That's just like, your opinion man

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…

August 25, 2017September 14, 2017

The key to building a loyal fan base is simple, even with a championship winning competitor right next door

By covertnine / SLANT / event marketing, event ticket marketing, marketing events

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…

June 8, 2017

We’re Hiring – WordPress FrontEnd Developer

By covertnine / SLANT / css, html, hiring

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…

March 28, 2017

Current Office Jam: Galactic Empire – The Imperial March

By covertnine / SLANT / galactic empire, star wars, galactic empire video

We challenge you to put this song on every time your boss walks in the door. Boss theme music.

August 8, 2016August 5, 2016

Paying for ongoing SEO services is digital snake oil (and stupid)

By covertnine / SLANT / thats just like your opinion man, seo, search engine optimization

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…

August 5, 2016August 5, 2016

The First Three Things We Do for Clients with SEO Problems

By covertnine / SLANT / wordpress, thats just like your opinion man, seo

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…

July 28, 2016September 9, 2016

A Google Ad Words Jargon Reference Guide for Non-Marketers

By covertnine / SLANT / ppc, google ad words, ad words

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…

July 14, 2016

Don’t pay for a website that you can’t update yourself

By covertnine / SLANT / thats just like your opinion man, web design, content management

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…

David Ogilvy “Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving”

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving
David Ogilvy

Pulled from Acquisio

April 5, 2016April 7, 2016

Chicago Venue Interior Photography

By covertnine / SLANT / event photography, venue photography, restaurant interiors

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.

September 1, 2015

Current Office Jam: Cloudkicker – Sky Guide

By covertnine / SLANT / cloudkicker, sky guide, little histories

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.

August 25, 2015August 25, 2015

Current Office Jam: The Blackwater Fever – Blackwater

By covertnine / SLANT / blackwater fever, music, rock music

Currently rocking out to anything Blackwater Fever related. Now if we can just get them to tour in the US....

April 28, 2015February 24, 2016

The biggest red flag to look for in potential clients

By covertnine / SLANT / marketing, clients, client services

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…

December 11, 2014April 21, 2016

Riot Fest Website Design: Part III – Development

By covertnine / Riot Fest, SLANT / css, html, 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…

December 11, 2014April 21, 2016

Riot Fest Website Design: Part II – Design

By covertnine / Riot Fest, SLANT / riot fest, css, wordpress

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…

December 11, 2014April 21, 2016

Riot Fest Website Design: Part I – Concepting

By covertnine / Riot Fest, SLANT / chicago, riot fest, riot fest design

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…

September 16, 2014August 25, 2015

Tegan and Sara Concert Photography at Riot Fest Chicago

By covertnine / SLANT / chicago, riot fest, concert photography

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. View more of our Riot Fest photos Facebook Twitter Instagram Flickr

September 16, 2014August 25, 2015

Dropkick Murphys Concert Photography at Riot Fest Chicago

By covertnine / SLANT / chicago, riot fest, photography

Dropkick Murphys concert photography from Sunday, September 14th, at Riot Fest in Chicago. With the exception of Four Year Strong, this was one of the most energetic crowds/mosh pits we've ever seen! View more of our Riot Fest photos Facebook Twitter Instagram Flickr

September 16, 2014August 25, 2015

Weezer Concert Photography at Riot Fest Chicago

By covertnine / SLANT / chicago, riot fest, photography

Weezer closed out Riot Fest in Chicago on Sunday, September 14th by playing a few of their newer jams, followed up by the Blue album in its entirety. Weezer concert photography by COVERT NINE. View more of our Riot Fest photos Facebook Twitter Instagram Flickr

Rise Against at Riot Fest - Friday, September 12, 2014

September 16, 2014

Rise Against Concert Photography at Riot Fest Chicago

By covertnine / SLANT / chicago, riot fest, photography

Little bit of rain and mud didn't stop Tim McIlrath, Joe Principe, Zack Blair, and Brandon Barnes at this year's Chicago Riot Fest on Friday, September 12th, 2014. Rise Against concert photography by COVERT NINE. View more of our Riot Fest photos Facebook Twitter Instagram Flickr

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