Recently I posted that we put together our first ever Extreme Tan and Smoothies Hospitality Team, rushed into small business’s in Seminole Florida to hand out free tanning cards that offer 2 weeks of free tanning in any of our 20 minute upgraded tanning beds. Our exclusive hospitality industry offer is good at all six of our Pinellas County Florida indoor tanning salons.
After such a warm welcome for our Hospitality Team that offered free tanning in Seminole Florida we were excited to see how well everything would go when we put a new hospitality team together for our St. Petersburg tanning event. We had just as much fun in St. Petersburg as we did handing out free tanning in Seminole.
I would like to personally thank Kandra, Jenn, Nicole and Lakin (pictured below) for making this event another success.
THIS EVENT WAS RESCHEDULED
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Best post ever! Good to know you guys had just as much fun this time!
Sorry, you know I had to give you a hard time for this!
Mike from Daily Shot Of Coffee´s last blog ..Poll: Is Coffee On Your Christmas List This Year?
@Mike from Daily Shot Of Coffee,
I’m on the edge of my seat!!!!!! Hahaha, that’s funny Sarc:)
Ditto Mike.
Were are the pics John. We want our pics.
Well thats ok if there are not here because you know we read your posts just for the content. The Extreme Tanning & Smoothies, Limo and crazy pics are just are just bonus material.
Safari, Out.
By the way, what posts are eSINee & Keith posting on with all those comments?
Or are they just tweeting the hell out of you. They must really want to pad their odds of winning that buck fifty gift card.
@SafariDave, If I told you, I’d have to k…, wait a minute, I don’t even know where you are. I guess I had better keep that to myself.
Yes, I can write a lot of BS for a chance at $150.
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@Keith@Norman Rockwell Art, Love it Keith.
Keep up the posts and keep EJ’s site going strong.
Sorry for the length of this John but it is important I lay my creds out.
Dear John,
I have commented on your blog as boomerblogger, golftrekker and just plain Dick Schaefer a number of times and would like to beg your indulgence with this lengthy email cause toward the end of it I am going to ask for a favor. This email is going out to others you know and respect as bloggers: Making Money Online, Tycoonblogger, DiTesco, Asswass, Blogopreneur, Constant Complainer and a few others.
It is to introduce you to Payson Web LLC, my new Internet Marketing & Consulting Co, managed by a baby boomer husband(me) & wife team, recently re-located from Scottsdale, AZ to Payson, AZ, a small, but vibrant town just an hour north of Scottsdale. We are boomers who have removed themselves from the big city but are not quite ready to retire completely. Now we get to do what we love, teach business blogging 101 from new HQ (our comfortable home office in the pines).
Payson is a great little town, situated at 5,000 ft above sea level and is a seasonal tourist destination, May – Sept with a mild winter and much cooler temperatures than the scorching summers of Phoenix/Scottsdale. It is a town dependent on tourism, mostly from the Phoenix/Scottsdale area, and it serves as the hub to points east along the Mogillon Rim, where RV enthusiasts, boaters, hikers, and campers go to fish, recreate and enjoy the largest stand of Ponderosa Pines in the world. During this time the population doubles from about 15,000 year-round residents to 30,000 including tourists and there are hotels, restaurants, spas, pubs and related businesses all vying for their share of the tourist dollar.
So it is fortuitous that my partner and my backgrounds for the last 25 years have been in Hospitality and Tourism. Our knowledge gained by years of experience in Hotel Management, Travel, Golf Packaging and Wholesaling and by serving on several tourism related committees in support of the Scottsdale Chamber and the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau and our four years of blogging experience will stand us in good stead when we ask to educate local businesses about blogging.(for reasonable compensation or even trade)
We plan to specialize in helping small to medium sized business owners create, maintain and interact with a blog created by them based on their type of business and give them the training to manage them. If they have an existing website and they want to take it deeper with PPC or SEO we can do that with the help of my silent partner, shhh, it’s a secret, Sam Stevens of Stevens Media Solutions, my webmaster for the past ten years. You can see by the design of the website our strategy is to Demystify the whole process of Internet marketing, be it social media, blogging, relationship building, SEO or PPC.
This is the main website: http://www.paysonweb.com and this is the blog: http://blog.paysonweb.com/ (a tumblr blog but will be later customized with the look and feel of Payson Web.com)
You may remember me mentioning to you at some point early in our relationship how the blogging skills I learned (from bloggers like you) made me more marketable as a consultant teaching blogging to local businesses than what monetizing my little blog network has done for me. I talked about it in a guest post on Doug Dillard’s MMM.
Now, I have been given a unique opportunity by the Veterans Administration (time to disclose I am a dis-abled vet; USMC, 1968-72, Vietnam service: 69-70.) I have gone through and qualified for this whole process of Vocational Rehab with the VA and am just one step away from gaining valuable resources at little to no cost to make Payson Web LLC a viable business.
