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Vuzix AR Glasses Are Apparently What Google Glass Wanted To Be

I like to think of myself as someone who is interested in technology, and that if given the opportunity I will hook myself up with the latest tech, but sometimes I fail to see how a thing could really be of much use in my life. Perhaps that is my failing, even if you...

Advertising And Atemporality – From Buddy Bolden To William Gibson

Swimming In The Cultural Soup - How An Advertiser Navigates Is it a symptom of the way in which things that used to take a while to unpack and develop now seem to happen and cease to happen in such a compacted amount of time? Fashions trend and break and fracture and...

Jeffersonian Economic Policies

Thomas Jefferson - His Economic Policies Thomas Jefferson was not just one of the founding fathers of this country; he was also a humanitarian, a gentleman and a philosopher of great renown. His economic policies helped the country recover from its first major...

Advertising the Bias of Chris Jones

Advertising the Bias of “Journalism” The standards of Published Journalism are slipping. I am talking about advertising all those biased perspectives on politics, international affairs, social issues and Chris Jonesof ESPN. The Huffington Post does a half decent job...

Escapism Versus The Barrage Of Daily Disruption

People Need To Lift Their Heads Up, Not Bury Them Some people are taking a time out from social media - they are getting stressed out by the deluge of bad news, and the constant fighting between people who emerge from their echo chamber to make a lightning raid on the...

Marketing Your Art As An Artist: Walking The Line

Marketing Art Is An Art In Itself Marketing yourself as an artist is fraught with issues. And the most obvious is something I’ve talked about before: the lack of time or attention available for a piece of art (or anything). Recommending a show, movie, book, painting,...

Promote The Nerd Actor: A Tribute To John Hurt

An Article, To Promote Remembrance The problem with being young after 2016, and perhaps it is also a blessing to promote as such (if only to lessen grief), is I had no exposure to most of the celebrities we lost, and thus do not have as deep a connection to them as I...

To Duplicate Content or Not. That is the Question

Greetings, once again. I've just come back from a lovely nap, and been notified that some of the entities wandering about in the Jungle are posting redundant pieces everywhere. This makes me want to eat somebody! I should clarify. You all know how the Internet...

Avenues Of Advertising Online (Part 3)

Advertising Has Multiple Paths, And You Can Take Many At Once Three articles in the series, but this is the final one. While the first was a discussion, and the second was about videos, there is one more term which can find a home in your online marketing and...

Star Trek: Discovery – To Boldly Go

The movie franchise has been doing pretty well, and it was something of a gamble to reboot the franchise with new actors playing familiar characters from the original TV show, and first movie offerings. Enterprise served as a prequel to the first series and this is...

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 &...

The Odd Advertising That Is #Showhole

How To Get Your Advertising To Stick? We'll You Could Always Go Weird. Now, I’m all for the consumption of media. It’s the consumption of art. Exploring other’s creative endeavors. This article is a piece of media. But, I am still a tad concerned about the commonplace...

Donald Trump, Jefferson and the Libertarian

This begins a series of articles that I will be written leading up to the National Republican and Democratic Primaries, with my take on Donald Trump, his Jeffersonian influence and his Libertarian Ideals. Mr. Donald Trump - An Libertarian or Not? There has been much...

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...

Humanism, Posthumanism, and a Technological Revolution

Advertising a Post-Humanistic Society I just read the most fantastic treatise by Leon Wieseltier, published on nytimes.com, and I have to say that it truly speaks to me, and to many people around the world. Have you ever thought that technology was progressing far to...

von Mises Economics and Politics

Ludwig von Mises Economics and Politics The modern father of the Libertarian movement is Mssr. Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises, and it can largely be accredited to his genius that the Libertarians have any power. Ludwig von Mises was a student in spirit of Thomas...

Keanan Kintzel Meets Anne of Clearwater Farmer’s Market

Clearwater Farmer's Market, People Want To Buy Local! Clearwater Farmer's Market has always been a good thing for locals. A lot of people are always on the lookout for a good farmer's market - there is a strong desire to support local farmers and to buy good local...

Third Place Match – Brasil vs Holland

This was a match to forget. You are Brasilian. This was the consolation prize. Your team missed. Third place and a medal to take home. You have none. These are the thoughts running through every Brasilian's head as of 5pm EST Saturday, July 12. Brasil squandered...

Media: The Fourth Estate

The Fourth Estate Needs an Overhaul It is clear from the recent Presidential election that the media or fourth estate has been out of touch with reality. Many have pondered how the media could have gotten things so wrong in their reporting of election-related...

Keanan Kintzel And Family Watch The Eclipse

Keanan Kintzel and his family traveled to Charleston, South Carolina to get a better view of The Great American Eclipse. It was the first time that a solar eclipse had been visible across the contiguous United States since June 8, 1918, and it was the first event of...

Personal Advertising – Footballers and their Costs

Everyone Watches Their Favorite Footballers During Transfer Season It's the January transfer window, and anyone who follows football, not the American version, knows that this is the midseason chaos that can affect your team and the league table. There has been a lot...

