Category Archives: Business

Looking Back on Pitch & Grow

What is Pitch & Grow? A couple of weeks ago, Chris and I attended Pitch & Grow V at the Des Moines Social Club. Organized by the Technology Association of Iowa, Pitch & Grow is an event at which entrepreneurs … Continue reading

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Building a Team That Works (Well)

Back in April, Far Reach celebrated its fourth anniversary. At that time, we blogged about the key things we’ve learned in our first four years. We shared one of our company mantras in that post: surround yourself with smart people you like. Continue reading

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Other Networking Opportunities in the Cedar Valley

In a recent blog post, we covered networking opportunities for IT professionals in the Cedar Valley. Now we’d like to highlight events and groups more focused on small businesses, entrepreneurs, and other business professionals. MyEntre.Net MyEntre.Net is a website dedicated … Continue reading

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Four Years

Far Reach celebrated its 4th anniversary on April 16th. The fact that I’m writing this blog post almost a week late might give you a little clue as to how things are going for us four years in. In short, we’ve never been busier! Not only that, but we’re busy doing things we’re really excited about. Continue reading

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The 2011 Prometheus Awards

Last night, we attended the 2011 Prometheus Awards, an annual event put on by the Technology Association of Iowa recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of high-tech companies throughout the state. We were extremely honored to have been named one of three finalists … Continue reading

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Top Ten Reasons IT Managers Should Consider Microsoft Silverlight for Line of Business Applications

Your users want an application that’s easy to use. Your developers want to do something cool. You want to complete the project on time and in budget. Can Silverlight help you? Below are the top ten reasons you should consider Silverlight for your line of business applications. Continue reading

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Networking Opportunities for IT Professionals in the Cedar Valley

Highlighting some of the networking groups and events we’ve participated in that are focused on IT professionals. Next time, we’ll follow up with some things more targeted to small businesses and other business professionals. Our hope is that this will increase people’s awareness and drive more participation, leading to even better events and groups. Continue reading

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Email Marketing: iContact vs. MailChimp – First Look

In this post, we’d like to dig into the basics of the two email marketing services mentioned in our previous post, iContact and MailChimp. The purpose is to highlight strengths and weaknesses of each based on our first impressions. Continue reading

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Introducing Dwolla

There’s a new player in the payment processing world and, if you’re a small business owner, you need to know about this one. The player is Dwolla, a Des Moines, IA startup company looking to alter how we exchange money … Continue reading

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One For You, One For Me

The very clever Gary Vaynerchuk implemented on the website for his new book, The Thank You Economy (due for release March 8, 2011) a slick little marketing trick to allow people to read more. At the top of the book’s … Continue reading

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