Throughout your career you will be judged on your credibility to handle the opportunity at hand.

Potential future employers and contacts who you are looking to work with you will be evaluating you and deciding if it is worth spending time with you.

Investors will be assessing your ability to grow an idea to a scalable relevant business. It will be as much about you as a person as it is about the idea. People will be looking to you and your experiences as a major factor in determining whether they will join you or offer you an opportunity to join them.

Investors, employers and employees are just some examples of the essential audience you need that will be evaluating your credibility to execute your vision.

Here are five easy tasks that will enhance your credibility in the outside world:

Update or Enhance Your LinkedIn Profile

Your LinkedIn profile is the first glimpse into your professional life. Take the time to tell your professional story and use the features and format of LinkedIn to your advantage.

Sign Up to Speak at an Event

Every event needs speakers and every event is an opportunity to show off your knowledge and skills to a new audience. Effective and engaging speakers are then asked to speak over and over again. When you stand in front of people and tell a story position yourself as an expert.

Become a Mentor

The very nature of mentoring is that you are looked on as an expert. Do enough of it and the audience builds and, better yet, the audience begins to tell others.

Write a Guest Article

Like any event, blogs, magazines, newspapers and other content machines need expert content too. If you want to be seen as an expert then write about it. The key is to write about your expertise and to stay within those boundaries.

Build a Website

This is the hardest of the five but much more doable than you might think. There are a number of website hosting platforms out there. Find one and start building. Blog about your expertise at least once a week.

Whether you are comfortable with all of this or not, by taking a little time to tell your story and build an audience will do wonders for your future success.

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