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Flooring Company – Success!

I have had so many problems with companies wanting to build us a website, it was one headache after another and I was never happy with the way anything came out. When Buzzaz wanted to do our website for us I was very skeptical because of the issues I had had with...

Those Old Nostalgic Advertisements

So Many Advertisements Now Rely On The Same Sensation Nostalgia is the way of current advertisements. I’d say—by cursory glance—that about half of movies coming out now are based on previous intellectual properties. For every new thing, we bring back an old thing....

The PR Religious Bias as an Artform

The PR of Prejudice in Religion Lets chat about the PR of religious bias, shall we?  Everyone has it, and it is different for everyone. I am going to pick on one major institution of new media now.  In previous posts I have commended them and defended them and have...

Net Neutrality – The Saga Continues

Net Neutrality Is Important To Everyone Net neutrality has been a hot button topic for a while, and until something is put in place that actually ensures the internet is protected people are going to be skeptical of any promises one way or the other. The current FCC...

Pushback Against the Gig Economy

Is The Gig Economy Inevitable? Airbnb is not popular everywhere nor with everyone - as seen in a recent spat with the Hotel Association of New York City. Uber's battles have been perhaps even more public; with the parties involved seemingly even more vitriolic. The...

Advertising Police Brutality And A Failed Justice System

Advertising Police Brutality Towards African-Americans I know this is a tetchy subject for many people, on both sides of the fence. Families and friends of police officers and law enforcement personnel, and the individuals they work with will argue that they are...

Facebook: A Technology And A Media Company

The Facebook Algorithm And The Trending Problem Zuckerberg doesn't often get caught flat-footed; doesn't often issue a statement that seems like a blunder: but no one's perfect. In the ever-evolving environment that is Facebook sometimes things are going to go astray,...

Cryptokitties Snarling Up The Blockchain For Ethereum Users

I Can Haz Cryptokitties? Cats and the internet go hand in hand, and apparently the same is true of cats and blockchain technology. Why? Because cats. A game called Cryptokitties has spiked in usage, and at the same time pending transactions on the Ethereum Blockchain...

Political Correctness And P.R. (Part 3: The Present)

Maintaining P.R. In Modern Day Is A Balancing Act, But Worthwhile I am a millennial. And as a person born to modern times, I have little issue with the ideas of “safe spaces” or “trigger words.” And if an individual finds he does not identify as the gender his body is...

Marketing An End: Hellboy In Hell

Endings in comic books aren't an easy thing to engineer - especially when you have a successful series on your hands. Hellboy, and the expanded Mignolaverse is one of those dream creations for a writer and an artist - something that is elastic enough to encompass...

Fake News Is An Oxymoron, Do You Mean Propaganda?

There Is No Fake News - It's Either News Or Not When you are discussing something as vital as information then the exactness of words is an important thing to consider, and fake news, while it may be a trending term, and the favorite buzzword of a few very loud...

A Broken Clock

So, The Doomsday Clock moved an hour closer to midnight, putting it at 3 minutes to midnight. The Bulletin Of Atomic Scientists see this as representing how close we are to doomsday as a civilization. What great PR for the miserabilists whose mission, it seems is to...

Android’s App Store Game Change

Amazon Making A Move On Another Market? It's interesting - I recently bought a new phone, and though some things automatically updated there were a few notable exceptions. I have an Android, so all the things which loaded straight in from my Google Account were apps...

Apple Vs. The FBI

Apple Are Making A Stand That Affects Everyone Apple taking on the FBI is making news, understandably. Could this be the defining moment for Tim Cook, Apple CEO? Just a good business decision to side with the consumer and the protection of their privacy, or a more far...

Keanan Kintzel At Clearwater Family Dental With Toola The Toothfairy Dolphin

Hey, good morning Here I am with the dolphin -- check this thing out: it's a tooth fairy dolphin; isn't that the best! Clearwater Family Dental get my teeth fixed. What an awesome place - these guys know their stuff; if you need a dentist come on by! Keanan Kintzel,...

Promote Against The Goat: Superstitions And Sports

Superstitions Promote Something Regardless Of Facts As a player of various nerdy games of luck and skill more commonly engaged with within the confines of a basement, I understand—easily—how a superstition can affect a player of a game. And what I’m going at today is...

