As some of you know, I've been a little busy lately!  My wife and I went into the hospital exactly 2 weeks ago and then came out with a little baby boy!  Here's a picture of him when he came out:

We are so blessed to have a healthy baby, and a (almost) fully recovered momma!  Here are a few more pictures we have taken with our iPhones:

So now it's perfectly clear to me that I want to do my best with this business and serve as many people as I can!  In order to commemorate this time and bless my customers, I'm going to give whoever mentions this blog post a 30% discount on all services for computer repair and technology consulting!  That's right!  I'm going to do this until the end of October.  If you don't mention Jonathan Ravi (and know how to spell his name) then you won't get the discount :).  You gotta have some ground rules right???  

Well, I guess I'm pretty much done with this website!  A few finishing touches and it's complete.

Calvary Chapel here in Jonesboro is a happening place for business owners!  We have so many entrepreneurs and visionaries that I can't even go to church without someone asking me to meet with them to brainstorm ideas about their business!  I'm really blessed to be worshipping and working with these folks.  Here recently I met with Mike Hicks with Molten Ridge Design and we kicked around some ideas for a website.  Here is the result!


Would love to hear your thoughts on the design.  Drop me a line via the "Contact Us" page.  

I've been using Covenant Eyes for the past several months and wanted to share my feelings about it on here.  It's been a huge blessing to me and my wife.  I can't tell you how great it is!  It's like having my grandmother sitting next to me as I work and browse the web.  :)  I know that some people consider this crazy and ask me "Why can't you just control yourself?" or, "You're a pervert!"  OK, the last one isn't something I hear all that often!  The reality is that I want to develop an internal discipline to be a man of integrity no matter what I do.  This often requires external help, and Covenant Eyes has been that for me.  I thank God for this company and heartily recommend it to anyone who is looking to increase the measure of accountability for their time online.  


Here's a few testimonials that I pulled from the Covenant Eyes website.  I really like Trip Lee's music by the way!

Covenant Eyes has offered employees and friends of BMG Enterprises a free month subscription if they use the coupon code: GALLANT on the order page.  Covenant Eyes is the best accountability software on the market today.

Covenant eyes provides the best reporting and site ranking in the industry.  This link will take you directly to their website and will fill out the coupon code in the order page for you:

The edits for Pastor John's 2nd book are almost complete.  I had a little interruption in the process when I had to switch computers and my trial version of Microsoft Publisher ran out :)  I recently got Adobe InDesign, but the template for the book is already set up in Publisher.  Calvary recently offered to purchase Publisher for me to continue working on their publishing needs.  

If you want to check out the first book in the series, click the link below to check it out!

More to come...

Those of you who read the Jonesboro Sun might have noticed a little something extra in your newspaper yesterday morning!  In fact, it should remain there for a while!  It's our new advertisement.  I know, it's not that exciting to you, but for us it was a big deal.  You can hardly see Ben's face on the page, but we've already gotten some feedback from it!  Hopefully this will be a good source of business leads for us.  

Here's what it looks like!

This is what it looked like when I sent it to them.  Click for larger view!  I had to mess with my hair and it turned out looking like I have an afro!  :)  Oh well,  Make sure you keep an eye out for it!

You might have noticed that I'm using a new chat feature on the website to help connect with customers and answer questions.  It's in the bottom right corner of the screen.  Go ahead and try it!  If I'm on the other end, we will be able to chat! 

For those of you who don't know about Zopim and their amazing (and easy to use) features, here's a run-down on the product:

Zopim Live Chat is a web-based application that lets businesses monitor and engage website visitors in real time. Designed with small medium businesses in mind, it is easy to use, affordable and powerful.

Zopim was the first to introduce live chat widgets thats built right into your website. This gives your customers a more seamless and pleasant chatting experience while surfing your site. No more annoying popup chat windows!

Log in to Zopim's web-based dashboard to get a wealth of information about your visitors in real-time. With an intuitive interface and features, you'll become an expert in customer service within minutes.

Zopim believes that an enterprise-grade live chat application can be delivered at 20% of the price with 80% of the features intact. The 80% that matters to our customers.

Zopim's packages ranges from FREE (limited to one agent and 2 concurrent chats) to USD 99 / month (10 agents). Start with a 14-day free trial to test drive the full potential of Zopim. No credit card required.

Are you a developer who can't wait to customize the behavior of Zopim's widget. Check out Zopim's javascript API!

Zopim has been translated to more than 20 languages by their avid users. Chances are your native language is already supported, otherwise volunteer to translate and do yourself and the community a favor.

Do you use a CMS or web publishing platform to maintain your website? Zopim's plugins allow you to deploy and customize the chat widget. The following plugins are currently available:

We thought it would be a good idea to redesign our website to commemorate our move into our new office in downtown Jonesboro!  We are really excited about our office space.  We (Kyle and I) are in the process of setting up everything and getting a sign out by the street.  We are in the Stacks Architectural Firm office building.  It looks more like a house than anything else!  It's across the street from the JPD, the second building after City Hall close to the intersection of Washington and Flint.  The address is 527 West Washington Ave, Jonesboro, AR 72401. 

Come by and say hello sometime!  This is where we will do all of our business operations from now on.  
Here are some photos from our first day at the office:

I have been thoroughly impressed with the folks at AdvoCare since I was introduced to them just recently.  I plan to, Lord willing, lose about 30 pounds of fat and gain about 30 pounds of muscle by doing their 24-day challenge starting tomorrow morning.  I'll be taking pictures and posting the results here so pray for me that I would be strong and not give up!

I decided to start promoting their products on the side so that we could make some extra baby money.... Jonathan will be here in less than 3 months!  This company has the potential to help us get out of debt, and hopefully allow Sushmita to quit her job and be a stay-at-home mom... even though she loves being an RN.  

It's true, the products are endorsed by athletes the world over, but I'm blown away by the spiritual depth of the people we are working with.  I love how our team leaders with AdvoCare use Proverbs 14:23 as an encouragement to us.  It says, "In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty."  This is so true.  I'm excited about the opportunity that God has given Sushmita and I to work hard, and help others reach their wellness and financial goals!  It's not going to be easy, but we believe that God will bless us, and that peoples' lives will be changed for eternity if we just surrender ourselves to Him, and serve others with our whole hearts!

If you have any questions about the products or this company, we would be happy to share what we know!

I've been traveling around Jonesboro, Trumann, and Paragould passing out flyers and business cards trying to drum up some new business!  Here is a picture of the current special that I'm offering.  Click it to view the full size on your screen:

From now on, you might see a new guy tagging along with me wherever I go (haha); his name is Kyle Barboza and he is doing an internship with my company for the summer.  He's a great help and has a heart for the Lord.  He's also been a good friend for more than a year.  He's from Trumann, Arkansas, is half Brazilian, and is in the National Guard.  He is pursuing a degree in Computer Science at Arkansas State University.  Please welcome him to our team by spamming his Facebook wall!  :)