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Hey Bhupinder,

You're awesome!

I'll take my photo with two mirrors so I'll get a better 4x CTR!

:-)

It's so nice to see more pics of everyone. I love seeing what people look like when communicating with them over the net. Keep'em coming. More real pics and less avators.

I mustered enough nerve to put mine up. I am sure that more of you can do the same. See you all later.

Anyone think a picture will decrease sales?

Any thing to be cautious of as we are using a "no hide" approach?

Security
Learning Curve
Privacy

etc

?

I believe that it's also very important to pick up the phone or get on Skype and actually TALK to people instead of just sending email.
It's amazing how much closer my connections with other people in this biz
get just from a phone call.
Creating videos of yourself and going to live seminars/trainings should also be on your list of things to do.

Cheers,

Dan

I believe you will make more money on this forum by reading threads on different topics about Internet Marketing and applying some of the strategies to your Internet Marketing Business.

Lol..just post my pic..

Personally, I think it is nothing short of Insane to be putting your Name and picture sprawled out all over the Internet like this.

You might say it makes you look more ethical and trustworthy. It may well be but the Risk/Reward ratio is NOT good enough for me. What I mean is the chance you take with ALL the identity theft and stalking from crazy people who lurk on the NET is just NOT worth it for me !!

I am sorry I know many of you may disagree but I think you can be very succesful without revealing too much.

Bottom Line : ITS Just NOT worth it to post your picture ,name etc..just because you think it builds stronger and more personal relationships with your Customers and Colleagues. Frankly,I dont care how much more money it makes you. Not when you could potentially jeopardize the welfare and safety of you and your Family !!
No Thanks

...cute!

haha that confused me for a second.

Well your picture actually.

Or this dude...

Blimey, I'm gonna disagree (always one isn't there? )

Frankly I'm astonished at the naivete of you guys. All you guys can think about is "ooh it might make me more money if people can see who I am" (might also lose it if you have shifty eyes and look untrustworthy :p).

This is the INTERNET. Hello?? Is everyone very stoned?

You put your picture up there and anyone can take it. They needn't bother grabbing a stock image, they might think your image fits the bill for their sales page. But that's only a tiny risk as this is an incestuous little world. Outside of IM is where the problems lie, because IM doesn't exist in a vacuum.

If you frequent non-IM forums look at all the avatars people have. Most don't create them from their own picture, they nick them from other peoples avatars. If it's a 'person' it doesn't mean it's them, they could have got it from anywhere. It might even be yours! You better hope if someone is using your photo as their avatar they have similar views to yourself!

Then there are the people having cyber sex. They need to swap photos and I doubt they'd be dumb enough to use their own and risk their spouses catching them. So they'll need to use someone elses. These threads are all indexed, and probably the images too. Bit of time spent on Google Images and they might get lucky and find your pic to use.

As for the women using their pics. Again, dumb. There was a famous female blogger who recently had horrendous problems because of this. It was a political blog, involved making money too (but not IM). Someone got annoyed with her and because she'd made the mistake of having her photo and real name out there, others decided to photoshop it in obscene and sadomasochistic ways. Once they've got your real name, it isn't that hard for a determined person who knows what they are doing to get your phone number. There was a particular site that did nothing but express violent sexual fantasies about her and she was bombarded with nasty emails and phone calls. She had to quit, and almost had a breakdown. These weren't kids either, they were grown men, some of whom she'd met at blogging seminars. The Law didn't do much. They were just "having a laugh" and she was being too sensitive and a "silly woman".

(Oh and even back in the days of the Telnet BBS's men were pretending to be women, so just because someone has a female avatar it ain't necessarily so. :rolleyes

I assume you guys still get Direct Mail sent to you? How many of them have a picture of themselves on the salesletter? The rare times they do, how often do you think they are genuine? Do you think the Direct Mail industry suffers because they don't have their image on the mailshots? I doubt it.

Take the dollar signs from your eyes, and use common sense. It's a basic security procedure just like using a firewall or never giving out your personal and financial details to people you don't know well.

Just sayin'.

I agree with a few above who have stated it.

We all subconsciously judge other people for one reason or another. Not saying we do it intentionally. But at least think about it before you rush to put your picture up.

Even if you are not trying to selling anything here. Think about it.

Reminds me of the test mentioned in Blink and I am sure many other books.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

Are you an active Geisha girl?



xxx Vegas Vince

That's not you is it??!! []

Rich