tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330793202011-04-22T00:44:40.558-03:00BARK Outloud!!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02448889784546478918noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33079320.post-1156391200135677532006-08-24T00:44:00.000-03:002006-08-24T00:52:46.330-03:00<h1 style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><em>consumer</em></h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span class="me">con-sum-er</span><span class="prondelim"><span style="display: none;">/</span></span><span class="pron"><span style="display: none;">kənˈsu</span></span><span style="display: none;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:formulas> <v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"> <o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" style="'width:1.5pt;"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Bark\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.png" href="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img src="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CBark%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_image002.gif" class="luna-Img" shapes="_x0000_i1025" border="0" height="4" width="2" /><!--[endif]--><span class="pron">mər</span><span class="prondelim">/</span><span class="showipapr"> Pronunciation Key</span></span><span class="prondelim"> [</span><span class="pron">k<i>uh</i></span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" style="'width:1.5pt;height:3pt'"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Bark\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.png" href="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img src="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CBark%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_image002.gif" class="luna-Img" shapes="_x0000_i1026" border="0" height="4" width="2" /><!--[endif]--><span class="pron">n-<b>soo</b>-mer</span><span class="prondelim">]<o:p></o:p></span><span class="pg">–noun </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="display: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="display: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">·<span style=""> </span>One that consumes, especially one that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing.</p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal">Did you ever wonder how much you personally are a “consumer”? How much you are affected by want and not need? </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal">As I sit here, laptop on lap in front of my 42” Plasma I ponder that very thing…hmm should I really wonder. My clothes rarely, if ever, wear out, my technology never dies before I upgrade. These two points alone are enough evidence to convince me I am a “consumer”.</p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal">Of course, you say to yourself, I am a consumer, we are all consumers, that is what we do, we consume goods and services. I …like some others just consume more and a more quickly. I have a voracious appetite for what is fresh, what is hot, I am an impulse check out shopper (is there 12 step meetings for us?). In a free market society we are the cogs in the wheel, so to speak. </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal">Nothing groundbreaking here, simply realized that I was more of a consumer than I had previously thought. I bet if you looked hard you would see some pretty sobering trends in your purchasing patterns.<br /><br /></p><i>"The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished."</i><br /><b>George Bernard Shaw</b><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33079320-115639120013567753?l=barkbrand.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BARK Outloud!!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02448889784546478918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33079320.post-1156125468674535072006-08-20T22:47:00.000-03:002006-08-20T23:00:53.196-03:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">What is this BARK Outloud nonsense anyways? Who do I think I am? Well you know what, “when in <st1:city><st1:place>Rome</st1:place></st1:city>”.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I am VP Director of Operations for an Advertising Agency/Boutique in <st1:place><st1:city>Halifax</st1:city> <st1:state>NS</st1:state> <st1:country-region>Canada called BARK (www.barkoutloud.ca - coming soon to a browser near you)</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Being a bit of a techno weenie AKA “Geek” I figured I would stop just reading Blogs and listening to Podcasts and become a wave in the ocean rather than a spectator on the shore watching the tide come in.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p>So here I am, so much to say and so many things to touch on but it is late and this is only a pilot episode and I don’t want to confuse myself with doing more than I intended, which was simply to introduce myself. This is our corporate Blog and will therefore not be touching on the personal things I will be touching on in my personal Blog (not sure I am divulging that address yet (I may not be nice some days ;)).<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Look forward to Blogging soon.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i>"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."</i><br /><b>Joseph Pulitzer</b></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33079320-115612546867453507?l=barkbrand.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BARK Outloud!!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02448889784546478918noreply@blogger.com0