An overview of banner advertising for small businesses
10/04/11 at 3:17 pm
Banner advertising can be a very compelling or seductive form of advertising. For one, this approach to advertising is quite ubiquitous or at least extremely common. It is compelling also because it is a visual form of advertising that allows for creative expression and custom messaging composed within a pictorial display. Banner advertising may not [...]
Full StoryGadgets from defunct Google Wave will live on in Shared Spaces
Google will be ending it’s Wave product just one year after it’s launch. Google Wave is a real-time collaboration tool, which is a kind of hybrid between instant messaging and email. Fortunately, some of the very interesting gadgets from the program will continue to exist in the Shared Spaces (Google Labs) project. Many of these [...]
Full StoryIntroducing Premium Business Profiles
The Kentucky Business Network is happy to announce a new product to market businesses in Kentucky. Our Premium Business Profiles are a new solution by KBN for helping businesses gain more visibility online and building status within search engines such as Bing, Google and Yahoo. View more info on: Premium Business Profiles
Full StoryProducing great website content in 3 steps
Business owners that want to reach wider audiences commonly ask how to use to the internet to attract those users and potential customers. Often business owners feel that the internet is an easy way to achieve instant success–as we have seen new website owners struggle with the notion that their newly launched website doesn’t automatically [...]
Full StoryYahoo’s new local deals marketing, great for business
Partnership article: written by: Ironpaper Web Marketing The Internet has turned traditional marketing on it’s head. Small businesses are not able to advertise and market to a far wider audience than ever before. Likewise, large businesses are able to reach more and more specific and niche audiences than previously possible. The overall effect is that [...]
Full StoryTiffany & Company Sets Up Manufacturing Plant In Lexington
Tiffany & Co. had a ground breaking for it’s new 25,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in the Bluegrass Business Park in Lexington Kentucky. This plant will be Tiffany’s first outside of the Northeast. The new manufacturing plant employ about 125 people. Tiffany & Co. creates luxury items such as jewelry and gifts, watches, china, fragrances and accessories. [...]
Full StoryRichmond Mall For Sale
After defaulting on a loan following the loss of it’s anchor stores, the Richmond Mall will be put up for sale on November 24 at the Madison County Courthouse. The mall is located on the Eastern Bypass, and is currently open for business. The mall has several long term leases in place, which will be [...]
Full StoryMartinrea Hopkinsville $13.7 million investment for expansion
Gov. Steve Beshear plus municipal leaders join forces with Martinrea Hopkinsville in Christian County to invest nearly $13.7 million in its Hopkinsville plant. The investment will help the plant expand it’s client base, increase efficiencies and maintain its current 438 employees. “Significant investments in Kentucky facilities, like the one Martinrea Hopkinsville is making, are extremely [...]
Full StorySpecial tax incentives for expanding Kentucky businesses
The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority board approved special tax incentives for businesses on Oct 28th. If a company is approved, the company may keep the amount of money that it would otherwise pay in taxes for assistance with expansion and growth. So far, the board has approved: Illinois Tool Works Florida Tile American Greetings [...]
Full StoryFree paper shredding on November 13th
The city Government of Lexington has planned a paper shredding event on November 13th. The city Government has joined forces with CINTAS and God’s Pantry for the event. The event will be held from 9 am to 2 pm. Up to 25 boxes of documents or paper may be brought to the landfill pad on [...]
Full StoryKentucky Schools Deploy Microsoft Cloud Services
The Kentucky Department of Education decided to move forward with cloud services by Microsoft that will replace their current e-mail servers. The cloud services are a free offering by Microsoft that will provide 700,000 students, faculty and staff with email and information sharing tools. It is expected that this move will save the school system [...]
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