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End To End Encryption Isn’t The Problem

A lot of column inches have been given to the UK's continuing crackdown on companies that use end to end encryption. This technology means that only the people communicating can read the messages, and that it can't be eavesdropped on, even by the company providing the...

AI And The Future

It has been a staple of science fiction for a long time - from Robbie The Robot, through Hal, and the Terminator, Bishop in the Alien series, to the machines in The Matrix, to Ex-Machina, even Bender from Farscape. It's always pretty bleak - as soon as something like...

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...

From Pokemon To Harry Potter Wizards Unite!

Harry Potter Wizards Unite May Be Bringing A Smackdown for Pikachu! So Ingress was super popular - and you'd see people all over the place playing it; the real world skinned with the environs of a virtual game. Then Pokemon planted its flag, and raised Pokestops all...

Brillo Pads, Soup Cans, And The Modern World

Whatever you feel the merits of Warhol's work were, and he can be something of an acquired taste, he definitely called it when it came to the meshing of commercial design and art. A lot of the artists in the pop art movement took pop culture items and recontextualised...

Advertising Made Nerds Rule (Part 1)

By Sheer Advertising, The Stigma Slowly Disappears Nerds rule the world in 2017. And that’s because, with the right advertising and marketing, the label lost its stigma in almost all aspects. Everyone, yes, everyone, is practically a nerd now. Shows like the Walking...

Advertising Belsomra and Big Pharma

Advertising Belsomra, and the Problems with Modern Medicine One major industry escapes a great deal of criticism on a public scale because they purport to serve the good of humanity. This industry is remarkably contained in every other country of the world except for...

Taking A Ride With Uber

Uber Changing The World Of Taxi Cabs Uber has been getting some bad press of late - and it has generally seemed to stem from people sympathetic to the loss of trade that established taxi firms have suffered. Perhaps some journalists, whose own industry was turned on...

Guinness Beer Ad positions well with our gratitude for military servitude.

A stout fresh Guinness combined with Military Patriotism equates to strong marketing flows... My father and I have shared our quota of drinks over the years and we understand how most people around the world integrate their social lives with feel good foods and...

Sloganeering – All In A Phrase

Politicians, or more specifically Presidential Candidates. Where do they sit? How do they view the lay of the land? What do their slogans say about them and their relationship with the country they want to rule. Make America Great Again presupposes that it isn't that...

Keanan Kintzel, Marco Victorino – LA Dodgers and Marco

Keanan: So, hey, Marco how you doing? Marco: Excellent, man. Keanan: So, tell me what you love about Buzzazz. Marco: Wow, what you don't love about Buzzazz? Best marketing company in the world. Keanan: And tell me how you met Buzzazz. Marco. Because of it's amazing...

The Swedish Invasion Has Come

To start off I am not talking about an actual invasion of Swedish immigrates to 'Merica, one of the greatest countries on Earth. However, I am talking about the invasion of IKEA to America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East and some parts of North Africa. IKEA...

Keanan Kintzel Attends A Naturalization Ceremony

Keanan Kintzel and his family attend a Naturalization Ceremony for his wife. It's no small thing - that journey from immigrant to Legal Resident Alien, to fully-fledged citizen - it's a proud tradition that America is built on. You take your Citizenship Test, and then...

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...

Bad PR For Journalists

Don't worry, I totally get the irony of talking about the degradation of journalism into opinion pieces and personal platforms for writer's grievances in a piece that is primarily my opinion, and not necessarily sourced from anywhere. I studied as as a journalist and...

Twitter Adds Extra Characters, Other Features

Twitter’s made more wiggle room for its users’ messages. But that’s really all it is - nothing more than room to wiggle. As of Monday, quoted tweets and multimedia, such as links, videos, memes, GIFs, no longer count against Twitter’s storied 140-character limit,...

Media’s Marketing Is A Maelstrom

Media Floods Everywhere, And Good Marketing Demands They Make More Not the first time I’ve addressed this. Not the first time I’ve looked at the overabundance of media—or how marketing keeps it going along. But this is the first time (I think) I’ve addressed this...

The Effectiveness Of Video Game Trailers

Despite a few glaring examples to the contrary, I don’t think anyone could argue with the effectiveness of trailers when it comes to marketing. It’s often the only way that the general population becomes aware of new movies coming out. And as the art of cinema...

Muhammad Ali – The Greatest At Self Promotion And More

Muhammad Ali Changed What It Meant To Be A Boxer Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Everyone knows that one - and there were many more. Whether you consider it poetry or something else, Muhammad Ali elevated the art of pre-fight smack-talk beyond anything...

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...

Black Holes, Gravity, And Reality – Making Science Interesting!

Science Should Be Exciting! An experiment carried out by scientists at ANU into the quantum behavior of particles appears to suggest that reality doesn't actually exist until we start to measure it. The Hubble telescope just took snaps of the largest black hole we...

The Advertising Of The Fad Diet

If Advertising Claims Something Too Good, Well, You Know The Old Saying Some of you might not like me by the end of this article. I’m willing to accept that. Though, honestly, you should know some of this already—I should not be shocking anyone here. In this world,...

Marketing the New Hampshire Primary in Pinellas County

Bernie vs the Donald - Who Has Better Marketing Value in Pinellas County? What do the marketing strategies of the candidates and their results in the latest primary results mean for the state of Florida and Pinellas County? Aggregately, Clinton and Sanders have one...

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...

Lebron James Jr – Too Young For Scouting

Lebron James & Lebron James Jr Basketballers Extraordinaire The big news in sports yesterday, aside from Arsenal FC being being in the round of 16 by AS Monaco, who would have that that the Gooners would lose at The Emirates?!, is that Lebron James has issued an...

Keanan Kintzel of Buzzazz Out And About on Cleveland Street

By going out and about and speaking to people, you can find out a lot about an area. Keanan Kintzel has his business, Buzzazz Business Solutions, on Cleveland Street in Clearwater, and he frequents a number of the different shops up and down the street. He also...

Busted Hip Crippling The Critical Systems

Attack the hip to sound hipper. Point to the fact that someone is supporting the wrong charity, or how they have somehow failed to be as totally inclusive in their philanthropy as you have been. It's interesting how this kind of bullying somehow slips under the radar,...

PC BS or The History Of Dissembling & The Quicksand Of Safe Zones & Trigger Words

Political correctness is a horrible thing that was born in the nineties which seeks to police the way that people express themselves and goes a long way to making charged areas even more overly sensitive. Why? Because people dissemble and don't actually say what they...

Online Ads are Annoying and Advertisers Know it

The pop from the left. They glide from the right. They hang from the top. And chill at the bottom. Some gyrate around the perimeter of your screen. Some even unapologetically carol. They’re online ads, and they infest Internet web pages like fleas on a feline. Well...

Cat Ears On Your Car Vending Machine

Technology Needs A Sense Of Humor Everything shall be automated. Some people posit this as being a bad thing, and some people celebrate the convenience it represents. A giant car vending machine for me is closer to the kind of future I want - there is humor there, and...

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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

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...

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?

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...