About
Based in San Francisco’s North Bay Area, Santa Rosa Web Design firm Forward Motion Studios specializes in complete marketing and design solutions and project management for business including website development, social media management, graphic design, product photography and SEO. Our focus is on helping you achieve your goals through successful design projects.
Affiliations
* AIGA – The Professional Association for Design
* PPA – Professional Photographers of America
* NAPP – National Association of Photoshop Professionals
* Active Chamber Member – Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce
* BNI – Business Networking International, San Francisco Bay Area
The Forward Motion Studios Team
Heather Montgomery
President and Creative Director
Speaker and Social Media Marketing Virtuoso
SEO Trainer
Forward Motion Studios
Heather helps businesses build their brand, market themselves both online and off and increase their market share.
She has been a professional interactive and print designer since 1990.
Heather has extensive expertise in the designing and executing strategic online marketing initiatives for clients of all industries and size. She is known throughout Northern California for her Social Media Workshops and Seminars.
Through her presentations, Heather draws on her own business experiences, personal education, client illustrations, and real-world expertise that are the staples of her success.
She has the natural ability to make complex Internet strategies seem easy to understand. She breaks surviving online down into a simple step-by-step processes that any business owner can implement. Call us at 707-578-1390 to book Heather for your next speaking engagement.
In addition to connecting with clients and brainstorming unique solutions, she enjoys finding time to play Bocce and a good glass of wine.
You can friend Heather on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Forward.Motion.Studios
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Ray Mabry
Principle, Technology Director
Photographer
Commercial and Product Photography
Forward Motion Studios
Ray has a knack of finding clean and simple solutions to complex ideas. A programmer since the days when there were only mainframes, he has experience in web programming and database development for custom web applications from Flash to e-commerce solutions.
His latest adventure Twitter and Beyond Dot Com uses the Twitter API to supply custom photography and graphics for fun and professional options for your Twitter backgrounds.
In his spare time he helps organize the Sonoma County Photography Group to share his love of photography and talk to anyone else who loves it too.
He loves sharing good wine from his wine collection.
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Catherine Hughes
Chief Community Officer
SEO Trainer
Forward Motion Studios
Catherine loves to write, therefore she loves to blog, both here and at A Week In The Life of A Redhead and 8 Women Dream.
She enjoys answering the phone and connecting with our clients while juggling the 50 other things she does around here.
Catherine came to us with more than 15 years of experience working on mortgage automation issues from both the corporate and end-user perspective. She has worked directly within mortgage banking, telecom systems and IT sectors within the business community.
Catherine has been interested in the Internet as a business marketing tool ever since she worked on her first automation project in 1988. Catherine has worked in the many facets of the technology world from quality control, technical support, technical and automation training to sales.
She loves her son Brian (and his rat terrier Boonie), dark chocolate and good glass of Pinot.
She’s raising a teenager, so be nice to her.
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Kim Aikawa
Freelance Graphic Designer
Forward Motion Studios
Kim enjoys designing everything from Logos to signs. She finds inspiration in art and loves being a mom to her two beautiful daughters. She writes about her love of travel on the She Said Then She Said blog.
She also loves dark chocolate.
And Pug dogs.
And her two cats.
But not wild turkeys.
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Naso “Naz”
Office Feline and Director of Distraction
Forward Motion Studios
Naz finds inspiration with string, paper and likes to sit on keyboards when it is time to take a break from computers.
He loves fish.
And the remote.
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Here at Forward Motion Studios, we are dedicated to a very simple philosophy:
* Listen carefully to our clients.
* Understand our clients’ marketing goals thoroughly.
* Create strategic design solutions that express those goals effectively.
This philosophy benefits your project through our innovative and creative design solutions and complete project management. This framework lets us realize our own goal of being your complete marketing support partner. With over 30 years of combined experience, we know how to deliver results that will earn your trust – the accomplishment that we are most proud of.
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Forward Motion Studios is a full service design firm providing -
Affordable web hosting
Advertising photography
Branding
Brochure design
Business blogs
Business blog training
California web design
Content Management solutions
Copy writing
Corporate photography headshots
Corporate web design
Custom business cards
Custom client/server programming
Custom logo design
Custom Website design
Custom Twitter backgrounds
E-commerce solutions
Facebook management
Fine Art photography
Flash Multimedia design
Flyer design
Graphic design (for print and web)
Identity
Internet marketing
Keyword research
Letterhead design
Monthly payment plans
Newsletter design
Northern California web design
Public Speaking
Poster design
Product and still-life photography
Restaurant Menu design
Santa Rosa web design
SEO
Search engine marketing
Social media training
Sonoma County web design
Stock, commercial and web photography
Traffic Analysis
Twitter management
Web and print advertising
Web application development
Website development
Website maintenance
Website re-design
Web 2.0
Wine labels
Winery websites
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