bellthorpe, my family's farm, and the fields, stream, and forest that I once roamed as a young boy now provide both recreation and a strong sense of belonging.

My wife Vicki and I have been married for over thirty-five years, and we're blessed with four grown children: two boys and two girls. I suppose they consider us senior citizens now, but we've yet to grasp that concept. Like most people, we've had our share of ups and downs, but God has blessed us with a truly wonderful life together.

The Need

While planing for an early retirement, I looked for a way to earn additional income from home since I've never had the luxury of a company pension plan. But, it had to be something relatively simple that I would enjoy doing on a part-time basis; life is much too short to do otherwise. It also had to be something that would require little or no startup money as I did not want to risk any of our hard-earned savings.

I happened to read a book titled "Acres of Diamonds" that was first published back in 1915. It contains an amazing lecture by Russell H. Conwell who said, "You can get rich right where you are. At home. Not somewhere else. Not a person has secured great wealth by going away who might have secured as much by some other means if he had stayed at home."

Applying that wise advice, I searched our house to see what I had at hand that could be used to generate an income. Along with my Mac computer, I discovered I had a wonderful collection of old-fashioned cookbooks and handmade recipe scrapbooks. And since I love desserts (too much according to my wife), I decided to look for a way to share the historic dessert recipes with others and hopefully earn extra income also.

The Resources

Grandma McIlmoyle's gingersnaps recipe

Grandma McIlmoyle's Gingersnaps Recipe

People are always asking me, "Where did you find all those wonderful old dessert recipes?" Well, happily for me, I found them sitting on a dusty shelf in a dimly lit corner of our basement.

You see, my mother loved to collect recipes in scrapbooks, and she inherited several handwritten recipe books over the years along with a collection of old-time cookbooks that are now in the public domain, and I in turn fell heir to them.

So, thanks to Mom and my grandmothers, I now had lots of great family recipes to share.

Mom and my grandmothers all led interesting lives.

Let me introduce them to you.


Mom	Grandma McIlmoyle	Grannie Bell

My Mom, Daisy Adelaide McIlmoyle

My Grandma McIlmoyle, Margaret Annie Adelaide Butler

My Grannie Bell, Annie Stewart MacDonald

The Problem

I now had the resources, all those wonderful old dessert recipes, but how would I share the old recipes with others and make good money too?

Having no online business experience and not wanting to risk much money, I spent days surfing the Internet hoping to find a solution that would be both profitable and fun to implement.

Eventually, an idea formed. I could publish some of the dessert recipes on a website and compile the rest into cookbooks that could be sold as a series of PDF ebooks.

But, I knew nothing about building a website and creating ebooks.

As I searched the Internet, I quickly discovered that there are tons of cheap site-hosting companies online, but the problem is that once you've got the website, you are left high and dry on your own with few instructions and no visitor traffic. That's why most websites fail within the first three years.

What's more, I decided I did NOT want to spend months learning Internet technology and have to spend money on expensive website-creation software and advertising. Nor did I want to pay someone thousands of dollars to build a site for me that I would have no control over later.

I just wanted to get online and share the recipes!

The Solution

In the midst of my online searching one day, I stumbled upon the perfect solution to my problem -- a company called SiteSell and its unique program called Site Build It!, or SBI! for short.

It was altogether different from anything I had ever seen.

SBI! takes Internet novices like me by the hand and helps them turn almost any topic, hobby, or skill into a viable online business. And I was encouraged to learn that many SBIers (that's what people using SBI! call themselves) are making good money with their websites.

I have to admit that I was skeptical in the beginning, but I took the plunge and started this website in May 2004, and the rest as they say, is history. Just look at my site now! SBI! was quite simply the answer to my prayers, and I shudder to think what I would have done without it.

The Result

Operating this website is a labor of pure joy. It provides me with an interesting, creative outlet and wonderful hobby. And it has fulfilled my lifelong desire to earn good money while working at home, giving my wife and me the financial freedom to do whatever we want in our retirement.

There is also the rewarding experience of seeing Grandma's old-time dessert recipes being read by hundreds of thousands of visitors from dozens of countries around the world. Can you imagine what a thrill that is? The words of appreciation I receive from people who love the old recipes mean so much.

Just imagine, this old-time recipe website received over one million visitors last year. The response has been truly amazing.

Mom and my grandmothers would be both thrilled and proud, and I can't thank you enough for visiting my website and helping to make it all possible.

Sincerely,

Don Bell name photo

PS:

It's only fair that I share what I call My Website Secret with you. After all, a website of your own might be just what you need to earn extra income at home, or to launch a profitable new career. It might be the answer to your prayers too.

I am happy to share with you the steps I took to create this website, and how this website is helping me to build a profitable online business and finance my retirement.

Click here To Discover My Website Secret

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