If you are going about this for honest reasons you will see the results of your hard work pay off in the end.
Awareness can be suggested with the Web site traffic and traffic to other branded components. Knowledge and language are, thus, the ultimate social glue, though both are based on approximations and guesses (see George Steiner's "After Babel").
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