But that last step is a beaut and I need your help: You see, this last hurdle is a task that resembles having to do a thesis for a doctoral degree, in that, it’s a comprehensive business plan that the VA requires and I have seen telephone books a lot thinner! Ive got 6 months to complete it and have it approved but I am not waiting that long to get the ball rolling. The business has been started as you can see by the website and the blog.
What I would ask from you, my fellow blogger is not anything much different than what we have been doing since I discovered your great blog, and that is trade comments, re-tweet, give link juice, etc to each other. But now, when I comment on a particular post I would like you to reciprocate with a comment, a re-tweet or a vote to Payson Web instead of my-baby-pet, lowcarbgolfer, or any other of my blogs.
There are a number of reasons for this, among them is proving my credibility as a blogger. If I can show the VA in my business plan how a group of other respected bloggers support my blog and deem my posts as worthy of their comments then they can hardly refuse to support my business, now can they? Second is my desire to see the Payson Web Blog demonstrate first hand about how:
Blogging is a business.
It takes hard work, requires some writing skills and good computer skills.
Why every business should have a blog.
How a blog works with a website.
How a blog can be monetized.
How a blog can build relationships & grow pagerank and traffic.
How to target a niche.
How to set a business apart from their competition.
And a whole lot more…
Basically, all the cool stuff the guys and gals in our circle of bloggers talk about all the time! Bloggers helping bloggers.
This blog would also serve as a platform for the blog alliance I approached you about a couple of months back. It was a comluv blog, http://boomerblogger.comluv.com/ with an alliance concept that got positive reaction & encouragement from some of you and lukewarm from others but regardless, I would like to use the same concept I promoted there, a sort of blog “alliance” to show newbies money making strategies on Payson Web, yet not calling it an alliance. It’s more what I would term as a learning center for new bloggers where they learn how to grow and manage a blog. It’s another channel to your posts via my critique of your post subject. Since I only feature info I think is useful, tried myself and relevent to newbie bloggers everything I say will be of a positive nature.
Here is how I see it working: Just like what I did here on Boomerblogger, Step 1. I pick a post of yours to comment on your blog but I do so in the form of a post to Payson Web of the same topic. Step 2 In that post I give your blog credit for the original post with a link within my post explaining what I liked about it, how it worked for me, etc. Step 3, You then comment back via the same posts on Payson Web and from that point we just keep bringing the link juice any way we see fit. Of course many of you have more experience in relationship building techniques than I do and I will look at any suggestions for win win opportunities.
According to the movers and shakers of this town, the time is right for someone like me to come along and help out with businesses that need blogs. It would seem in my discussions with the mayor and a few city council members that technology has arrived in Payson. There are some new players in town and they know what the Internet can do. And in my opinion, every business needs a blog!
These business bloggers we teach in Payson will be newbie bloggers and in need of the kinds of things our mutual friends blog about every day. Whether it’s strategies for Adsense channels, making money online with affiliates, SEO or monetizing a site or building relationships our group will show the way. You can look forward to comments placed on your blogs from blogs created by students of Payson Web!
Let me know what you think and I apologize again for the length of this email.
Sincerely,
Dick Schaefer
Payson Web´s last blog .."It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."
Dear John,
I have commented on your blog as boomerblogger, golftrekker and just plain Dick Schaefer a number of times and would like to beg your indulgence with this lengthy email cause toward the end of it I am going to ask for a favor. This email is going out to others you know and respect as bloggers: Making Money Online, Exteme John, Tycoonblogger, DiTesco, Asswass, Blogopreneur, Constant Complainer and a few others.
It is to introduce you to Payson Web LLC, my new Internet Marketing & Consulting Co, managed by a baby boomer husband(me) & wife team, recently re-located from Scottsdale, AZ to Payson, AZ, a small, but vibrant town just an hour north of Scottsdale. We are boomers who have removed themselves from the big city but are not quite ready to retire completely. Now we get to do what we love, teach business blogging 101 from new HQ (our comfortable home office in the pines).
Payson is a great little town, situated at 5,000 ft above sea level and is a seasonal tourist destination, May – Sept with a mild winter and much cooler temperatures than the scorching summers of Phoenix/Scottsdale. It is a town dependent on tourism, mostly from the Phoenix/Scottsdale area, and it serves as the hub to points east along the Mogillon Rim, where RV enthusiasts, boaters, hikers, and campers go to fish, recreate and enjoy the largest stand of Ponderosa Pines in the world. During this time the population doubles from about 15,000 year-round residents to 30,000 including tourists and there are hotels, restaurants, spas, pubs and related businesses all vying for their share of the tourist dollar.
So it is fortuitous that my partner and my backgrounds for the last 25 years have been in Hospitality and Tourism. Our knowledge gained by years of experience in Hotel Management, Travel, Golf Packaging and Wholesaling and by serving on several tourism related committees in support of the Scottsdale Chamber and the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau and our four years of blogging experience will stand us in good stead when we ask to educate local businesses about blogging.(for reasonable compensation or even trade)
We plan to specialize in helping small to medium sized business owners create, maintain and interact with a blog created by them based on their type of business and give them the training to manage them. If they have an existing website and they want to take it deeper with PPC or SEO we can do that with the help of my silent partner, shhh, it’s a secret, Sam Stevens of Stevens Media Solutions, my webmaster for the past ten years. You can see by the design of the website our strategy is to Demystify the whole process of Internet marketing, be it social media, blogging, relationship building, SEO or PPC.
