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Hello. We are emBold, a web + mobile design and development digital agency.

We build long lasting and trusting relationships with our clients to provide a service they know will improve their brand and achieve their goals.

Together with the we can offer the comprehensive marketing services of a large agency with the pricing, attention, and flexibility of a small boutique.

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emBold strives to provide top-notch development and design services combined with reliability and transparency that you can't find anywhere else. We use tested and proven design processes to increase conversions and cutting-edge development techniques that will help your brand perform at its best under any technical environment. We're a small and specialized team based in Northeast Ohio with offices in Akron and Hudson, but work with clients and other marketing firms from all over the world.
Joren Rapini Joren Rapini
Joren Rapini
President & Creative Director
Glorious Leader & Master of Efficiency
Senior Developer X Senior Developer X
Senior Developer & Astronaut
Given Reed Given Reed
Given Reed
Senior Developer
Caffeine Addict
Zach Patrick Zach Patrick
David Pfeiffer
Developer
Space Pirate
Tyler Kocheff Tyler Kocheff
Tyler Kocheff
Developer & Dev Ops
Rogue Server Wrangler
Justin Kimble Justin Kimble
Justin Kimble
Developer
Batman
Joren Rapini
Joren
Rapini
President & Creative Director
Senior Developer X
Senior Developer
Astronaut
Given Reed
Given
Reed
Senior Developer
David Pfeiffer
David
Pfeiffer
Developer
Tyler Kocheff
Tyler
Kocheff
Developer & Dev Ops
Justin Kimble
Justin
Kimble
Developer
When you work with emBold you also have access to the talented members of the Summit Collective. Summit Collective is a group of creative professionals who work both independently and collaboratively to offer businesses and nonprofits a wide range of services — such as SEO, graphic design, website development, photography, videography, social media, PR, and copy writing. Acting as your full-service creative agency, yet instead of maintaining a high level of resources and overhead, working on an as needed basis to fulfill the specific objectives of each particular project, thus lowering costs, increasing savings, all while providing comprehensive, quality services.
Businesses appreciate talents.
We’ve got lots of ‘em.

We excel in Website / App Development + Web / UIX / Mobile Design. emBold works with already well-established brands or startups, and we can supplement the skills of other agencies. We’re also experts with Ecommerce and Website Hosting, and enjoy the challenge of any kind of custom project or 3rd party integration.

Some of the more technical stuff we play with:

iOS / Android / Email Marketing / Magento / WordPress / HubSpot / Woocommerce / OpenCart / BigCommerce / Shopify / Salesforce / Webflow / Drupal

HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript / PHP / Laravel / Ruby / MySQL / Git / Tailwind / jQuery / PostCSS / Xcode / Swift / Vue / Apache / Nginx / GraphQL / REST / Nuxt / Svelte / Kubernetes

And plenty more, so contact us.
I’ve worked with a lot of web developers and Joren is by far and away the best. He is our “go-to” guy for every development project. Joren’s passion for problem solving leads to innovative solutions through new ideas and technologies; he always finds a way to make things work – you’ll never hear him say “we can’t do that.” He’ll figure it out. Many developers don’t understand aesthetics but Joren has the best grasp of artistic principles of any developer I’ve ever seen. He is quick to respond and when the ball is in emBold’s court you can trust that they are on top of the job.
James Kurtz
Creative Director of Kurtz Graphic Design
As our Interactive Agency has grown, so have the technical needs of our clients. Because we are primarily a marketing agency, it was becoming a challenge to find qualified providers who deliver services on the level our clients have come to expect. emBold meets and exceeds both our internal and our clients’ expectations on every project. No other provider we’ve used in the past has the breadth of skills and understanding of digital development, programming, and design as emBold. We are happy to have found them.
Matt Titus
Digital Marketing Director of SEOM Solutions
The entire emBold team are some of the most attentive, professional and helpful people that I’ve ever worked with. They helped us create interactive and user friendly websites from start to finish. We’re so happy that we chose them to overhaul all of our company websites. I’ve never worked with such an accommodating and helpful design team. They’re awesome!
