Web Site Funding

Date: Oct 24, 2006

Web Site Funding

Bob Terrell (Jr.) · Veteran Member

Anonymous wrote:

Where is the funding for this web site coming from? Is this funded by the Tax Payers of Corbin?

Just interested.

www.corbinkentucky.us is owned and operated by Bob Terrell Jr., and is not supported by tax dollars. This website is operated to promote the attributes of the Corbin area, including Economic Development, Tourism and Corbin's local businesses, which can be listed in the Corbin Business Directory at no charge. The site is supported by myself and the few ads you see throughout the site. We also offer organizations such as the Kentucky Fine Arts Association, as well as The American Cancer Society and other charity organizations, the opportunity to advertise free of charge. Anyone interested in advertising on www.corbinkentucky.us can contact me at (561) 212-8664, or via e-mail (Click Here).

The site has received over 4,700,000 hits and visits from over 100 countries in 2006, and is on track to have over 250,000 visitors for the year. We have also had 547 visitors from the U.S Military domain (.mil).

Thanks for visiting the site. I hope you visit other areas of the site and see what a great story the Corbin area has to tell regarding Economic Development, Tourism, Education, and Quality of Life. Corbin offers many major advantages over most areas of the country, for businesses, families and tourists. Now we need to spread the word.

Date: Oct 26, 2006

Great Info

Last Question---------------------Sooooo none of the Restaurant Tax Money is affiliated with this site?

Looks like a 100% Private Venture by Mr. Terrell, correct?

Just Curious

Thanks

Bob Terrell (Jr.) · Veteran Member

That is correct. You might be thinking about the Corbin Tourism Website, www.corbinkytourism.com, which I did create back in May for the Corbin Tourism Commission. That site, while containing much of the same Tourism information that I promote about Corbin on this site, is strictly tourism related and is hosted on an entirely separate server, and the Domain name is the property of the Corbin Tourism Commission. There are also no paid ads on the Tourism site.

Please check it out and give me your comments and critiques. I always want to hear ways to make these sites better and more effective.

Thanks,

Bob Terrell (Jr.)

Date: Nov 1, 2006

Can someone how he says he can own this website after the city of Corbin and other branches of the city paid him $118,000 over a 3 year period? NOw who owns the website?

Date: Nov 2, 2006

Almost 5 milllion hits. That sure is a lot in a year.

Date: Nov 4, 2006

And another $3500 a couple of weeks ago, according to the newspaper. That doesn't sound like it's coming out of your pocket. It's coming out of ours...Why the BS, jr?

Date: Nov 5, 2006

Interesting, Bob

Where do you reside? Looks like the city has paid you very well for your services.

Date: Nov 5, 2006

Gee, I hope those 545 visitors from the .mil domain didn't read that crap about their Commander-in-Chief.

Date: Jan 22, 2007

A response to this would be very interesting.

I'm still questioning the integrity of this "deal" between Bob Jr. and Bob Sr. concerning these various websites.

That certainly seems like a lot of money to have flowed out of the community, to be spent in Florida, considering I'm sure there can't possibly be any nepotism there at all, is there Bobby?

Date: Jan 22, 2007

One reason I served in the US Military was to be sure citizens of this country can express their opinions whether they agree with our leaders or not. That is what differentiates us from dictatorships and communist countries.

Bob Terrell (Jr.) · Veteran Member

Anonymous wrote:

A response to this would be very interesting.

I'm still questioning the integrity of this "deal" between Bob Jr. and Bob Sr. concerning these various websites.

That certainly seems like a lot of money to have flowed out of the community, to be spent in Florida, considering I'm sure there can't possibly be any nepotism there at all, is there Bobby?

The marketing work for the four years 2002 to 2005 was first discussed with me by Mayor Williamson and City Manager Cannon, and subsequently approved annually by the mayor and City Commissioners, the tourism board, and 2 Industrial boards, not Bob Sr. To clear up another of your misconceptions, the work was marketing and related work for Industrial development, Corbin Tourism and the City, not a website program. It also ended up involving major marketing work for the Corbin Chamber of Commerce, including all of their local activities such as NIBROC, even though the Chamber never contributed any funding, receiving hundreds of hours of work free of charge.

I conducted the research, strategic development, writing, layout and artwork creation for numerous presentations, over 90 different versions of a 10 minute marketing movie on Corbin used in meetings and on electronic business card presentations, magazine and publication ads, State marketing campaigns, a statewide marketing campaign that we (Corbin) won, photography work, mailings, CD's, posters, stickers, banners, and hundreds of other projects. There were also hundreds of hours of non-related requests such as buying, installing and networking of the Chamber's computer systems, software installation and training, 1AM phone calls to help with technical questions and issues such as printer problems, and many other non-marketing related requests.