Radio Versus Podcasts–A War Of Advertisements

Testing...1, 2, 3...do you want to hear an advertisement? Let’s do an experiment, shall we? Turn on your radio, Clearwater citizen. Any radio nearby you. Now tune into a standard Top 40 music station. Now tell me, how long can you listen to that station before you...

Website Statistics Programs

There are two major website statistics tracking programs that web developers and engineers use to track the effectiveness of the websites they build.  As it can be seen there are some discrepancies between them, which is what we will discover today. The reason Awstats...

Promote They Keep Out The Politics?

Politics Is Seeping Into Other Media, And Some Promote It Roll Back Do you promote that they keep the politics out of your *insert something you enjoy here*? Because, I am right with you. Allow me to say something nice about Donald Trump (I am asking permission...

Brand Out Of Hand – IS And Their Image

Does It Matter How A Terrorist Presents Themselves? People really do talk about branding some weird things - I read an article today about the branding of the Islamic State, and I have previously read about the economic model that terrorists use as being something to...

Advertising Technology Around Christmas Time

Christmas Is The Season Of Advertising New Gadgets What are you hoping to get for Christmas? I know you can’t tell me because I’m words on a screen, but it is something all observers of the holiday think about. If you are living in a first world country, your answer...

From Arya Stark To Daisie – A Collaborative App For Artists

Collaboration Over Competition Is Daisie's Philosophy It is always a great thing when someone takes their own success and parlays it into helping others. Who better than another artist to understand what  it takes to go from obscurity to fame, and who better to...

10 Year Old Says No To Drugs!

One of the things that people try to do with their kids is educate them about the dangers of drugs, and try to give them enough information that they can make an informed choice about whether or not they want to take them. Saying no to drugs because of the...

The Birds are Singing in the Trees – Tweeting

Twitter: Talk To The World In 280 Characters Do you have a Twitter account? If not, why not? Most people have heard of the elevator pitch – being able to sell your product in the time it takes the elevator to get you and your prospective client to whatever floor you...

Political Correctness And P.R. (Addendum: The Holidays)

The Holidays Offer Their Own P.R. Concerns Three months later, back we go into the controversy of political correctness and P.R. I’ve said much on the subject over several articles, but now as we are in the winter, we have the potential for a minor P.R. gaffe which...

The PR of a Legend

PR of Total Football and Johan Cruyff Today is a sad day for two countries, millions of fans and world of football.  Not American football, but football.  The legend, the man who made popular the concept of total football, the man who helped give Pep Guardiola, Luis...

Keanan Kintzel Of Buzzazz With Anne Cichra Of Gulf Coast Dancenter

Keanan: Tell me your name. Anne: Anne Cichra Keanan: Good, now tell me exactly what you were just saying about the classes and how it's got you so psyched. Anne: I am very jazzed; to the point where I actually went home on my one day off a week and blew out a purpose...

Marketing Physical Art–And Its Difficulties

Physical Art, Despite Its Importance, Needs A Lot Of Marketing To Survive Due to caffeine’s effective marketing pitch of being almost necessary to modern life, statistically, you go into coffee shops often. And, since you do, you probably have ogled a random painting...

American Genius – Comics – Stan Lee

Stan Lee Gave Us So Much With His Characters I remember at one point thinking Stan Lee was a little hokey, and kind of resented the damned preamble to every story Marvel put out, because it was reminscent of a dog marking its territory. What did I know? Spotting Stan...

The $4.4 Billion Deal with Verizon and AOL Finalized

Verizon & AOL - Happily Ever After - The $4.4 Billion Close It is done! It was finalized today that Verizon has bought AOL for $4.4 billion. A deal that some thought would be repealed by FCC but has not yet... Watch An Interview with CEO of AOL Tim Armstrong &...
Clearwater Memorial Day Parade & Festival

Clearwater Memorial Day Parade & Festival

Memorial Day in Clearwater - May 2024 WOW oh WOW!  We are sooooo very blessed to have one of the most magnificent venues - Clearwater Coachman Park - in the world for celebrations. And celebrate the remembrance of fallen military heroes, the...

Give Me Liberty with Leads or Give Me Death!

Give Me Liberty with Leads or Give Me Death!