Liz Rowsey
Marketing Manager of Hedstrom
The City of Sheffield Lake has had the fortune of doing business with Joren Rapini of emBold since January of 2014. Joren totally re-worked our City’s website making it a wonderful tool for our residents to use. We were so very impressed with his skills that we continue to retain him for his expert webmaster services.
Tamara L. Smith
Finance Director, City of Sheffield Lake
emBold has been amazing! Joren and his team are extremely talented, prompt, and efficient. I have worked with dozens of programmers and designers over the past decade and I was so happy to say I finally found the right partner, emBold!
Rob
I have had the immense pleasure of working with Joren Rapini and emBold for the past several years. His attention to detail, creativity, and ability to problem solve, consistently prove to be priceless. Joren is always accessible, responds rapidly and has been an incredible IT partner for our business.
Gabrielle Hosea, RN
Director of Clinical Transport
I have been working with emBold for almost 3 years. Joren’s knowledge of website development and willingness to go above and beyond for our company has helped drive the success of our online business. He is easy to work with, organized and very professional. I would highly recommend Joren and his team at emBold!
Ammey
Marketing Specialist at Foundations
EmBold Creative has become a vital resource and creative partner for Gianfagna Strategic Marketing, Inc. We’ve worked closely with the emBold team to develop several high-impact websites for our clients. They are flexible, smart, and easy to work with. We look forward to future collaborations.
Jean Gianfagna
As a business owner, having someone who understands the technical needs of my business is a must. Joren and his team at emBold have the technical capabilities to help my business grow, and the communication abilities to help me understand. emBold is always available and always finds solutions to any technology issues I've encountered.
Dana Weiss
Creator of Possessionista.com
The team at emBold are top-notch. They have crazy good design and programming skills. They are organized, professional, and always courteous and polite. I have referred numerous clients to emBold without reservation. They simply know how to get things done. If you need a website or an app built, emBold is the team for the job!
Matt Williams
Managing Director at Triple Canopy Media
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Search Engine Optimization
Videography
Brand Identity
Print and Product Design
Photography
Amazon Management
Copyediting
Copywriting
Pay-Per-Click Advertising
Public Relations
Augmented/Virtual Reality
Get in touch with us.
We’d love to work with you.
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526 S. Main St. Suite 701D
Akron, OH 44311
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ACBF
Allegheny County Bar Foundation, a public non-profit organization, provides educational programming, promotes public awareness of the legal and judicial systems, renders legal services to low income clients and provides financial assistance and grants to legal related organizations. They were looking to consolidate two websites into a unified destination, improving the accessibility and user experience overall.
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Ohio Precision Molding
A premier injection molding company based in Barberton, Ohio, they provide comprehensive manufacturing capabilities of high quality thermoplastic injection molded parts, with a variety of specializations. Primary goals here were to just create a professional online presence with clear info about their who, what, and why.
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Rosemary Beach, FL
Rosemary Beach, an HOA that functions more like a retail resort area, caters to a community of 500 houses ranging from $5M to $20M with large access to amenities and a beautiful beach, wanted to primarily create a new trophy website that their owners could be proud to display. All we really had to do was make sure the website looked classy and didn't get in the way of the gorgeous photos.
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Regenerative Omegas
Nature's Crop needed branding and logo design for a new line of premium plant-based Omega-3+6 dietary supplements featuring Ahiflower seed oil. Our team developed their unique look and feel, along with this ecommerce website that will expand as their product line grows.
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National Vehicle
National Vehicle was going through a rebrand and redesign of their website, and teamed up with emBold to execute the development of the project. It was a unique integration with another internal Laravel system that we helped implement the use of a custom API with all of their vehicle data for the website to handle. The results of our approach meant a much faster loading website with much more SEO-friendly URLs and an improved user experience.
