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Hobbie's House and How We Built ItCustom Knitting In a Virtual WorldHobbie’s House of Wizard Wear opened its doors for business 5 years ago when the owner's son, an avid reader of the J.K. Rowling books, requested a custom-made sweater and scarf set - in black and yellow - to complete a Cosplay costume for Katsucon, a local Anime convention. He posted a photo of the scarf on the web and within days, several friends placed orders for scarves, all for the same event. Soon thereafter, we received a request to supply a vendor at the convention with "as many wizard scarves" as we could possibly supply on short notice. In short, that is how Hobbie’s House of Wizard Wear came to be but we are actually a spin off a long-standing local custom-knitting business.
How We Built It...In 2002, we decided to take our local custom knitting business with local clients and go "online".It was a daunting task, given the very nature of a custom service, especially after decades of conducting this one-on-one business in the old-fashioned way. However, it was not our first online venture. Since 1998, we have been successfully associated in Ken Evoy and Site Sell. So we thought...why build just another website [as we had in the past], when we could build a business? Our preliminary research quickly eliminated one web hosting service after another. Site Built It was the only complete web hosting/marketing system, which fit our established business. It allowed us to focus on custom knitting while the system assumed the time consuming task of maintaining a web presence. Site Build It is, in fact, a perfect solution for aspiring entrepreneurs interested in establishing a successful home-based business. Many local businesses, envious of our success online, marveled at the incredible variety of marketing tools available to us, which made it possible Hobbie’s House to succeed on the Internet in a relatively short period, remain a viable business success, and more importantly, continue to grow – in a niche market! After 5 years, Hobbie’s House of Wizard Wear continues to grow steadily with each passing year...and since then, we have helped several other local businesses launch their own successful Internet business ventures. Imagine the possibilities:
What is your business? Rest assured, you could take it online - and make it work! We all did, thanks to SBI. Have a minute? Take a quick video tour. You know what they say - a picture is worth a thousand words - so let this video communicate the sheer power of Site Build It. We are a proud member of the SBI Web Community!
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