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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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Marketing Example: Red Light Therapy Poster

Red Light Skin Rejuvenation

I recently had a Red Light Therapy skin rejuvenation and massage unit added to the available services available at my Clearwater, Florida Extreme Tan and Smoothies location. In order to get the word out and create additional awareness amongst my customers I had the following design done for posters that will go in each of [Continue Reading]

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Heads Up [Picture]

Falling Ice Tweet

The ceiling is falling… along with a few other things. A few days ago I sent the following tweet with the picture below attached. This is the result of a constantly running A/C unit and the humidity here in sunny Florida in August. The a/c repair guy had just left my Pinellas Park tanning salon when [Continue Reading]

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9 BTS Pictures from the Extreme Tan and Smoothies TV Commercial Shoot

I Tan Naked TV Commercial Picture

On Wednesday I posted the video for the Extreme Tan and Smoothies Free Tanning til Labor Day TV commercial. The commercials are scheduled to air during this season of The Jersey Shore and Keeping up with the Kardashians in order to cap off the social media marketing campaign that went viral back in June. In [Continue Reading]

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Video Update: Green Movement Continues at Extreme Tan and Smoothies with iPad App

iPad app for Tanning Salon

It’s been a hot minute or two since I’ve posted an update in regards to the custom iPad app that I have being developed to help my tanning salon chain continue in our commitment to “going green” and reduce paper expense within my small business while doing it. When it came to making the decision [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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Free Tanning at Florida’s Best Tanning Salons

Extreme-Tan-And-Smoothies

By now you guys have heard a thing or two about the upcoming 7th birthday of Extreme Tan and Smoothies, John’s indoor tanning salon business in Pinellas County, Florida. Well as a part of the birthday celebration all of the Extreme Tan and Smoothies salons are offering free tanning! How To Get Free Tanning At [Continue Reading]

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A Pretty Awesome Shout Out To Tan Cash

You may remember on Tuesday that John made a post announcing the launch of Tan Cash. Well since then word has begun to spread and John was thrilled when he spotted a local tanner tweeting all about the new affiliate program! Shout Out To Keith Yesterday as John was trolling the Twittersphere one tweet caught [Continue Reading]

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Blackout by Extreme Best Selling Tanning Lotion 2011

Blackout Bronzer

A few weeks ago Extreme Tan and Smoothies released a brand new tanning lotion that would fast become the best selling tanning lotion of 2011. While sales were expected to do well, no one could have estimated just how well and within the first week all bottles of Blackout tanning lotion had been sold out [Continue Reading]

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3 Reasons to Use Google Alerts for Your Business

St Pete Tanning Salon

One of my favorite business tools that I’ve always managed to NOT write about is Google Alerts. Google provides Google Alerts for free, if you use Google Alerts it can benefit your business in more ways than one. At any given point in time I have anywhere between five and twenty Google Alerts running at [Continue Reading]

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Extreme Tan and Smoothies Halloween Pictures

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Before I get started on any posts about small business I usually like to get any of you that haven’t been by my blog yet or don’t currently subscribe to my rss feed caught up on a few things so that you’re not out there wondering what I am talking about. In addition to maintaining [Continue Reading]

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Late Night Business Deals

I hope everyone’s week is off to a great start and your finding new ways to be productive and efficient. I know, chances are you probably didn’t come here for a little pep talk on a Tuesday morning from some spikey haired freak that you never met. Consider it a little bonus for stoppin by [Continue Reading]

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One Month of Free Tanning

Free Tanning Tampa

Free tanning doesn’t come through very often and I honestly almost forgot to post about it here on my blog. Even though we already have a tanning coupons page setup along with the Extreme Tan and Smoothies website and indoor tanning blog I usually like to post the coupons here on my blog as well [Continue Reading]

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All Access VIP Tanning Pass Only $79

Best Tanning Special

Before I get started on any posts about small business I usually like to get any of you that haven’t been by my blog yet or don’t currently subscribe to my rss feed caught up on a few things so that you’re not out there wondering what I am talking about. In addition to maintaining [Continue Reading]

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Marketing Small Business Using Facebook Advertising

Facebook Graph Screen Shot

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]

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