Several indoor tanning companies took advantage of last week’s $550 million Powerball lottery jackpot by using the jackpot as a way to drive traffic to salon facebook pages.

Florida-based South Beach Tanning Company purchased a Powerball ticket and promised those who clicked “like” on its facebook page a share of the jackpot if the ticket turned out to be the winner. South Beach President Brian Hibbard was interviewed on Fox 35 about the plan. Click here to see the interview. http://youtu.be/izU0xIoFNMI

South Beach’s Powerball promotion gained 17,326 facebook “likes.”

Kentucky-based Sun Tan City did even better – getting 63,264 facebook “likes” from the same type of promotion.