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Pokemon Go Conquers Halloween

Halloween marketing probably isn't going to be right for everyone - at least the thematic type of marketing that some people plug into their usual mix of adverts, tv slots, etc. But if you have anything vaguely creepy that you are trying to sell, this time of year is...

SEO Copywriting: Writing in the Jungle

SEO Copywriting Should Not Rely On Spun Content - Ours Is Original Compelling Content One of the things that many people do not understand, or even consider is that SEO copywriting takes a lot of skill to do properly. It's kind of like being a lion and being able to...

Courting The Backfire – The Ill Advised Notion Of Smear Campaigns

The ads being put out by the Hotel Association of New York City are cynical at best, and that is being kind. I understand the problems that airbnb is causing for them as an industry, but backing an ad campaign that suggests your rivals are connected to terrorism seems...

Advertising the Naturalization Exam for Office

Advertising Education & Naturalization Here's an interesting conundrum to ponder: Who should taken a naturalization/citizenship test for residency in the United States? Sen. Harry Reid believes that Mr. Trump would fail such a test. Mr. Kzir Khan has challenged...

Facebook’s New Live Feature And What It Promotes

Facebook Promotes A Deeper Version Of What It Always Did Facebook recently introduced the ability to livestream, and this promotes to an even higher degree the breakdown on privacy, but also the increase of interconnectivity. For the uninitiated, how a livestream...

Nashville Tennessee is now a Music Marketing PR Bonanza!

Nashville and Advertising in Music Nashville is gaining quite a bit of attention these days as a media, marketing and advertising hub so I thought I would give you a report from the ground level. In the 6 years that I have been here, date coincident with the rise of...

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...

Keanan Kintzel Watching International Youth Theater: Be Our Guest

Keanan Kintzel and Buzzazz Business Solutions have been the main sponsor of the International Youth Theater since its inception, and Keanan always supports the theater by going to its productions. Beauty And The Beast has been enjoying a renewed interest of late, with...

The Rolling Stones, The Fort Harrison, and Satisfaction – Clearwater Connections

Satisfaction: Clearwater Rock 'N' Roll The song is 50 years old, but it has aged well: Satisfaction has inspired a lot of musicians, and really crystallized something in the Rolling Stones sound. It's a great rock and roll story, one that has had legs for years, and...

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...

Political Correctness And P.R. (Part 4: The Future)

Political Correctness Does Have A P.R. Demon. And now: our conclusion. I’ve spent a long time typing/talking about the importance and relevance and idealness of the political correctness situation. I’ve endorsed and argued. But, now, for those still opposed 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,...

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...

Holiday-Themed Marketing, AKA The Gingerbread Latte Article

You Can Find Effective Marketing Anywhere, Even In Your Coffee Cup Starbucks, America’s guilty pleasure. No, not because there’s something wrong with the drinks—there’s not, at least to my knowledge. But because of how much we are willing to drink the stuff. In fact,...

A Broken Clock

So, The Doomsday Clock moved an hour closer to midnight, putting it at 3 minutes to midnight. The Bulletin Of Atomic Scientists see this as representing how close we are to doomsday as a civilization. What great PR for the miserabilists whose mission, it seems is to...

Marshal, Me, Alvy Singer, And An Abacus

The Medium Is The Message - How You Are Viewing It Affects It If you've ever read Marshal McLuhan he is one of those thinkers that you find yourself constantly returning to. Why? Because his ideas make a lot of sense, and in terms of how the internet works, they seem...

Self Sufficient Artists And Merchandising

The Name Sells - Artists And Brands How do you react when you see a product that has the name of a musician or actor on it that you like? Do you think, wow, that's kind of cool? Does part of you wonder whether the artist themselves had anything to do with the...

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...

No Substitute For Hard Work

Elbow Grease Is Only In Short Supply If You Don't Apply It When I was growing up my dad had a ready supply of elbow grease, and I wanted some, because he seemed to keep going and I got tired out too quickly. I worked hard from an early age, and by that I don't mean I...

Spielberg And The Super Hero Movie

Will The Super Hero Juggernaut break Down? Does it mean anything for the super hero movie that Steven Spielberg announced the death knell of the form at some future point? The man knows a lot about films, and definitely comes from a tradition of film-making that is...

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 At Clearwater Family Dental

Buzzazz has really kind of condensed the amount of information and given me a lot more to work with with patients. We've had previous marketing tools that kind of give some basic information that doesn't allow me to help my patients the best way possible. With Buzzazz...

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...

Hard Being Microsoft – Changing Tactics In How And What You Sell

Microsoft Is Evolving I never thought I would be that interested in what Microsoft were doing; I try not to use too many of their products, but it has been unavoidable throughout the years. Sometimes, and at some points, I liked the products, but some of my favorite...

Robot Jobpocalypse At Walmart

Walmart is the largest employer in 25 states of the US. Walmart is pioneering a store with no cashiers. Couple this with the move in a lot of warehouse to replace traditional picker packers with automated systems, and the largest provider of jobs for unskilled workers...

Marketing Is In The Cards

A Little Piece Of Plastic With Tremendous Marketing Power Gift cards are a stroke of marketing genius. This may not be uncommon knowledge, but since you probably received at least one gift card in the last few days, I thought I would outline the usefulness of a gift...

Why Buy A Book?

Why buy a book? It doesn't mean the same thing as it used to. Now it might mean why buy a PDF or a Kindle book, or some other electronic format. But I am interested in looking at, why buy a physical book as opposed to an e-book? A physical book is something of a...

Political Correctness And P.R. (Addendum: The Holidays)

The Holidays Offer Their Own P.R. Concerns Three months later, back we go into the controversy of political correctness and P.R. I’ve said much on the subject over several articles, but now as we are in the winter, we have the potential for a minor P.R. gaffe which...

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....

Daft Punk: The Genius Of Anonymity In The Midst Of Celebrity Culture

Daft Punk Unchained, the documentary, is an interesting journey for anyone that is a fan of the band. It is an interesting lesson in the importance of creating a sense of mystery. Nowadays Google throws up every damned thing that was ever written about someone - the...

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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

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...