Hi & thanks for visiting our site!

Let's start with the more interesting stuff we're doing with Site Build It!, like the 2 travel sites we're building :-)

AfricanWildlifeVacations.com

Although we now live in Calgary, Alberta, we emigrated from Durban, South Africa & still have a keen interest in the conservation of Africa's unique wildlife and other popular tourism attractions.

So we're using Site Build It!, to build AfricanWildlifeVacations.com, to encourage people to discover Africa and all that it has to offer!

Here are some photos of Durban:

Enjoy-Vancouver-BC.com

We lived in Vancouver for several years, before moving to sunny Calgary. So our second travel site is about Vancouver. It's our favourite city in Canada, and there are many similarities to Cape Town in South Africa, with its attractive natural settings. The Vancouver site is quite new & still being developed, so watch for more updates.

We hope you enjoy visiting our travel sites!

So back to us...

About Lyn

Prior to becoming an active Site Build It! user and SBI! Certified Webmaster, I gained much of my business experience, customer service skills and knowledge, working in International Trade Finance, and foreign exchange, in the banking industry.

Over the years, I worked for several major financial institutions, like Nedbank in South Africa, and in Canada -- ABN AMRO Bank N.V., TD Canada Trust, and H.S.B.C. (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), and a few smaller banks.

It was an interesting career, as we had to work closely with business people in diverse industries. We also had to communicate regularly with banks in many different countries, to ensure that our international trade transactions were processed as quickly and efficiently as possible. When dealing with foreign currencies, small oversights can quickly lead to large currency exchange losses, so those transactions could get quite tricky!

Site Build It!

We first discovered SBI! several years ago, after moving to Canada, and started using it to build our own sites.

We soon realized that SBI! is a versatile business-building tool, for people to use the internet to share their business knowledge, experience and skills more effectively with others, even with limited technical knowledge about building websites & HTML.

We had finally found a web hosting and marketing system that works!, to build our business online.

Mentoring Experience

In 2004 I was selected to be a Mentor/Trainer in a group mentoring program, offered by a successful internet marketing company based in Dallas, Texas, to help people to build their own successful SBI! sites.

It was a deeply rewarding experience to be a Mentor, assisting new SBI! owners through their start-up phases, & choosing their site concepts, then watching their sites "blossom before my eyes", after they found a good niche -- their special niche!

However, Derek and I decided to focus on using SBI! to help local business entrepreneurs to market their services online. So, with the deepest regret, I resigned from my role as a Mentor in the program. I said goodbye to my clients... (I had over 25 clients, in 8 countries, at the time).

Some of my former clients' sites are now well-established, successful sites.

In 2005, I was accepted as an SBI! Certified Webmaster.(Note: the Certified Webmaster Program formerly offered by SiteSell has since been replaced by SiteSell Services.)

I still enjoy helping new SBIers to get started with their sites, so I occasionally offer some private mentoring services (mainly for travel sites now).

I also volunteer as a moderator in the private forums SiteSell offers for SBI! owners and affiliates. I moderate 3 forums there: Choosing Domains, Image Search HQ, and Local Offline Businesses.

About Derek February

My partner, Derek, provides marketing and consulting services for businesses in our local area, plus career and job search counselling for immigrant professionals as a Certified Career Development Professional (CCDP).

He has several professional qualifications in marketing, training/coaching, career development and a post graduate diploma in Industrial Relations (Arbitration and Mediation).

He also has many years experience with small business marketing, as an independent consultant for various companies, and with his own businesses.

Contact us if you have questions, suggestions, or comments you would like to share with us. (Please note: For business-related inquiries, please use the special forms on our local business marketing services or SBI! Mentoring pages instead. Thanks!)

We look forward to hearing from you!

Lyn Huet

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