Who We Really Are
The reality is, we are your neighbor and friends and family. We saw an opportunity to do something unique and different than anyone else is doing. We have the technology, so why not use it to do something good for our small local businesses.

All of us have had to work for other businesses or had our own business at one time or another. We know that advertising can get pretty pricy and confusing. We've also seen how online advertising has taken over and we have had to hire SEO experts, and pay per click, etc. or get left behind in the social circles. It can get a little crazy at times and even overwhelming for small business owners who already have enough to do. Even the cost of advertising in coupon books and local magazines has gotten expensive.

What We Do
We advertise Your Business to mobile devices all over the area using Free (to the customer) Wifi services. This service is unlike anything else on the market today. Nowhere else can you get so close to someone than on their mobile.

Unlike social media, we serve up only local ads, like a coupon book, except digital. The difference is, you can advertise your business, complete with click to call buttons, a directions button so people can use their gps to find you, and ... You don't have to offer a coupon or discount if you don't need to.

You can just advertise your business and let people know that you are here. It's like having a local community bulletin board over Wi-Fi and sharing that space with others. This provides a valuable service to the community. Try it Here!

How It Works
We program proprietary routers that connect to existing Internet services in local establishments, providing Free to the public Wifi services with local advertising. We do not provide Internet connection services, we connect to your existing service.

When Is This Happening?
It's happening now! This summer (2025) we will open with at least 50 local businesses providing Free Wifi services all over Sarasota first, then on to other areas.

50 locations, 30 days a month (average), with just 1 person, per location, viewing your advertisement equals a minimum of 1,500 people seeing your Ad across the entire network every month. That's just the start. We will continue to expand from there.

These are your local customers. The ones who are already out frequenting other local businesses and ready to find yours. That doesn't even count when 'season' gets here. Space is limited so hurry to secure your place on the network.

Where Is This Service? 
Currently, we are working with Sarasota businesses in the Gulf Gate area and on the Islands. We will open with at least 50 locations all over town and every location will have a different variety of advertisers per location. We call these the Featured Ads.

How It Works
Every month, kind of like a coupon book. We will rotate featured Ads from location to location. So your Featured Ad gets Xposure at different locations every month. These are the main Ads that users see first when accessing the XMM Network. From there, they can access the directory of Ads at that particular location, and access the categories section where all of the advertisers are listed under their appropriate category. Try it Here!

No need for Google Reviews, Likes, Hearts or Thumbs Up. Local to local ads right where you need them. Not intrusive, not annoying, saves on paper, and gets you noticed. Though we do use Google Analytics to see how well Ads and locations are performing.

What We Provide that Many Services Do Not
Our services include a Terms of Service Agreement that users must agree to in order to use the Free Wifi service. This Agreement exempts the local business from liability that may arise from someone else accessing and abusing the system. Meaning: If someone's device gets hacked, they are on their own.

Our service can limit the amount of time a user may remain on the Free Wifi service. Limiting their time allows others to use the service as well. This time limit varies based on the business owner's personal preferences. Management won't have to ask someone to leave if they don't want them there too long.

Family Friendly Services
The XMM Network blocks certain websites that may be inappropriate for viewing in public. We have heard stories of people sitting by a window and watching things that children should not see on the Free Wifi services of other businesses. It's not our job to police the Internet but we can at least prevent some sites from being accessed via the XMM Network. Obviously, we may not be able to prevent access to every site like that but we do our best to maintain such standards. We are a family-owned business so we are family friendly.

24-Hour Protection
We create a Bridge so that potential hackers cannot even get close to your personal equipment or network. By creating a bridge we isolate the traffic on the Free Wifi service that keeps them on a different channel.

We also close off certain ports so people cannot sit in your parking lot and spam email through your service. Many services do not provide all of the protections we include. In fact, many businesses open themselves up to potential litigation by not having customers agree to a Terms of Service agreement. Which means without a TOS, your business could be liable.

Night Time Protection
The XMM Network routers are set to turn the service off during non-business hours and turn it back on during normal business hours. Usually one hour before opening and within one hour after the business closes.

Many businesses providing Free Wifi services do not turn their routers off when they are not open for business, they just leave it plugged in like they would at their home. This may allow potential hackers and others to use the services 24/7 whether at night or even during non-business hours.

Even if you do not do business with us, because our space is limited, please protect yourself by making sure that your Free to the Public Wifi is providing Guest Network access, close off port 25 so people cannot use your service to send spam emails, and setup your service so people have to click a button to agree to your Terms of Service (TOS). We have all worked very hard to keep our businesses going, especially after COVID. Protect your business one more way by preventing access to your precious data.

Our Legacy
Our proprietor, Carlton Glassford, you can call him Carl, a Sarasota resident, has been in the computer and networking industry for about half of his life. Having been a computer network engineer, bookstore/software store owner, having his own computer training center before it was even popular, built computers from scratch, installed computer networks in colleges and universities in Chicago and surrounding areas, was written up in a Cahners Nationally distributed Internet Magazine, had a computer mail order company in Sarasota, and even worked in the Internet industry in Miami for awhile.

In 2004, after Hurricane Charley hit, he went down to North Port and Port Charlotte and started helping people put their lives back together. That's how he ended up in the construction industry for almost 20 years.

One day while sitting in a cafe, he was looking at all of the ads surrounding the name of the place on an 11 by 17 sheet of paper being used as a placemat. He thought to himself, "Wow, I knew a guy who had been doing this over 30 years ago." Then he wondered why hasn't anyone used the Wi-Fi services, that originally became popular by coffee shops and used it to help small businesses advertise?

Why isn't anyone using that service for advertising, like a local coupon book, but over Wi-Fi? The users are a captive audience and research shows that people like saving money by using coupons as well as learning about local businesses. He was surprised that no one was really doing this for the small business owner. Everyone wanted to go after the convention centers, airports, and larger venues. Yes, it's less money and more work but the small business is what makes America what it is today. So, that's how we got started.

Now that COVID is over for the most part, we have begun teaming up with the local community once again to get this WiFi Advertising Network rockin!

Come join us in helping you advertise your business and broadcast your advertising across mobile devices all over town and show them what you got! We look forward to meeting you and working with you to build a local community bulletin board over Free Wi-Fi services.

We have lots of fun things in store (like business scavenger hunts and prizes to give away) and many other things coming as we grow!

Thank You and God Bless!