Realistic

Idealistic?

We like to be

A bit of both

This is 2016–marketing budgets for small businesses are micro, if they exist at all. That’s why we don’t bill like lawyers. Most of our services are flat rate, some are per project. We’ve spent the last 10+ years making it work for small businesses at a rate they can afford, that outputs the same level of quality you’d find at an overpriced agency. At COVERT NINE, we treat your money as if it were our own.

After all, why would you pay an agency rate, if an agency is most likely going to assign an inexperienced team who have no vested interest in growing your business ethically and organically?

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Our Process

Analyze

We’re not just managing your existing or non-existing social media accounts. We’re integrating them into your website and growing your following organically, through techniques developed over the last 10 years, and engaging content marketing. Don’t know the difference between CPM and CPC? We’ll demystify the acronyms (and bullshit) you’ve probably been SPAM emailed about.

Construct

We’re not going to jump onto the newest social media bandwagon. We’ll focus on where you need to be based after our initial analysis and create a strategy that builds real, measurable ROI. Think you’re doing everything you need to? That very well may be, and in that case, we’ll gladly f*$% off and let you run the show.

Execute

We’ll help you start from nothing, or we’ll build from where you left off, delivering detailed reporting on the progress of your online marketing efforts. Sending out messages into the social media abyss with no tracking of successes/failures is why you fired your old web guy. We’re not like that.

Some of our work

Web Design & Development

Have a designer, but need a developer? Have ‘a guy’ who doesn’t really know what he’s doing? Whether it’s a few hours, or a full scale project, we’ve done it all. Our primary focus is with WordPress, but we’ve worked with just about every CMS imageinable. (Joomla, Magento, Squarespace, Shopify, DotNetNuke, and many other horrible nightmarish CMS systems) If you hate yours, we’ll find you a good one.

“Eating our own dog food”

In this instance, we’re picking steak. This site runs on our own propriety platform built on top of WordPress. It uses our own photography, design, and code, which you can have for a very fair price, once we release it to the public. (We’ll even grant you licenses to use the photos in the theme!)

Some other things we do

01Social Media

Anyone can manage social media. We’re not in the business of charging $1,500/month to post #HASHTAGGED riddled messages into the social media abyss. We specialize in establishing a unique voice and social strategy for your brand. Then, we hand it over to you, the experts.

02Design

You have a website, but it doesn’t grow your social following, or drive more newsletter subscribers, or drive your new leads. We’ll work with what you have or start fresh, ensuring your site looks great on all devices.

03Development

If your site is Flash, your site is old. Can’t update your own site? Well… that’s a problem too. We’ve been building websites since the beginning. We know how to make it easy for you, or your neighbor’s nephew, to maintain and update your website.

04Pay Per Click

Pay-per-click advertising is one of the leading drivers of online sales next to email marketing. We’ll demystify what it is, and why it may (or may not) work for you. We’re also a certified Google Ad Words Partner.

05Email

Don’t hire the ‘guy’ with a huge email list of 50,000 and an open-rate of 1%. Effective email marketing is one of the leading drivers of sales online, and if you’re not doing it right, your business is paying for it. And let’s be honest, dropping a giant JPEG flyer into a cookie cutter MailChimp template isn’t smart marketing.

06SEO

You’re getting at least 3-5 spam emails per week from the “GET YOU TO THE FIRST PAGE OF GOOGLE!” guys. (They’re selling digital snake oil.) Our SEO philosophy is all about keyword research, proper coding, optimized copy, and more importantly, ongoing content production. That’s what Google really wants.

07Video

Our full 1080p HD video production capabilities will help sell your product or service. We can develop ideas, execute, and get your video seen by the right people with your social following, or we will punch ourselves in the face.

08Content

Original content, the true amplifier of online marketing. After doing keyword research and user personas, we’ll help you produce truly original content that your targeted demo actively seeks out. The best side effects of a solid content marketing effort: increase in website traffic, more followers, newsletter subscribers, and a LOYAL audience.

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