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LifeFone
The previous website had a number of problems, the primary of which was an outdated version of Magento ecommerce that was end of life. We rebuilt the entire website utilizing a headless version of Wordpress for a CMS and blog, and the Ruby on Rails Solidus for an ecommerce backend, with a fully customized product customization and checkout process, and heavy Salesforce integrations.
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AtNetPlus
AtNetPlus had gone through a lot of growth and change. The website needed to be a more effective place to nurture leads and communicate with the right audience. The modular approach to content management we built gave them an efficient way for their marketing team to easily spin up and A/B test new landing pages.
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Mitre
THE brand for soccer and rugby. emBold designed and built a fast-performing e-commerce website to show off all of their premium sports products. We enjoyed working on this one, drawing inspiration from other top sports brands such as Adidas and Nike.
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Child Craft Legacy
The Child Craft brand has been around since 1954 and so it has some deep roots. Their Legacy offering is sold only in specialized retail stores. The website was built on Wordpress for easy and simple content management.
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BOSU
Walk into a gym and you’ll typically see these things on racks along a wall. They make for a great twist on any workout regimen, constantly challenging your balance. We teamed up with the Summit Collective and built this e-commerce store on the Magento platform. This project also involved heavy customization for fulfillment and other features, as well as a fully custom-built education / training management tool for listing and booking courses, managing attendees and certifications, and tools for their international team.
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Foundations
One of our clients whose marketing efforts the Summit Collective is very involved in. This website has always presented the unique challenge of selling direct online as well as providing ease of access to their dealer network and for four separate target markets to top it all off.
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On All Cylinders
The blog of popular performance car part retailer, Summit Racing, they have an extremely active blog and engaged community, with close to 6,000 posts and 25,000 comments. We built a new site with a focus on accessibility and retaining user views, lowering bounce rate and improving SEO performance.
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The Educational Empowerment Group
The EEG is a charter school management organization serving students who need high-quality school options. They help manage operations so the schools can focus on education, creating additional pathways to success. The website and media were designed to project high energy and excitement in its telling of EEG's story and showcasing what they're doing.
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B+B Cleaners
A joint project to launch a new brand for Qualchem with their first entry into household products. B+B Cleaners has a new and environmentally safe product line for cleaning stone counters, stainless steel, and glass. Together we designed and developed a new marketing website as well as a commercial, photography, and press releases.
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Dataq
DATAQ was looking to increase the sales and help customers find the right product as quickly as possible and learn more about their systems with a new redesign. The largest challenges here were designing a product page presentation that did this well and worked with their myriad of products and services for their diverse customer base.
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Matrix Technologies
A Wordpress website extremely dense and packed with information and marketing content. emBold handled the development end of things for this project.
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Hedstrom Plastics
A relatively simple informational and marketing website for their parent company, the headquarters located in Ashland Ohio. We did get to have some fun with the video work on this one.
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The Wine Mill
Enjoy good wine, great appetizers, and a rustic charm? And a big water wheel? Located in Peninsula Ohio, the Wine Mill restaurant always offers a good time. They needed a website to highlight their menu, photos, and events.
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Beverly Hills Doctors
A group of world class surgeons banded together in the Beverly Hills area to provide a complete concierge-centric service to their international clients from start to finish. They needed a heavy multi-lingual marketing website with a modern feel.
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Aspie Pathways
Aspie is an organization that provides a unique way for individuals with autism and similar challenges to receive support for their needs by encouraging and growing their artistic abilities. The website allows users to donate to these artists or the organization and in return receive gifts of work that they’ve created.
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City of Sheffield Lake
A lovely city on Lake Erie near Cleveland, Sheffield Lake has been a pleasure to work with. The website has turned into a great resource for their residents, and is kept up to date often with events, news posts, and council meetings via Wordpress.
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Soul Intentions
Mary Jo, while also being related to emBold’s owner, also happens to be an extremely talented psychotherapist, lecturer, author, and television personality. We designed and developed a mobile application for both iOS and Android which provides great inspiration daily to its users.
