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Really organized, perfectly on time and budget, and thoughtful design and usability guidance throughout the process. Also, very responsive after launch with requests and maintenance.","url":"https://icenineonline.com/services/website-design","published_by":"agency","also_documented_case":true},{"client":"V3 Companies","quote":"Ice Nine Online built an employee safety portal website for our multi-disciplined engineering and construction company. We are very happy with the end product. The site is easy to navigate, works great on mobile phones, and the design is top-notch. Ice Nine was great at project management and was even able to incorporate a few out-of-scope features that we requested during the build. The site was completed by our target launch date, and they handled the deployment flawlessly. The post-launch support has also been great.","url":"https://icenineonline.com/services/website-design","published_by":"agency","also_documented_case":false},{"client":"Matt","quote":"Our small marketing team relies on Ice Nine to solve our Wordpress challenges, fix our website dilemmas, and help us manage our social campaigns.","url":"https://icenineonline.com/services/wordpress-ai-agents","published_by":"agency","also_documented_case":false},{"client":"PC Bennett Solutions","quote":"Our B2B company has been using Ice Nine Online for SEO for a few years now, and due to their efforts, we're in the top spots in Google for our target keywords. We rank above our competitors, and some of them are much larger companies with big marketing teams and budgets. Often, we rank in both the 1st and 2nd spot in Google.","url":"https://icenineonline.com/services/search-engine-optimization","published_by":"agency","also_documented_case":true}],"note":"Ratings and reviews from independent platforms; quotes are verbatim and checked against the review text. Testimonials published by the agency are labelled as such."}}