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Custom Facebook App Development Peek

Facebook app design

In my last post I mentioned that I currently have a custom Facebook app being designed to handle the voting portion of the Next Bottle Model contest that’s right around the corner. For those of you that don’t know, I’m the founder of Extreme Tan and Smoothies a chain of indoor tanning salons located in the [Continue Reading]

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Friday Free-for-All: Do You REALLY USE Facebook?

Another Friday means another Friday Free-for-All post. A few weeks ago I started to change up what was posted here on Friday’s, the fact is that many small business owners and hard working young entrepreneurs read my blog during the week. As any business owner can tell you, the work week has a lot of [Continue Reading]

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#SundaySmash: 12 Blazing Reads on Business, Blogging and Social Media

Business Tips

Since I never had the chance to actually post the Sunday Smash article I worked on all week last week I decided to wait until the very last minute to put together this week’s Sunday Smash and try to pressure myself to rush it out. OK, really there isn’t much pressure to get this post [Continue Reading]

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Sunday Smash: A Mix of Business Gems from Around the Web

I said I wasn’t going to do the Sunday Smash the same way I did the Sunday Smash every Sunday during 2010 and I’m going to change it from the massive list of links to social media tips, blogging and businesses blogging tips for small business owners to something more refined. I’ve mentioned here before that I read [Continue Reading]

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#SundaySmash: Business and Social Media Hotness

I said I wasn’t going to do the Sunday Smash the same way I did the Sunday Smash every Sunday during 2010 and I’m going to change it from the massive list of links to social media tips, blogging and businesses blogging tips for small business owners to something more refined. I’ve mentioned here before that I read [Continue Reading]

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Facebook Listens and Allows Page Owners to Unmerge with Places

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Back on November 24th I wrote a post titled, “8 Reasons Facebook Page Owners Should Avoid Claiming a Place”. I wrote that post after claiming our Facebook Places page and merging it with our Facebook Fan Page for Extreme Tan and Smoothies, it was a hot new option that Facebook was offering Facebook Fan Page [Continue Reading]

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Weekly Link Dump 16: Rants, Milestones and Crazy People

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Today is one of those days where the last thing I feel like posting is my Weekly Link Dump, I’m not sure why I’m being such a wuss about it. The Instant Weekly Roundup WordPress plugin I use really does make it simple. Earlier today in my Sunday Smash I mentioned that I would be [Continue Reading]

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700 Facebook Friends, Thank you!

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When it comes to Facebook Fan Page’s lately, I haven’t been too thrilled. If you read my post titled, “8 Reasons Facebook Page Owners Should Avoid Claiming a Place”, you’ll have a pretty good idea of why I’m not too thrilled with Facebook lately. Well, that was until 700 plus people were nice enough to [Continue Reading]

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American Express Small Business Saturday

Small Business Saturday

Before I really get into this post I have to apologize to the small business owners that subscribe to my RSS feed and read my blog on a daily basis. I tired to get to this blog post and time it perfectly so that I could explain what Small Business Saturday is and how we [Continue Reading]

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Sunday Smash: 17 Beefy Business, Blogging and Social Media Posts

Sexy Schoolgirl

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 [Continue Reading]

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Facebook Fan Page Giveaway LIVE Tonight

Facebook Tanning Giveaway

Being a small business owner and the founder of multiple small businesses that have ranged in size over the years from $20,000 per year to $4,000,000 per year I often take the time to write about my own little adventures in small business. Sure, my take on small business and my actions as a small [Continue Reading]

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Sunday Smash: Marketing Online, Small Business Update and Bloggin Tips

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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 [Continue Reading]

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11 Ways I Use the Internet to Save My Customers Money

Google Coupon

Extreme Tan and Smoothies offers 11 ways to save money on tanning that you probably haven’t thought of before. One of the things that we seem to find is that our customers like having multiple ways to save money tanning, but very rarely do they take advantage of all the ways Extreme Tan and Smoothies [Continue Reading]

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600 Facebook Fan Page Fans.. THANK YOU!!

Facebook fan page

The Extreme John Facebook Fan Page has reached 600 fans and counting. Well, I hope on the “and counting” part. I can remember in the early stages of this blog before there were almost 20,000 comments and over 1 million visitors, back before anyone commented or anyone visited. I can remember getting that first comment [Continue Reading]

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Using Facebook for Customer Feedback in Small Business

Facebook Small Business Tips

Every once in a while I take a break from my normal banter and try to offer up some good to other small business owners or tanning salon owners that might be looking for information on ways to improve their business. The indoor tanning industry has been on some very shaky ground the last couple [Continue Reading]

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