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Visualize with Wordle

February 1, 2010

If you haven’t happened upon it, check out the site Wordle.net. Its a great free tool for fun, or to use as part of your process to visualize your goals. Somehow making a nice picture out of words from what you are working on can really help you focus.

The one above is a tool that categorized weights not to TAGs like a TAG cloud does, but as a word cloud from the most frequently used words on my blog feed. Guess you can tell what I’ve been writing a lot about lately: GOALS.

You can enter words, a blog feed or a de.li.cio.us bookmark list and it will automatically add frequent words. You then can sort colors, direction of words, and play around with the settings on the fly. After which you can print, save or share the wordle publicly if you want to.

Pretty fun tool to get the creativity started! Rating: ★★★★☆

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Online MLM Recurring Passive Income Stream Techniques: Trust Busted

December 26, 2009

My gut instincts are telling me that something big is missing from the way these big names are doing business online. It may work now, but it won’t forever. People will eventually catch on to misleading sales techniques like HURRY this is only available to the VIP top 500 people for the next 20 hours! Seriously? This still works? Wow. I just can’t give into something like that. It feels too much like selling out. I guess it still works for a lot of Made for TV product commercials, but it doesn’t work for me.

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Bank of America’s Lost My Trust: “Affiliate Partners” Unethical Practices

November 25, 2009

So, my reward for being a ‘preferred’ customer is a dispute case caused by my credit card company themselves, tons of wasted time, and a feeling of overall frustration.

I’ve heard many BofA hate stories, and I want to make it clear that I do not hate BofA. I simply think that businesses should run on fair and honest business practices, and this one is cause for complaint.

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The Infamous Kirby Vacuum Trust Buster Alert

November 17, 2009

The end of unethical sales techniques has got to end some day, though it still exists if you don’t watch out for it. Trust-worthy businesses have got to succeed. Consumers have got to stand up for themselves.

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Best Kept Secrets of How to be a Millionaire & Other Trust Buster Phrases

November 8, 2009

I’d like to take a look at the psychology behind the marketing and selling of wealth and financial tools and strategies. It baffles me that the general public doesn’t see through the sales pitch when a book, article or movie uses words such as “Secret” or “Millionaire” and combine that with an unrealistic time frame such as “In Just One Week”. Do you realize that it is not a “secret” if everyone knows about it?!

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Trust Agent Inspired Term: Trust Busters

October 31, 2009

I’ve been reading the book Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust, by Julien Smith and Chris Brogan, and I find it to be very refreshing.

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