Keanan Kintzel Outside Leos on Cleveland St

Keanan Kintzel of Buzzazz Business Solutions is very interested in helping local businesses, and throughout the years he has helped many through improving their marketing and providing them with services they needed. Helping the local community creates a better...

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...

My 11 Year Faceversary

A Look At What Facebook Does Well The videos they compile out of your own photos and videos for these things generally hit the right mark, unless they excavate a problematic relationship - though thankfully you can edit that out. But after a few instances where I have...

Post Fact Politics Is The Ugly Offspring Of Post Fact Journalism

Truth is important - facts are unassailable; and they are either facts or not ... it is not dependent on viewpoint. If you market your product as being something and it proves not to be, you will be upbraided for false advertising. Look at how newspapers and...

Avenues Of Advertising Online (Part 1)

People Have To Actually See Advertising For It To Work Perhaps the greatest hurdle in advertising is visibility—especially online. The internet is huge. Big to the point even attempting to put it into an understandable measurement is an exercise in brain melting. And...

Education System of Common Core

Does our Education System Help or Hurt our Children? Education Definition: the process of training and developing the knowledge, skill, mind, character, etc., especially by formal schooling; teaching & training The US has a long history (dating back to the 1600’s)...

The Race for the White House

Social Media and the Race for the White House As I attempt to wrap my public relations arms around this all-important upcoming election for the next Potus of the United States, it is interesting to see the marketing tactics that both parties have employed to elevate...

Political Advertising Is Not The Reason For Anger

Well It May Play A Part, Political Advertising Is Not Why Public Discourse Is So Angry Mudslinging is a part of the way politicians go about advertising. It just is. I am not a fan of the practice, but it is how America works right now. But, the election is over, and...

Across Media Cross-Promotion: Lego Rings The Bell

Cross-Promotion Is The New, Effective, Media Tactic Just when it seemed like Marvel was the king of cross-promotion with its roster of characters, the Lego company goes one deeper. Because, well Marvel has all the characters in its back catalogue to draw upon, Lego...

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Clearwater Coachman Park & Country Thunder & Social Media’s Impact

Troy Vollhoffer’s rise with Country Thunder has become a case study in modern live entertainment entrepreneurship. Through his company, Premier Global Productions, he has expanded Country Thunder Music Festival into one of the most recognizable touring festival brands...

Healthy Lighting Has Arrived – Just Ask LIGHTBOB

Local Tampa Bay Resident, Robert Lantaigne, AKA "LIGHTBOB" has been in lighting and engineering for his entire career. Bob has the resume most would dream of, from helping design multimillion commercial custom projects to 100 million dollar mansion home lighting...

Tampa Bay Lightning – 2026 Playoff Revenue Flows

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING - WHAT OCCURS BUSINESS WISE IF THEY WIN OR LOSE Let’s translate this into what it actually means for Tampa’s economy and local businesses—not just hockey odds. Current situation (business lens) The Tampa Bay Lightning are down 3–2 to the Montreal...

Old Fashion Business Networking in Tampa – Hard to Beat!

There’s just something about meeting folks face-to-face that still carries real weight, especially here in Florida. A handshake, a smile, a quick chat before getting down to business—it builds a kind of trust you just can’t replicate through a screen. Around here,...

Top 5 Items For Expanding a Web Presence

Growing your business online doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. You don’t need to be everywhere—you just need to show up in the right places, consistently, and with a clear message. Here are five strategies I always recommend to small business owners who want real...

Tampa Bay Entrepreneurs AI Think Tank

Hi, I’m Keanan Kintzel, founder of Buzzazz Business Services (buzzazz.com). As a seasoned entrepreneur with years of experience building and growing businesses in the Tampa Bay area, I’m excited to launch the **Tampa Bay Entrepreneurs AI Think Tank**. This is a...

Tampa Bay Real Estate

The current upside of the Tampa Bay real estate market is rooted in its shift toward a more balanced and stable environment. After years of rapid price growth, the market has cooled into a phase where inventory has increased and prices have normalized, giving buyers...

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...

Keanan Kintzel Talks Cleveland Street Studios and Community Good News Warehouse

Video Transcription: "I am Keanan Kintzel and I own Buzzazz right next door. We're in Clearwater Florida a long way from my home up in northern Indiana near Chicago. This is the brand new Cleveland Street Studios in downtown Clearwater right across from the old post...

Keanan Kintzel from Buzzazz – The Importance of the “Contact” step in building relationships

Keanan Kintzel from Buzzazz Video Transcription below: Hi how y'all doing today this is keenan from buzzazz live at the hive down in clearwater florida. This is a short short short video so don't delete i got a surprise at the end. I wanted to say hello and...

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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....

Community Service Foundation – The 23rd Annual Charity Golf Classic

If you love golf and you want to combine that love with helping the community, this event is the perfect one for you. Held every year, the focus of the Charity Golf Classic this year is raising money to support the "Going Home" Homeless Reduction Program. This is part...

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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...