Kentucky Business Network

Social Media Marketing Can Help Kentucky Businesses

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.

By 2010 Generation Y will outnumber Baby Boomers. 96% of Generation Y [...]

Social Networking Techniques For Marketing – Capitalize On This New Frontier!

While creative marketing has always been one of the keys to a successful business, the sheer quantity of methods available today can be overwhelming. Choosing the proper mediums in which to invest your marketing dollars is a critical decision for the small business owner.

How-to guide for buying an established website or web business.

We have had a few people write in an ask: “Where can I go to buy an existing website?” or “Where can I buy a ready made website business?”. So, we decided to write a short guide and list a few decent places to help our users purchase existing websites or web businesses.

Kentucky Architects

The following list contains architects from each area of practice: commercial architects, residential architects, interior architects and designers, landscape architects, and urban planners for the state of Kentucky. This list is not intended to be exhaustive…

Looking For Web-based Business Productivity Tools? Try Google Apps

Apps is a platform that allows businesses to run Google tools under a custom domain name, while having greater administrative control than the regular Google services. Google Apps will allow you to use a private version of Gmail under your own domain as an enterprise solution for businesses. Other tools include: Docs, Google Sites, Chat, [...]

Co-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.
Co-working is a way for work-at-home professionals or independent [...]

Lexington To Host Creative Cities Summit In April

This spring, Lexington will host the “Creative Cities” summit, which will be a chance to put Kentucky’s innovative talent on display as well as a way for Kentucky businesses to network and share creative strategies. The Creative Cities Summit is a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together creative leaders from around the world to build and [...]

Benefits of Content Management Systems for Business Websites

Want to place your business ahead of your competitors? Then it’s time to place your business publishing on autopilot.  A Content Management System (CMS) will take your business to the next level by helping it to expand and allowing you to publish your writing faster and thereby open up your creativity.
One way to grow your [...]

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 [...]

Developing A Corporate Social Media Strategy

When developing a social media strategy for a company or corporation, it is a good idea to draft formal guidelines that are clearly written and easily accessible for employees, management and future hires. Social media is not something companies should run away form. In fact, social media like Twitter, Facebook, Digg, etc. should be embraced [...]