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| Free sites do not build trust and credibility...and neither does sites with a registered domain name!
When ever I see the statement "Free sites do not build trust and
credibility." It makes me ask, "What hosting service is this
person promoting?"
Folks, in today's world of here today gone tomorrow .COM's, how
can you really trust that any of these so called "Trusted and
credible" registered domains will be around for years to come?
Short answer...You can't.
First, let me tell you why I think the way I do. I've always
understood that trust was something you earned and credibility
was something you had to build. So now these folks are telling
me that I can have instant trust and credibility just by
registering a domain name? Get real!
I've been in business much too long, and I'm not just talking
about online, nope I got my start in direct sales/mail order
back in 1978 when I was only 18 years old. The first business(?)
I started was a publishing business, well really I purchased the
rights to a report that I sold by placing ads in magazines and
small newspapers.
I can remember back then the phrase was, "you needed a business
address and not a post office box if you wanted to build trust
and credibility." While granted people are more likely to buy
from a person using a real street address than they are from
someone using a PO box. This in not why these so-called experts
said it, you see they also said that your business address could
not be your home address. Why? Because, they offered a mail
forwarding service that had more scam artist as clients than you
could count using your fingers and toes and mine too.
You see, crooks can register a domain name just as easy as you
or I can. So the only "REAL" way to earn trust and build
credibility is one customer or client at a time.
Although you may get more business faster by registering a
domain name, you may not also. The time to register a domain
name is when you have proven that there is a real market for
your products or service and you want to make it easy for people
to find you on the web. The reason that so many dot com's go
belly up is because they are spending money on web hosting, and
paying for advertising to unproven markets.
So if you are new at running a business online go ahead and save
yourself a buck or two during the research & development stage
in building your business by using free services. I can point to
many successful online business owners that got started in this
manner. As a matter of fact I know of two that have never
registered a domain name and they make their living using just
email.
So now you see why I question people when they say, "Free sites
do not build trust and credibility." If people are truly
interested in becoming your clients or customers one of the last
things that they would want to know is why you are using a free
web site. To see how a free web site don't have to look free,
take a look at my site by clicking on the link below.
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