Social Media Marketing Can Help Kentucky Businesses
05/06/10 at 11:48 am
Social Media can be a huge benefit for small businesses. We have been introducing articles that speak to the benefits and give advice about engaging with social media for business. Our goal is to make the business economy in Kentucky more vibrant and strong.
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Web design companies range from individual freelancers to large design shops that employ specialists for each aspect of the website production process. Finding the right web designer will depend on the needs of your business. From our experience, having a web design company tends to be a far more successful approach than purchasing a turn-key [...]
Full StoryCo-working in Kentucky
There has been a lot of press lately with the recent trend called co-working. Co-working was essentially a term coined by Bernie DeKoven in 1999 to describe the emerging trend of the virtual collaborative workspace. In 2005, Brad Neuberg applied the term to a physical office-type space.
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According to the Kentucky Farm Bureau’s quarterly survey, food prices raised 5.6% for 2009. The increases in prices include poultry, eggs, milk, sausage, tomatoes, corn and bread.
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Reasons To Incorporate Your Business
Protect your family’s personal assets
Incorporating your business will provide you with a protective wall between your business and personal life. An incorporated business will help to keep safe your personal assets from the risks of business. If you don’t incorporate, you could risk losing your personal savings, college savings, etc.
Tax advantages
An incorporated business can [...]
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Global Environmental Service of Georgetown or GESG [...]
Many Web Hosts Move Toward Unlimited Traffic Packages
X-alt.org reported on a trend in the web development and IT sector of web hosting companies moving toward a complete elimination of data transfer quotas on hosting accounts. Yahoo, Godaddy and 1 & 1 have all made the move to eliminate such quotas that many customers have felt were overly technical and confusing.
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