Board Chair Kevin Taylor and Mayor Goodman at the 2011 BBB Annual Meeting
Kevin Taylor resigned his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Better Business Bureau of Southern Nevada last week. After a year and a half in the position, Kevin stated that for personal reasons he was going to resign his post as Board Chair and take leave from the Board. He also stated that he would be using the time to focus on his kids and his business priorities, respectively.
The Executive Committee will welcome Edie Gupton as the incoming Chairperson. Edie has served the same length of time on the Executive Committee in the position of First Vice Chair. The BBB issued a press release on Thursday that can be seen here:
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The reasons many people decide to make lifestyle changes aimed at personal fitness goals are many. To watch someone transform themselves into a more physically fit individual over a period of time can be pretty amazing. Sometimes, it can even be enough to make someone consider becoming a part of that transformation. However, when you are the person who is being transformed, the desire to spread the word on just how achievable and FUN reaching these goals can be becomes a powerful and burning desire.
To see my transformation, simply click here.
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Having already been labeled as the “Facebook™ of Rock”, and a “Supercharged myspace ™”, ROCK CITY CLUB is changing the music industry in terms of how artists and bands are discovered, and how their music is promoted and distributed. Rock City Club, is an online global community where artists, bands, fans, rock stars, and industry professionals come together to find, judge, and enjoy the best undiscovered rock talent online, and at Rock City Club shows worldwide. Undiscovered artists and bands submit their music to Rock City Club where the biggest names in the music industry, and music fans around the world, listen, evaluate and judge the ‘stars of tomorrow’ today. Rock City Club rewards the best new talent with performance contracts, distribution and publicity, and helps all others develop their career in the music business with tools, exposure and marketing.
The founding team behind Rockrena’s Rock City Club is comprised of Don Kirshner, the legendary music impresario who was the promotional force behind Kiss, David Bowie, Kansas, Carole King and 100’s more, and Jack Wishna the celebrated entrepreneur and promoter whose track record includes Michael Jackson, Donald J. Trump, Britney Spears, Madonna and many more. Ofek Hayon and Brian Silver round out the management team and have done an incredible job helping to create a new business model and in spearheading the development of new products and services for Rock City Club to implement prior to the launch of our company. Recently, Ofek and Brian helped identify the most desirable qualifications and background of computer programming and IT candidates, and they recruited one of the top candidates in the nation, Kevin Taylor, to join the team as Chief Technology Officer.
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- 2011 Better Business Bureau Board of Directors
Las Vegas Review Journal picture of the Better Business Bureau of Southern Nevada 2011 Board of Directors.
Officers: Kevin Taylor, Chairman of the Board; Edie Gupton, Vice Chair; Dan Hunt, Secretary; Chris Wilcox, Second Vice Chair Pro Tem; Sally Rycroft, Jim Marsh & Chris Marini, at Large; and Charli Carter, Past Chair.
Pictured: Kevin S. Taylor, Chris Marini, Charlie Carter, Bob Crockett, Bill Gould, Edie Gupton, Bob Brown, David Lee, John Egermayer, Sally Rycroft, Lonnie Wright, Robert Young, Chris Wilcox, Joy Alexander, Tom Lawyer, Marel Giolito, Charles Huff, Terry Bedford, Dan Hunt, Anne Sutorius, Jim Marsh.
Not Pictured: William Boyd, Stephen Hueftle, Maurice Jung, Andy Katz, Tamara Peterson, Valerie Wiener, Bob Shirley, Bob Werner.
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The eight-fold path to building and maintaining an online business is simple and short.
By Kevin S. Taylor, MBA
1. Demand and Supply
A common mistake most agents make in the marketing business is trying to sell a product for which the demand barely exists. The idea behind marketing is to first find the market for a product before starting its supply. People only search online for products they actually want, and selling something online that the average customer is not searching for is as good as not making a sale at all. Thus, to begin with, one needs to find a group of individuals with a dilemma they need to make sense of and resolve it for them.
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So, You Want to Make a Million Dollars Online?
Chapter I. Review: Business Owners Can Prosper
By Kevin S. Taylor, MBA
With opportunities literally growing on the Internet, be a savvy entrepreneur, weave a net using the multitude of free or low cost resources and collect the dough. E-commerce promises rich rewards! The tools for making money are abundant on the net. Whether you choose to make your cash using e-mail or simply being smart about the space on your website, you can sell your products or your customers’ product on the net without leaving the comfort of your home. Stay in your comfort zone and make that residual income month after month.
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So, You Want to Make a Million Dollars Online?
Chapter 1: Business Owners Can Prosper
Part II: Resell Products From Other Companies
By Kevin S. Taylor, MBA
Developers and entrepreneurs are on a move from traditional marketing like telemarketing, printing, and direct mail, to more effective reselling of products and products’ rights. The latest trend is to sell arguably tangible items using the World Wide Web.
Electronic resale items with simple duplication methods along with instructions and rights to reprint, reproduce, or resell have become another facet of e-commerce and has sparked continually improving digital rights management. Some of these items may include computer software, Kindle or electronic reader-ready books, manuals, articles, and a plethora of other items that can be retrieved by downloading without having to physically ship an item.
