City of Springfield gets innovative during budget freeze

City of Springfield gets innovative during budget freeze
Thanks to federal grants and reduced general fund contributions to the police-fire pension fund, the city’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year includes money to fill about 50 vacant positions in the police and fire departments.

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Pork theme of gov’s race carries into budget talks

Pork theme of gov’s race carries into budget talks
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey says his gubernatorial aspirations aren’t a factor in his insistence on ridding the state budget of local projects that he calls pork barrel spending.

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Boyertown Schools budget to raise taxes by 3.7%

Boyertown Schools budget to raise taxes by 3.7%
BOYERTOWN — In a 6-2 vote, the Boyertown Area School Board recently approved a tax millage hike of 3.7 percent for the 2010-11 school year.

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Budget panel maintains outside assessing plan

Budget panel maintains outside assessing plan
NEW GLOUCESTER — The Budget Committee voted 5-1 Thursday to recommend outsourcing assessing services, a proposal that sparked controversy last month. The proposal stirred voters at town meeting in May to approve no money for eight municipal accounts, including assessing.

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Low Budget Ways to Promote Your Home Business

Having a home business is great – you can set your own hours, work in your pajamas, and be there for your children and your family at any time. You can also take a vacation when you want to and you can take care of all kinds of things right from home. It can be a great life, and you can really enjoy it, but the key to having a home business that is successful is making sure that you have clients that are going to want to have your services and that are going to want to have you do things for them in exchange for money.

So, when it comes down to it, advertising is an absolute must. You must be able to draw people in and you need customers to have your website work. You need to generate traffic to your website that gets you business. This is important to do no matter what type of home business you have.

However, not many people that start up home businesses are rich to start with, and you might find that you don’t really have much of a budget for advertising. When this happens it is important to remember that you have to be able to budget not only your time, but a little bit of money, towards advertising.

There are many ways to generate business, cheaply. There are things that you can do with limited funds to make sure that you are getting the customers that you need. First of all, you have to be sure that you are placing advertising in the proper place. Are you having a business from home that caters to just your geographic area, such as a hair salon or a photography businesses? If so, then your advertising should be in print, because you don’t need the whole world to see it. If you are localized, don’t bother spending your money on internet advertising, just do print advertising with your website on it. This is the best way to advertise, and you can always do this inexpensively by finding a cheap place to have posters and business cards made up.

However if you are running a home business online you want the whole world to have access to it. In this case, don’t bother putting up flyers in your home town, work on internet advertising. You can find many free blogs that will let you post a link to your site, forums where you can post questions and answers and leave your link in your signature file and many other places that you can get your name out on the net. The fact remains that you just have to do it – you have to spend the time surfing the web and getting your name out there in whatever way that you can.

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