NRCW Commercial Website Solutions

08/31/2023

Now providing video social media posts and entire scroll & swipe-friendly websites (compatible with the latest folding sccreen smartphones). Drew is able to take on one to three new clients if interested in our services as of late August, 2023. Visit https://nrcw.biz/pricing/ and message us to bring your small to medium-size business up-todate and ready for 2024 today!

01/25/2023

If you own an enterprise with at least five employees with the goal of getting your company up-to-date, check out my program before hiring any other consultant. https://www.nrcw.biz/lcws

12/15/2022

Our hosting datacenter based in Chicago, IL is currently experiencing some major technical issues. We are uncertain how long this outage will persist and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Northland Ice Center
Cincinnati Adult Hockey Leagues
NRCW Companies
Carlisle Area Table Tennis
Club MYX
& many more

11/28/2022

30% Off all listed pricing for development if you submit a quote request today. No obligation to partner! https://nrcw.biz/request-a-quote/

11/27/2022

We know it's uncomfortable to share access to a new person or company when rebuilding your online business. Unlike most developers out there, we do everything possible to allow you to keep the administration rights to your social media, domain name and point of sale partners thus never need to ask for your personal passwords. We are professional enough to have agent accounts that most big companies allow you to control or remove our access at any time e.g. GoDaddy, Facebook, Google and most payment processing companies you can grant us / our NRCW account a "developer access" etc. without us needing to see your sales data. https://nrcw.biz/request-a-quote/

03/21/2022

Attention clients: Tonight 3/21/22 we will be installing some major software upgrades on our hosting server. Downtime should be very minimal for your visitors, however, please report any issues you may find if they last longer than 30 minutes. Thank you for your long-term partnerships!

Cincinnati Adult Hockey Leagues
Northland Ice Center
Carlisle Area Table Tennis

& associated projects may be affected

03/05/2021

We're working on a network outage currently that affects our Cincinnati Adult Hockey Leagues, Northland Ice Center and internal websites. Thank you for your patience.

01/18/2021

At NRCW Companies, we take pride in data security and it's easier to do having only a small handful of clients. Company owners and website managers [that have customer data / newsletter lists or e-shops] will all be required to use Two-Factor Authentication starting in June 2021. It may feel like a small hassle at first but for the level of security it provides, it's worth the extra step and we'll show you why [in-person] too!

07/26/2020

⚠️ Our IT partners at our data center will be performing a server migration / operating system upgrade tonight to provide our customers with the latest security and technology software.

⏸ Because we're uncertain exactly when they will start the process, any changes made to any NRCW website after 9pm (EDT) may not be saved in the migration. Please allow 24 hours before we're certain everything is functional and the domain name servers redirect to the new server.

✅ General website visitors should not notice anything during this process if it goes smoothly.

😀 Thank you for your patience.

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04/02/2020

Due to the increased hosting struggles of the current pandemic, we're extending available time at no cost to nonprofit and government organizations that are using any locally or self-hosted dedicated servers who are struggling with heavy traffic and do not have a dedicated IT professional available. If you're unable to immediately expand your hardware and you're an essential business (in Cincinnati only), we will be happy to look at your system free of charge [subject to available time of course]. -Drew Eppley

08/28/2018

Often new potential clients contact us wanting to see the marketing results we have in our portfolio but we decline more potential clients than we contract with for a few reasons you may find important:

Especially in a saturated industry like Moving Companies, HVAC or Auto Repair; we do a great deal of research on the inquiring company:

✔️ A potential client must prove honesty & integrity; We're not going to promote / market you if you have a large record of customer complaints or promote bad business practices.

✔️ A potential client must have the willpower to devote time, just as much as committing to a new gym membership. Without your contributions to social interactions, updating site content or publishing newsletters, you're better off elsewhere. [You can delegate this task to your PR department if you have one but we ask you value our time to train staff etc. where yes, all actions can be reviewed by the business owner first though access restrictions etc.]

✔️ A potential client MUST be willing to experiment with options outside of your existing business and marketing model. That means potentially going on camera, letting trusted staff have a short paragraph about them so when a customer sees them in person they feel at home, letting staff who want to participate in the website to blog about the industry, or a specific client (with written permission from that client) on the clock. Imagine if your mechanic (no, the actual person who worked on your vehicle specifically) did a video / photo blog about your repair? Would not that be amazing?

That last one may be a far fetched specific example there for an organized repair shop BUT our point is, if you're willing to open up a bit, ideas like these when properly marketed can and will draw great attention to your company, brand, staff and future reputation especially in these difficult industries.

