Ice Nine Online hosted a Google Partners Connect event on May 4th. The topic of the event was using smarter customer insights to improve your digital marketing. Below is a recap of the event and some of the key takeaways from …
5 Activities to Jump-Start Your Digital Marketing
1. Perform keyword research over a minimum of 5,000 keywords to identify the ideal keywords for SEO optimizations and Google Ads targeting. Process: Log in to Google Ads > Tools > Keyword Planner > “Search for new keywords using a …
This Sentence Has Five Words
This short example from Gary Provost demonstrates what happens when a writer experiments with sentences of different lengths. It’s an exceptional one-minute writing lesson: This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. …
10 Awesome Websites for Entrepreneurs
https://www.join.me Join.me is a user-friendly, quick-loading, FREE screen-sharing tool. A great alternative to Google Hangouts or paid services like GoToMeeting, join.me allows users to click a link to instantly join a meeting, without needing to provide log-in credentials or downloading …
Actual SEO Client Results
Above are actual results for a small business client after taking my 2.5 hour SEO/SEMTraining Class. With this particular client I stressed keyword research to find the optimal keywords to use in SEO, back-end SEO optimizations, and content improvement and …
Profiling a Successful Tech Startup: Belly
For a Stanford University Tech Entrepreneurship course I’m taking, we were asked to profile a successful local startup, focusing on the key factors that make the startup a success or contributed to it’s early-stage growth. Here’s my research on Belly, …
What is DecideGuide Chicago, and Why?
What is DecideGuide Chicago? DecideGuide Chicago is the amazing new FREE iPhone App designed, developed, and published by Ice Nine Online. DecideGuide is the greatest way to find the best experiences in Chicago, based on your mood. Our team of …
5 Reasons Why Chicago is Becoming a Worldwide Leader in Technology
1. President Obama’s $200+ million Chicago tech manufacturing hub in Goose Island With the goal of boosting high-tech manufacturing, in 2014 Obama promised $70 million in federal funding for a Pentagon-led institute focused on high-tech digital manufacturing and design in …