This is the main website: http://www.paysonweb.com and this is the blog: http://blog.paysonweb.com/ (a tumblr blog but will be later customized with the look and feel of Payson Web.com)
You may remember me mentioning to you at some point early in our relationship how the blogging skills I learned (from bloggers like you) made me more marketable as a consultant teaching blogging to local businesses than what monetizing my little blog network has done for me. I talked about it in a guest post on Doug Dillard’s MMM.
Now, I have been given a unique opportunity by the Veterans Administration (time to disclose I am a dis-abled vet; USMC, 1968-72, Vietnam service: 69-70.) I have gone through and qualified for this whole process of Vocational Rehab with the VA and am just one step away from gaining valuable resources at little to no cost to make Payson Web LLC a viable business.
But that last step is a beaut and I need your help: You see, this last hurdle is a task that resembles having to do a thesis for a doctoral degree, in that, it’s a comprehensive business plan that the VA requires and I have seen telephone books a lot thinner! Ive got 6 months to complete it and have it approved but I am not waiting that long to get the ball rolling. The business has been started as you can see by the website and the blog.
What I would ask from you, my fellow blogger is not anything much different than what we have been doing since I discovered your great blog, and that is trade comments, re-tweet, give link juice, etc to each other. But now, when I comment on a particular post I would like you to reciprocate with a comment, a re-tweet or a vote to Payson Web instead of my-baby-pet, lowcarbgolfer, or any other of my blogs.
There are a number of reasons for this, among them is proving my credibility as a blogger. If I can show the VA in my business plan how a group of other respected bloggers support my blog and deem my posts as worthy of their comments then they can hardly refuse to support my business, now can they? Second is my desire to see the Payson Web Blog demonstrate first hand about how:
Blogging is a business.
It takes hard work, requires some writing skills and good computer skills.
Why every business should have a blog.
How a blog works with a website.
How a blog can be monetized.
How a blog can build relationships & grow pagerank and traffic.
How to target a niche.
How to set a business apart from their competition.
And a whole lot more…
Basically, all the cool stuff the guys and gals in our circle of bloggers talk about all the time! Bloggers helping bloggers.
This blog would also serve as a platform for the blog alliance I approached you about a couple of months back. It was a comluv blog, http://boomerblogger.comluv.com/ with an alliance concept that got positive reaction & encouragement from some of you and lukewarm from others but regardless, I would like to use the same concept I promoted there, a sort of blog “alliance” to show newbies money making strategies on Payson Web, yet not calling it an alliance. It’s more what I would term as a learning center for new bloggers where they learn how to grow and manage a blog. It’s another channel to your posts via my critique of your post subject. Since I only feature info I think is useful, tried myself and relevent to newbie bloggers everything I say will be of a positive nature.
Here is how I see it working: Just like what I did here on Boomerblogger, Step 1. I pick a post of yours to comment on your blog but I do so in the form of a post to Payson Web of the same topic. Step 2 In that post I give your blog credit for the original post with a link within my post explaining what I liked about it, how it worked for me, etc. Step 3, You then comment back via the same posts on Payson Web and from that point we just keep bringing the link juice any way we see fit. Of course many of you have more experience in relationship building techniques than I do and I will look at any suggestions for win win opportunities.
According to the movers and shakers of this town, the time is right for someone like me to come along and help out with businesses that need blogs. It would seem in my discussions with the mayor and a few city council members that technology has arrived in Payson. There are some new players in town and they know what the Internet can do. And in my opinion, every business needs a blog!
These business bloggers we teach in Payson will be newbie bloggers and in need of the kinds of things our mutual friends blog about every day. Whether it’s strategies for Adsense channels, making money online with affiliates, SEO or monetizing a site or building relationships our group will show the way. You can look forward to comments placed on your blogs from blogs created by students of Payson Web!
Let me know what you think and I apologize again for the length of this email.
Sincerely,
Dick Schaefer
Payson Web´s last blog .."It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."
Pictures?
Well, I guess you’ll post them eventually (or am I the only one who doesn’t see them?)
Hard Rocking South African@Music Judge´s last undefined ..If you register your site for free at
@Hard Rocking South African@Music Judge, no I didn’t see them too. When I clicked on the post and I expected to have something good to see, but now…
@Lee Ka Hoong@How To Make Money Online, haha sorry for the let down, they will be coming up next week
@Hard Rocking South African@Music Judge, it says the event was canceled
John I’m just wondering if the event was canceled then why is the title of the post is still “Pictures from our free tanning event”
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@MichaelR, because the post was pre-written and scheduled and waiting on the pictures from the event.
John I have visited to this post only because of tag ” Pictures” . My aim was to see how you make your business attractive by using pictures