Press Release Sent Out

 Mahoning Valley Business Buzz is a new advertising concept launching this October to promote local businesses, organizations, causes, and events in the Mahoning Valley Region.  By using social media networking and utilizing a high-concept pricing plan, advertising starts as low as $1 and is never higher than $365 for an individual package.  Payments have also gone high tech, and can be paid online, or in person with a Biz Buzz professional.  Each advertising package consists of content being broadcast over a minimum of four social media platforms including: Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, and YouTube, and the promotions being sent daily via email to over 1,200 recipients. 

                The Official Launch Party of Mahoning Valley Business Buzz will be on Tuesday, October 5, from 5:00 – 7:00pm at O’Donold’s Irish Pub, 6000 Mahoning Avenue in Austintown.  Along with a short program explaining how the concept works and showing some demonstrations, there will be Free Food from the O’Donold’s kitchen, $1 off Drink Coupons for Happy Hour, Door Prizes including a free Biz Buzz Day give-away valued at up to $365 dollars, and more.  

                The concept was derived from two hugely popular national social media companies and adapting the best elements of both to promote fun and advertising on a more local level. Social media thrives on the 5 E’s of marketing theory:  Expose your brand or event;  Educate your customers and clients about what you do and why they should care;  Entertain in some way by finding a little bit of fun everyday and sharing that with others;  Engage your customers by giving them a way to interact with you through comments, suggestions, or finding a way for your clients to participate with you; and finally, Evaluate any program you put out there for effectiveness.   Through social media we can create timed, targeted messages for the consumers and do it in a fun and unique way.  We create daily videos or live streaming videos promoting our Biz Buzz of the day; we create a blog entry promoting each day’s advertiser giving full information and facts; and  over 1200 emails will be sent out daily promoting our advertiser.  Facebook updates and Tweets will be sent  throughout the day with some fun and interactive messages for the thriving social media followers in the Valley. 

                The team behind Mahoning Valley Business Buzz is the owner of Ace in the Hole Marketing, Scott Fullerton, and entrepreneur Jerrid Francis of Conneaut, Ohio. “I have used social media as a component in most of the marketing plans I have created for my clients, and have seen the effectiveness it presents in targeted, interactive communication with your customers,” says Fullerton.  As Sales Director, Jerrid Francis feels the concept’s pricing plan that is based upon the Biz Buzz Day you choose to have your promotion on, is an easy sale.  “Cost of advertising is usually what prohibits most small businesses from getting their name out in the community and causes so many to fail within the first 3 years.  With the ability to buy a day of advertising dedicated to your company or event for as low as $1 in January, and no more than $365 in December, MV Biz Buzz advertisers can afford this fun and unique way of getting the word out in the Valley,” says Francis.  Both believe they will sell out the entire of year of 2011 quickly.  The option of offering a discounted coupon or gift card, adds an additional twist that will draw customers and create another avenue of tracking how successful the promotion went.  You can find out more about Mahoning Valley Business Buzz by visiting their website, www.mvbizbuzz.com. (website available on October 1st)

Official Launch Party Set For October 5th At O'Donold's

     Mahoning Valley Business Buzz announces it's official Launch Party on Tuesday, October 5th, from 5-7pm at O'Donold's Irish Pub in Austintown.  Come find out what all the Buzz has been about, as we showcase our new advertising/marketing concept for Columbiana, Mahoning, and Trumbull counties.  There will be Free Food,    $1 off drink coupons, Door Prizes, and lots of fun.

     MV Biz Buzz showcases a different Valley business, organization, cause, or event each day, starting on January 1st, 2011.  For one low price, starting from $1 to no more than $365, you will be blasted to major social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogger, and more, with a custom viral video created especially for you, pictures, and sometimes even live streaming video.  Not only do you get a full day dedicated just for you, but once you purchase your Biz Buzz Day, your logo will be posted on our website with a link to your website or web presence, and once your Day has come and gone, all of your pictures and video will be archived for years to come.

     Stop by O'Donold's, 6000 Mahoning Avenue in Austintown, on October 5th to find out how you can sign-up for this low-cost advertising opportunity that will enhance your social media presence whether you currently have one or not.  You will have the chance to win a free Biz Buzz Day, and other great door prizes.  We hope to see you there.



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Introducting Mahoning Valley Business Buzz

     Welcome to the new blog of Mahoning Valley Business Buzz, or MV Biz Buzz for short!  The Business Buzz is a brand new way to advertise in the Mahoning Valley, utilizing the power of social media, and designed at an affordable price for everyone.  MV Biz Buzz was modeled after 2 wildly successful, national social media companies on the Internet, and we have combined the best of both concepts, and brought them down to the local level.  We take your business, organization, cause, or event, and promote it in a fun and unique way over a minimum of 4 social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogger and YouTube, add a direct email component, and then combine it with an Internet sales opportunity or special offer that will provide ways of tracking your promotion and adding interaction and value between you and those that see your promotion on the web.

     The company will launch October 1st with a publicity and sales blitz, and all promotions begin January 1st and continue through to December 31st, 2011.  Each day of the year we will be promoting a different entity, and there will be sponsorships available for entire month blocks for a low, low price that will be tagged on every promotion throughout the month.  Although each individual promotion is for one day only, once you have purchased the day of your promotion, we will add your logo to our calendar and a link to your Internet presence, so visitors to the site will be able to find you throughout the entire year.  Once we have promoted your day, your photos and videos will be archived to be seen anytime forward.  Just the links alone will usually cause your search rankings to rise in search engines, and increase your web visibility.  

     You are probably wondering what all of this is going to cost you, right?  Can you believe that promotions start at $1 and the maximum cost to buy a day's promotion is $365?  Your read that right, promotions start at only $1!!!  Let me explain, our unique pricing plan is simple and inexpensive, so almost anyone can purchase a day full of promotion, along with your presence being linked for years to come, for less than the price of going out for a large cup of coffee every day you drive to work in a year.  Here is how it works:  You pick the day you want your promotion to be on and it simply costs you $1 times the day of the year it falls on.  If you pick January 1st your promotion is $1.  January 2nd is $2, January 3rd is $3 and on it goes until December 31st where you will pay $365.  If you want to be a monthly sponsor and be tagged every day of that month, it is simply $500 for January thru June, and $1,000 for July thru December.  That's it, there are no other hidden costs.  Of course we recommend that you add some type of a coupon or give-away to your day of promotion to add to the interaction of the network, and that may have some small cost to you, but that is ultimately up to you.  It really is just that simple.  Biz Buzz Days will be available for purchase starting October 1st online, and a representative will be available to speak to starting September 27th.  

     Keep watching for the launch of the website that will be up on October 1st, and start signing up now for our Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Email alerts so you will be able to see what awesome businesses, organizations, causes, and events will be featured.  You may find someone or someplace you have never heard of before.  You may find a deal that is just too good to pass up, you just never know.  Welcome to Mahoning Valley Business Buzz, we look forward to hearing from you soon.