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The Cost of a Website – What Should I Pay?
We live in what many have dubbed the age of technology. This is attributed to how rapidly technology advances, and how necessary it's become in our daily lives. This need is exponentially greater when one steps into the business world. One of the things that can...
Websites Ready For The Printers
When you’ve been in business for thirty, years you’ve seen a lot. But a global pandemic isn’t one of those things. D&E Printing has been serving the greater Hendricks County area for more than three decades, so we were excited to get the opportunity to redo their...
Technology – Investment or Expense?
It’s time for a little word association. When you see the words below, which comes to mind first - “Investment,” or “Expense?” Home. Car. Office Lease. Commercial Real Estate. Employees. Subcontractors. Attorney. If you’re anything like me, you found both places...
Client Touchpoints – Why They’re Important
As we’ve worked our way through COVID-19, we’ve found ourselves with renewed vigor to TALK TO SOMEONE. Whether it’s because of how much time we’ve spent working from home, away from the team, or via email with our clients, voice and face-to-face conversations have...
Client Touchpoints – Why They’re Important
It’s been over a year since we put together an organized newsletter from C2IT, and we’re shifting it up quite a bit as we do. This newsletter is geared towards the clients we serve via technology consulting, app development, web design, and IT support. No longer are...
Happy Workiversary to Phil Dumm!
Phil Dumm is a name many of you will recognize as the technical project manager here at C2IT. He has reached his 2nd anniversary on our team, and we wanted to take a moment to highlight him - both his story as well as how much we value him. Phil spent most of his...
Northern Lights Client Spotlight
Northern Lights is a utility locating company in Plainfield that we at C2IT have a long-standing relationship with. Our relationship with them began with helping them get off the ground by building their IT infrastructure and has evolved into writing software to...
What’s New in your Communication Toolbox (Part 2)?
A month ago we started to look over some of the tech tools that have evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Email and instant messaging have long since been tools of the trade within the office, but during the last 3 months, they’ve come to be some of the most-used...
Engineering A Great Web Presence: Doubling Down On Your Long Term Technology Strategy
Ambitious companies are moving forward strategically through the COVID-19 Pandemic. One such example is EEG Outside Plant Engineering. EEG is a small engineering firm that provides critical engineering solutions for the telecommunications industry in the greater...
Keeping Clients Close – Relationship and Retention
One of the largest problems facing any company nowadays is customer retention. The average customer retention rate across various industries was anywhere from 20% all the way up to 80%. All of this depending on the company and how they perform that year (Lal,...
What’s New in your Communication Toolbox?
We’ve all done our best to settle into the current reality of pandemic life. By the time this article is published, we may be on the other side of self-quarantines or we may have found ourselves right back in the thick of it. Regardless of what life throws at us next,...
SEO and Your Business IRL
SEO isn’t the end all be all for your business. As a web design firm we’re not supposed to tell you this. In Real Life (IRL) you’re juggling payroll, putting out client fires, hiring, selling, marketing, and that’s the tip of the iceberg. Optimizing your company's...
How C2IT Works From Home
You may have already made the transition to working from home, or perhaps it’s on the horizon. There’s lots of great advice from people who have been doing it for years. You should definitely check out those resources. But what’s important to remember is that many of...
Remote Access in an Isolated World
My, how things have changed. A few short weeks ago we were all pushing forward into spring, executing our 2020 plans, and incorporating new technology into our businesses, and then BAM… Coronavirus. Businesses have shut their office doors, employees have been sent to...
Generalists or Specialists – Finding Balance in Technology Providers
I’ve been privileged to share my thoughts in the Business Leader for over two years now. During that time, we’ve shared about custom websites, cloud services, and even “how to fire your IT guy” (one of our most popular articles, oddly enough). As I prepared to write...
AARP Tax-Aide Continues Services With Donation From C2IT Consulting
Randy and Ruth Johnson have been serving the citizens of Hendricks County for a combined 17 years through their volunteer leadership of the AARP Tax-Aide Program. Each year more than 30 volunteers prep and train for months to provide free tax preparation services to...
Is a VPN Right For My Business?
As a business leader you are tasked with making decisions well beyond what you had ever envisioned. With the current COVID-19 situation many companies are debating whether or not going 100% remote is an appropriate response. To many people the decision may seem...
What To Expect and How To Prepare For Your First Development Job
I would like to share some of my experiences regarding my first six months of my first full time position as a software developer. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment for software developers is expected to increase by 28% from 2018 to 2028. Hearing...
Tell me what I want, what I really, really want
I sat down with the owner of a business a few weeks ago that had reached out to us about modernizing a software application he’d created almost 10 years ago. The system has been showing wear and tear for several years, and it was time to freshen it up. Once...
New Mobile App for the Parks Foundation of Hendricks County
The Parks Foundation of Hendricks County recently gave us the opportunity to take their WordPress site and creating a mobile app based off of it. While we've done several custom software and mobile app projects, this was our first adventure into a smaller scale mobile...
C2IT’s First Annual Cookie Decorating Contest
Last week we had our first annual cookie decorating competition during our holiday staff meeting. Popular shapes included snowmen and trees, which resulted in votes for a winning tree design and a winning snowman design. Winning SnowmanWinning Christmas TreeOur team...
Introducing the New C2IT Help Center
We’re pleased to announce the release of C2IT’s online Help Center. We use the back-end of this tool to process all tickets and support requests for our clients. This can include anything from a request to add a new user to your system to additional content you’d like...
Do I Need My Own App?
There are over 3 million apps in Apple’s App Store and over 2 ½ million in the Google Play Store. In contrast, there are over 1.5 BILLION websites in the world. That’s one app for every 2,000 websites, but the number is growing exponentially. Whether you’re looking...
C2IT at Gleaners
1 in 7 Hoosiers are hungry. The mission of Gleaner's Food Bank is to lead the fight against hunger. They do this by distributing food to hungry Hoosiers through a network of over 250 partner agencies in 21 counties, including emergency food pantries, soup kitchens and...