Indoor Tanning

Pre-Tanning Season Salon Walk Pictures

Bacon, Egg Whites and Cheese on a Bagel

As if your life isn’t exciting enough around this time of year I bring the extra fiyah with pictures from what I like to call my, “Pre-Tanning Season Salon Walk”. It’s a really sexy name for taking a walk through each of my tanning salons before heading into the new tanning season. The walk is [Continue Reading]

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Story Time with Santa at Extreme in Clearwater and Pinellas Park, Florida

Story Time with Santa in Clearwater

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now you probably have a pretty good idea of how I like to do new things for the holidays in my small businesses. Back during the Insane Limos it was the “Christmas Light Cruise”, and this year at my indoor tanning salons in Clearwater and Pinellas [Continue Reading]

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9 Reasons My Small Business Crushed 2010 Black Friday Sales by 71%

Body Paint Clearwater Tanning Girls

I can’t believe how fast time seems to move. It seems like it was just yesterday that I took my kids pictures in front of the house before the first day of school, now I’m sitting here writing an article about Black Friday. Or more specifically, how my small business crushed same store 2010 Black [Continue Reading]

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9 Halloween Pictures My Customers Shared on My SMB Facebook Page

Dana

Lately I have been running some themed Halloween contests for my indoor tanning salon business. As part of the contests I asked my clients to submit their Halloween related images for the chance to win discounts and free tanning from my salons! All I asked them to do was post their Halloween images on our [Continue Reading]

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

Foursquare Frenzy Friday

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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Released: TanMeToday Facebook Game by Extreme Tan and Smoothies

TanMeToday Facebook Game

Over the course of the last few weeks I’ve written about custom Facebook apps that I’ve had in development as well as a custom iPad app for my tanning salon business. In the mist of keeping you updated on those projects I also tried to keep you up to date on the new Facebook Game [Continue Reading]

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Red Light Therapy Is Now At Extreme Spray Tan

One of my most recent business ventures has involved the creation of a spray tan only indoor tanning salon located in Largo, Florida. Extreme Spray Tan is my newest baby and I have been working to introduce some fun new elements in to the indoor tanning business so I decided to add red light therapy! [Continue Reading]

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Tan Cash Promotional Tools

Over the past few weeks I have shared some tips on how you can make the most of Tan Cash to promote indoor tanning products on your website or blog so you can make money from your website traffic. Today I’d like to recap some of the tools that are available through Tan Cash to [Continue Reading]

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5 Ways to Use Skype for Your Business

Skype

You have heard me going on and on about Skype before and I really can’t say enough good things about it because it really does make my life so much easier both as a small business owner and as an everyday Joe. If you aren’t using Skype in your small business yet there are plenty [Continue Reading]

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Next Bottle Model Contest Update

Back at the end of April you will remember that we had a post recapping the most recent vote counts on the Next Bottle Model contest and some of those vote counts were pretty close! Well, we’re headed in to the home stretch since this contest draws to a close on May 31st so it’s [Continue Reading]

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How the Government and Morons Killed the Tanning Industry

Tan Girl

As I get ready to write this I’m already annoyed with myself for not saving an article that was in the TBT (local free newspaper). The article outlined details about how outdoor tanning lotion products are full of crap when it comes to the UV protection they provide. Whenever I see stuff like this it [Continue Reading]

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How To Find Banners Through Tan Cash

Yesterday I posted a how to tutorial about how to retrieve your links through the Tan Cash system so that you can make a profit from promoting Extreme Tan and Smoothies indoor tanning products. Today’s how to tutorial about Tan Cash is going to teach you how you can grab banners to promote Tan Cash [Continue Reading]

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Ladies Patriotic “My Tush is Tan” Shirts Now In-Stock

You all know by now that I’m proud of my country and I’m certainly proud of my indoor tanning business, one of my babies that I recently celebrated seven years with! I still can’t believe it’s been seven years since I opened the doors to Extreme Tan and Smoothies! Anyway, today I wanted to drop [Continue Reading]

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Friday Free For All: Name 3 Ways You Promoted Your Business Online This Week

Since it’s already Friday again, it is time for another Friday Free For All. The “Friday Free-for-All” #FridayFreeforAll series of posts is a way for the small business owners and entrepreneurs who read my blog throughout the week to come together and share tips and opinions on an aspect of the small business world. What [Continue Reading]

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The Details On Tan Cash

Earlier this week I shared an article with you on the basics of how to sign up for Tan Cash and today realized that perhaps that post was a little premature so today we are backtracking just a little. Today, rather than share a few more “how to’s” for Tan Cash (which will come next [Continue Reading]

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