Current Office Jam: Greta Van Fleet – Highway Tune
Every once in awhile, you just want to hear some bone-rattling rawk sauce, and that's a pretty sound way of describing Greta Van Fleet. Read more
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Your Most Important Digital Marketing Asset Is Full of Shitposts
Digital marketing has been around for a long time, and like any gold rush, this means that literally billions of words, free whitepapers, e-books, and actual marketing books have been written about the digital marketing basics. Everything you need to know about the basics of… Read more
Hire A Professional or Your Cut-Rate, Cost-Conscious Decisions Will Come Back To Haunt You
if you pay cut-rate prices for work in our industry--website development, logo design, social media management, content marketing, you name it--then the only one to blame for the shit work you just paid shit for is you.
And, if you're just getting started professionally, before you… Read more
Current Office Jam: Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Relax (Don’t Do It)
The current office jam is one of our resident digital strategist D. Rose's favorite night time jams when he's taking a break from his German techno swing-dance music, and it's a DOOZY. If you haven't listened to this track, you haven't lived. (or were possibly… Read more
The key to building a loyal fan base is simple, even with a championship winning competitor right next door
In the midst of a team rebuild for my beloved White Sox, I've been dreaming about the days when the Sox will be back on top of the division. With a roster and farm system loaded with talent and perennial playoff appearances, I’d get to… Read more
We’re Hiring – WordPress FrontEnd Developer
COVERT NINE is growing, and is in need of some additional help with all of the incoming projects, as well as our own internal projects. Primarily, we're in search of a frontend developer, with a heavy focus on WordPress themes and plugins.
If you’re someone who… Read more
Current Office Jam: Galactic Empire – The Imperial March
We challenge you to put this song on every time your boss walks in the door. Boss theme music. Read more
Paying for ongoing SEO services is digital snake oil (and stupid)
Back in the earlier days of Google's search dominance, there was a lot of time spent on continuous search engine optimization, but those days are gone. The sad part is, there are still hundreds of companies out there that will still try to sell you on… Read more
The First Three Things We Do for Clients with SEO Problems
SEO as an ongoing service is dead. Stop paying for it. That said, if you have a site, and you're not showing up in Google, there's three things we do first to help with getting websites ranked in search results pages.
We tend to focus… Read more
A Google Ad Words Jargon Reference Guide for Non-Marketers
Our quest to write more than 5 words every 9 months has proven far too ambitious, but we've finally stumbled upon a boring topic that we ourselves struggle with--explaining Google Ad Words Jargon to clients new to the world of ppc advertising.
There's a huge variety… Read more
Don’t pay for a website that you can’t update yourself
We can't even update our own site
Lots of small businesses
God dammit.
You just hired your neighbor, nephew, personal assistant, executive assistant, host, child, or outsourced your design job to India cause you're cost-conscious--which is smart, but not in the right way.
After your site is done, and… Read more
David Ogilvy
David Ogilvy “Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving”
Pulled from AcquisioNever stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving
David Ogilvy
Chicago Venue Interior Photography
It's been a long 14 months working on our first product, but in the meantime, we were able to sneak in a few photo shoots of various Chicago restaurants, bars, shared office spaces, and event spaces. Read more
Current Office Jam: Cloudkicker – Sky Guide
Current office jam this week is pretty much all Cloudkicker. Great mixture of instrumental that's a little bit heavier version of Explosions In The Sky. Think Explosions In The Sky + Dream Theater. Read more
Current Office Jam: The Blackwater Fever – Blackwater
Currently rocking out to anything Blackwater Fever related. Now if we can just get them to tour in the US.... Read more
The biggest red flag to look for in potential clients
If there's one thing I've learned that I'd like to share that's taken me the better part of 15 years to learn, it would be identifying red flags with potential clients.
If the company, or person you're interacting with does not believe in their company/product/service 100%, and… Read more
Riot Fest Website Design: Part III – Development
You've apparently found the first 3,000 words interesting and have made it to part III of the making of the Riot Fest website post! (What is wrong with you?)
This is the part of the story where we throw just about everything out the window to… Read more
Riot Fest Website Design: Part II – Design
In this second part of a three part post, I'll be covering the design and illustration process. Rather than designing the website from scratch to fit some sort of custom content management system, we start with a skeleton framework, usually a premium Wordpress theme, to… Read more
Riot Fest Website Design: Part I – Concepting
In this three part post, I'll be showing you how we built Riot Fest's brand new Wordpress website with as much helpful information as I can remember, in hopes that it'll help you out in some way with your own large-scale website design projects. In… Read more
Tegan and Sara Concert Photography at Riot Fest Chicago
Loved watching Tegan and Sara interact with the crowd during their set on Sunday at Riot Fest Chicago. They even told one heckler to "Eat shit!" Tegan and Sara concert photography by COVERT NINE.
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