Marketing, Design, & Web Development

Happy New Year!
Our hope is that you all had a very restful and happy holiday season. In December, we got some great news at RPS when the Livelys announced that they are expecting a baby girl in March. Nicole ended 2009 with a jolt when she used a tree to stop her car instead of [...]

In previous posts we have discussed the growing popularity of mobile devices and the different types of related user behaviors. Now that we are getting excited about the possibilities, it is a good time to talk about some of the limitations.
I suppose it’s obvious that mobile devices have smaller screens than our wide-screen, flat panel [...]

In our last post we looked at some staggering statistics regarding mobile devices and found out why these devices are so popular today. Before we rush to the marketing department to get the mobile version of our website up and running, we need to know who we’re marketing our mobile website to, as well [...]

These days it is common to hear people describe the mobile web as the biggest thing since the desktop web. They’re wrong!
It’s much bigger than that!
I was recently headed south with the family on a trip to the beach.  Leaving from Georgia, I had to make a stop at one of those rest areas on [...]

Social Networking: Why You Can’t Survive Without It
Summary

The fastest growing online marketing avenue – Social Networking. Expected to earn almost $2 billion in ad sales by 2010. Almost 60% of Americans interact with companies on a social media website. 93% of Americans believe a company should have a presence in social media. 56% [...]

Now, I am aware that this article’s title sounds like we are pushing for a compliment, but that is not the intention.
Have you, in the past few months, had a day that you thought could not get any worse, and then it did? It seems that more and more lately, keeping a positive attitude can [...]

It has recently come to our attention that not everyone is aware that we offer short-run print production on-site at RPS. Our prices are very competitive with your typical quick-copy shop and then you have the pleasure of working with us over the typical gum-smacking copy employee. AND we can turn a project around in [...]

What Type of Web Mechanic Are You?

Owner #1: Do you like to tear down the engine and rebuild it instead of doing a standard tune-up?
Owner #2: Are you a tinkerer
Owner #3: Do you know enough to keep up with standard maintenance, or do you just want to turn the key and know that it works?

A [...]

There are days I get pretty fed up with lingo, especially business lingo. And more so internet business lingo and I am even in the industry. There are terms out there like “Web 2.0,” “social networking,” and “user-generated content” that are used freely in marketing and search optimization web sites. There is much pontificating, strategizing [...]

I was recently reading one of my favorite publications, FastCompany, and came across the perfect topic for a summer article: Baseball! For those of you not familiar with FastCompany, it is a publication for businesses, so for them to be talking about baseball just seemed like it would be fun.
No surprise, the article was talking [...]