There were also many personal requests such as assisting at personal non-city or non-chamber related events, 1AM phone calls with technical issues and questions, helping with computer and software issues on personally owned computers, all of which I have phone records, e-mails or related files.

Regarding websites, this website was never owned by the city, and in 2002 I attended a meeting called by the mayor and city manager with Jim Vance, the owner of corbinky.com. The three wanted me to buy Mr. Vance's website "corbinky.com" for $10,000. The city had the opportunity to buy Mr. Vance's corbinky.com for $10,000 and use it to market the city, but declined to do so.

If you are willing to give your name, feel free to call me at (561) 212-8664 and I will be glad to discuss, and if time permits even show you some of the thousands of files related to the marketing of Corbin's Economic Development, Tourism, Corbin Chamber, NIBROC, etc.

Thanks for visiting the site.

Bob Terrell
(Bobby)

-- Edited by Bob Terrell (Jr.) at 22:05, 2007-01-22

Date: Jan 23, 2007

Bob Terrell (Jr.) wrote:

The marketing work for the four years 2002 to 2005 was first discussed with me by Mayor Williamson and City Manager Cannon, and subsequently approved annually by the mayor and City Commissioners, the tourism board, and 2 Industrial boards, not Bob Sr. To clear up another of your misconceptions, the work was marketing and related work for Industrial development, Corbin Tourism and the City, not a website program. It also ended up involving major marketing work for the Corbin Chamber of Commerce, including all of their local activities such as NIBROC, even though the Chamber never contributed any funding, receiving hundreds of hours of work free of charge.

I conducted the research, strategic development, writing, layout and artwork creation for numerous presentations, over 90 different versions of a 10 minute marketing movie on Corbin used in meetings and on electronic business card presentations, magazine and publication ads, State marketing campaigns, a statewide marketing campaign that we (Corbin) won, photography work, mailings, CD's, posters, stickers, banners, and hundreds of other projects. There were also hundreds of hours of non-related requests such as buying, installing and networking of the Chamber's computer systems, software installation and training, 1AM phone calls to help with technical questions and issues such as printer problems, and many other non-marketing related requests.

There were also many personal requests such as assisting at personal non-city or non-chamber related events, 1AM phone calls with technical issues and questions, helping with computer and software issues on personally owned computers, all of which I have phone records, e-mails or related files.

Regarding websites, this website was never owned by the city, and in 2002 I attended a meeting called by the mayor and city manager with Jim Vance, the owner of corbinky.com. The three wanted me to buy Mr. Vance's website "corbinky.com" for $10,000. The city had the opportunity to buy Mr. Vance's corbinky.com for $10,000 and use it to market the city, but declined to do so.

If you are willing to give your name, feel free to call me at (561) 212-8664 and I will be glad to discuss, and if time permits even show you some of the thousands of files related to the marketing of Corbin's Economic Development, Tourism, Corbin Chamber, NIBROC, etc.

Thanks for visiting the site.

Bob Terrell
(Bobby)

-- Edited by Bob Terrell (Jr.) at 22:05, 2007-01-22

Are you sure about that? It appears that corbinky.com has been owned by Derrick Grimes (Online Advertising), since 1999. But I'm sure your mistake there can be explained.

Can you explain why you decided to start throwing advertising across this site? Outside an effort to recover what you no doubt see as a loss of revenue from the city refusing to further pay your extortion like-fees for services which have shown no benefit to the town or community. And if I'm not mistaken there was threat of litigation if the Chamber of Commerce decided to switch to another website hosting company or designer, but then again I probably only have first hand information. I was in the mayor's office when the threat was delivered, naturally the threat was ignored for the petty, childish attempt at retribution that it was.

Oh, and clearly phone calls are your only recourse to assist people in Corbin, you don't live here. I would be curious to know how you were even approached for your "marketing services", I can't imagine anyone in Corbin actively seeking a marketing consultant with little or no involvement in the community or even the state. But then again, I'm sure they had someone pointing them in the right direction.

