How Trusting Established Beliefs Can Mess You Up

The Better Business Bureau, one of the country’s best known consumer watchdog groups, is being accused by business owners of running a “pay for play” scheme in which A plus ratings are awarded to those who pay membership fees, and F ratings used to punish those who don’t.

 

Errors seem to abound at the Better Business Bureau. As reported by an anonymous blogger the BBB also awarded an A minus rating to a non-existent sushi restaurant in Santa Ana, California and an A plus to a skinhead, neo-Nazi web site called Stormfront. Each listing cost $425.
 

Better Business Bureau: Pay for Play?

Yet, as part of the ABC News investigation, an ABC News producer with a camera was present as two small business owners in Los Angeles were told by Better Business Bureau tele-marketers that their grades of C could be raised to A plus if they paid $395 membership fees.

Terri Hartman, the manager of a Los Angeles antique fixtures store, Liz’s Antique Hardware, was told only a payment could change her grade, based on one old complaint that had already been resolved.
“So, if I don’t pay, even though the complaint has been resolved, I still have a C rating?”

Hartman then read off her credit card number and the next business day the C grade was replaced with an A plus, and the one complaint was wiped off the record.
 

It is dishonesty like this that causes most folks not to do Business on-line or even around the corner from their own homes. Please be careful out there and don't forget to check out COOL Folks with Great Music at Devotions Recording's Blog.

 

Is Independent Films Suffering Getting The Truth Out?

FTF FILMS 'COMMUNICATES?' WITH SCOTT MEREDITH  OF "CONSCIOUS MEDIA NETWORK"

Powerful communications with Feed The Fire Films and "the arm of big business." I found for myself that when "we" as Independent Film makers want to help our Friends and the world wake up, that many times we run into the profound arrogance of the established icons who truly make their money off of the backs of the true talent. In fact "these business men" would be nothing without the infused, conscious, aware, and deliberate ability to Love and create that is created by the "original" developer of the "concept."

The Brand of Powerful Messages

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In a complex world what makes you stand out? What is keeping it Real truly about? What is Image? What is YOUR Reality? and... How do you reach out to touch another, through powerful visualizations, when your vision... is being seen through the lens of some one other than you...?

Music is a tool, that has a brand, it's a tool that expresses a "Brand," or viewpoint, or concept of the Composer. Many will argue that "Branding" isn't important, you don't need a "Brand." However, if there were no real distinctive Brands, their would be no real individualized expression in Music or the Arts. The Music would clearly suffer. A Brand signifies the professionalism of the Artist, and takes the Artist out of a "formula based" sounding all alike regime. The individual comes into the real expression of their work, instead of sounding like a drone's copy of another.