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Sitepoint’s 10 Web Predictions for 2012

While reading through sites I use to keep up-to-date, I found this interesting article. In it there are the 10 web predictions for 2012 from Sitepoint. I’m all for #9, the dying of IE6! It’s notorious for causing us and our clients so much issues with compatibility with new web technology.

I also found #3 interesting. I have been personally been using Windows phones for many many years now. Before ‘smart phones’ were called smart phones! I still have a windows phone today and love it.

Check out the full article below. It’s an interesting quick read!
10 web predictions for 2012

Vision Statement

The vision statement has been stuck in Carrie’s head for over 9 years. We finally have documented it officially.

“Providing customers with the proper resources to help their business succeed.”

Ever since 2002, when Brandon and Carrie came up with the idea of a shared company, their goal was to help others. With this vision in mind, they found that Carrie’s natural ability to program on the web was a perfect fit to helping small local businesses get their web presence online using a shopping cart called X-cart. Ever since then, BCSE has worked to help any an all customers, no matter what their size be successful via their pre-built modules, custom services and hosting.

Ring in the New Year with PCI compliance!

Ring in the New Year with $20 off of our Authorize.net DPM module!! Utilize our Authorize.net DPM module with your AIM account to support you to be PCI Compliant including the new PA/DSS standard! Our Holiday present to you $20 off of our Authorize.net DPM module!! Hurry! Sale ends January 16th!

Tips for starting 2012 as your most productive year yet

The massive amount of information that flies at us from so many different directions is overwhelming to say the least. Many times we can get so caught up in filtering through this information that we miss the bigger picture and what really is important to our business and success. Follow this link for a list of 5 things you can stop doing in 2012 and be even more productive than you are today!

Painting Office Hallway!

After four years of looking at the dreadful ‘biscuit’ colored hallway walls, we have finally decided on a paint color and painted them!

In Clayton’s words: “Damn! That’s blue!”

Well it might be blue, but at least it’s not biscuit anymore!

IBM Benchmarks Black Friday Sales

According to an IBM analysis of consumer spending trends over the long holiday weekend, record online Thanksgiving Day shopping paved the way for strong Black Friday retail sales. Notable trends from the benchmark study include the following:
The Mobile Bargain Hunter: Black Friday witnessed the arrival of mobile deal seekers who embraced their devices as a research tool for in-store and online bargains. Mobile traffic increased to 14.3 percent on Black Friday 2011, compared with 5.6 percent in 2010.
Mobile Sales: Sales on mobile devices surged to 9.8 percent from 3.2 percent, year-over-year.
Read the whole article to make sure your business is marketed in the highest trending areas: http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Business-Analytics/IBM-Benchmarks-Black-Friday-Sales/

We Turned 9!

We turned 9! Little did we know 9 years ago that our vision and ideas would grow so big! We quickly went from a small idea late in 2002, to launching our first client’s websites with X-cart in 2003 to opening our online store in April 2004 selling X-cart mods ‘just in case’ someone else would want the same things our clients were wanting. Well that ‘just in case’ exploded and within 9 months we had to hire someone to help us fill mod creation and custom work demand!

Our first modules on the site were several from FiretankSoftware as well as our own that are still popular today:

Our first modules were very well received much quicker than we expected, much to our surprise. We were excited with all the feedback we were getting on how much our modules saved our customers time and money and how they also brought in more revenue. Fall of 2004 we had so many clients requesting a Customer Reward Points module we built one and haven’t looked back since! The response received by this one was astonishing. Several have tried to create it, but it still remains the most popular module out there being on several thousand websites!

By January 2005, we had so much demand for work and modules I wasn’t able to keep up myself. We hired our first engineer. In 2005, Henry joined BCSE as a contractor at that time. He quickly came up-to-speed and about 9 months later we hired him full time as our first full time employee!

Over the years we’ve continued to grow and expand our business trying to keep up with customer demands. Always wanting to make sure we could supply our clients with business solutions that helped them be more successful. We want to greatly thank everyone that has supported us over the years. It’s been an honor to be a part of your lives and business!

Carrie

The Importance of Making Your Site Mobile

We recently attended the X.Commerce conference in San Francisco and a key takeaway was the importance of websites being fully accessible by mobile devices. The line between retail and ecommerce sales is blurring by way of mobile devices. For example, a customer may be in the store shopping and will research the item online to see if they can find a better deal elsewhere before buying in person. If they find it, they will likely purchase the item via their mobile device foregoing the offer that is right in front of them.

We have had a great deal of success in converting existing websites to a mobile version. We no longer offer a mod for this due to the variances between devices and the intricacies within each site. However, we have found we can achieve this goal through custom work at a very reasonable and fair price. If you want assistance with making your site mobile, please feel free to contact us!