Too Much Doubt, Too Little Trust in Small Start-up Websites
I have been an online entrepreneur for quite some time now but I
recently felt like small, start-up, and/or non-professional
looking websites have difficulties in gaining credibility of
it's site and business to gain customers. Internet users seek
credibility of the site before they do anything, and I knew that
as an internet user myself. Thanks to all the scam artists
online, people can't trust anything that's going on on the
internet. Of course those multi-million dollar businesses have
all the credibility that they can gain - word of mouth is more
than enough to gain full trust for what they do for business.
I've spent most of my time helping other online entrepreneurs to
succeed with online business, giving them tips in how to get
effective web exposure without spending so much in online
advertising. Recently, I've thought of a way to help online
entrepreneurs with web exposure, and at the same time, raise
money for charity to help the ones who are really in need of our
help. But then credibility and all this trust thing came into
play again...and hard.
The first thing that people think when they visit my site is
"oh, the charity money is not really going to charity. It's
going to this kid's pocket." Many show doubt way before they
even start surfing around to read what I have to say about what
I'm trying to do with my site, but it seems like the scam
artists do a better job than me. The only different between me
and them is that my intentions to help is genuine, while their's
are not. How can I prove that? Well, a little trust would be
nice, and the writings that I put on my site may be quite
convincing, but it comes down to hard proof. So I worked on a
press release.
I've used PRWeb for my press release and the responses were
better than expected. It did build some sort of credibility of
my site, and I've received nice emails from people complimenting
what I'm doing. But the press release didn't go for long...so I
tried out forums.
Forums gave me negative responses, which really put me down.
They only showed doubts and criticized what I was doing, which I
was really offended to because I really want to help. Check out
http://www.ImBae.net, and you will see what I like doing; I like
to help people.
If your site doesn't have credibility, then you will experience
similar difficulties. Mine is probably worse because of this
whole charity idea. I think that if I went straight out selling
just links to make money for myself, I wouldn't be laughed at by
webmasters.
I feel like I've been living in a different world. What I've
experienced recently is full of doubts...there is no trust. It's
depressing, but it's reality.