gold catches fire
tommyFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
TAMPA, FL – August 23, 2006 – Bill Sharpe, president of Tampa Marketing Company and Tommy Duncan, owner of Tampa-based Web site sticksoffire.com recently announced the implementation of a strategic alliance.
The marketing and content relationship between sticksoffire.com and Tampa Marketing Company’s TAMPAGOLD.COM will allow the two Web sites to provide additional information about Tampa area events and people, and allow each greater use of the internet’s capabilities.
This arrangement brings together Tampa’s two best locally-focused independent Web sites and expands the capacity for both. Current and future visitors to both sites will find additional news and information about the Tampa Bay area that is not currently available on the other site.
“STICKSOFFIRE.COM provides the day to day information about what is happening in the Tampa Bay area that we just have not had the resources to cover as the people of Tampa deserve,” said Sharpe. “Tommy and his team do a superior job of pointing out stories and events important to every Tampa neighborhood, and offer those neighbors an area to facilitate intelligent conversation regarding these events.”
“Through TAMPAGOLD.COM, SOHOTAMPA.COM and their other Web sites, Tampa Marketing Company has shown the ability to put together a plan that can generate additional traffic with a viable advertising and marketing strategy that has been unmatched by any independent Web site in the Tampa area.” said Duncan. “This agreement will enable the promotional support that Sticks of Fire has needed.”
“In addition, the Tampa Marketing Company team has found unique ways to make greater use of the capabilities of the internet,” said Duncan. “This is a big win for those folks who want to know what is going on right in their neighborhood.”
Tampa Marketing Company will be directly responsible for advertising sales and production for STICKSOFFIRE.COM. Additional marketing and traffic generation of STICKSOFFIRE.COM will be accomplished through TAMPAGOLD.COM.
TAMPAGOLD.COM will feature STICKSOFFIRE.COM as “THE” Source for Tampa area news and information in order to provide more complete news coverage in addition to TAMPAGOLD.COM’s current news, event and information coverage.
STICKSOFFIRE.COM was recognized by the Weekly Planet as the best local website in 2005. STICKSOFFIRE.COM has been called “Tampa’s premier blog,” the “one [website] that is essential to have on your… list,” and “a must-read for Tampans.” STICKSOFFIRE.COM averages over 18,000 page views per month.
TAMPAGOLD.COM has welcomed more than 1,300,000 page views in the last 12 calendar months and more than 600,000 page views at SOHOTAMPA.COM in the last 12 calendar months.
Tampa Marketing Company is a member of the West Tampa Chamber of Commerce, the Tampa Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau, the North Tampa Chamber of Commerce, the Ybor City Chamber of Commerce, and the Davis Island Chamber of Commerce.
For more information, contact Bill Sharpe bill [at] tampagold.com or Tommy Duncan tommyduncn [at] yahoo.com.
HarmonTampa PR
4100 W. Kennedy Blvd., Ste. 206
Tampa, FL 33609
813-288-6909
www.harmontampa.com
Loading ...
August 23rd, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Whoo! Congratulations, guys! Fantastic!
August 23rd, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Look out Mr. Bill!
August 23rd, 2006 at 3:45 pm
You ain’t seen nothing yet. Great to get all the Sticks contributing bloggers and ouor team together last night too. Especially thanks to The Deck Pizza & Pub in SOHO for feeding us all with some Great Pizzas !
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:10 pm
Woohoo!
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Great meeting everyone last nite!
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Congrats!!
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:21 pm
[...] And now, Tommy has taken the next step by getting into a business alliance with Tampa Gold. When that officially kicks off, Tommy will be departing from my server space at Dreamhost and going to the land of far-far-away… Or on shared hosting package with Tampa Gold, take your pick. [...]
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:59 pm
well, two heads are better than one, i guess
August 24th, 2006 at 10:39 am
Good luck to both. I enjoy keeping up on local stuff through both sites.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:03 am
The only problem with Tampa Gold is it so South of Kennedy. Bill never lists anything outside of that area. That is what really get’s my goat about the Tampa crowd. If there is a great eatery, event or shop in New Tampa, Pinellas, Polk or even Westchase, they think it’s on the moon! Bill has that attitude. I really feel sorry for him and other people that have that closed minded attitude, they miss out on a lot of great things.
August 24th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Thanks for the comments, in our last email we promoted the following events: Taste of West Chase The Prodigals playing at Skippers Smokehouse- North Tampa, The National DragonBoat Races in downtown, Avant Gardes event - South Tampa, Tampa Theatre’s Black Pirtate- downtown, Pets About Town - http://www.SOHOTAMPA.COM’s monthly event - SOHO, Wrestling at the Cuban Club in Ybor, Davis Island events, Tampa’s Top 20 in Ybor, Salsa Fest in Ybor, Halloween Horror in Ybor, Smokin Jazz event at International Mall, Tampa Museum of Art’s event at Ala Carte Parillion, Tampa Bay Vodka Fest in Ybor, KickBoxing at the Forum, SOHOTAMPA’s Pub Crawl - South Tampa, South Tampa Cigar Smoker - Palm Ceia, Tampa Ghost Watchers trip to Crystal River, Derby Darlins in West Tampa, Tampa Bay Uncorked’s WineRave in Ybor. Seems like we are doing more in Ybor than anywhere. Additionally we are members of the North Tampa Chamber of Commerce, the Ybor Chamber of Commerce, the Davis Island Chamber of Commerce among others. TAMPAGOLD.COM has been broadening our base for months. In fact if you visit http://www.tampagold.com you will see 16 stories listed on our homepage and only three are about South Tampa - one of which is our story about the Ft. Homer Hesterly Armory - a project that could be bigger in economic impact than Channelside.
Our involvement with Tommy and Sticks is specifically to broaden our information to you and our http://www.tampagold.com visitors. We think there is no better team to do that than the Sticks of Fire team. Again, thank you for your comments. Please send more.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Why does Tampa Marketing Company need a press release from Harmon Tampa, a marketing Company?
(bad link to Harmon; http://%20www.harmontampa.com/)
August 24th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Because Harmon Tampa is one of the Best Public Relations Companies in town ! And we wanted to reach more than our own lists.
August 25th, 2006 at 2:26 am
the alliance thickens…
September 1st, 2006 at 6:26 pm
[...] The agreement with TampaGold.com goes into effect this weekend. There may be some glitches as we clean up a few things, but hopefully we will have them all worked out by Tuesday morning. [...]