Business is About Trust.

A lot of people say that business is about trust. I have to agree that business is pretty much only and really about trust between two parties.

The same goes for any internet web business whether you are making $50K/month on Adsense or whatever, it’s the trust you build with your partners, clients, and customers.

Trust is like that flying carpet that will catch you when you fall off the building.

Apart from money, if you don’t have trust from your fellow blogger and customers, you will not be able to succeed in long term. Of course, you might be able to make a quick buck and jet off to some tropical island, but that’s probably going to be the end of your internet marketing career.

I have many friends who are in high places in business including a lot of my family and cousins. They all do their business on one thing and one thing only, trust.

I am glad to say that most of my friends are people I can trust. They are the ones that will bail you out when you are at the lowest of the low, penniless and about to hit the streets.

In Asia, and especially Korea where I grew up until I was 9 years old, there’s a big thing with trust. Trust is the only thing that matters. You can be the smartest guy in the world but if people can’t trust you, they will not do business with you or even think of you as a decent human being.

As such, I highly suggest you to do business with people you trust, not people who will burn the bridges, fork a knife on your back, etc…etc…

You should ask yourself this question, do you trust the people you work with?

If not, you are probably in the wrong job, business, and should find something better to do with people you can trust.

In my web business, I never do any business with anyone I can’t trust. Even my publishers, affiliates, and companies that I work with, are everyone I trust.

Trust can come easily but maintaining it is the hard part. If you can build a long-term relationship (at least 2+ years) with other bloggers/businessmen, you will always have someone to help you out in the hard-times.

Good Drug dealers know who to trust.

I know “good” drug dealers (who never get caught) are good at this as a lot of my college friends did some slanging back in college.

I watched them and thought, “Wow, these guys know what they are doing… they never get caught.”.

The one thing I noticed about my friends was that they never sold anything to anyone they didn’t know and everything was through best friend’s referrals. (sorta like today’s affiliate programs)

Heck, I know they were good because although they are not selling schmooze anymore, they all are doing well and have never been caught.