Also, if you're opened minded in marketing, trustworthiness automatically goes up. We're here and willing to compete with national brands at a local level but if you want that to happen, you're going to need to think and act outside your comfort zone. If you can agree to that, we'll even consider writing in the contract a guarantee of results or you get a refund because we're so confident in our LCWS™ projects... We only take one or two clients a year so we're a very unique and personalized business model. We look forward to our next challenge because this isn't just a company; it's Drew Eppley's passion.

07/17/2018

We've contacted Cincinnati Bell so subscribers will receive communications from our client website email distribution newsletters for Cincinnati Adult Hockey Leagues and other clients too.

We apologize if you use fuse.net email and haven't received new season registration notices or rink updates from Northland Ice Center. Companies like Cincinnati Bell work hard to limit junk / bulk email and more often than not, [especially with over 1,250 subscribers], sometimes they [by default] limit bulk senders and we have to literally go through a process to get "white listed" in order to reach our subscribers (same applied to AOL, Yahoo, Google and Comcast just to name a few). You cannot simply mail say 500 people at once today let alone 50 unless you go through a process by major email providers and junk email services database services directly that can verify you are a legitimate and honest company / distribution network like NRCW Companies.

In a sense we are indeed proud to be large enough to to have this issue but also uphold strict CAN SPAM compliance as a recognized email distribution company with trusted servers (not unlike the paid mass email services out there already) but instead email distribution to thousands of people is done from the same servers in our network saving our clients money and in this case building a trustworthy relationship with multiple other companies too.

07/11/2018

Just got off the phone with the FCC, we talked about 25 minutes. This is certainly not an isolated case.

There is a bill before congress called The Robocop Act which will allow the FCC the power to help stop these VOIP or Smartphone App technologies that allow spoofing fake numbers through verified Caller ID which we are completely on board to support now. This can be so destructive to a small business.

10/31/2017

We will be performing upgrades 10/31 - 11/1. We apologize for any downtime but it should be no longer than a few minutes at a time so check back again in 5-10 minutes.

09/08/2017

We’re experiencing unusually high volumes of traffic on our network. We appreciate your patience.

08/25/2017

Worried about staying protected online? Visit https://www.stopthinkconnect.org/ for tips on safe cyber practices. Be sure to stay tuned in October for additional tips during National Cyber Security Awareness Month.

06/26/2017

Featured Website of The Month: Cincinnati Transmission Specialists. Thank you for your 3+ year partnership with NRCW Commercial Website Solutions!

04/24/2017

In addition to NRCW Storm Intercept, we're proud to announce the addition of Disqus to NRCW TV and Club MYX (which still hosts Facebook Comments) this past week. If you interact using Disqus, be sure to let us know your feedback in relation to other comment systems we have implemented over the past 8-10 years especially if you don't use a Disqus account specifically.

03/11/2017

Our hosting center will be performing upgrades today 3/11/17. Sites may be unavailable for a short time. Thank you for your patience.

11/10/2016

60% of small companies that suffer a cyber attack are out of business within six months... The average price for small businesses to clean up after their businesses have been hacked stands at $690,000; and, for middle market companies, it’s over $1 million.

The average price for small businesses to clean up after their businesses have been hacked stands at $690,000; and, for middle market companies, it’s over $1 million.

04/15/2016

We're experiencing extremely high volumes of web traffic today. Thank your for your patience visiting our NRCW Web Network. Check back in about an hour if something is temporarily running slow at the moment.

02/09/2016

Attn: Clients, We will eventually mandate two-factor authentication for client websites. That means if you login to your website to manage it, it's important to learn about it. Clients and partner organizations that currently login to update their wesites or have access to their website, please see this video for a brief overview of the upcoming changes. You've probably seen the box "secret key" when you login. That's what this is for.

Due to our rather high rankings on Alexa and internationally, we have been a target for Brute Force and many other hacking attemps (thinking we own a massive datacenter most likely) and this will help secure our clients and client data and is a proactive solution for today's very complex internet security concerns.

Most people don't realize the time we invest in blocking attacks. It wastes our data bandwidth and takes server resources. We have to manually investigate each attack and trace it. Most of the attacks come from a third-party proxy server or a previously comprimised server which sends out automated reequests, often in mass with ranom guesses at passwords. We're not a fan of staying ahead of the game to secure data and have even found a few of these servers to be linked to major government IP addresses but that's a topic for another day we suppose.

The goals of NRCW Commercial Website Solutions is to be a leader in both internet security and be on the frontline of data encryption and IT security, EVEN IF we only have a few clients (but we do pull a HUGE amount of traffic compared to other cincinnati companies which we do take pride in). Sometimes the small guys can truly make a difference and we continue to do what we can while we honestly enjoy what we do regardless of limited profits. Passion is what motivates true entreprenuers, not money...