Every business is searching for the all-important lead that will bring them their next sale or client. A successful way of doing this is by using digital advertising. Some examples of this are posting Facebook and Google ads, email marketing, or driving traffic to...

The Best Mobile Marketing Tips to Boost your App Downloads

The Best Mobile Marketing Tips to Boost your App Downloads

So, your business has reached a new milestone in the form of a mobile app. It has got everything in it; from great visuals to graphics, design, and interesting bits of information. Despite ensuring that your mobile app stands out from the rest, nobody seems to be...

What are the main Big Data challenges in the financial industry?

What are the main Big Data challenges in the financial industry?

With applications in all industries, Big Data is changing our society to its core. Maybe one of the greatest beneficiaries of Big Data applications is the financial industry. Today, players in the banking and financial sector can offer more flexible and personalized...

B.E. Kluttz Lumber Co Inc.

B.E. Kluttz Lumber Co Inc.

For 85 Years And 4 Generations, Kluttz Lumber Have Serviced Their Community Kluttz Lumber are a retail building supplier, and a supplier of building materials, that Buzzazz has worked with for over 5 years. They operate out of Concord, North Carolina, and have been...

A Sad Farewell To Filmstruck

A Sad Farewell To Filmstruck

Filmstruck Was An Unappreciated Gem I have heard people who say things like I won't watch it if it's in black and white. I move away from them while silently judging them. I know people who won't watch a science fiction movie because they have an amputated...

American Genius – Comics – Stan Lee

American Genius – Comics – Stan Lee

Stan Lee Gave Us So Much With His Characters I remember at one point thinking Stan Lee was a little hokey, and kind of resented the damned preamble to every story Marvel put out, because it was reminscent of a dog marking its territory. What did I know? Spotting Stan...

Cryptocurrency: Top 8 Women In Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency: Top 8 Women In Cryptocurrency

Before you start buying cryptocurrencies, there are a lot of thing that you should keep in mind. Over the past few years the process of buying and selling cryptocurrencies has become more lucid. Let’s illustrate how in some easy steps you can buy cryptocurrencies....

Stars, Stripes And Swooshes

Stars, Stripes And Swooshes

England is pretty secular in my memory - Blair's attempt to marry Labour values with religious ones never scanned that great. My mum was Catholic and my dad was Protestant, and they married in a Registry Office, which in some senses doesn't necessarily sit well with...

A Beginner’s Guide To Bitcoin & Blockchain Technology

A Beginner’s Guide To Bitcoin & Blockchain Technology

A cryptocurrency is a digital currency that exists in the virtual domain and is secured by cryptography. It is because of this security feature, cryptocurrencies are difficult to counterfeit. Moreover it is a decentralized system, where there is no presence of any...

Find Out More About Mold Zero

Find Out More About Mold Zero

Do You Have Mold In Your Building? It Needs To Be Handled All of our clients that we work with have one thing in common - they are providing a service or a product that is designed to help people, and Mold Zero are no exception. Using a patented dry fog technology...

An Interview With Deborah Traviss From Leapin’ Lizard RV Ranch

An Interview With Deborah Traviss From Leapin’ Lizard RV Ranch

Looking For A Great Place To Stay? Check Out Leapin' Lizard Deborah has been our client for nearly 5 years, and has been running the Leapin' Lizard RV Ranch for over 20 years with her husband. Deborah is always great to speak to, and we wanted find out some more about...

Marketing the Idea of Free Speech

Marketing the Idea of Free Speech

In this hyper partisan world we live in there is an endless stream of conflict and misinformation. And many are marketing the theory that banning speech from some online platforms is an encroachment on the First Amendment Rights of individuals. Take Alex...

Look For The Problem Solvers

Look For The Problem Solvers

Look For Those Who Offer Solutions It is pretty common for people to talk about the problems that exist out there in the world, and not so common for them to offer up a solution for the situation they have highlighted. When you consider the volume of information that...

An Interview With David Janer From Bay Furnishings

An Interview With David Janer From Bay Furnishings

Bay Furnishings Is A Veteran Owned Furniture Business That Can Service Anywhere In The Country! David is very enthusiastic in what he does, and he handles a number of different things in his company, doing each job that needs to be done with the same enthusiasm. We...

