Archive for March, 2010
2 Styles of Advertising: Which One Suits You?
Posted by Joe Schmitter on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Categories:
Advertising is an art, not a science. If any advertising source, i.e. Newspaper, radio, tv, etc. could guarantee results, they would have long ago put the other sources out of business. The truth is your business can achieve results with any form of advertising, if done properly. I’d like to share with you some background [Click Here]
The final stretch — and a bit of irony
Posted by admin on Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Categories:
With Columbia’s biggest election in over a decade nearly upon us, it behooves me to list where the candidates stand in terms of money raised and spent. But, before I commence, one thing struck me as I looked over the finance reports. For all the talk about economic development and supporting local businesses while Columbia [Click Here]
Cheeseburger and Fries, Hold the Discount!
Posted by Joe Schmitter on Monday, March 29th, 2010 Categories:
Recently the concept of discounting has found renewed life, mostly due to the perception of a troubled economy and the ease with which it can be measured. Some social media applications have even been tweaked to provide a platform for businesses to discount their products/services to their followers/fans/connections, etc. The topic of today’s post is [Click Here]
City drafting first-ever growth report
Posted by admin on Friday, March 19th, 2010 Categories:
Development junkies out there will be thrilled to hear that the Planning and Development Department plans to produce an annual report of Columbia’s growth and building patterns. The department is working on a draft of the first such report, which analyzes the plethora of city and county data out there. The conclusions of the two [Click Here]
P&Z to penalize late zoning requests
Posted by admin on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 Categories:
Time is money, so while the Planning and Zoning commission can’t fine zoning applicants who submit late materials, a change in their bylaws would do pretty much the same thing. A draft of an amendment to the commission’s rules would make it custom practice for the commission to table any zoning request for two meetings [Click Here]
Really, Do You Smell?
Posted by Cathy Atkins on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 Categories:
We’re driving home one evening, and my 9-year old asks from the back seat, “Mom, what’s your favorite smell?” I paused a moment before answering because…well…I hadn’t thought about it in a while. And thinking about it made me realize how easily I can slip into “autopilot” as I run through my life. Like many [Click Here]
Love ‘em or Leave ‘em
Posted by Joe Schmitter on Monday, March 15th, 2010 Categories:
Late last week I had one of those days that would have been better spent staying in bed. Not because I was ill, but because it seemed everything that could go wrong did. It culminated with my cable being out and my 3 year old daughter having a bit of a meltdown because she couldn’t [Click Here]
Who Wants Yogurt?
Posted by Joe Schmitter on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 Categories:
During a recent session on Twitter, I came across an opportunity that piqued my interest and I felt it just had to be shared with the business community of CoMo. Thanks to Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog for bringing this to my attention. You might wish to follow him on Twitter: @danec If you are [Click Here]
City election fundraising update
Posted by admin on Friday, March 5th, 2010 Categories:
*Correction: In a previous version of this post, I incorrectly reported the amount of in-kind contributions to Fourth Ward candidate Sarah Read. The correct amount is below. OK, last week I posted a pretty incomplete campaign finance report for mayoral candidates Jerry Wade and Bob McDavid. Since then, I’ve managed to make the time to [Click Here]
P&Z recommends against new commercial zoning on Grindstone
Posted by admin on Friday, March 5th, 2010 Categories:
The Planning and Zoning Commission had different ideas than the Planning Department Thursday night, diverging from staff’s recommendation and voting against a proposed rezoning on Grindstone Parkway across from the Walmart center. The request by Red Oak Investment Company, owned in part by Hugh Stephenson and his son Ted Stephenson as well as Robert Smith, [Click Here]
ALL YOUR ISP ARE BELONG TO US
Posted by Scott Wendling on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 Categories:
Columbia Missouri has a message for the nation: 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 9.19.16 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 3.15.12.21.13.2.9.1 #CoMOflashmob
City gets ‘ducks in row,’ crosses fingers for federal money
Posted by admin on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 Categories:
A public hearing for an extension of Discovery Parkway from U.S. 63 to the intersection of New Haven Road and Rolling Hills Road got support from the council and representatives of MU’s South Farm complex Monday. The problem is there’s no money to pay for it. As City Manager Bill Watkins explained, the public hearing [Click Here]
New utility policies aimed at attracting data centers
Posted by admin on Monday, March 1st, 2010 Categories:
The City Council’s passage of two ordinances that would help offset utility costs for huge power users brought Columbia a little bit closer to landing a new data center at the Ewing Industrial Site. “We think we will see in the foreseeable future a data center locate in Columbia,” City Manager Bill Watkins said at [Click Here]
Top 5 reasons Columbia & Google are good for each other
Posted by Scott Wendling on Monday, March 1st, 2010 Categories:
There is a buzz going around Columbia about Google’s competition. They are choosing a small number of communities to install fiber optic communication lines throughout the community. It came to my attention that most people read that as “so…they’re going to give me faster internet?” The short answer is yes, but that is a side effect [Click Here]
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