Extreme Tan and Smoothies

5 Best Tanning Salon Suppliers

The indoor tanning season is here, which means that tanning salon owners like myself have stepped up interaction with their suppliers or started looking for new suppliers to work with through the tanning season. Excluding my Salon Touch salon software rant from a couple of years ago I’ve really stayed limited on how much I [Continue Reading]

Support Ticket of the Week

I’m not sure the title for this article is fitting, as I’m not sure that I’ll be posting a weekly support ticket submission. The title just sounded easy enough to go with it, so there it is. Below is a copy of a support ticket that came through on the live support system for my [Continue Reading]

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6 Small Business Goals for February 2012

Just as fast as 2011 came to a screeching halt and 2012 came flying into play it’s now already February. I can only imagine how fast my February will go with the indoor tanning season getting into full swing it should be a pretty hectic month. Just how I love it. Anyway, without too much babbling I [Continue Reading]

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Tans for Teddy Bears Pictures

One of my favorite things about being a small business owner is having the ability to impact others lives together with my customers. Since opening the first extreme tan and smoothies location in Largo, Florida in 2004 I’ve had the chance to be part of so many amazing events that have helped so many others. [Continue Reading]

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New Years Eve PINK Party Pictures 2011

I’m not sure that I agree, but some will say, “Better late than never.” I prefer to be on-time if not early. Without further babbling, here’s a few snaps from the Extreme Tan and Smoothies 2011 New Years Eve PINK party. New Years Eve Party Pictures *Click to enlarge Mel and Chelsea Just under 200 [Continue Reading]

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Proof Review: “How to Exfoliate” Rack Card

Good morning maniacs! I’m hot off a monstrous day of productivity yesterday and even brought a little proof with me for today’s lunch consumption. I finally broke out of my holiday chains yesterday morning with my, “Monday Morning Stretch” article. In that article I listed a few of my goals for the coming week, one of which [Continue Reading]

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Monday Morning Stretch

Before I get started I would like to thank all of the guest authors that have been holding it down here with real content while I cruised through the holidays with Business Blitz and Weekly Link Dump articles. It’s never pretty to scroll through a blog and see the same series articles types one right [Continue Reading]

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Tans for Teddy Bears to Benefit the Kids at All Children’s Hospital

There’s only 10 short days until Christmas. Yes, for all of you late shoppers out there… ONLY 10 days until Christmas. As Christmas quickly rushes up on us it means it’s time for another benefit to surprise the kids that will be spending their Christmas at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. Every holiday [Continue Reading]

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Pre-Tanning Season Salon Walk Pictures

As if your life isn’t exciting enough around this time of year I bring the extra fiyah with pictures from what I like to call my, “Pre-Tanning Season Salon Walk”. It’s a really sexy name for taking a walk through each of my tanning salons before heading into the new tanning season. The walk is [Continue Reading]

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Story Time with Santa at Extreme in Clearwater and Pinellas Park, Florida

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now you probably have a pretty good idea of how I like to do new things for the holidays in my small businesses. Back during the Insane Limos it was the “Christmas Light Cruise”, and this year at my indoor tanning salons in Clearwater and Pinellas [Continue Reading]

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9 Reasons My Small Business Crushed 2010 Black Friday Sales by 71%

I can’t believe how fast time seems to move. It seems like it was just yesterday that I took my kids pictures in front of the house before the first day of school, now I’m sitting here writing an article about Black Friday. Or more specifically, how my small business crushed same store 2010 Black [Continue Reading]

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Crazy Landlord

I’ve had some excellent conversations on my LinkedIn profile with a few of my connections in regards to my rants about my crazy landlord out in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida. For those of you that recently started reading my blog or those of you that haven’t had a chance to check out my about me [Continue Reading]

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Marketing Example: Red Light Therapy Poster

I recently had a Red Light Therapy skin rejuvenation and massage unit added to the available services available at my Clearwater, Florida Extreme Tan and Smoothies location. In order to get the word out and create additional awareness amongst my customers I had the following design done for posters that will go in each of [Continue Reading]

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5 Whiteboard Topics of Discussion Heading Into Tanning Season

I hope everyone’s week is off to a great start! I’ve been meaning to share this VERY basic whiteboard from one of this months manager meetings for my indoor tanning salon company, Extreme Tan and Smoothies. As you willl see in the whiteboard picture below, my drawing skills are pretty incredible, especially when it comes [Continue Reading]

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Another Example of How Facebook Hates Brands

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now then it’s safe to say that you’ve seen my complain about Facebook pages for brands before. If this is your first time here, welcome to another one of my gripes about Facebook pages. As a small business owner and blogging entrepreneur I have no choice [Continue Reading]

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