How Transparent Are You, Really?

I think being yourself is the best way to go. You don't have remenber any falsehoods that way and people wont be disapointed with you.

Hi art72,

I'm not sure if it's the true path to success but it's a good idea

Could you elaborate a bit on the question OP?

Hi art72. Transparency is a powerful tool in a marketer's toolkit. If you're transparent and open about who you are and how you work, it builds confidence in the minds of your audience.

To not be transparent is to tie one hand behind your back. Very skilled people can pull off non-transparency, but it just raises the complexity.

Feel free to Google my name. :-)

I don't personally believe in self-identity and the real you. Being transparent to one's self means accepting there is no you.

I believe in Karma and well I have tried to hide/fudge results in the past and ended up with less money than when I was completely transparent so I will only use transparency in my marketing

I'll leave the "true path" part to philosophers with the benefit of hindsight. It's the path I have chosen for myself because it's what I believe in, and I've also determined I'm not smart enough to remember multiple identities -- I have enough trouble remembering this one incarnation of me.

Whether in person or online, the perception of transparency can be very important given the distrust in present society.

If your projects are truley something your passionate about then I say for sure, be yourself. If you have projects that you have figured would be a good way to make money, maybe not too many have thought about, do what you think they need. Unless you have some great idea outside of what you love, just be yourself, I think, unless your quite the actor, your would be customers will be able to tell the difference.

Being true to youself and others also works in all aspects of life too. It can be very fun too.

Trasperancy is truly a powerful tool in internet marketing. The opportunities for you in future depends upon how fair you are with your clients or audience.

Thanks Everyone for confirming my initial affirmations.

There's was ever-lingering temptation pressing heavily upon my instinctual nature, and at times it obscures my long-term vision. For as much as it's worth, I want to stand in the corner of the greater good, and uphold a higher standard of ethics in business and in life, regardless of the superficial outcome.

Ultimately, it amazes me the behavior I witness both online and off. Just the sheer amount of BS people create by not seeing the domino effect it creates, is astonishing. Though, I consider myself a cultivator, and one who uses said BS for both fertilizer and fuel, CDarklock perhaps said it best in another thread tonight, and I hope he doesn't mind me borrowing these words; anger motivates!

Some have mentioned Karma, others incarnation, and implies there are those maintaining a measure of 'empathy' toward the vision of preserving for the next, and those whom still possess a concern, certainty, and conscious awareness of their actions, and of posterity itself.

Unfortunately, too many people are making empty promises, claiming to be able to deliver, and impersonate being honorable... in this all out display of the "I need's, I want's, and I gotta have's syndrome." - It reminds me of Charlie Brown's teacher... "Want... Want... Want..., Want... Want... Want..., Want... Want... Want - WAH!"

This often comes at a price greater than they can repay or afford, and it affects us all. Call it ignorance, for lack of a better word. *Only now, it almost appears to be a growing epidemic, more likened to a conscious and "willful ignorance!"

To see people suffer by it angers me. Yet, it fuels my pen with an inspiration like nothing I can behold. Hence, the balance is maintained.

This forum is about making money, and I make no mistake that this a great place for learning to do just that, as the necessity and demand increases in today's troubled economy... or ones perception thereof.

At the end of the day, "value" can only be measured by an individual's perception. A perception that is often established by what one has, or s/he can seemingly obtain or behold, as opposed to what they can deliver, convey, or contribute.

I am transparent! -Yet by judgement of the blind; remain obscured.

Entertaining this thought, leads me to believe; I can broaden the vision of the blind...

But how?

- When it's clear the majority of people seem to prefer "not" to see.

If such a bold statement were false, and ignorance is NOT governed by the majority, then explain why there are so few... good leaders?

Now, I conclude in a personal admission that explains my initial reason for posting this earlier...

I have come to 'accept' that suffering, be it voluntary or involuntary can be one hell of a 'teacher' once you 'connect' with others and feel their pain... as the majority sit awestruck, left wanting, and waiting for change. Pains derivative; humility, has taken a likeness to me, I think.

As a self-taught artist, philosopher, and writer of sort, I believe to have submersed myself in the pain of others willing-fully, intentionally, and consciously. Yet, conditioned myself to 'think' I'm not qualified to express the solution, or speak on the majorities behalf.

As to hold ones tongue in reservation for the greater consequence perhaps.

One to wit, if applied could not only help others, but doing so could be a vision of success I am running from myself... one to wit, I cannot simply wash my hands of!

A powerful semblance often spoken, seldom seen. A peace, unity, equality, liberty, and freedom... that neither money, nor superficial scales can measure.

I warned you... that the script geist had hold of my pen today, and a profound reality unveiled.

All the Best,

Art

In service businesses - I am as transparent as can be without exposing my entire business.

With other websites, I am not transparent at all. Many of my websites do not link back to me at all. Mostly because there would be no reason for people to contact me. These are mostly info sites.

We are all icebergs.

10% is on display; 90% is under the surface.

I'm from Virginia.

I spent years in speech therapy training myself out of one serious Southern accent.

That was a choice.

I could have bucked the trend and kept the accent, fighting my way through a career in the tech industry while sounding like one of the Beverly Hillbillies.

But when I got the accent under control, I got more respect from the people around me, because I didn't sound like a backwoods moron anymore.

That doesn't make me not from Virginia.

But I chose to take that approach because, while being from Virginia is part of my iceberg, it doesn't have to be part of the 10% sticking out of the water.

There's nothing wrong with not putting the whole iceberg into everything you do.

What's wrong is trying to hide the 10% that's sticking out of the water (usually by pretending something you made up is that 10%), or pretend the 90% that's under it isn't there.

We all change. We all grow. But whoever you are, there's nothing wrong with your iceberg, and there's a 10% you can put on display that people will like. It may not be the 10% you wish you had, and they may not be the people you imagine liking it... but it's like Mick Jagger said: you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need.