With 2-step verification, you'll sign in to your Google Account with both your password and a code that you'll get from your phone. 2-step verification signi...

01/19/2016

We're opening the door for one or two (max) small to medium businesses to our family of clients here in January & February. Message us to set up a free consultation with me, Drew Eppley. www nrcw.biz

01/01/2016

Happy new year!

Here's a tip for setting up a filter to block unsolicited email, we like to use three particular steps for a mass* unsolicited email abuser.

1. Step #1: actually contact the email provider. Often major providers like Yahoo (in this case), Gmail, AOL etc. will list a contract address to report abusers in their privacy policy or terms of service.

Step #2: Set a global email filter to prevent additional mail. In this case we set an auto reply message that says "Don't send unsolicited mail and you won't get in trouble!"

Step #3: We reply from our legal address of contact in our terms of service, list the email addresses contacted and inform the abuser simply to never contact any contacts on our client's websites again and also ask they remove all contracts from their mailing lists AND databases of any kind.

Often times, especially if they have contacted only one address and it's not a forwarder**, it's as simple as asking the sender directly with a simple reply and mentioning they're violating your website's tend if service etc.

** Email Forwarder: an email address you can't technically reply from without setting up an account, which is another trick for temporary protection against your email leaking out and being sold etc. Like in visible places like fb for example you might create [email protected] and change it if you get too much junk mail...

*a person who has manually searched and added multiple email addresses often sending many of the same emails to many people on your domain name many times, such as the problem this week for us...

08/22/2015

If you're already a NRCW LCWS™ client this is excellent news! If your business ranks in the top three results, Google has effectively eliminated four of your nearest competitors and that could mean more clicks, calls, and visits for your business.

We excel in SEO with a one-on-one marketing consultation approach and not these telemarketing firms calling it emailing you claiming your ranking low or promising first page results for unrelated keywords (yes, even we get those calls too... and have "fun", or like to test them when they do call us, a true certified partner)!

The term search ranking and SEO has been abused so much in the last 5 years that we don't promote it, we promote our results from your company or organization's bottom line, increase in cash flow or actual website traffic. If you don't stay up to date, this is an article you'll want to read.

Say Goodbye To The '7 Pack'   Whether you call it Google Maps, Google Places, Google Local, Google Plus Listings, Google My Business Listings, or the Google '7 Pack', the set of seven listings that often appear at the top of local search results has changed significantly in recent weeks.   Google ha…

07/12/2015

We're excited to be working on two new projects for long-term clients! Carlisle Area Table Tennis and Jeffers Moving & Storage.

We also have the room to take on one more local client right now and ask any potential partner to have an extreme drive and motivation towards marketing... Willing to dedicate time to learning the art of social media and content publishing. We can provide the results but have to adamantly encourage a full willingness to participate and get your managers and even staff involved.

Our belief is that content should be yours and content written by a 3rd party is frowned upon. If you are motivated to become an active tweeter and engage your customers, fans and clients; NRCW Commercial Website Solutions is the choice for you. We take the approach of a consultant and teacher and not a for-hire "get a website just because" company. We want clients willing to go in front of a green screen video production and willing to learn new things!

Drew Eppley
Owner / CEO
NRCW Companies
513-531-NRCW

06/22/2015

Thank you to all our customers clients for putting up with the craziness here today. Everything is online however it's going to take a new cable to get us back online at the office. It appears that the cable was cut or maybe a squirrel or something. Going on 48 hours now!

It's always a good idea to have backup resources to your backup plans when something goes wrong. We're managing well on mobile but our home office phone is down still asking with our fiberoptic internet.

05/21/2015

*SOLVED* We're aware of the latest cpanel did not go as planned. We will be working to resolve the issue until it's fixed. Thank you for your patience!

05/03/2015

Do you know exactly what the "Do Not Track" option does on your browser or device? It's really an opt-in tool also for the website developer too as well as the user. Having that turned only only sends a request to the web applications on a website or a website application itself (the two are very much coming together) and asks the website to disable either its tracking or cross-site user tracking (according to Wikipedia, the ambiguity remains unresolved) but requires the website developer to program that setting into the website code.

So in summary, websites and advertisers may either honour the request, or completely ignore it but NRCW Commercial Website Solutions is now proud to announce we now develop for DNT compliance, if you choose to call it that? Certain 3rd-party cookies are necessary for important applications but we will honor this for visitors and any clients seeking this out specifically in their developments.

03/16/2015

Of all the poor organizations and businesses being used to send out spoofed emails, the latest one is pretty surprising. This isn't the only one circulating out there. Be careful online & have a great week!