On April 26, 2014 BCSE’s very own Carrie & Lynn are participating in the Race for a Reason Triathlon in Athens, OH! They have been working so hard and training for months and we are all so proud of them! Carrie is supporting Cystic Fibrosis Lilly’s Sunshine & Lynn is supporting Good Works, Inc. You can find more information on the charities by visiting:
Carrie’s Race for a Reason
Lynn’s Race for a Reason
Good luck ladies! Post Race pics to follow!
We will be OPEN for the Holiday weeks! We value being able to help you even during the holiday weeks! So we will be open the next few weeks. However we do value having our staff visit with family and friends during this time, so we will not be at full staff. Each staff member is taking off at different times but someone will be in the office on business days. All staff will be out of the office on Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Years. We will be servicing urgent/site down needs during those days and filling orders at least once a day.
We hope you have a great holiday and safe New Year!
Wow. Just before we were getting up to have our monthly staff meeting (3 weeks late! you guys have been keeping us busy!), several of us felt our desks shake and heard the ceiling tiles shift! Apparently a small town just 9 miles away from us had a 3.5 earth quake! We don’t know yet if there’s been any damage but that was really bizarre for us since they aren’t frequent in Ohio!
Many of us at BCSE enjoy xkcd’s comics (www.xkcd.com) since most of the time they are technical and thought provoking in nature. There is one particular comic though that really stood out to us to be very true and highly useful for ecommerce and password strength. We felt it was so good at helping customers create better passwords that we would write about it here.
Too many times we find customers give us passwords that are even more insecure than their example. So try to keep this theory in mind when creating your passwords and remember to rotate your passwords every month or so! Computers are getting extremely good at brute force guessing of passwords.
Today BCSE turns 11! We wouldn’t be here with out you!
To celebrate we’re offering 15% off to everyone for any BCSE module in the store! Simply use coupon 11Anniversary15 to get your discount! Good for 11 days! (until November 24th)
Newsletter subscriber? If you’re a newsletter subscriber, check your email later today for an even BIGGER coupon off!
In our we Turned 9 entry, I describe a bit about our history. Did you know that we thought of BCS Engineering while driving our then 10 month old child to his grandparents? I can still remember where we were on the road that day when we came up with our idea and name. It’s like a photo snapshot in my head of me looking at us in the car at that moment. Since that day our lives have greatly changed. We are so thankful to have you, our customers and our friends, as part of our lives!
Carrie
We’ve had minimal blog posts this summer because you guys are keeping us so busy! That’s good in a way but it’s also always good to do updates.
Internally, we’ve been working on a new look and feel. We’re super excited to reveal it! It is complete with a Responsive Design.
Our goal is to have the new site up by the end of this year. We’ve over the past 5 years customized our current X-cart and support systems it’s taking a while to finish the upgrades up. Plus we are moving our content site into WordPress. So we’re having to transfer the data out of our current CMS to WordPress.
We also have a new website brewing for us on a new domain/platform. We’re super excited to reveal it and hope to have it ready in a few weeks. This site will also feature our new look and responsive design.
Stay tuned for the new sites!
We have been busy also with some really cool client projects this summer including:
Contact Us to quote your next project!
Social media has so many outlets that it can be quite time consuming and difficult to determine if all of the time is really worth the effort! We’ve been using HootSuite for under a month and have already seen over a 10% increase in followers and a marked increase in retweets, likes, viewings and comments. This great tool has dramatically cut down the time it takes to post to social media outlets while providing us the metrics and industry information that we need to keep our business at the top of our game. Being a small business requires that we be as efficient as possible with our business processes. We realize that many of our customers are small businesses too without the resources to keep up to date with marketing via social media. We wanted to share our success story with the hope that this may work for you plus increase your business and exposure as well!
November 7, 2013
Over 3 months later and HootSuite is still helping us increase our followers and saving us time. It has been well worth the less than $10 a month! It’s been a great investment for us! We’re encouraging all of our clients to use it as well!
Sitting at a desk all day in front of a computer is not healthy lifestyle. This isn’t new news, but over the past year we’ve implemented some fun things at our office to help get us up and moving a bit during the day. From walking the hills of Athens for 15 minutes in the afternoon to stretching and some basic exercises, we’ve noticed health benefits to go along with a clearer more focused mind. This article reinforces what we’ve implemented and gives us some great ideas to in the future. Check it out for some suggestions that could improve your day at work and health as well!
Marketing is moving towards a dialogue between buyers and sellers. Instead of marketing “at” your customers, it’s become more effective to market “with” your customers. Today, the companies that win are closest to those who buy, use, and advocate for their products. The five trends demonstrating a shift to collaborative marketing will create the biggest changes and ultimately offer the most significant rewards for marketers can be found by reading the article.
I always enjoy reading Elizabeth’s articles. She always has something insightful you can take from them. She has a recent article on Inc.com about how to change the way you work to better suit your goals and ideals as a person. You can read the full article here:
She also has recently produced a great book that we enjoyed about Effective Time Investment. Be sure and check it out!