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Vitec, Inc.
Manufacturer of Predictive Maintenance Equipment to Detect Faults and Predict Failures of Rotating Machines. Basically, they design and sell things that detect when vibration is going to cause a problem. New design and content presentation along with the start of a new SEO campaign to bring in new leads.
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Smart Surface Products
Smart Surface Products is all about surface protection! Protect your hardwood floors or carpets while making furniture easier to move. Additional products prevent movement, reduce noise levels, and protect other surfaces such as tables & countertops.
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nüCamp RV
High quality Amish built camper trailers, with a mixture of luxury and innovation. A real lifestyle brand that emBold has worked closely with to help build.
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Surge Strong
Hedstrom, based out of Ashland, Ohio, has a fitness line of products that we built this e-commerce website for, also on Magento. It uniquely highlights each product and their features, with a user friendly and fast checkout experience. We also developed an entirely custom fitness course education scheduling and management system for their team and their trainers.
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Peg’s Foundation
Members of the Summit Collective helped drive the rebranding for Peg's Foundation and website design. Peg's has a huge role in helping improve mental illness in Northeast Ohio, as well as supporting local arts and education initiatives. The website allows for an easy platform to educate about the organization, their grant process, and stay very active with updated content and art galleries.
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Andover Properties
As a parent company, Andover needed help planning out their variety of brands would communicate and planning its own brand identity. Modern was key here for the visuals, along with a very easily updatable content management system for convenient creation of marketing-focused landing pages and a blog.
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Akron AAUP
Akron University's American Association of University Professors needed a new website to improvement engagement with their members and to keep them better informed of new events, organized meet ups, and news, as well as encourage more membership sign-ups.
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Buschman
If you've handled any paper products with a coating, then chances are Buschman's product touched it. emBold designed and developed a new website to help highlight their technical expertise in all things coating.
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Disston
Disston needed a redesign, as well as help resolving all of the speed and performance issues with their current website. We developed the website improving upon all of these items and in result, providing a much better user experience.
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AIAMC
emBold built the website with a custom CMS, event scheduling, booking system, forum, job board, members section and directory on Laravel for AIAMC, a national organization that works with independent academic medical centers. The platform was a huge step up in features and usability from before.
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Hedstrom Environmental
How to make plastic dumpsters fun and interesting? That was part of the goal here with this website design, as well as providing a useful tool for their sales team.
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Hedstrom
Until this was designed and built, Hedstrom never really had a website to represent their parent corporate brand. This was focused on making an accessible location for job application submissions and company news.
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McKinley Kids
McKinley Kids needed a new website that would match the fun, child-like style of its branding, with a central place to highlight all of their locations and services that they offer.
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Open Arms
Open Arms had an outdated and non-mobile friendly website that needed a huge face lift. Primary objective was to create something that felt welcoming and easy to funnel the two target audiences (those looking to adopt out, and those looking to adopt) to get them to reach out.
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Rae-Ann
Multi-location and multi-award winning nursing homes in the Cleveland area that provide the nicest facilities and resident experience that we’ve ever seen. They needed a way to show this off and pull in new residents. They even went viral with this little ditty.
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Great Lakes Truck Driving School
A new website was needed to make it as easy as possible for potential students to learn everything they'd need to before jumping into a program, as well as make it simple for them to apply to the school and for the Great Lakes team to manage applications.
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Supertrapp
A well known brand in the performance parts arena especially for motorcycles. This was a custom designed and developed Magento 2 Ecommerce website that features a part picker based on their product data, and a fit guide for each part.
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TufTile
You see these things everywhere you go, and TufTile is one of the leading manufacturers of them. This website involved a completely new brand strategy, a large document library with opt-in access with a built in PDF text search, and a robust patented calculator that helps contractors in the field size and order the products they need quickly.
