Trust is great knowledge is better.

As stated in several of the follow ups trust is always vital but has to be met with discovery, and investigation. The person with too much of either is blind, one by arrogance in thinking they are the only expert, the other in naive thinking their experts will never fail or mislead them.

Like I said I draw from many sources but always investigate and move forward only when my own conclusions align with the recommendations.

At this point to stop this repetitive beating of a dead horse and

@Cheryl. You are so right, Everyone need to use their common sense.

When I first started out with IM, it seems everyone I met just wanted my money. Now who can you trust when almost everyone is standing in front of you, holding out hands.

You trust (hesitantly) the person who is not holding out hands, the one that is holding out his/her arms in a gesture of embrace. The one who tells you he/she is going to teach you what they know without asking for anything in return.

Yes, I did make s

ally Abraham we were all blessed (I hope) with something called 'common sense'. Even the new marketer has that. The problem is that they do not often use it.

The biggest 'issue' I see is new marketers following along after these gooroos who are telling them that by following the gooroos system they are going to make ton's of money in whatever business that individual marketer is in. Now common sense tells me that is a bunch of baloney. No marketer knows everything about everything. What

Andy, you are right, NEVER (blindly) follow a (so-called, self-called) leader.

But it seems ot me the heated debate in the comments are between trust and knowledge. Both tie in with your post.

When you are a new marketer, Who do you trust, Trust the person that will selflessly give you the most help and knowledge.

Only after you gained the knowledge, you can trust in yourself to do what must be done.

Here's my take on the subject.

1: Find out who to trust. (note, I did NOT say, fo

That is exactly what it is about. Like I said in another thread If Bobby Flay creates the greatest recipe in the world and every food critic in the world gives it five stars only a complete idiot with a food allergy would eat it without doing his own independent investigation of the ingredients. If he doesn't he will soon end up a hospitalized or dead idiot if there's something in there that he is allergic to.

And that would be the idiot's fault for blindly trusting the name Bobby Flay an

Ever heard the saying "ask for a second opinion?" Two friends went to see Harry Potter, one loves it the other hates it. Both are trusted friends, friends whose opinion I value. Which do I take, the one that hated it or the one that liked it? Ask for a second opinion.

Besides, I don't think this article is about not listening to a friends opinion, I think the gist is about following advise blindly.

@Philippe Moisan When I write an article on a subject i do not parrot other authors or scrape content what i write i write based on experience and knowledge gained by doing sure i read other authors works but i use them as a guide to discovery not a manual for success.
The ideas and guides i provide are my own.

Anyone who would tell you trust solely and blindly in the knowledge of others, do not question, you are not qualified, wishes only to be one of those others and to not be questioned, to be followed blindly. Never trust someone of that mindset.

What made any of the people of reference an expert was not in the who they know but the what they did with the knowledge. Each used research as a base alone and then added to it and expanded on it Phil.

You are providing examples I would use to prove my point. For example, Napoleon Hill was not made famous for his ability to quote men such as Henry Ford, he was made famous for expanding on those quotes and examples and adding his own knowledge. He did not parrot these men and just repeat thei

Knowledge. What knowledge ? My own ? I had to take the information from somewhere.

Name one resource in the whole world that can give knowledge that is 100 % reliable.

Just one.

The FBI ? Who trusts the FBI fully ? I agree their information is mostly reliable. But remember, they might have a hidden agenda. Remember J. Edgar Hoover, anyone ? Don't tell me it won't ever happen again.

I live in Canada. Will I rely on the knowledge the goverment provide ? The Canadian Guide to Food has o

Exactly Gilberto. That is exactly what I mean by Trust is nice but knowledge will protect you.

I'm glad you beat me to the punch Andy. This is a very good article.

I got into a heated debate with a fellow APSenser about this very same subject yesterday.

This fellow and I were talking about various online products and some marketers. He then dropped a name and stated that because this particular "Guru" does not do product launches often, when he does they can be trusted. I asked him if he had ever bought a product from this "Guru" and he responded that he in fact had NOT. I asked him

@bronnamdi No man is an island. Reading the post one should get out of it to find a person who is an expert and grab their advice, but don't rest on it alone. Take that advice and then do the legwork and if you at the end of the day agree with that advice. Then and only then do you move forward.

You can trust Mike Filsame and still investigate the merits of buying his next offer on your own and make an educated choice based on what you discover by asking questions. To buy something just becau

@Phil Trust as I have said is great, asking an opinion on something from someone you call an expert is fine, but basing your judgments on only that person's word is foolish.

You know how we work at Kooiii, we do everything as a team even our research, each to their strong suits and in the end we tear apart a program brick by brick and reassemble the working parts so that instead of saying, Phil or Chuck said it's a great program we can feel awesome saying Kooiii supports this system for our

Well written article, Andy. I agree with what you have said but, no man is an island. However, we should be accountable to ourselves for decisions we make, regardless of who or what influenced that decision.

Nnamdi.

Great article, Andy, especially the questions you should ask yourself. I try to do my best research before I choose to enter an opp...and then try it out myself if before I refer. I might join a TE or a safe list just from an ad, and try out the features for my self to see if it offers true value as promised. However, in examining a true opportunity, usually I'm going to have some relationship w/ my sponsor, but I don't join JUST on their word.

Sorry to disagree but trust is often abused. people gain trust and then proceed to break that trust, trust is not inviolate.

Knowledge on the other hand is something that is with you forever it cannot be taken away like trust. And forget about people who abuse the trust that is given them even that smartest and most savvy of us can be conned and when people are putting their trust into someone who has been conned, they get conned too. Trust is nice but it does not protect you, knowledge do

One can't count on his own knowledge alone. One needs to build relationships, to be a part of a team.

The only way to do that is to trust people.

So, IMHO, trust and knowledge are not better than one another. They complete each other.

This article would be beneficial for people who have online interests since not all online programs are legitimate

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