Date: Jan 23, 2007

I personally like this website, and there are alot of people in this town who are downright jealous of someone who is able to make a decent living. I believe the work Bob, Jr. has done has helped this city market itself, I also believe the city is correct in getting the best deal they can for themselves. That's a free market. It would be a shame if Bob, Jr. dicontinued this site because he was sick of the constant criticisms. Can you question someone without being so condescending? And, what have you, previous poster, done for this city, besides stir up a bunch of crap (excuse my language) that is water under the bridge now. We have some great minds in this town that can't get past their chips on their shoulders from ancient slights. If you want to question someone, do it with a respectful attitute. This site will keep all of our elected and appointed officials on their toes, and Lord knows, that's a good thing. But if you stay on a witch hunt, just looking for someone to stick it to, good people may decide it's not worth the effort to help this town. That would be a shame.

Bob Terrell (Jr.) · Veteran Member

Anonymous wrote:

Are you sure about that? It appears that corbinky.com has been owned by Derrick Grimes (Online Advertising), since 1999. But I'm sure your mistake there can be explained.

Can you explain why you decided to start throwing advertising across this site? Outside an effort to recover what you no doubt see as a loss of revenue from the city refusing to further pay your extortion like-fees for services which have shown no benefit to the town or community. And if I'm not mistaken there was threat of litigation if the Chamber of Commerce decided to switch to another website hosting company or designer, but then again I probably only have first hand information. I was in the mayor's office when the threat was delivered, naturally the threat was ignored for the petty, childish attempt at retribution that it was.

Oh, and clearly phone calls are your only recourse to assist people in Corbin, you don't live here. I would be curious to know how you were even approached for your "marketing services", I can't imagine anyone in Corbin actively seeking a marketing consultant with little or no involvement in the community or even the state. But then again, I'm sure they had someone pointing them in the right direction.

Thanks to the previous poster for the kind words about the site.

Regarding the posting above, I'm as sure about my facts as I am that you will remain anonymous. Your first hand information source is feeding you 3rd grade rhetoric, but that is OK.

Regarding litigation, piracy of a website is illegal, and another party paid an outside company to download or steal file for file this website, then uploaded it to another server and hosted under another domain name, even with my name still on it throughout. It certainly wasn't about hiring a website hosting company or designer, because they have every right to do that, and have.

As I stated, if you have the courage, I'll be happy to discuss and show you some of the above mentioned projects from 2002 to '05, from the 10 minute movie, to publication ads, to billboards, all the way down to the NIBROC concert tickets, parking stickers and vendor forms.

I look forward to hearing from you - (561) 212-8664

Bob Terrell
(Jr.)

-- Edited by Bob Terrell (Jr.) at 09:23, 2007-01-24

Date: Jan 23, 2007

Thanks for the great website and the services you provide for the Cancer Relay for Life program each year and the Fine Arts Council and events. I remembering attending the Industrial Appreciation Banquets several years when you had a Corbin Area Marketing Program playing at a table near the front of the room. The forum has really caught on with many people and instead of quietly sitting by and grumbling while doing nothing, people are now talking about the issues.

Some of my friends in Lexington with Corbin connections enjoy keeping up with things through this website. They especially liked the section you used to provide on NIBROC. Keep up the good work.

Date: Jan 23, 2007

The last message reminded me of the good job you used to do on the NIBROC schedule, map, easy enrollment forms for space, and the music samples provided about the entertainers scheduled to appear. This past year when you no longer provided NIBROC support we missed seeing it on your website. I hope they will wise up and have you do that again.

It is a great help when we plan to visit one or two nights for NIBROC.

Date: Jan 24, 2007

Anonymous wrote:

I can't imagine anyone in Corbin actively seeking a marketing consultant with little or no involvement in the community or even the state.

If you ever sat down and spoke with Bob Terrell Jr you would know he offers more knowledge about this areas economic opportunities and advantages than most of us who have been here all our lives. He knows more about Corbin, what our strengths and advantages are, our weaknesses, about cities we compete with - that is what marketing is about. I've learned more about our area talking to Bob and reading through some of his work than I've ever learned from some of the folks here who should know this stuff here. You should take him up on his offer, or at least read through the other areas of this site - you might learn something, like the fact we offer great potential here in Corbin - amazing potential in fact. But potential is completely worthless if it is never reached, or without someone who knows how to sell it.

Sounds like the usual Sour Grapes Brigade - we all know who they are. Keep up the good work Bob T. - love the site.

Date: Jan 24, 2007

I agree. Keep up the great work Bob.

NIBROC FAN · Senior Member

Yes sir, keep up the good work.

You are doing a tremendous service to the area with your site, and I hope you make a mint doing it. I couldn't do it, and wouldn't know how to start, or even if I would want to.

