Igniting Business Blog

We are excited to introduce Andres Ospino as our newest team member at Igniting Business.  Andres will be joining our team as our Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Manager. 

Join us in welcoming a new team member, Walter Sewell. As a veteran, Walter served in the United States Marine Corps and the Missouri National Guard. During his time with the Guard, Walter decided to pursue a career in the Information Technology industry. Walter has his CompTIA IT A+ certification and currently working on Centriq Training, the CCNA Routing and Switching certification, and CompTIA Security+ certification. Walter will be joining our team in the Lee’s Summit office, providing superior IT service, maintenance, and troubleshooting to our small business clients throughout the Kansas City metro.  Walter’s passion from IT stems from how quickly technology advances and he enjoys troubleshooting to resolve complex issues and building custom desktop computers.

We are excited to announce Tyga McHenry has joined the Igniting Business team as a Web Specialist. Having graduated from the University of Missouri and University of Illinois, Tyga comes to us with experience working in web, marketing, advertising, and IT industries. Tyga uses her experience with the goal to help small businesses better assist their respective communities. She’s been involved in every step of the website design process from planning and mockups to wireframing and development. Serving on our web team, Tyga will play a role in the initial design of website and building out webpages. She’s excited to work alongside our clients to bring their design dreams to fruition on their final website.

The Igniting Business team is excited to announce that we are continuing to grow and add new members to our team.  Don Sides joined our team on November 13th as our IT Manager.  Don will be located in our Columbia, MO office but will service our clients nationally. 

Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture works to enhance our community’s health by connecting people to agriculture and the land through hands-on learning opportunities from seed to plate. Their 1.3-acre Urban Farm grows thousands of pounds of fresh food for local food pantries and educates thousands of children and adults every year. Founded in 2009, CCUA believes cooking and gardening skills have been slowly lost over the last couple of generations, and they want to ensure individuals still have the opportunity to learn them and use it to feed their families.  CCUA helps people grow and cook food at their homes, at local schools, and other community sites.  Billy Polansky serves as Executive Director of CCUA, leading the day-to-day operations.

We are excited to announce that Benjamin Liu transitioned roles at Igniting Business to our Marketing and Web Specialist. He will be located in our Lee’s Summit office.

Upon reaching our 5th year of service, we are excited to announce that our team continues to expand! This past week we had a new team member join us out of our Columbia, Missouri office. Luke Crepeau will serve as a Web and IT Specialist, helping all clients with web and tech needs.

At Igniting Business, we’re celebrating our 5-year anniversary in 2017! We couldn’t be more thankful for our amazing clients and team. We began our company in Columbia, Missouri. As we reflect over our past five years, we thought it was only fitting to mention the five things we love most about Columbia.

I started Igniting Business in 2012 as a Junior attending Mizzou. I am a web developer and technology fanatic who began creating websites for corporate clients while still in my teenage years. As I developed websites for small businesses, I found that these companies also needed affordable and professional IT and marketing services that they could trust. To meet the growing needs of our clients and by applying both my experience in technology and education in marketing and economics, I envisioned Igniting Business. We started Igniting Business out of my college apartment with a goal to help small businesses succeed.

As we quickly approach our 5-year anniversary (January 2017!), we look back over the past five years and recognize the amazing blessings bestowed upon our company.