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Twelve Keys for Building Trust


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The foundation of any relationship, whether it be with a business associate, spouse, parent, client or, friend, is trust. Trust is not something that can be built with quick fix techniques. Rather, it is something that is cultivated through consistent habits in your interactions.

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If You’ve Never Failed, You’ve Never Lived

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Dismissed from drama school with a note that said, “She’s wasting her time. She’s to shy to put her best foot forward.”
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball

Turned down by Decca recording company who said, “We don’t like their sound and guitar music is on the way out.”
The Beatles
The Beatles

Failed soldier, farmer and real estate agent, at 38 yrs old, he went to work for his father as a handyman.
Ulysses S Grant
Ulysses S Grant

Cut from the high school basketball team, he went home, locked himself in his room and cried.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan

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Ethical Marketing and Ethical Thinking

I have another site called “Learning SEO Basics - Supporter of Ethical Marketing“.

I’ve been on a personal quest for things that are meaningful and useful to humankind and have found a mission I believe in. Ethical marketing.
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I don’t think some of us realize the detriment that is caused by our marketing. What makes us ethical marketers isn’t just in how we perform our services. Who and what we promote can really be causing harm to our environment.

Take Wal Mart for example. They have marketers working around the clock.

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I Am Lonely - George Eliot

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“I AM Lonley” is the reality of someone who seems to have it all, but has nothing, as expressed poetically by George Eliot, referencing the mourning felt for the loss of her sister.

Life is always sweeter with that cherished one to share it with.

Listen to “I Am Lonely” written by George Eliot (podcast)

Credits for the link go to “Classic Poetry Aloud Index”

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Ethics Updates - Thoughtful Discussion of Difficult Moral Issues


“Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics.”

Read more Ethics Updates - Moral theory; relativism; pluralism; religion; egoism; utilitarianism; deontology; duty; human rights; anti-theory; gender; race; multiculturalism;

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