Keeping in mind some of these posts that slam or question your intentions, and knowing the people of corbin as I do, I can almost guess who they would be. Just knowing who hangs out at city hall in their "free time" is pretty easy to figure out.

It's obvious you aren't phased by the comments, and I applaud your offer to speak with them personally. I don't see you getting any calls.

I wish you would advertise the site more actively around the area. I know money is tight, but, letting more folks know you're here can't do anything but help.

Keep up the good work.

Date: Jan 25, 2007

Bob Terrell (Jr.) wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are you sure about that? It appears that corbinky.com has been owned by Derrick Grimes (Online Advertising), since 1999. But I'm sure your mistake there can be explained.

Can you explain why you decided to start throwing advertising across this site? Outside an effort to recover what you no doubt see as a loss of revenue from the city refusing to further pay your extortion like-fees for services which have shown no benefit to the town or community. And if I'm not mistaken there was threat of litigation if the Chamber of Commerce decided to switch to another website hosting company or designer, but then again I probably only have first hand information. I was in the mayor's office when the threat was delivered, naturally the threat was ignored for the petty, childish attempt at retribution that it was.

Oh, and clearly phone calls are your only recourse to assist people in Corbin, you don't live here. I would be curious to know how you were even approached for your "marketing services", I can't imagine anyone in Corbin actively seeking a marketing consultant with little or no involvement in the community or even the state. But then again, I'm sure they had someone pointing them in the right direction.

Thanks to the previous poster for the kind words about the site.

Regarding the posting above, I'm as sure about my facts as I am that you will remain anonymous. Your first hand information source is feeding you 3rd grade rhetoric, but that is OK.

Regarding litigation, piracy of a website is illegal, and another party paid an outside company to download or steal file for file this website, then uploaded it to another server and hosted under another domain name, even with my name still on it throughout. It certainly wasn't about hiring a website hosting company or designer, because they have every right to do that, and have.

As I stated, if you have the courage, I'll be happy to discuss and show you some of the above mentioned projects from 2002 to '05, from the 10 minute movie, to publication ads, to billboards, all the way down to the NIBROC concert tickets, parking stickers and vendor forms.

I look forward to hearing from you - (561) 212-8664

Bob Terrell
(Jr.)

-- Edited by Bob Terrell (Jr.) at 09:23, 2007-01-24

Bob,

That is a great response you provided. You covered the subject in such a positive way. Thanks for the good things you do for our area.

Date: Jan 30, 2007

I'd like to thank Bob Jr. for being so professional and knowledgeable about our concerns and our community. He, as his father, are caring about our community. More than I can say for a lot of folks that have lived and worked her all their lives. That 'sour grape brigade' is entertaining to read their comments but when the facts stand up and speak out as Bob does... where's their reply? Where's their courage to be shown that they are wrong on their gathered information or just plane old gossip? Where is their name if they are so sure of what they are posting? It almost makes one feel that they may be related to the person / person's they are defending and have to remain silent by name in fear that they'd be removed from the Will. I'd be very anxious to know all that goes on in our town behind closed doors when it comes to the income and prosperity of our town. Only those who are dedicated to change the bad know those answer's.

Well... keep up the great work Bob. We all enjoy your work and your intelligence with our community and to see the obviously insecure people that like to bash what they can't back up with proof, as you do.

Keep up the great work. We all have a great idea to who keeps us entertained with postings. Too bad they are so well known around our community. Too bad we can't do much about them in getting them to go where they belong. Hmmm.. now where would that be?

Date: Aug 23, 2007

Bob Terrell (Jr.) wrote:

Regarding litigation, piracy of a website is illegal, and another party paid an outside company to download or steal file for file this website, then uploaded it to another server and hosted under another domain name, even with my name still on it throughout. It certainly wasn't about hiring a website hosting company or designer, because they have every right to do that, and have.

Whoa there Junior. I suppose you have express written permission to use the graphics from the high school, or from the Corbin Technology Center's site? I guess we don't even need to talk about the use of the graphics for the Corbin Main Street Project. All of these pages seem to be representing other sites, yet keeping the visitor from seeing the domain on which those sites reside.

So, let's hear it, praise monkeys, stroke his ego and tell him what a great job he's doing of representing the Corbin Technology Center, or the Corbin Schools, by trying to hide the fact that those pages are not on corbinkentucky.us, and that he actually has no right to use that information because they are clearly copyrighted sites.

