advertising

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]

Example of Roadside Marketing Done Wrong

I’ve wanted to get this picture into a post for a few weeks now and I finally have the opportunity to share it with all of you. I won’t go into any detail about the business or business name or even where I took this picture exactly out of respect for the business owner. I will tell [Continue Reading]

26 comments Continue →

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]

2 comments Continue →

Facebook Ads vs. Google PPC (Pay Per Click)

This is a guest post by Thomas Doane, Content Manager at SmallBox Web Design. These two avenues of the marketing world are just beginning to be tapped. People who are graduating college now with marketing degrees most likely have not been trained in Google PPC or on the efficacy of Facebook Ads. That’s alright. |||

16 comments Continue →

How to Add a Business to SCVNGR

As many of you that read my blog on a daily basis know I like to post information that helps other small business owners and young entrepreneurs move along in their ventures. Of course with all of the uproar about social media marketing nowa days it’s no surprise that I spend a decent amount of [Continue Reading]

18 comments Continue →

Tampa Bay Tribune (TBT) Ad Campaign Follow-Up

Back on September 24th I posted that I was in the middle of Working on Halloween Ad Campaigns. In that post I shared a proof that I had received from my sales rep over at the TBT, the TBT us Tampa’s largest free local newspaper with a current daily distribution rate of 66,000 copies in [Continue Reading]

11 comments Continue →

Working On Our Halloween Ad Campaign

Every once in a while I will take a quick moment to post about my week in business marketing to share some of the ideas that we are working on and of course share our specials with current and potential customers. I also like the idea of posting various ad campaign information here because it’s [Continue Reading]

9 comments Continue →

Marketing Small Business Using Facebook Advertising

Every once in a while I step outside of what I consider my safe zone and post information on here that I know competitors will see, yet I know it might help another tanning salon owner somewhere else. I know within a few minutes of this post going up someone will shoot me a text [Continue Reading]

17 comments Continue →

Stay Dark Breaks Top Selling Moisturizer Record

Woooop, it’s Friday! I plan on trying to finish the week off really strong, it’s been a very busy yet profitable week with a lot of chips falling into place to keep things moving forward for a while. Very rarely will you hear me say anything about moving backwards since it’s really pointless. O.k. since [Continue Reading]

3 comments Continue →

Shameless Self Promotion

Every once in a while I have to break some of my own rules in regards to what type of messages I post on Twitter and my Facebook fan page, I try to keep my shameless self promotion to a minimum. A lot like I do here on my blog. I might post in formation [Continue Reading]

10 comments Continue →

Networks Airing Extreme Tan and Smoothies TV Commercials

As the week comes to a close I hope that all of you had a productive week that will lead to more future success, before I get started I do want to thank all of you for the comments on my “Unstoppable” post from the other day it. That was a nice surprise to wake [Continue Reading]

8 comments Continue →

Spray Tan TV Commercial for Extreme Tan and Smoothies

Moving into the weekend I have a full schedule of things I need and desperately want to get posted here, not to mention I will be breaking some business news here on my blog before the weekend comes to an end. The ideas flowing out of the Extreme camp right now are incredible and a few of the projects [Continue Reading]

7 comments Continue →

My Week in Business Marketing

Those of you that read my blog on a daily basis or subscribe to my rss feed know that I am the founder and CEO of Extreme Tan and Smoothies, Inc., a family owned chain of indoor tanning salons with six locations in the Tampa Bay area. In addition to Extreme Tan and Smoothies, Inc. [Continue Reading]

14 comments Continue →

The Slacker is Back

I very rarely do these middle of the afternoon blog posts unless we have something being released in regards to our tanning salon business or limousine business, my overwhelming guilt made me jump on here and give you an idea of what I have been up to. You know explain my reason for slackin’. It’s [Continue Reading]

47 comments Continue →

FTC Wants Twitter Users to Disclose Paid Tweets

Ok, before everyone gets all wild and crazy and starts spewing from the corners of their mouth, no the FTC does not want you to disclose your tweeted products or products that you tweet on Twitter. However the recent news that the FTC Wants Bloggers to Disclose Paid Reviews came to mind as I sent [Continue Reading]

33 comments Continue →

← Previous Entries