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Hi! My name is Coralie. I'd like to share some information about me and my online business.

When I was 7 months pregnant, my partner asked me to marry him.

"Better late than never!" my friends joked, but I was delighted and thrilled.

We were proud and so happy to be having our much-wanted baby together and getting married was to be the icing on our cake.

Then reality struck!
And we came right back down to earth!

There were plenty of bridal magazines and guides for brides, but not even a sniff of anything mentioning maternity weddings. Nothing seemed to be about me and my situation ... I felt like a freak!

When I tried to find a maternity wedding dress, the styles on offer were very limited ... making me feel distinctly unglamorous ... let's not mention the snooty attitude of some of the shop assistants I came across! So we postponed our wedding until after our son Ben was born ... 3 years after!

And this problem was not just about me ... my best friend had a similar experience 12 months after me and I've talked to many other women who struggled to have the wedding day they wanted when they were pregnant. Some admitted to settling for second best ... others postponed their big day as I did. Every one of them said it was a very stressful time.

My passion was fired! I wanted to help pregnant women achieve their dream weddings.

Starting out from my back-bedroom, working evenings when my son was asleep, I trawled the internet to find the best designers of maternity wedding dresses and maternity bridesmaid dresses.

I surveyed pregnant women to discover which tips would have helped them plan their weddings and I asked professional wedding planners for their best advice about how a bride on a limited time budget can still achieve her dream "big day".

But ... how could an ordinary working mum like me use this information to launch an online business?

I wanted to produce an online maternity wedding guide, but I had absolutely no experience of web design and wasn't sure how to get started.

"Are you mad?" asked my friends. "What do YOU know about online business? They were worried about me!

If I'm completely honest, the sheer number of companies out there in cyber space offering to help me build my online business was completely overwhelming. It was hard just to work out what would be the best solution for me.

Just as I was starting to feel maybe I had bitten off more than I could chew ...

I found SBI!, where I read that absolutely anyone can build a website and use it to turn their skill, passion or hobby into a viable, profitable online business.

"There must be a catch" said those pals of mine "The internet's a big place and you don't want to get it wrong!"

First of, I checked out some videos made by existing SBIers ... real people, making an honest living online ... doing what they love! Two struck a chord with me ... they seemed almost to be made about me and the challenges I face every day as a mother ... here's just one that 'talked' to me

There are lots more SBI 'case studies' right here.

I read SBI!'s whole website, trying to find the "gotcha" part. I read it again ... but couldn't see any catch.

I emailed SBI! with some questions and a real person mailed me back ... the very same day.

Then, I discovered the FREE SBI! Masters courses which I could work my way through. I particularly loved the WAHM-It! Masters course ... all about work-life balance for mothers ... it gave some fantastic advice and tons of IDEAS!

Now I was excited! It was starting to look like my online maternity wedding guide wasn't such a pipe-dream after all.

Especially when I found out that with SBI! I could get started with

• absolutely no programming skills,
• no website design experience and
• no product to sell.

"All you need to succeed with SBI! is your BAM ... Brain and Motivation." I read.

"With SBI! all the tools you need to build your own website are included."

Take it from me ( I built this website with SBI! ) SBI!'s step by step instuctions and video guides were outstanding at helping me through every stage in the process. And then there are the forums ... a fantastic resource where I didn't get laughed at for asking dumb beginner questions.

SBI! helped me to

• find and test the perfect topic for my site and my online business,
• design and build my site ... from scratch,
• get traffic visiting my site and
• slowly but surely ... make MONEY from my site!

Now my friends can see that my website is paying for our family holidays and more, they are asking ME for advice on setting up their own sites too!

Enough about me

What's your passion or hobby? Other people around the world will be interested in reading about it.

Wouldn't it be great to write about something YOU love ... and turn that into a profitable online business for yourself?

Why not try out SBI! for yourself? It's completely RISK FREE ... there's a full money back guarantee, so you can try it out to see how you like it.

Thank you so much for visiting.

Coralie Thornton

Founder

www.Maternity-Wedding-Dresses.com