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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...

PR of Qualifying Our Elected Officials

The Pr We Provide Election Candidates Over the past week there has been a lot of information published and disseminated about the different candidates for federal office, and there have been some candidates that have notably received little to no pr time. Take Hilary...

Why I Promote This Technological Social Evolution (Part 3)

Promote These Dreams Staying In Reality And now, to the final chapter of this article series where I promote the evolution of mankind through social technology. This time around, I think I may get into the realms of science fiction. Or, at least, it seems that way...

Local High School Soccer Champions – Advertising Success!

Advertising High School Soccer Champions CHAMPIONS! Right, so how does High School Soccer relate to advertising? Well, it's quite simple. Advertising High School Champions at all levels is a great way to boost the name recognition of a school. Take mine: Clearwater...

Star Wars: Tie-In Products Are Marketing

Another Talk About Marketing...From A Galaxy Far, Far Away It’s time to talk about Star Wars again, more specifically, it’s tie-in products. Which swarm over store shelves like a pack of TIE Fighters. Now, from the little I know of the economic process of franchise...

Promote Caution: Black Mirror Is A Futuristic Counterargument

I Promote One Thing, This Show Promotes Something Else. As a person who writes a lot of articles, with a lot of opinions in them, I must promote that counterarguments to my opinions have their validity—at least for my more subjective and biased statements in the...

Marketing The iPhone Over Other Smartphones

Becoming A Mega Success Isn't Easy, But Apple's Marketing Makes It Look That Way Apple’s iPhone has perhaps the most pervasive marketing in the world of technology. It’s obvious to see. From a technological standpoint, if the many people online and in real life are...

Winter Movies: Not Just Marketed To Moviegoers

Oscar Bait: Targeted Marketing To Oscar Judges “Oscar bait.” A term perhaps not yet in the popular lexicon, but certainly known by people interested in the film industry. It refers to a type of movie that comes out around Oscar season, a period of time stretching...

Marketing to Give You Goosebumps

Goosebumps: Marketed to Children, Loved By Millions Halloween fast approaches, and the nights grow dark and eerie. With this, it seems, it’s the perfect time to talk horror. More specifically, the horror anthology you all know as: Goosebumps. Beginning as a book...

Taylor Swift And The PR Value Of Treating Fans Right

Swifties Expect A Little More From Taylor, And She Brings It Her songs are catchy. It took me a while to succumb to the charms of them though - despite having her sounds infiltrating my space for a few years now. I had been unfairly dismissive of her. I think the...

The International Youth Theater

The International Youth Theater has definitely made some dreams come true for a lot of very talented people. A lot of actors dream of being on the stage and of perhaps one day getting to direct a play, but not many get to do it so young, and when they do they don't...

Trump And Clinton: Marketing A Hobson’s Choice

Anyone else burnt out on stupid? Burnt out on the depraved lowest common denominator BS that is being paraded around as if it were actually politics? Are these two people the best that the country can do in terms of leaders? If so, we should not really wonder at why...

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...

Sony Has Let Us Down

Since we’re talking about current events and things that effect us on a daily basis, whether we’re joking about racial tensions in the United States or around the world, genocide and its place as a Darwinist theory, or anything else; there are certain things that...

What is it that you really want?

Conversions, Conversions, Conversions The first question you need to answer for yourself, when you are looking into an advertising and marketing agency, is: what is it you really want to achieve? There are many answers that sales people will try to convince you of,...

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...

Game Of Thrones – Checkmating The Leaks

Game Of Thrones Makes A Move Worthy Of Baelish How do you beat people that would leak your product before you are ready to let them see it? Answer - make multiple versions so that even the players involved have no clue which way you are going to jump. I wrote an...

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...

Hurricane Irma – What Most People Overlook

Massive Category 5 Hurricane Irma 2017 If you were alive in 2017 then you heard of the notorious Hurricane Irma. It was one of the biggest, well-formed, feared & nastiest hurricanes that anyone has seen. It's devastation was massive and is still affecting a large...

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...

Should We Be Marketing An Extinction?

Marketing For This Choice Is A Massive Moral Dilemma What if we just eliminate a harmful species on purpose? Is that ethical? Is it right? What a world could we have...or rather: make? While the technological singularity is a hot button topic right now and something...

Is Star Wars Advertising A New Tradition?

An Advertising Juggernaut And Christmas: Match Made In Heaven? People saw Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens on Christmas day last year. Though not what you would call packed, Countryside Mall’s theater contained people watching the new round of the sci-fi...

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...

Streetnet – Information Wants To Be Shared

SNet or streetnet is one of those jury-rigged miracles that you occasionally find in places where mainstream technologies have failed to penetrate. Now spanning a network that includes 9000 computers, stretching across Cuba, in five years SNet has grown and has a...

Clearwater SEO Company

Clearwater SEO Company What is SEO? Why is it talked about so much in conjunction with the internet and websites? Well SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it is actually a lot simpler than most people make it seem. It is presenting the web pages of a website...

Cool Stuff

People making cool stuff attracts people who want to buy cool stuff, and therefore people who want to fund the development of cool stuff. Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter have been used by everyone from your independent comic producer for things like Rocket Girl to...

The Truth About Google Review Reputation

Google Review Reputation 101 If you have been alive and participating in society to any degree than your have heard of one of the biggest tech companies called Google. It started out as a search engine and has in recent years had it's hand in most tech advances &...

Page Load Speed

Page Load Speed Is Important Ever sat there and suffered from a page that just doesn't seem to want to load? Ever gone to a site and wondered if you have suddenly been transported back in time to a period when dial-up was the latest technology and you could go read a...

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...

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...

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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

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

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.

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...