I have always been very selective on who I take seriously, and heed the advice of. The ones I have decided to listen to, have been a huge reason for any of the successes I have had. A person’s level of success goes miles beyond words. When those truly successful domainers speak, everyone should listen. That is, if you care about having “real” success.

So I agree, less is more as it applies to taking advice. Quality over quantity.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it. - Agatha Christie

The dice have yet to pitch. Once they have stopped rolling we will all be in a sound position to say whose advice should have been listen to. I think it will prove that you should have been analysing the arguments not following the Guru. When it comes to sophisticated investors, perhaps you should take a leaf out of Rick Latona’s book who has now added IDN.com to listen of domains he is seeking to buy. How serious he is I don’t know. I have not approached him with any domains. Now is a bad time to sell the cream of the your IDN portfolios, so we will be shadow boxing for a few months yet. The bottom line is that ASCII crowd was never going to be our real market. You might have been useful if you had come in with some early cash. It is is unlikely that any of you will be able to outbid the Chinese and Arabs, or indeed the Russians in the end game. So we will just have to put it down to a missed opportunity. Who will win? I don’t know, but what I do know is if IDN are worth 10% or more of their ASCII equivalent, my portfolio will be worth a damned site more than Ricks.

If you’d like legal protection before you reveal/pitch your ad idea, buy a copy of the latest edition of Patent It Yourself by David Pressman; where you’ll learn that for about $100 you can file a provisional patent application (which gives you a year before having to put out the bigger bucks for the utility patent you’ll need).

Though it sounds like your idea may be protectable “only” in the US; PIY explains exactly how to do so.

I agree that it is very important to make a distinction between those with sound ideas and experience vs. posers. There is plenty of bad advice out there in all walks of life, and there are people looking to exploit the naivete of newbie investors.

Regarding domains in particular, many of us moved into the “long shot” realm of alternative extensions. I would not characterize these people as “unsophisticated” or devoid of sound experience and advice. In fact, many of these folks are insightful and intelligent having already become profitable on their investments. I would suggest to anyone entering the domain game that they keep an open mind, and do not limit themselves to the advice of a handful of self-appointed experts. Future and evolving opportunities usually lurk beneath the surface … out of the masses view. I, for one, prefer to not look down on others’ ambitions under the pretense of “I know best”. Look, learn, adapt, persist. Successes are not made overnight. Nor is there only one true path to the end goal.

Something should be said too for the value of the journey. And that, in itself, is the attraction for many people. That being said, I support following the example of proven, successful people. Good direction acts as a springboard. In the end, persistence is probably the greatest ingredient in building success. That refusal to give up.

what I am trying to say there is that I would simply listen to the advice but would not follow up on it. Because the successful person would not give great advice to others because they are somewhat scared that the person who is an advice from them may be benefited and would become more successful than what they are. So they would not exactlie give you great succesful ideas simply because they do not want to regret that they had created one more compititor.

So I would just listen to an advice but would not follow up on it, because no compititor wants some compititors when there are already many!

Yes, there could be people who offer advices, what I mean here is honest advices, but that is like .001 percent out of wholesome 100 percent.
So rather risking my ideas sharing ideas, I would just listen to advice but would not follow up on it.!

And I would rate an succssful person advice 4 out of 10, but an person who is not there yet, I would rate their advice 7 out of 10.

Regards.

But then should I share my idea? what is possibility that they would help me and reply to my idea, or not using my idea for their own personal benefit, like stealing ideas??

The thing here is I dont have great amounts of budget to implement my idea, but I gues rather than sharing, I should just wait for the right time when the budgest will be arranged. I do want to take advice but who should I trust?

Recently, Facebook founded, marc zukenberg, was thrown in to the court cases due to he was accused of stealing the idea from Harvard college students who offered him to develop an code for their ConnectU.com.

I think listening to everyone, and not quitly following everyone is great idea, which means that implement your ideas based on your observation, who is giving you right advice, and then who want to get benefit from you, and who does not want to give you advice because they are somewhat scared that the person whom they are giving the advice may end up being more successful than what the person who is giving an advice is.

So generally speaking, I would just observe and dig in to person;s life experience for just my inspiration sake but, I would not exactlie follow them or would intend to do what they want me to do.

Regards.!

Sahar

Sahar, I cannot believe you are an experienced domainer. IDNs are not for Americans… When will Americans learn? The world does not revolve around them!

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Your idea of weakness is a SOUND and CALCULATED calculations of odds. While you and many others for years have been chasing the IDN ghosts (and various weak extensions) more sophisticated investors, in particular those who have done well, have placed their bets where they convert well today.

Sahar