Outside the Box – Perspectives, News, & Notions

We’ve been doing this for over two decades: helping companies solve their biggest challenges with insight-driven, digital solutions and custom software. We’ve seen trends come and go, but one thing has never changed – our dedication to delivering results that move businesses forward. After much hard work and introspection about Switchbox – who we are, who we’ve always been, and

How many companies do you know of that will put 70 people on one plane and fly them to Orlando to hang out together for the weekend? Oh, and have our CEO (ahem, Joel!?) accidentally direct us onto someone else’s bus to the grocery store and hotel? Well, we really like our staff and their families, so that is exactly

Battle of the Chili Puns, 2023 Edition It was that time of the year again, Switchbox’s beloved Annual Chili Cook Off! Our staff gets together and works on their best chili recipe, or if you are Joel, Googles the best chili recipe, and we have a blind taste test to see which Switchbox team member is the best chef! For

AI Taco Quiz for Condado Tacos Switchbox, in partnership with Fahlgren Mortine, created a viral-style multi-question quiz that allows users to find out which Condado taco most closely matches their personality. Fahlgren Mortine produced the layout design and questions, and worked with Switchbox to build the new feature into the Condado website in a way that matches the existing brand,

Client Appreciation Night and Team Gathering Something about the Switchbox team is that we love to work hard and meet our goals, but we also love to have fun doing so. So, when the opportunity arises to combine those two, we jumped at the chance to take it! In September we had the chance to throw an event for our

Every year we have goals to work for, and in turn if we meet them (we usually do!) we get to treat our team to an awesome company trip. Our goal for 2023 was a full trip to Scottsdale, AZ in February, and most of our team was able to join us with their plus ones and families! We love

Answering whether you should hire internal web or information technology professionals or hire external or consulting firms.

Battle of the Chili Puns Switchbox celebrated our 100th Annual Chili Cook Off in October! We were able to gather some of our remote employees to come in for a couple of days and get our Columbus area team together to battle it out for the best chili! And what does the team love more than good food, competing against

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium came to us looking to develop a website dedicated to blogging that would showcase all four of their zoo properties, including The Wilds, Zoombezi Bay, and Safari Golf Club. Aptly named The Watering Hole, the blog website needed one centralized website to communicate about events, news, and provide educational content to their visitors, but with each zoo

Software development is often overlooks as an exciting career.  We are constantly amazed at how many developers get stuck in the same project for years on end and hardly ever have any variety in their day to day experience.  We’d like to share what one of our staff members did in a single week.