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After Years of Research, HelpMe2Teach.com is a Welcomed Resource for Parents, Students, and Teachers Across the Internet
By Elaine Taylor, MA and Kevin S. Taylor, MBA
Among the many Internet-based services offered by Las Vegas Web Design company Expert Website Services LLC, www.Helpme2teach.com, is a unique product which was developed to assist parents, teachers and students in kindergarten through high school. The website itself is an intense, database-driven, educational website directory for all phases of academia. The content was developed and refined over with almost a decade of research and development by an educator with over 40 years of classroom experience, teaching credentials in two states, and expertise in the areas of curriculum development and home school consulting.
The teacher that spawned the idea was working as an educator for a virtual charter school with limited support with regard to curriculum. She began surfing the web to find educational resources and began sharing them with others, spending literally thousands of hours separating the appropriate sites from the advertisements and inappropriate media. The initial list of websites contained only 700 links categorized by subject matter, age appropriateness, and whether they were geared toward the parent, student, or educator. Even with a list of 700 sites; however, the challenge was keeping the links updated. It was a daunting and almost full-time task to manage the links and replace some resources with new ones when their respective sources had moved or shut down. The project has grown tremendously from this initial list and now contains several thousand resources at any given time. The links are checked daily and automatically removed so that a user is not troubled by links that do not work. New websites are manually added after being reviewed by the educational department for appropriateness on a daily basis.
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Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Expert Website Services Receives 2009 Best of Las Vegas Award
U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement
WASHINGTON D.C., June 8, 2009 — Kevin Taylor Graphics has been selected for the 2009 Best of Las Vegas Award in the Commercial Art & Graphic Design category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA “Best of Local Business” Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2009 USCA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.
About U.S. Commerce Association (USCA)
U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) is a Washington D.C. based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USCA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising.
The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America.
SOURCE: U.S. Commerce Association
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U.S. Commerce Association
Email: PublicRelations@us-ca.org
URL: http://www.us-ca.org
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By Ivan R. Misner, Ph.D. and Kevin S. Taylor, MBA
Your business thrives on your making contacts and getting new business. What happens after you’ve made the sale and you have successfully converted a prospect to a client? How often should you be in touch with that person? What are some rules of thumb for keeping in touch and nurturing your relationship? Staying in touch is an important part of the networking process. In addition to offering new products or services, it gives you an opportunity to become a part of your clients’ referral networks.
Here are several tips for keeping in touch and strengthening your business relationships:
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By Ivan R. Misner, Ph.D. and Kevin S. Taylor, MBA
Many of my esteemed colleagues have recently indicated that their businesses are at risk of failure. Indeed, this is an endemic issue in times of recession. In turbulent economic times, the economy has an adverse effect on everyone. This recession is particularly difficult as the world is much more intricately weaved than in recessions of the past. We are in a global economy; thus, our economy has a global impact.
When the economy is slow, new business is harder to get. A bad economy; however, should not be an excuse for failure. Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that will not work.” In recessionary times, even the best laid plans need to be revisited. Indeed, a poor economic climate can successfully be used as motivation to grow your business even more! What can you do to build your business in a recessionary economy?
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Red Firefish
Today we added a Red Firefish Goby to the small reef tank. He spent some time competing with the Ocellaris Clownfish. However, they seem to have worked out their differences.
In addition, the Pearly Jawfish continues to come out more often. Click the read more link below to see a better view of the Jawfish and current stocking of this reef:
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Clean tank = Happy fish and inverts
Today, I wiped the tank down with an algae cloth made for acrylic tanks and used a siphon to vacuum about 5 gallons of water from the bottom. This is the first water change from the bottom; so, I was a bit apprehensive to see if my water quality or nitrification would suffer. Needless to say, everything was perfect! We are starting to see more and more of the Pearly Jawfish. The purple Star Polyps are starting to be seen in other areas of the reef. I have been advised that there must be something other than the fish and hermit crabs in the tank moving them. I suspect a worm or a shrimp from the live rock; however, I have not caught nor seen him yet.
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As a web development firm, everyone on our team tends to take certain terms for granted. However, there are occasions when we have to explain the term hosting and exactly what it means to host a website. In a nutshell, I like to say that the hosting is what makes a web site available for people to see on the Internet. Obviously, there is a bit more to it than this.
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This is day 3 of setup for the new 50 gallon saltwater tank … my first endeavor into marine fishery. I am looking forward to a rapid cycling process so that we can begin to add a clownfish and some corals. This tank is currently home to several critters that have crawled out of the well-seasoned live rock and live sand. To date, we have noticed two very small shrimp and what appeared to be a bristle worm. Mistakes made on previous tanks have led to a much improved plumbing system (pictured above).
The display holds 34 gallons (excluding the overflow) and there is a custom wet/dry sump in the cabinet that holds just over 10 gallons. The tank is powered by a mag-9; a bit of overkill but ATM of Las Vegas somehow saw it necessary to overpower the pump on this tank. Needless to say, there is a ball valve to slow the flow of water into the Tom Fathom skimmer and return line back to the tank. I will be certain to update this blog as new species are introduced.
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