During the mid-90s I was working on a project in the UK. As luck would have it, it was also the first time in my life that my home town team (The Cleveland Indians) made it to the World Series. Traditional media coverage in the UK was pretty good for sports like cricket, golf and soccer but not so much for American baseball. I discovered a small dial up internet provider. After installing 5 disks on my laptop, and dialing in on a landline, a whole new world opened up to me. This was great! Not only could I keep up with my home team, sadly they were swept in 4 games by the Atlanta Braves that year, but I could do research and buy stuff. I was hooked and knew that was the business I wanted to be in.

So, fast forward a few years and, in 1999, e-Business Express was born. The concept was simple, provide a single source where small businesses could go to provide everything they needed to launch and grow an online business. Recently we changed our name to 216digital, Inc., to reflect our evolution into a full service digital agency in Cleveland, Ohio (216). Today our people come from diverse backgrounds but all have one thing in common – they’re passionate about building online businesses. And that’s cool.