15,000 Comment, THANK YOU!

March 10, 2010
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Waaaaay back on November 30, 2009 I celebrated reaching 10,000 blog comments here on my blog, something that I honestly couldn’t have reached without all of you that are nice enough to comment here. Shortly after celebrating the 10,000 comment milestone I celebrated reaching 10,000 tweets on Twitter, the Twitter milestone was reached on December [...]

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Video from Our Small Business Town Hall Breakfast

March 10, 2010
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As I rip through another mayhem filled day here at the Extreme Tan and Smoothies home office I came across this video from our second Town Hall, some of you old schoolers are thinkin, “Town Hall? WTF is that?”. Basically it’s the new “in” way to say “meeting” without actually saying the word meeting, you [...]

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A Day in the Life of Extreme John Episode 7 [video]

March 8, 2010
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I really have been milking these videos for way too long, but the reality is that I have been super busy lately with it being indoor tanning season as well as season for our limousine business. Since I want to keep things short today I will get down to the video instead of rambling on [...]

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8 Reasons Your Employees Don’t Respect You

March 4, 2010
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I really haven’t decided if I like numbered list posts or if I am just totally getting sick of them, when I first think of doing a list post my first thought is that it will be a really quick and simple post to knock out. The more I write list posts the more I [...]

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Business and Personal Goals for March

March 3, 2010
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I can’t really remember ever posting my “goals” here on my blog any other time in the past and I can’t really imagine why I asked Dawn to make the graphic for this post. Those of you that don’t subscribe to my rss feed or connect with me via my Facebook Fan Page probably have [...]

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Ambush Interview Customer Feedback Project

March 2, 2010
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Those of you that stop by my blog on a daily basis or subscribe to my rss feed for instant updates of my daily ramblings know that I am one of those weird blogging CEOS. In addition to keeping this blog updated with fresh small business tips, business blogging tips, social networking and blogging tips [...]

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A Day in the Life of Extreme John Episode 6 [video]

March 1, 2010
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I hope everyone had a great weekend and had a chance to do all of those fun, exciting, life rewarding things that most of us dream of doing upon each weekends arrival. It’s around 9pm on Sunday night as I put this post together for the sixth episode of “A Day in the Life of [...]

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Team USA Wins Gold Medal

February 28, 2010

I don’t care if your one of those overnight fans or a die-hard hockey fan if you watched the Gold Medal game between Team USA vs Team Canada you couldn’t help but sit on the edge of your seat. Team USA got off to a slow start and Canada capitalized taking a 2-0 lead over [...]

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16 of My Favorite Articles from Around the Web

February 28, 2010
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Each week I try to post a few links to excellent blogging tips, business tips and information on social media sites that I came across during the week. I do this for a few reasons one of which is to share blogging information with newbie bloggers or business bloggers that are looking to create a [...]

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3 Best Twitter Apps for Droid

February 25, 2010

As many of you know I recently picked myself up one of those heavily advertised Motorola Droid smart phones from the local Verizon peeps, with all of the crazy apps out there it didn’t take me long to write “15 of My First Motorola Droid Apps” and a quick Motorola Droid review. One of the [...]

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