Why Playing Hooky Can Help Your Business
At Roundpeg, we love to play hooky. It’s not that we don’t love our jobs or aren’t passionate about marketing and web design and all that other good stuff. But sometimes, you have to take a step back from your work and take a day for other things. That’s why last Friday we cancelled work. Oh, sure, a few of us did a couple of hours of work in the morning or a smidgen in the afternoon, but most of our day was focused purely on having fun and enjoying the crazy carnival atmosphere that is the Super Bowl in Indianapolis. We even got paid for our time. It’s a pretty...
read moreFaces of Roundpeg: New Characters – Jenna and Peter
One of my all-time favorite TV shows is MASH. I loved all the characters of the quirky, somewhat political comedy. In the eleven years the show was on the air, many of the cast came and went. The writers and the director made a deliberate decision not to simply shove another actor into the same role. When a cast member left, they used it as an opportunity to take the show in a new direction. The same is true of Roundpeg. In our ten years in business, team members have come and gone. The hardest thing to learn was that I couldn’t cast a new member in the same role. Each new person...
read moreFaces of Roundpeg: The Boy Band
They had many nicknames in the Indy business community, but to us they will always be The Boy Band. An unlikely duo, Jay Mattingly and Taylor Brough shared a sense of fun and a passion for what they did which allowed them to find a collaborative rhythm. As solo artists they brought dramatically different backgrounds, skills and personality styles to Roundpeg. Taylor was the quiet one. He would often hesitate, thinking carefully about what he wanted to say. When he spoke up, it was worth paying attention. After three years of working together, he could read my mind and my...
read moreTwo Years of Madness
I didn’t want to come to my interview at Roundpeg. I wanted to go to the zoo. It was late January, 2010. I had been un- or underemployed for the eight months since my college graduation. I’d worked retail, I’d done some contract writing work for a local university and most recently, I’d been laid off from a part-time job that I hated but wished would go full-time because it paid well and I wanted a job–any job. I was down-in-the-dumps on that January day when Roundpeg called and told me they didn’t have any jobs available, but they’d talk to me about...
read moreFaces of Roundpeg:The Pets – Bonnie, Clyde & Maybee
When I started Roundpeg, the company was run from a spare bedroom in my house. My cats Snowball and Midnight were my companions and coworkers. Midnight enjoyed sleeping on my planner or mouse pad and Snowball was always fascinated with the movement on my computer screen. It felt strange when we moved to the little white house and there were no animals. That didn’t last long. Rebecca was remodeling her kitchen and her dog, Bonnie, was not getting along with the construction workers. I agreed to let her come to work for a few weeks. Four years later, Bonnie is a regular part of...
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