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Blue Ridge Bank and Trust

History & Mission

It all started here:

Blue Ridge Bank and Trust Co. was founded by three brothers – William, Robert and Walter Reich, and opened its doors on October 15, 1958 in a storefront facility at the Blue Ridge Mall. The Mall, developed by members of the Reich family on a parcel of land that was part of the family’s large produce farm, earned acclaim as the first suburban shopping mall in the Midwest. Quickly becoming one of the area’s most popular retail and dining destinations, the Reich family determined the need for a community bank to serve the Mall’s many tenants and customers. The bank started with six employees.

In less than ten years, Blue Ridge Bank had outgrown the branch in the Mall. A decision was made to construct the 10-story Blue Ridge Tower on the Mall grounds

Google is making a giant change this week that could crush millions of small businesses – Apr 21/15

Google has made a major update to its mobile search algorithm, the move is causing ripples across the web. Websites not deemed mobile-friendly will be dropped down the search rankings, dramatically reducing the number of visitors to a site. Search engine ranking experts have called the potential fallout from the changes "mobilegeddon". Businesses at risk are those who don’t know about it.

After 21 April 2015, a lot of small businesses are going to be really surprised that the number of visitors to their websites has dropped significantly. This is will affect millions of sites on the web.” Companies spend significant amounts of money and effort to appear high up in Google rankings, with places on the first page of results highly prized. Text that is too small to read on a mobile device, plus links that are too close together, will fall down the mobile ranking list. Most businesses are now getting 50% to 60% of search results from mobile devices. If you’re not ready your search results are going to halved!

How are business
AFFECTED by Mobile?
90%
Take action
from a
search
Defined as call,
visit or
purchase
94%
Have
searched
for local business
Are they finding
your business
first?
57%
Use their smartphones to search daily
Often they search
multiple times
per day

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