Touch Points Plus, Inc. was originally incorporated in 1998 as Catalist, Inc. with a business focus on photography, graphic design, and the production of publications such as full-color catalogs and brochures. At the height of the Internet dot-com boom era, many existing and prospective customers began to approach the company for creative and technical assistance in developing web sites. In 2000, Catalist changed its name to eTopia Technologies, Inc. and refocused its business on web site software development.
In February 2002, Ken Cope, founder of IPO Development Corporation, acquired eTopia and began to slowly merge the resources of eTopia and IPO, which was incorporated in 1999 with a focus on technical consulting and software development for the Internet. Mr. Cope's professional experience with the Internet began in 1993 when he helped produce the best-selling book, Success with Internet, and began developing software for Instant Internet Access, an interactive multimedia product published in 1994.
Mr. Cope also wrote World Wide Web Directory which included a CD with full-color images and source code from most web sites that existed in early 1995. Special Web spiders were developed to collect and analyze data for the book. In 1995, Mr. Cope wrote Internet Programming, which was a Small Computer Book Club featured selection that was eventually translated into more than 10 languages. Although both books are now out of print, they spent several weeks on the Barnes & Noble best-seller list when they were first published.
Just prior to the eTopia acquisition in 2002, Mr. Cope and the IPO Development team started work on a special project to develop an Internet-based software product designed to provide unique marketing and communication capabilities for small- and medium-sized businesses. By late 2002, IPO was using the initial version of the product internally for its own marketing and customer communications. IPO and eTopia began to sell the product, named Touch Points Unlimited, commercially in early 2003.
In late 2004, with the IPO-eTopia merger nearly complete, the company changed its name to Touch Points Plus which more accurately reflects the company's focus on developing interactive software solutions that can include custom software developed per client specifications, email and web site hosting and support services, and the company's own commercial Internet software products such as Touch Points Unlimited, Touch Points Support, and CFO Plus Software.
Touch Points Plus, Inc. is a Nebraska Corporation based in Omaha.