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How to Increase Your Credibility In Your Niche

Posted by Clarky Wang on Wednesday,August 26th 2009 In : Blogging Tags : Blogging Tips, Credibility, Increase Credibility

It is very hard to gain credibility if you are just starting out, so I thought I would like to share with you some easy tips on how to increase your credibility.

Regardless of whether you have a website, blog or are thinking of creating a product. Credibility is the most important factor in any form of business. That is because people buy people not products. So your image to the public is really important.

Rule No.1 – Find A Niche You Want To Be Expert In.

Before you start off getting credibility for yourself, you first need to choose a niche that you like to be specialized in. The no.1 problem here is most people cannot decide what they can be an expert in. My advice to you is just simply choose something you like the most and take that as your expert niche.

Next, Start Claiming You Are An Expert In The Niche.

All right, now that you have selected what you want to be an expert in. It’s time to tell everyone that you are an expert in that niche. The reason you want to do that is NO ONE will point out to you and say you are expert in something unless you start to claim it yourself.

You must be confident in saying that you are the expert and quote some tips and results to prove to them that you are an expert.

Get Started To Be An Expert By Posting Articles On Article Directories.

Here’s a great tip to get you started to position yourself as an expert. Start by going to article directories and post articles in there. For some article directories once you have submitted a certain number of article they would even give you an expert status. For example, EzineArticles would give authors an expert status once they have written 10 articles.

So next time when people ask you, who says you are an expert in that niche. You can just simply show them EzineArticles with your expert status.

Get More Credibility By Asking You Friends To Endorse Your Work.

Because no one will know you as an expert apart from your closest friends, what you can do in your about me page in your website or blog is to ask your friends to post some testimonials or tips you have taught your friends about in that niche.

I know this may sound evil, you can even create the testimonial in advance for your friend and all you need to do is ask him for permission to put his name.

Buy Reviews From Credible People

What I did once when I first started was that I paid for a review to be done by popular bloggers around the blogosphere. After they had written the review, I would use that review as part of my testimonials for my products or website.

I would say these tips that I have shared have been practiced by me and they really work. It’s important to have credibility as you can charge more once you prove yourself good enough.