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Summit Metro Parks Foundation
The Summit Metro Parks Foundation is the primary connection between passionate park lovers and the Metro Parks. The newly designed website needed to both inform and inspire its visitors, recognize all those who contribute to their community, and provide a way to view larger projects that the Foundation has been worked on.
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Think Bigger Do Good
Four foundations collaborating together to put together highly informative and actionable pieces of information on the topic of improving the lives of people with mental illnesses. We created an ambitious feature-set for showing off all of the wealth of information that their publications provide. An API was created as well to dynamically feed their article content to other websites.
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Stile Companies
Over the years, Stile's business had changed and they needed a new website to reflect that as well as highlight some of their key properties with detailed information and new photography.
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Spire Leadership
Stepping into a new leadership consulting role, we helped Dan kick off his business with new branding and website design. Dan has a lot of talent and expertise to share, and the visuals needed to be dressed to impress while communicating this.
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Kapco
One of the big drivers that pushed Kapco for the need for a new website was their switch to a new ERP system, Epicor, which we fully integrated multi directional sync with for customers, orders, products, etc. This turned into an extremely robust system with lots of complex payment and shipping rules and customer group features, but they now have a massively improved user experience for their customers.
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Brakey Energy
A long time client of ours, Brakey's business model and customers had changed a bit, along with a lot of growth, that meant it was time for a facelift to better reflect their company and customer size, and restructuring of content for better marketing and communication.
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Grand Outlook
New owner, new look. For this we created new branding with a new website design that really utilized the photography. The booking engine syncs with 3rd party channels like VRBO, and includes lots of convenient control methods.
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ACBA
For Allegheny County Bar Association, we managed a focus group of member attorneys from the greater Pittsburgh region and incorporated their feedback into an improved user experience, a more modern design, and some new features to help members get more out of their membership. This required a large integration with their membership system. On top of all of that, we’re also seeing a nearly 67% reduction in page load time!
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Brooklyn Photo Studios
To help save this startup some money we utilized a premade theme as a starting point for the visuals, so that they could focus the majority of their budget onto the custom functionality required to make their business run. We built a booking system that allows customers to book a room and set for photography use. The website generates door lock codes on the fly and then texts them to the customer when the booking is finished, so that they have a unique code that works during their booking, so that they can get in and out of the building and room without the need for any interaction from staff.
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Tri-Star Skateboards
Tri-Star is a 100% skater owned and operated skateboard shop and an indoor skateboard park that has been serving the Cleveland market since 2004. The existing website was tied in with their POS system and there were too many issues and restrictions with that setup that prevented them from improving sales the way they wanted. For this we did a fresh new design to flow with their unassuming "we're pretty okay" tagline and a custom developed Woocommerce solution that tied in with Square's POS to keep all inventory and order in sync between the two systems.
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State & Federal Communications
State & Federal Communications presented the challenge of designing a website that stuck with their branding in a way that would also serve two very different target audiences, for the consulting side of their business and for the service that their SaaS application provided.
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Mojonnier
Mojonnier's previous website design just didn't fit their target audience. They needed a more B2B and industrial design chock full product spec data that would make engineers feel more at home.
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The Malted Meeple
We were pretty excited to geek out on this one. Together with the Collective we did a full website redesign, photography, and video for the Malted Meeple to show off their new location. The website features a very active news and blog section, events, games listing with filters, a food/drink menu and other content all easily editable.
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Child Craft
An e-commerce website built on Magento, optimized for all devices - mobile, tablet, and desktop, with a very easy-to-use checkout process, followed up with multiple effective marketing and email blast campaigns.
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Summit County Courthouse
The objective for the Summit County Courthouse's new website was to enhance accessibility for all visitors as it was often the first experience someone might have with the courts. Ease of finding information was a top priority.
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Akron Rebar
Recently under new ownership, Akron Rebar wanted to build a new image to go along with their recent investments and evolved direction. emBold and the Collective was selected to lead the charge here to develop all new marketing messaging, community interaction, and a cutting edge brochure website to highlight their capabilities and projects.
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