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A client called 3plains looking for brand overhaul along with a logo re-design, trade show booth design, marketing brochures and business cards. Let's take a look at the re-brand.

When Yelp went public in 2012, the popularity of the review site was quickly growing and its stock soared. But it’s been a rocky road since then as advertisers fled the platform and as competition has increased from Google, Facebook and others. Watch the 12 minute video to hear the story of Yelp and learn why the company has lost its 5-star rating.

Have you ever wondered what makes a responsive website different or more usable? Let's look at a few real world examples and view videos on how a few websites function and break down.

The fact is, Google has switched to a mobile-first index, because Google users are using Mobile phones more than their desktop computers. It's just that simple. Look at your friends, family and colleagues. How are they viewing websites, shopping online and what devices are they using?

3plains is proud to make a sizable donation to the Heroes and Horses non-profit organization. Our friends at 8150 Advisors reached out to us and we were happy to join the network.

Those of you who know me well know I am a guy who keeps things close to my chest, but as we close out 2017, I want to take a moment to reflect on 2017 and give some thanks.

We have a lot of custom logo design projects we are constantly working on. Here are 30 examples of custom combo big game logos by 3plains.

3plains Recognized for Superior Web Design Service by Clutch, a Washington, D.C.-based research firm that’s focused on finding the best IT services firms.

Just in time for Christmas, the FAA has unveiled registration requirements for drone owners. Online drone registration started on December 21 and will be free for 60 days until February 19. After that point, registration is $5 and the registration is valid for 3 years.

Here's another example of a custom logo 3plains designed for one of customers for his whitetail deer ranch in Mississippi. It's amazing how many quality guides and outfitters are out there that have been in business since the 90's without an official logo. It's as simple as a whitetail buck on your wall.

We did hear from several of our customers asking about what is all entailed with moving their website over to a mobile friendly design and what makes a website "mobile friendly". So let's take a look at one of our fishing website design customers Aabsolute Charters who moved their website over to a mobile friendly design last week.

Have you ever felt like you have been stuck with your original logo color variations and wondered if you could have different variations and without changing your overall brand?

Our customers have been hit pretty hard with West coast Pay Per Click (PPC) companies promising the world saying that they "Guarantee 1st page Google placement" or they "Work with Google". These are nothing more than sales tactics for Google AdWords. So 3plains has started doing PPC & Retargeting now for our customers because we believe we can provide a higher value on the money you spend with us.

As we predicted, the big Google mobile update (or Mobilegeddon as the media was calling it) affected websites very minimally. The weeks leading up to the Google mobile update, there were several other web firms calling and scaring our customers and telling them if they didn't change their website over to a mobile friendly design, their Google rankings would tank. It also shows how far (and unethical) some web companies are willing to go to get your clients business. As it turns out, the Google update wasn't that big of a deal.

All advertising is worth considering; It's figuring out the value each can bring is the key - and that value get's determined with tracking. If you are not tracking your AD investment, your spending blind.

A few of our customers have reported they have received invoices from Website Backup from Phoenix Arizona. 3plains is in no way affiliated with WebsiteBackup.

If you haven't heard yet, Google has a big algorithm update out today. If you remember Y2K, the grid did not go offline because of a 2 digit issue. In my opinion, Google announcing this new mobile update is no different.

Bing crossed the 20% threshold in search for the first time in March. That's according to a new U.S. desktop search report from comScore, released this week.

March 4th-9th, I headed out with the Buffalo Butte Ranch crew to the Snowy Range in Centennial Wyoming for a snowmobile trip. We hit around 3 feet of fresh powder that week, so we hit the snow about perfect.

2015 has been ridiculously busy so far and it feels like we have been doing nothing but treading water because of the huge influx of new logo designs. Let's take a look at 16 new logos we have designed this winter season here at 3plains.

Feburary 7th weekend we were 1 of 5 teams invited out to the 1st annual Buffalo Butte competition pheasant hunt with a $200 per hunter buy in. Our South Dakota customers were looking for some fresh Minnesota blood dollars to add to the pot.

In 2011, we began a SEO campaign for a customer. When we first started working with the customer a few years back, they were under the assumption being #1 in the search engines is the end-all-be-all.

From time to time, we like to post how logo transform from idea, to sketches, to concepts and ultimately the final logo design. Kevin at KB Style Adventures called us and we were able to take his idea and transform the idea to a final custom one of a kind logo.

With all the changes we've seen in the field of SEO in recent years, as a client, you need to think differently when it comes to expectations with SEO. If you don't, more than likely you will be going down the path burning through SEO after SEO, after SEO.

Dillon from Buffalo Butte texted us a few photos of some pheasant eggs he ran into last week. It's a definite positive outlook to the South Dakota pheasant hunting season.

I think we all remember a rooster, bird, fish or a buck we didn't mount that we think back... maybe I should have. This was that time.