The concept for S & S Marketing LLC, came into existence three years ago when we arrived in Daytona Beach to purchase a small condo to use as a snowbird nest in 2022.
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As luck would have it, we started visiting apartments during Bike Week. Now to some old fuddy-duddies, that might have been enough to turn tail and get the fuggoudda dodge. But strangely enough, though we are not bikers, the Mrs. and I found it fascinating.
We had visited Daytona Beach several times before, so we already knew about the driving on the beach thing. In fact during Spring Break 1971, (oops showing my age!!), a car load of buddies and I had spent the better part of the week in Fort Lauderdale during its heyday as the Spring Break Capital and spent an overnight in Daytona Beach on the way back north. That was way back, when you could park overnight on the beach.
After the Mrs. had lassoed me into marriage, we had spent a couple weekends staying at hotels on the beach, never thinking we would ever live here.
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But there was something about Bike Week that blew us away. We found a place we liked and bought it. We had been living in France at the time, and flew back on the red-eye to Paris the same day as closing.
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When we came back to Daytona in December, our place had been effed-up by Hurricanes Ian and Nicole. Not a great way to start, but we weren't deterred. The more we explored, the more we liked it. The beach, beautiful parks along the Halifax, and always something going on.
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I use the internet to get all my info when I'm in new territory, and though there are plenty of other Daytona Beach websites, I'm not a big fan of the super-commercial offerings out there.
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That's when I decided to create my own the way I wanted it. Pleasing to the eye, without a million ads blocking my searches, and getting in the way of my scrolling. But how to create an information website, when you don't know much at all about where you are?
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Then one day the Mrs. lost her car keys at the beach, when I went to get her, I had an epiphany, UBER!
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I had driven taxis, airport cars, county buses and even limos in Broward County, and knew it like the back of my hand. There's no better way to learn the ins-and-outs of an area than by driving professionally. There's no way you can get the same knowledge by just driving around on your own.
Within a few days I got myself set up and started driving Uber. I gave myself a good six months out on the road, through Bike Week, Spring Break and Welcome to Rockville. The problem with driving taxis or Uber is that you learn how dishonest people can be, and you always have to be on your guard for a-holes. I consider myself lucky that nobody ever puked in my back seat.
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I picked up one guy, that just seemed like all the others, until we found ourselves surrounded by cop cars. When we came to a stop, we were surround by cops, all with guns drawn, shouting out orders to me and the jerk in my back seat. "Put it into park!!" "Put all the windows down!!" Not the easiest thing to do when you're trying to keep your "HANDS UP!!" As soon as the windows were down, they all had their hands on my wonderful passenger, checking him for weapons, and literally dragged him out through the back window. While they were taking care of subduing their suspect, I was busy trying not to soil myself.
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Soon after that incident, I decided I had learned enough of the area to create my site. That's right, I did the miles so you don't have to. No thanks necessary.
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ilovedaytonabeach.fun is offered to provide an easy to navigate information site and directory of Greater Daytona Beach. The vendor listings are free and there is no favoritism or limit of listings based on advertising dollars. We are adding listings all the time, and provide you with direct links to the listed vendors.
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Finally, our Daytona Beach Blog offers a personal insight into what's happening, and points of interest. No holds barred, just me talking to my closest friends. Subscribe if you like us. That's about it.
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Your's Truly,
​Cocoa Butter Ben
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Contact Information:
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S & S Marketing LLC
1401 S Palmetto Ave. Suite 802
Daytona Beach, FL 32114
386-281-2280
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