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A company blog can help your business achieve greater online visibility and improve the way you communicate with your current and potential customers. Success of a blog depends upon many variables. One of them that can never be overstated is the quality of content. Authentic articles that deliver fresh and informative topics can generate loyal readership.

Even though relevant content can bring some success in the search engines, it is only one piece of the puzzle. If you consider that there are hundreds or even thousands of potential customers using Search Engines to find the type of products/services that you are offering, optimizing your blog will play an important part in helping them locate you.

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EVANSVILLE — The purchase of Kentucky Data Link (KDL), Inc., and Norlight, Inc., both based in Evansville, and their parent company, Q-Comm Corp., based in Overland Park, Kans., has been completed in a transaction valued at $818 million.

Twenty-four positions are being eliminated in Evansville as a result of the sale.

The buyer, Windstream Corp., an S&P 500 communications and technology company based in Little Rock, Ark., issued approximately 20.6 million common shares, valued at $273 million based on Windstream’s closing share price on Dec. 1 of $13.24. It

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Tracking expenses and invoices can make a big difference

According to one small business accounting company, proper bookkeeping is one of the most important elements for entrepreneurs to pay attention to if they want to find success.

In a recent news for small business, Bookkeeping.net said in a release that when tax time comes around, small businesses will find many benefits to keeping up-to-date records of client transactions and expenses. It will also allow the company to see if a client owes money and see how far behind they are on the payment. This can identify patterns of who is having trouble keeping up with payments and make sure that the small business gets the money owed it.

“Current ledgers will account for the funds flowing in and out of the company and allow for key people to make decisions on a daily and quarterly basis,” the company said.

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Does your company have a DUNs number?

Are you registered with eUpdate?

If so, did you know that on December 20^th, 2010 eUpdate will no longer be available? Don’t worry the good news is its replacement is a new website called iUpdate and boy does it deliver the goods.

So what is eUpdate?

It’s Dun and Bradstreet’s Internet-based service that allows business owners to review and update their company information.

Now if your company is listed with DNB you will need to register with the new iUpdate website so you can take advantage of this new platform. This g

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What is the largest source of capital from business to business and remains the #1 alternative to personal and small business loans?< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Here’s another hint.

The SBA reports it as the single largest source of small business lending in America today.

Still not sure what it is?

It’s called vendor credit also known as ‘trade credit’ or ‘supplier credit’.

Did you know that vendor credit is the second largest source of capital for Wal-Mart? It’s used

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MOLLY BARTELS / Courier & Press Zerik Sisk, 12, right, of Harrisburg, Ill., gets in a nap Friday while waiting for his grandmother to return from shopping in Eastland Mall in Evansville. Sisk got to the mall at about 6 a.m. and found some deals at FYE.

EVANSVILLE — Debbie Hurt of Evansville pushed through dense crowds, stood in line for hours and spent hundreds of dollars in search of Black Friday deals.

Her assessment at the end of it all? “Worth every penny.”

Hurt started her 12-hour shopping spree at 10:30 p.m. T

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Holiday company Pontin’s has gone into administration.

Administrator KPMG was appointed to Pontin’s today and said the company, which has a site in Camber Sands, had run out of cash because bookings had fallen drastically in the past year.

Pontin’s, famous for its blue coats, employs 850 staff at its five sites across the country.

However it will continue to cater for customers as normal and no redundancies have been made.

KPMG said it was optimistic of finding a buyer and hoped the Pontin’s name would live on.

Joint administrator Jane Moriarty said: “It has unfortunately struggled in the current economic environment but, with some support from new management, we are optimistic that it will be part of thousands of family memories in the years to come.

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Small business owners oftentimes do not have a Human Resources manager in charge of employee salaries, raises, job offers, and general maintenance of job classifications and industry average compensations. Alas, when a small business owner takes on all these duties him or herself, there may be a tendency to overpay employees.

Why would a small business owner overpay? A potential job candidate may request a certain salary that is above the industry average for the job classification. Instead of leveraging HR knowledge and research, an owner may simply agree to pay what the employee thinks he’s worth.

Another reason is a small business owner may “reward” employees too much. Thoug

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Let’s face it… many small business owners either use their personal credit cards and/or business credit cards to finance a good portion of their company expenses.

Another type of card that you may want to consider using is a business charge card. 

So what is a business charge card?

It’s a specific kind of credit card that has all the convenience of a credit card without all the costly interest.

While business credit cards allow you to make purchases and carry a balance from one billing cycle to the next the disadvantage of having to pay interest on that balance can become pretty expensive. The dif

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