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Listen Here Folks: It’s Podcast Advertising!

Advertising And Podcasts: A Match Made In Audio Heaven I walk a lot. I walk around Clearwater, up Cleveland Street, through downtown, and around the suburbs. I like walking. But it gets boring. And I can only listen to music for so long before I tire of my playlist....

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...

Customer Service & PR

Good customer service is good PR, and conversely bad customer service is bad PR. Companies spend a lot of money advertising their products and services, but a customer having a bad experience is just as able to reach a wide audience with no cost to them at all, but a...

Overwatch: Pre-Battle Marketing Predictions

Great Marketing Is Easy To Spot: And Victory By It is Practically Assured Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch fully released yesterday: May 24 (May 23rd for us living in Clearwater). And though I am writing this article before it went live, I can predict its success....

Website Design with Web.com

Marketing Website Design In A Saturated Industry Working for an advertising agency there are some things you notice right out of the gate, including how much importance website design and marketing can make or break a company. One of the new gimmicks that has popped...

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...

Marketing Success Is In The Crate

A Box Bursting With Good Marketing Ideas Sometimes marketing is simple and requires knowledge of only a few basic ideas—backed up by some smart economic decisions. Case and point, who doesn’t like to get a present? Who doesn’t like opening their door and finding a...

Deadpool: Advertising Through The Fourth Wall

This is An Article. It Contains Deadpool and Advertising Advice. What More Do You Need? Hey you. Yes, you! The one with the colorful shirt and the beautiful eyes? If you’re reading this then you probably chose to because I mentioned Deadpool in the title, right? Well,...

Keanan Kintzel of Buzzazz with Patrick Clouden of Consumer Energy Solutions

Helping Individuals And Helping The Community! Keanan Kintzel of Buzzazz Business Solutions can be seen here with Patrick Clouden of Consumer Energy Solutions, both a friend and a client. You will be hard-pressed to find a more active businessman and citizen in...

Let’s Talk About Lex, Baby – Advertising The New Superman / Batman Movie

Batman Vs Superman Might Be DC's Heavy-hitter To Take On Marvel Batman movies have generally been a little hit and miss. The TV animated show always seemed to hit the right note, but there are so many elements to juggle in a proposition like Batman that even...

You Should Have An App! We Build Apps!

Apps Are Essential Apps are where it is at. Considering that a growing number of people who are interacting with your website are doing so through their phone, or that more and more people are using apps instead of websites to access the data and services that they...

Keanan Kintzel, Marco Victorino – America Still A Land Of Opportunity

Keanan: So, the reason I think America is awesome, still is it's like a giant incubator of innovation and ideas, where creative entrepreneurs come, and I'm not sure exactly why, but it just still seems ripe for that, and you know it makes it a fun place to figure out...

China Built A Social Media Control Mechanism For Its People

When You Track Yourself For Others, Who's In Control Of The Data? Use what you have. Want to control the people? Connect them all up and then use them to monitor and regulate each other, reduce the burden on the state. This seems to be working in China. The dystopian...

Branding and Fashion: A Stunning Mix

Branding Is About People In the modern world, we are a part of branding. We, the people living in modern society, shout our spending habits and brand habits to the world without saying a single, solitary syllable. You, the person reading this, are saying, are...

Looking Through Windows 10 – Microsoft At The Cutting Edge?

Windows 10 Does Some Things Right I am less than a week into using Windows 10 and I am not totally sure where I sit with it yet. The advertising before the roll out was very good - it got me interested and actually a little bit excited about a Microsoft product, and I...

Copyright, Free Speech Vs. Hate Speech, And Other Interesting Internet Conundrums

What Is The Internet? Depends Who You Ask Do you spend much time thinking about what shape the internet is? Following on from that - do you expend much energy in wondering what it is that allows it to retain that shape? If it really is just a black mirror then surely...

Keanan Kintzel Attends Blast Friday on Cleveland Street, Clearwater

Keanan Kintzel attends Blast Friday whenever he can, and the same goes for any other events that support the local community. There is some great culture in downtown Clearwater - whether that means music, art, or film, and cuisine - there is something for everyone....

Hey Cortana, Tell Me About Your Marketing

The Marketing Was Persistent. Cortana Was Calling. I fought it. I ignored it. The pop-ups were constant, but I always walked away. I always told them to remind me another day. The price of a bad operating system I would not pay! Windows 8 had already burned me. And I...

Dove Soap & The Power Of Positivity Marketing

Being Positive As A Marketing Strategy I don't use Dove products, but I watch Dove adverts. Why? Because they are popular with a lot of my female friends and they are fun and they end up in my Facebook feed. The videos are popular even with people who don't...

Star Wars Battlefront 2: Free To Play Mechanics Are A Spanner In The Works

Star Wars Battlefront 2: The Battlefront Of Gameplayers Who Don't Want To Pay I have to work hard to earn the credits to unlock the main characters. The credits needed to get the right loot are too much. Micro-transactions are a pain. The litany of complaints being...

President Obama’s Funeral Fails

President Obama Chooses SXSW Over Regan Funeral President Obama is making some interesting choices of late in not going to the funerals of some very prominent people, where there is an expectation that he should attend. He chose not to attend Supreme Court Justice...

Time To Repackage – Operating In A Disruption Environment

Embrace The Chaos, Create Your Own Democrats on the back foot. Journalists hunkered down waiting for the next attack. Sure, some members of these groups are weathering the storm admirably, but on the whole they seem to have been caught flat-footed. Fake is the label...

Sousveillance – With A Whimper Not A Bang

Sousveillance is the recording of an activity by a participant in the activity, typically by way of small wearable or portable personal technologies. Aug 30, 2016 Brave New World and 1984 got it wrong - a lot of dystopias do. We are the ones who are helping to build...

No One Does That Anymore – Marketing A Supposed Decline

Things Don't Die They Just Get Repurposed Cassandras have always been around, but it wasn't always so easy for these Chicken Littles to tell everyone about the sky-falling. When they start crying wolf now there's always two choruses that pipe up - the naysayers and...

Government vs Liberty

The Struggle Between Government and Individual Liberty One of the biggest quandaries that our country faces is the overwhelming imbalance between powerful financial groups and the common man who struggles to survive and compete for economic and business survival....

Keanan Kintzel Talks About Quiet Zone On News Channel 8

At seemingly random times of the day and night, short but very loud freight trains move through the city center and neighborhoods. Business owner Keanan Kintzel has to stop talking on the phone when the train blares its horn. “It’s going really slow and everybody honk...

What Discipline Can Mean For You And Your Marketing

Let's Define A Word Core To Effective Marketing Discipline. I don’t think many know what the word means. I think it’s ill-defined or misunderstood. If the number of people who swear they will lose weight, write that novel, run a marathon, etc., is any indication, then...

The Marketing Within Religious Bubbles

Marketing Exists Even Inside Religious Bubbles People form groups. We survive best, thrive best, when we are together. People tend to flock to groups that have a similar mindset as themselves. Because, yet again, who likes to be angry? And while one’s political...

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...

Advertising on Google

The Crazy World of Google Advertising - What it does to you. Last week I gave you lot our first advertising tips. This week I'll be sending you guys something more boring, fun. So, we went over the value of meta data last week, remember? No? Well tough luck....

MAGAZINE CATEGORIES

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...

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?

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

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...