http://www.outcastmarketing.com/Blog Building, Branding, Breaking Barriers Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:11:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Resolutions... Yep that time of year again! Current readers know how much we like the opportunities a new year brings. The chance to evaluate, reevaluate and either live with what we have created or create something new. I see it as a time when you can focus on building a life ... http://www.outcastmarketing.com/Blog/?p=174 I remember when I first heard of barter, it made me think of a idyllic, utopian society where one neighbor trades tomatoes for another's squash. Shells for pelts and all that jazz. However, this was about 10 years ago and it didn't quite come down to one neighbors garden for another. ... http://www.outcastmarketing.com/Blog/?p=163 What is the difference between "pea green" and "sea green"? Or between the word "buy" and "purchase"? How about the different between a model wearing glasses and one without? In the world of marketing, these small changes, slight as they may appear to the untrained eye are the ingredients for a ... http://www.outcastmarketing.com/Blog/?p=149 I am an avid reader of the Four Hour Work Week blog by Tim Ferriss, author of the book The Four Hour Work Week. The book is an excellent read but what I appreciate most about the work of Tim Ferriss is not his methods as much the way his ... http://www.outcastmarketing.com/Blog/?p=152 After the article on Comic Con and the comments we received, I thought we ought to mention a pretty dramatic change in the world of fantasy and comic culture. Disney is known for their rather rosy version of legendary fairy-tales brought to children worldwide. To give you an idea, Mickey Mouse ... http://www.outcastmarketing.com/Blog/?p=143 San Diego is abuzz right now. Hotels are booked to the gills. Restaurants are doubling their staff. The city is bracing for one of the busiest weekends of the year, where ghouls and superheroes roam the streets and trekkies can get their annual fix. Comic Con is back, which began informally ... http://www.outcastmarketing.com/Blog/?p=136 Pulitzer prize wining author, Thomas Friedman, in his recent book Hot, Flat and Crowded, said of the Internet, “It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the ... http://www.outcastmarketing.com/Blog/?p=119 Internet!!? Pfffft... is that still around?  - Homer J. Simpson What do Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Stumpleupon, MySpace, Digg YouTube and Yelp all have in common?  You mean besides the fact that they are all gargantuan social media websites with hundreds of thousands of users?  They are also the new forum for ... http://www.outcastmarketing.com/Blog/?p=111 So the numbers are in, and the numbers are good!  I have been waiting to post this blog until I had finished tallying my profits in day trading.  I must have added them up four separate times! So, if you read my blog post NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION - DAY TRADE FOR A LIVING  you know ... http://www.outcastmarketing.com/Blog/?p=107 If you are not a negotiator, it is time to hone those skills and use them.  The economy is in a place where negotiators will stand to profit dramatically from it.  A couple of tips I have picked up in my reading are... 1. Always negotiate at the end of the ... http://www.outcastmarketing.com/Blog/?p=103