Tyrant Farms: the Blog

Why Google Plus (still) Might Win the Social War

Posted by on Feb 19, 2012 in Social Media | 0 comments

Will the youth generation make Google Plus the winner vs facebook over the next 5-10 years? Probably so, if current trends continue...

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Ron Paul? Seriously?

Posted by on Jan 9, 2012 in Odd News | 5 comments

But, I'm not here to talk about facebook's features (well, not really). Nope. I'm here to violate a basic principle of "business" blogging and dinner parties: never, ever talk about politics or religion. Unfortunately, I like to talk about both, and some of the facebook groups I'm privately a part of make it tantalizingly easy to get distracted in long-winded conversations on both subjects.

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Happy Holidays!

Posted by on Dec 16, 2011 in Special Occasions | 4 comments

  bitTyrant’s Charlie von Cat stars in a special holiday video. Watch it with a straight face and we’ll release 5 rebel prisoners on Dec 25th. If you’d like to have the good stuff that grows at Tyrant Farms (the blog) delivered fresh to your inbox, click this fancy little subscribe button. It’s like having Christmas morning in your...

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TEDxGreenville Salons + chicken fingers & apple sauce

Posted by on Dec 16, 2011 in Events | 0 comments

If you're reading this, I'm going to assume you watch TED videos (www.TED.com) on a fairly regular basis. If not, you're missing out on free information created by the best minds in the world that will make your brain work better. For three years, we've had the privilege of being on the board and part of the planning team for TEDxGreenville...

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The Mushroom Tribe

Posted by on Dec 12, 2011 in Tribes and Movements | 6 comments

A little over a year ago, Susan and I joined a new tribe. We call it the "Mushroom Tribe." Reverse-engineering how we came to be members of this little tribe offers some fascinating insights into how movements and tribes get started in the first place...

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Nascar-flavored mayonnaise anyone?

Posted by on Dec 7, 2011 in Branding | 2 comments

The other day I was confronted with a difficult purchasing decision: two grocery products exactly alike by any conventional measure: price, ingredients, taste, etc. Alike in all measures except one...

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For you leaders out there…

Posted by on Dec 5, 2011 in TyrantCards | 5 comments

Are you a leader? Then you've got to continuously assert your dominance and make sure everybody knows that you're in charge...

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How to tell your friends and family what REALLY matters during the holidays…

Posted by on Dec 3, 2011 in TyrantCards | 0 comments

During this time of year, people tend to wax nostalgic and get all "feely" about their families, taking care of others human beings, self-improvement resolutions and other similar frivolities...

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Upstate SC Residents Terrified as Turtle Man Strikes Again…

Posted by on Dec 2, 2011 in Odd News | 0 comments

Greenville, South Carolina - First there was BigFoot. Then there was Lizard Man. Now there's a new creature that has been spotted roaming the woods and marshlands of Upstate South Carolina... Turtle Man.

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Nonsento Produces World’s First Brahman WalBull

Posted by on Nov 30, 2011 in Odd News | 2 comments

  Horquillaenfuego, Chile- In the summer of 2003, local ranchers near the tranquil oceanfront town of Horquillaenfuego in southern Chile, noticed that their newly purchased Brahman bulls were experiencing health problems due to the area’s salty ocean climate. Rather than moving inland and selling their farms which had sustained their families for generations, the ranchers pooled their resources in the hopes of finding a 21st century solution to their problem. Local rancher Pablo Disenterio Muyguapo led the charge, traveling to the...

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