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Another Bite Of The Apple

Steve Jobs was a man of ideas, and the things that he created at Apple changed the playing field; actually altering the way that we used our phones, and the way we accessed our music and what our computers were used for. With no Jobs there it is as if they cored the...

Advertising Made Nerds Rule (Part 2)

Disney's Advertising Was One For Nerds Everywhere When I said advertising from Disney made nerd culture spread faster, I was not just pointing at them because they are a large company, and an easy source of reference for the average reader—though that was a perk. I...

Marketing By Not Finishing: Anime Adaptations

Anime Adaptations Use One Media To Market Another I’m about to let you in on an issue plaguing parts of the otaku community: the rampant adaptation of light novels and manga without finishing the storyline. Now, for those of you who are not inside some of the deepest...

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...

The Conners – Handling PR Problems

Roseanne Blundered, ABC Acted Correctly Sometimes you can be riding the crest of a wave and it seems like you have picked up so much momentum that you are something of an unstoppable force, and then someone drops something on the tracks and the whole damned locomotive...

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...

Microsoft Windows As A Service – Windows 10, The Final Platform

The Evolution Of Microsoft Windows Something has changed - and that change is good. It used to feel like there was not much choice in what software you would use to do your daily workload - Microsoft were monolithic and exerted a huge pressure on industry and personal...

Sold On The American Football Field

By no stretch of the imagination could you call me a sports fan, and the amount I know about American Football could fit on a pinhead. I had a San Francisco 49ers t-shirt when I was a kid; I knew about The Refrigerator; I had watched Mean Machine with Burt Reynolds;...

Keanan Kintzel of Buzzazz at Winter Wonderland

Have A Happy Christmas At Winter Wonderland! The time for you to visit Winter Wonderland is now! There is not long left for 2017, and then Santa will up sticks and take his magic back to the North Pole, surrendering Cleveland Street back to the Florida sunshine....

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...

Turning Green With Marketing

So, somehow I’d managed to completely forget that there’s a Whole Foods at Countryside Mall until recently when I ended up there for some reason or another. And after walking around the, honestly, rather aesthetically pleasing store, it got me thinking: is the reason...

Marlboro Man: Up In A Puff Of Smoke

If You're Of A Certain Age You Remember The Marlboro Man The Marlboro Man in his adverts in Time Magazine and elsewhere, seemed so real that it was almost like a window into another world rather than an advert. I remember seeing the adverts for Marlboro all over the...

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...

How Education in Schools has Evolved

EDUCATION IN OUR SCHOOLS - WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR CHILDREN? Schools - what happened to them? Mary woke up late this morning. Only about 10 minutes or so. Mary's mother reprimanded Mary, telling her that she needs to hurry or she will be late for school. Mary didn't...

Marketing Your Way Out Of The Media Mire

Many Companies Marketing At Once Makes A Lot Of Media, So Much It Can Be A Mire It’s a well-known idea that if you are a business, you want a web presence. And it is a lesser-known idea that if you want people to see your web presence, you need to produce new content....

Searching For A Search Engine Solution

Everyone has their favorite brands - this holds true across most things people buy; there will be one make of item that hits the sweet spot for them. Search engines are the same, so are social networks. The way the information is organized has a big impact on which...

Advertising Better Security: WannaCry’s Harsh Lesson

Advertising Protection For Computers Is A Big Business: But Not Big Enough Apparently The “WannaCry” virus’s name is apt for the reaction it’s likely to cause in its victims. As I keep saying, all the time really—like a looping song—the world runs on technology, and...

Amazon, Hachette, Harper Collins, And The Battle For The Book Market

Jeff Bezos And Amazon Are Changing Publishing I like Amazon. I may be biased - I have a Prime membership, and I buy a lot from them. So maybe you should take everything I say here with a pinch of salt. I also publish independently, and I have a project coming out...

Keanan Kintzel – Miracle On Cleveland Street

Winter Wonderland brings a little bit of magic to Cleveland Street every year, and each year it touches more people's lives. This is great for all the kids who get to enjoy it, and their parents who get to see their kids having a great time; but it is also great for...

Sequels, Remakes, Reboots, and “Reverse Marketing”

Companies Act Through Marketing: Movies Are No Exception It’s not a new complaint: too many remakes. Too many sequels. Make original content Hollywood, please. We beg. We plead. We gnash our teeth. And so...they remake Ghostbusters. And we even watch it at Countryside...

Keanan Kintzel And Family – Skateboarding With Rocky The Pomsky

Keanan Kintzel and his family all take turns walking Rocky the pomsky. Sometimes Rocky helps to make the walk even more interesting, by making it possible to skateboard while walking the dog. You have to keep your dog well exercised, and some days it can seem like a...

How Do You Spin It? Selling Records

How as an artist do you protect you work in an age of record leaks and film leaks, and illegal rips? Bjork answered by releasing her album ahead of schedule. This is the downside to what should be a system that actually empowers the artist rather than ripping them...

Water Company Wins With Advertising

Buzzazz Water Treatment Advertising - Business Development in Action Recently we contracted with a water treatment company that operates largely in Central Florida. They had a pretty good budget in the thousands/month range, and we can now say that they are well on...

Horizon Smart Glasses Give Blind Users A Virtual Guide

How Much Are You Helping People With Your Tech? Does your technology help someone? In some basic sense it probably helps in some way, even if its sole purpose is to provide escapism. But when you see something that could possibly change the way that someone lives...

Keanan Kintzel At Largo Southwest Rec Center

Okay, I'm going to try this again. Here we are at beautiful Largo outdoor pool; the Southwest Recreational Center. They got clay tennis courts, this beautiful Olympic sized pool, diving well. They actually did the 1994 or 2004, excuse me, AAU National Diving...

PR: Even The Internet Has It

Everything Has PR, And Now It's Time To Talk About The Big One. The point of many of my articles is to give attention to the effective and positive PR certain groups manage to garner through clever methods. And, I’ll also, in most of those same articles, talk about...

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....

No More Death Stars Or Reboots Please

Another Death Star Would Suggest A Movie Design Flaw It blew up, and it had a design flaw that made this possible. Great. The New Empire went ahead and built the third iteration of a bad idea and called it something else, but let's not dress it up any other way - it...

Yahoo At 20

The PR Value Of Being 20 For Yahoo Yahoo is 20 this week, and I just noticed that Thunderbird, my email management system is celebrating it's 10th birthday. It is odd to consider that the internet is now so old that companies are reaching a level of maturity that...

Keanan Kintzel At Opal Sands, Clearwater Beach

Here we are again; it must be a birthday thing - at the Opal Clearwater Beach. This latest jewel of a hotel: spectacular pools. Oh, look there's my wife bringing me a beautiful refreshing water. Now you can see all the way down Clearwater Beach and I think we can get...

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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?

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

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,...