It is actually turning into more of a vendetta on the part of Junior, attempting to "stir the pot" by including information, and things on this site that really do not belong here, but in fact belong to other sites, owned by other people, or designed by other people. The more he is excluded from things the more angry he's getting, and the more information he attempts to hijack.

You want negative? It's sites like this that give a negative spin to Corbin. Those people that insist on praising Bob Terrell Jr. for his "work" with this site, are also the people that claim to loathe the "Good Ol' Boy's Network" in Corbin.

But, in reality, because of his daddy, Junior is actually part of the "Good Ol' Boy's Network", so in reality, he's part of the problem, but you people can't seem to see that.

Date: Aug 23, 2007

This Last poster sounds like Estep and his Gang of Outside The City Limits folks. I like how the poster weaved in his crying over not signing the names, same ole song as we have heard before.

The Poster wants to accuse and make things personal but yet never debate or discuss what it would take to Improve.

Good Job on this site Bob, you know they are really hurting when they start crying foul. This site is the tip of the Iceberg folks, welcome to the 21st Century as your activity on these little committee's, boards, any public official will be watched.

This is new to our area but has been a reality for years in several cities, no more hiding that you serve on Boards but live outside the city, no more getting drunk at night and being a great guy during the day, no more hanging around the local watering holes and people not knowing, no more keeping budgets Secret and not letting everyone know, no more hiding and operating in secret.

Again, welcome to the information age. Keep up the goooood work Bob, just watch'em wiggle!!!!

Date: Aug 24, 2007

Keep up the good work Bob and Bob Jr.

The more they gripe, complain, bitch, undermine, stab you in the back, whine, and try to nit pick you and your site, the more it is bringing out the truth and informing us of the ways of this area.

The Estep-Carpenter group can't handle the heat, and they're getting pressure from their bosses to try and do anything they can to bring down this site, and you.

They must all have meetings together with one laptop between them and all of them try to write these messages. I bet it's a sight to see.

Keep it up!!!

Date: Aug 27, 2007

Anonymous wrote:
Whoa there Junior. I suppose you have express written permission to use the graphics from the high school, or from the Corbin Technology Center's site? I guess we don't even need to talk about the use of the graphics for the Corbin Main Street Project.

Whoa there whoever you are. I was standing with Mr. Terrell and Ms. Helton of the Tech Center when she thanked him for adding their website to this one - its not a competition, the more exposure, the better for the Tech Center and for Corbin. They will receive a great deal more exposure being on here than their site by itself will receive. Same goes with the school district information.

As far as the Main Street Logo and graphics, you're halarious! Guess who created that beautiful logo? Why, it was Mr Terrell, free of charge I might add. You are acusing him of stealing his own work!

The logo and the graphics, the different logo artwork for the t-shirts and posters, concert and movie night newspaper ads and flyers, not to mention he has attended all of the Main Street events, booked some of the Main Street music, helped work the booth at NIBROC, and has donated over 100 hours of his time thus far for Main Street - without publicizing it to the world.

Dont be a hater - it just makes you look really bad. Keep up the good work Bob, even if a couple of people hate you for your help and good work.

wkugirl · Senior Member

I grew up in Corbin, went away to college, and chose to come back and work in this small city because I love it here. Ive always been proud of Corbin, and will always call it my home.

As much as I love it here, it just continues to amaze me how when new people with new and great ideas move into our area, we try to cruficy them and shut them down at every turn. What are we so scared of?

I think that Bob Terrell, Sr. is a class act. We are so fortunate to have him in our area. And what do we do? Fire him first, and then not elect him to office!!! Are we crazy???? But, he keeps working on, for the people of Corbin. He doesnt have to, he wants to. We could only be so lucky to have him as a leader in our community.

And, Bob Terrell, Jr. I dont know him personally, but after reading these posts and knowing what all he does in Corbin, we, again, are lucky to have his positive message and his dedication to this area. Like another poster said, our own leaders dont take this kind of interest in our town and offer positive and great ideas!

Sharae Myers grew up in Corbin. She went away for several years, and then came back to town with a passion and dedication to help move our town forward. She is working really hard, and has some great ideas. And what does the Tourism Commision do shoot her down as soon as they could. I hope she keeps on working, and gets things done.

But, we keep dealing with the behaviors of the Scotty Williamsons, Burley Foleys, Jimmy Vances, Jerry Taylors, and Bill Nighberts.

I understand the Good Ole Boy thing. Small towns always have this group. It is just a shame that this group is going to undermine the positive changes that could come to our area.

Lets wake up and embrace the positives. Its like the John Mellencamp song if youre not part of the future, then get out of the way.