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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]

UPDATE: Stats from My Custom Facebook App Marketing Campaign

Earlier today I wrote an article titled, “Social Media Marketing Campaign on Facebook with a Custom App”. That article was a follow up to my initial post written back in September that gave you a small idea of what the custom app I was having designed for my small business was going to look like. [Continue Reading]

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Follow Up: Social Media Marketing Campaign on Facebook with a Custom App

I hope everyone had a great weekend and that your week gets off to a jumpin’, PROFITABLE start. Today I wanted to take a moment and post a follow up to a post that I did back on September 23rd titled, “Share the Tanning Luv Custom Facebook App Coming Soon”. Without getting in to some [Continue Reading]

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Share the Tanning Luv Facebook App Coming Soon

I honestly don’t even know if we will be going with the actual, “Share the Tanning Luv” name for the latest custom Facebook app that I’m having designed for my small business. I own a chain of indoor tanning salons in the Tampa Bay area that have served up somewhere in the area of 1 [Continue Reading]

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2012 Tanning Lotion Dark Obsession Preview

As we cruise in to the end of September the indoor tanning salon season looms closer and closer for me. OK, I really can’t go too crazy saying that I have it really rough heading in to season, I have a solid team behind me that’s been through tanning season with me before. Over the [Continue Reading]

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Heads Up [Picture]

The ceiling is falling… along with a few other things. A few days ago I sent the following tweet with the picture below attached. This is the result of a constantly running A/C unit and the humidity here in sunny Florida in August. The a/c repair guy had just left my Pinellas Park tanning salon when [Continue Reading]

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Third Time is a Charm – Van vs Colt Pictures

On Friday around 4:30pm I received a phone call from Mike my VPO for Extreme Tan and Smoothies. Mike was calling to inform me that one of our company vehicles had been involved in an accident and he was on his way to the scene in order to get a closer look at the situation. [Continue Reading]

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9 BTS Pictures from the Extreme Tan and Smoothies TV Commercial Shoot

On Wednesday I posted the video for the Extreme Tan and Smoothies Free Tanning til Labor Day TV commercial. The commercials are scheduled to air during this season of The Jersey Shore and Keeping up with the Kardashians in order to cap off the social media marketing campaign that went viral back in June. In [Continue Reading]

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Adding TV Commercial Advertising to My Social Media Marketing Campaign [video]

It’s been a little over two months since I launched a social media campaign on Facebook that went viral. All though a viral social media success for me and my small business, the numbers generated from this marketing campaign would easily be trumped by bigger brands with more locations and resources. I understand that indoor [Continue Reading]

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Pop for Points Gets Added to Facebook Game TanMeToday

Many of you that read my blog daily or subscribe to my newsletter know that I’ve been working on a custom Facebook Game for fans of indoor tanning. Being the owner of a chain of tanning salons in Florida this fits one of my business niches very well. Developing a custom Facebook game takes a [Continue Reading]

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Extreme Tan and Smoothies Facebook Game TanMeToday Reaches 400 Users

It was only about a week ago that we posted that TanMeToday, the indoor tanning salon industry’s first official Facebook game for indoor tanners reached 250 players on my business blog. The article was titled, “TanMeToday Facebook Game for Tanners Hits 250 Users”, you can check it out if you feel like seeing something similar [Continue Reading]

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Foursquare Frenzy Friday At Extreme Tan And Smoothies

For those of you who have been around the Extreme John blog for a while, you will know that John loves to run hot special events for his indoor tanning business. This coming Friday John is using the Foursquare mobile app to his advantage to increase business as well as increase sales! Using Foursquare to [Continue Reading]

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6 Things I Did to Create a Foursquare Frenzy Friday Event for My Small Business

I feel like I’ve spent a ton of time and effort on developing social media marketing and networking strategies for my small business through Facebook and Twitter lately. Since I’ve had my sights set on Facebook Page marketing and Twitter I felt like maybe I’ve been neglecting our socially savvy users that prefer location based [Continue Reading]

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Video Update: Green Movement Continues at Extreme Tan and Smoothies with iPad App

It’s been a hot minute or two since I’ve posted an update in regards to the custom iPad app that I have being developed to help my tanning salon chain continue in our commitment to “going green” and reduce paper expense within my small business while doing it. When it came to making the decision [Continue Reading]

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Example of a Trade-Out Marketing Campaign [radio]

Free Tanning from Extreme Tan and Smoothies

I’m trying to pound through a huge back log of posts that I planned on getting out over the last two weeks. I’ve been pretty crushed with preparing for my ebook release, “How to Succeed with Social Media – A Guide for Small Business”, preparing for Foursquare Frenzy Friday at my Extreme Tan and Smoothies [Continue Reading]

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