Last Tuesday a major storm went through Cedar Falls. Some areas of town were hit with tennis ball size hail. Apparently when a storm hits, the out-of-town construction companies follow it. Those of you who have had hail damage probably already know this. When an adjustor gets on your roof to locate hail damage, they circle the spots with bright chalk. That makes it pretty easy for roofing companies to drum up leads. As a result of the circles on my roof, I had a guy stop by the house the other night wanting to know if I had chosen a subcontractor yet. He was very polite and told me he "wanted to earn my business." Such a simple phrase, but it really struck a chord with me. I can't remember the last time someone told me they wanted to "earn my business." Every company earns business, at least initially. The thing that always scares me is once they have my business, will they continue to strive to earn it? [More]

Far Reach Technologies has been selected by the UNI Regional Business Center as a key technology provider to enhance and support the Regional Business Center's MyEntre.net  website. The website is a free online community for Iowa entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs, offering the state&... [More]

Early this week, I received an email from GoDaddy telling me to pre-register for a .co domain. I thought to myself, "What is a .co domain and why would I want to spend money to reserve it?" [More]

Did you know that all the major search engines give you the ability to list your business for free? Here are links to several.  Google - http://www.google.com/local/add Yahoo - http://listings.local.yahoo.com/  Bing - https://ssl.bing.com/... [More]

Far Reach was selected via an RFP process to design and develop a new data portal website for the Bi-State Regional Commission in 2009. The commission recently released the website, which allows site visitors to view data using a simple interactive data mining tool developed by Far Reach. ... [More]

We've posted some pictures from our Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on our Facebook page. Thanks, once again, to the Cedar Valley Chamber of Commerce and their Ambassadors for a great event!

Far Reach Technologies designed and developed a new website for Karsten Real Estate & Insurance in Independence, IA. The new website went live Monday, Feb. 1st.  Read more about the project on our Clients and Portfolio pages and be sure to check out Karsten's website.&... [More]

Silverlight – For Your Business? If you are looking at building a new business application, you will definitely want to consider utilizing a Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform such as Microsoft Silverlight. Silverlight has been synonymous with rich graphics and streaming media sc... [More]

When we started Far Reach one of the goals was to have some fun.  So last year we started "Far Reach Fun Day".  Each month we try to get out and have some fun outside of work.  This month we went bowling.   Here are a few photos of our fun.&nb... [More]

The Greater Cedar Valley Chamber of Commerce will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony at Far Reach Technologies' "new" office.  Here are the details for this event. When: Wednesday, January 27th at 1:00 p.m.  Where: Far Reach Technologies, 208A Main Street, Ceda... [More]