Interview With Tamara J. Archer

Interview With Tamara J. Archer

Photo Credit: Errol K. Archer T. Archer Design, Changing Lives With Interior Design When we transformed our office into an art gallery for an evening last month, as part of the Clearwater Art Walk, we created something really special, and got to meet some wonderful...

R.E.S.P.E.C.T – Aretha Franklin

R.E.S.P.E.C.T – Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin's Voice And The Way She Conducted Herself Truly Made Her The Queen Of Soul Well, we got a little warning, and with that another great has left the building. When great artists pass, especially ones who have had such a lasting and profound impact on the...

The Marketing Of Books

The Marketing Of Books

People Read - So How Do You Sell To Them? When was the last time you read a book? I don’t mean any judgment with that question: it’s simply to illustrate a point about marketing. While a television show, or a movie, can take only an hour or two to get through, books...

An Interview With Brandon Scott

An Interview With Brandon Scott

Brandon Scott Has A Compelling New Book Out! Brandon Scott has been writing for a long time, and as part of The Buzzazz Editorial Team he wrote a lot of really great articles. He has recently published his first book, and has taken his writing to a whole other level....

What Does The Collapse Of Dialogue Mean For People?

What Does The Collapse Of Dialogue Mean For People?

That Old Blue And Red Divide That Has Been With Us Since Rome The first thing to ask is whether there is a collapse of dialogue. Survey the evidence of the number of bipartisan conversations that don't descend into name calling and actually prove to be fruitful and...

Everyone is a Designer

Everyone is a Designer

I think it happens to be a bit ironic. Relevant, but ironic. When a client hires and Internet Marketer, they are asking them for their help to achieve certain goal, and I think that is indisputable. There is generally a contract in place to indicate what is expected...

The SEO Stats That Could Make Or Break Your Business

The SEO Stats That Could Make Or Break Your Business

SEO is something of a nebulous subject at times. It can be difficult to pin down exactly what is working for you and what is not. The main reason why you can’t always successfully determine your progress with optimizing your website is that there is too much...

From Arya Stark To Daisie – A Collaborative App For Artists

From Arya Stark To Daisie – A Collaborative App For Artists

Collaboration Over Competition Is Daisie's Philosophy It is always a great thing when someone takes their own success and parlays it into helping others. Who better than another artist to understand what  it takes to go from obscurity to fame, and who better to...

Where Are You At?

Where Are You At?

What's Your Job Title? What Is The Date? What's The Time? Do you know where you are? Do you conflate this job that you are doing with the last one you were at, or maybe some long ago job that this one reminds you of? That can't be much fun. Carrying all that baggage,...

Is An Online Store Really The Best Option?

Is An Online Store Really The Best Option?

Globally, eCommerce is pulling in $2.3 trillion a year. It could be a lucrative option for your business if you get it right. Online shopping can help you grow your market share and offer a convenient solution for the clients. Top American brands have known about the...

Relationship Marketing

Relationship Marketing

How Can You Help People? When a lot of people think about a great way for them to generate leads they are often imagining some super complex system with a whole bunch of complicated levers and buttons that must be pushed, metaphorically speaking that is. The more...

Solution Based Writing

Solution Based Writing

Practical Solutions Make Much Better Reading Than Articles Full Of Problems I am going to just say this straight up - articles which only float problems in your direction aren't worth the time it takes to read them. They are the celery of writing - as much nutritional...

Dustin Miller Of Abstract Metal Design Interview

Dustin Miller Of Abstract Metal Design Interview

Dustin Miller Creates Beautiful Fine Metal Art Sculptures Inspired by the elements, Dustin Miller creates dynamic sculptures, that are durable and perfect for indoor or outdoor settings. Dustin has created works that are on public display around the...

Fake News Is An Oxymoron, Do You Mean Propaganda?

Fake News Is An Oxymoron, Do You Mean Propaganda?

There Is No Fake News - It's Either News Or Not When you are discussing something as vital as information then the exactness of words is an important thing to consider, and fake news, while it may be a trending term, and the favorite buzzword of a few very loud...

Could You Be Crypto Royalty?

Could You Be Crypto Royalty?

Cryptocurrencies have taken the world by storm over the last year or so. Some people have made buckets of money, others have lost everything. Cryptos have been responsible for creating a new breed of a millionaire. There is clearly the opportunity to make a lot of...

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