Debora Tsakoumakis is on a tight budget, so when she advertises her Huntington Beach-based cake delivery service, Wire-A-Cake, she relies on Facebook, Twitter and word of mouth.
But now Tsakoumakis is in the running for an advertising windfall.
She is one of 20 semi-finalists competing to win 30 seconds of commercial air time during the 2014 Super Bowl.
The contest — put on by Intuit, the company behind the accounting software QuickBooks — garnered more than 15,000 entries.
News reports say 30-second spots during last year's Super Bowl cost as much as $4 million, and the game averaged more than 108 million viewers.
Tsakoumakis said the "whole process was a long shot," but she figured, "What the heck? Go big or go home."
The Huntington Beach resident entered the contest in August after hearing about it from a Facebook fan. She submitted a Tyler Perry-inspired video advertising Wire-A-Cake in which she plays all the characters.