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To further celebrate the launch of its partnership in 2009, with a nod to the Red Sox”s completion of 109 regular seasons of professional baseball, and in honor of Ted Williams” number 9, JetBlue is holding a nine-hour sale today, beginning at 9 a.m. ET, with fares starting as low as $9 between Boston and the cities it serves in the American League, including: Buffalo, NY (Toronto); Chicago; Los Angeles/Long Beach; New York/JFK; Oakland; Seattle; and Tampa.more

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation funded the project and a Wichita advertising agency is producing the ads, which will begin airing in January.

The Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment”s Tobacco Use Prevention Program helped coordinate the project.

Salina teens Devin Smith and Grayson Jones were part of the ad project. The group of teens met in Topeka to film the ads and each teen participant will be seen in at least one ad.

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Approximately 70% of all businesses fail within the first three years. Lack of understanding of what to expect and the lack of detailed plans are usually the cause. To decrease the chances of being a part of this statistic, consider the following questions before starting your business. Has a business plan been written? Have the long and short term goals been placed on paper? How will the business be financed? If these questions have not yet been addressed, don’t worry. Subscribers will be given a road map on how to start a business. This is a unique and solid subscription.

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There are a list of things you should consider before embarking down your online venture:

1) Define your brand. It is more than words, but will be flavored by them. Your business brand is an image of who you are. Ask your friends, family, and peers what your ideas inspire when the words are read.

2) The idea of a business brand is to be memorable, yet effective in communicating the purpose of your business. It is usually more effective to focus on communicating your purpose, rather than just developing your widget as a term.

3) If you can’t get a com extension, choose again. There are plenty of other extension like net and info, but whatever case that is: you will need to also have the com extension or risk losing your brand before it has ever been established. (Businesses should register the com, net, info extensions for a business)

4) If you think of related names in the process, register them today. $10 today is a lot cheaper than the impossibility of getting it tomorrow.

5) Keep it short. A good domain name should be one to three words long. It should not include hyphens or any other characters that are out of place. Shorter domains are generally better for two basic reasons: they are easier to spell and remember.

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7) Multiple Domains are Okay! So many businesses lock on to the idea of having one site to send readers to. While having focus is good, multiple domains and sites allows a company to have different presentations for different audiences. Multiple domains and sites can also allow a single business to have multiple results in search engines, which allows them to conquest the first page of search results on terms that drive results.

Recognize how you can misspell your own domain. If you have any words that do not carry clearly when spoken or are easy to misspell, register the misspelled version of the keywords. $10 for a misspelled version of your own site name is a very affordable way of preventing client loss or competitive problems in the future.

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10) Realize that your domains are being promoted to both humans and search robots. They each like slightly different things and you should create a strategy for having multiple domains and how they coordinate relevant traffic to your business.

Bonus point: If you are trying to use a new domain for competitive search engine ranking, register the domain for five years. Search engines give credit to the length of a registration to help identify if a new site is a spam site being used to manipulate the search results. By committing to a longer stay, you help establish your virtual reputation in the eyes of engines like Google and Yahoo.

Do not jump the gun! Remember that a domain choice has many different angles to it. It can easily be compared to choosing a real world location for your business: where will it be? what does the neighborhood say? who will see it? how long will you be using it?

If you are a small business, then $50 to $100 to secure a domain name for a few years may seem like a major investment. For larger companies, spending $500 to $1000 for a larger competitive search optimization and brand protection effort is a good investment (for instance, do you own yoursitesucks?)

Understanding that a good domain may mean the difference between five visitors a month or five thousand, greatly changes how your business functions online. With a well organized strategy behind multiple domains, different niche streams of visitors become easier to reach and increase the chance that they will convert into business results.

Barry Hurd is President, author, speaker, and voice of 123 Social Media - Business Social Media and Promotion. He has a history of over fifteen years working on numerous innovative efforts with online business models: past projects have included NIKE, REI, TMP Worldwide, Monster.com, Verizon Superpages, Intuit, and RIS Media.

“I think that people are taking a harder look at how they are spending their money,” says Susan Bowers, owner and general manager of Media Partners Inc.

Local media executives, however, say it’s not so much a decrease in advertising as a change in buying practices.

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