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Century Federal Credit Union is the latest LKCS client to launch a new website. The new site features applications and technology to help it better stand out on the web. The primary goal of the project was to improve the organization, functionality and branding of the existing web site. In addition, the client wanted to overhaul their youth program and incorporate social media.

LKCS will play host to a campaign endorsement announcement for Adam Kinzinger. Kinzinger is running for U.S. Congress and will be holding a press conference on June 2, 2012 at LKCS. The National Federation of Independent Business is holding a campaign endorsement announcement for Adam Kinzinger here at LKCS on Wednesday, June 2, 2010.

LKCS improves its email hosting services. Changes include improvements made to security as well as the overall expansion of its capabilities. We would like to announce improvements to our email hosting plan, which offer improved security and expanded capabilities. As part of this change, LKCS is offering “Internet Message Access Protocol” or IMAP mail hosting in addition to POP format.

Earlier this month, the US Postal Service reported a $1.9 billion decline in profit for the first half of the 2010 fiscal year. Looking at mail volumes, total mail pieces have been declining annually — a net loss of 35 BILLION pieces of mail in 2009 compared to 2007. Clearly the recession and continued e-mail growth is hurting the USPS. But, that’s not the whole picture.

The Dudek family recently created a graphic arts scholarship at Illinois Valley Community College with a $25,000 donation to the IVCC Foundation. Beginning next fall, the Norbert J. Dudek Scholarship for Graphic Arts will provide a $1,000 scholarship each year to a second-year graphic design technology student. Financial need and the student’s artistic ability will be considered in the selection.

LKCS has a lot of tools that we can put to work for you. From targeted direct mail campaigns to e-marketing solutions, statement marketing/transpromo and branch merchandising, we can help you get the most effective use out of your marketing spend. Take advantage of the economy – by doing more marketing while your competitors are riding out the storm. Here are a few things to consider.

What does that mean? We keep hearing about doing more with less. At LKCS, we believe showing a return on all marketing and advertising costs. Without this type of measurement, marketing budgets are being cut. The result is that some clients are doing less marketing and experiencing declines in business at a time when they should be doing more marketing to grow in a struggling economy.