Be Honest

Don’t hesitate to tell the truth: You must desire to tell the truth if really you want to build trust or make people trust your brand. Of course, you know there are millions of scam sites online frustrating people’s lives, duping a lot of innocent people, as well as making thousands go astray from the legitimate online jobs on a daily basis.

If you make a false statement anywhere, confess it: In as much as you can’t dispute the fact that you’re human, you can’t deny the fact that you do fall into such situations whereby you discover all of a sudden that you’ve told a lie somewhere. What comes next to your mind when this happens? Readiness/willingness to admit it or what? If you must build a trusted brand, you must admit any lie you utter when it occasionally happens.

Be sincere deep down inside: Are you in the habit of disguising to your audience on what you’re expected to say or do at one time or the other? Never continue in that character as this will surely make them lose trust in your brand. They wouldn’t want to keep getting back to you. They won’t love to trust you anymore. You’ll lose a large mass of audience.

Feel your audience’s feelings: When you deeply feel your audience’s feelings, it will surely reflect in all of your write-ups. Readers do appreciate bloggers who meet them at the pain points. They continue to check out the latest posts on such blogs as they know they’ll surely learn.



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louisaparson Premium
The title jumped out at me since I'm trying to build rapport with my territory in door to door sales. The previous DSR had some ways of doing things that weren't ethical so many of those who lived there when he was around have a sour taste in their mouths. I have been connecting with those who just moved into the neighborhood and want to have a different image. It still hurts when a door is slammed in my face but I don't take it personally. As long as I'm honest with people that I meet I gain in the long run.
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Israel17 Premium
Good to see you maintain to remain honest and trustworthy with the people you meet every now and then in life, louisaparson! This way, you can easily make people accept you when you launch new things to them be it products you want to sell or just anything that you feel will benefit or help them solve their problems. Thanks for your contribution and sorry I didn't get back on time!
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JulietAA Premium
Thanks for these four great points Israel.
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Israel17 Premium
You're most welcome, Juliet. Sorry I couldn't get back on time. Yes, the four points stated in this training are key to successfully building long-term trust which makes it possible for you to convince your audience easily that you truly have something worth sharing with them. Thanks for your contributions!

Israel Olatunji
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Jadatherapy Premium
Thank you Israel for another valuable training session.

Jennifer
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Israel17 Premium
Hey Jennifer, thanks for stopping by and sorry I couldn't get back on time! Kudos for finding this training valuable and helpful! Keep being honest, reliable, open-minded and faithful. This is needed in order to establish some degree of trust. Thanks for your contributions!

Israel Olatunji
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Jadatherapy Premium
You are most welcome Israel

Thank you again for all the training you are giving us here at Wealthy Affiliate

Jennifer
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martin45040 Premium
Hi Israel,

I have a slightly different take on what I believe you're stating here.

I'm not going to be able to "make" anyone trust me, especially from a website, no matter how well thought out and presented it is.

What I hope to do is "convince" my visitors that I have something worth sharing with them and that satisfying their need is my top priority.

Martin
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Israel17 Premium
Thanks for sharing your own thought about this training, Martin! Kudos! If you must truly convince your visitors that you have something worth sharing with them and they would accept to be convinced, then you must have established an element of trust in yourself for making them see what you're trying to share, otherwise, they won't get convinced that you truly have anything worth sharing at all. Trust comes first before the audience gets convinced at all. It's not in what you're sharing that they put their trust, but rather in you (The sharer). So, without trust, there's no conviction at all.

And if satisfying their needs is your top priority, how do you expect to make that possible without first making them see that you can truly help them at their pain point. Obviously, your audience will never see you as someone who can truly satisfy their needs unless they have had a high degree of trust in you and your brand. So, there's no way we can look at it without first building trust first.

Also, consider the fact that you have to make Google love and trust you first before traffic can be delivered to your blog. Hope this helps, Martin!

Israel Olatunji
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FKelso Premium
Good behavior guide. I think I do pretty well on these points.
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Israel17 Premium
Sorry I didn't get back on time, FKelso! Yes, you'll succeed in making people trust you when you try to be honest, reliable, open and faithful. This is what you will need basically to win people's trust and become the successful internet entrepreneur you've always loved to be. Thanks for getting back!

Israel Olatunji
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