We have a webinar coming up this month that is sure to be interesting for clients and prospective clients alike.
If you are a current client, this will be a great time to learn about what some of Compendium's most successful customers are doing on their business blog, how they incorporate blogging best practices, and what success really means to them. Come see how you can make improvements to your current blog program.
If you are new to Compendium, come learn about how blogging for search can lead to an increase in traffic to your site, generate leads, and increase sales from people that have actually experienced these results.
As a snapshot, you'll hear from the following types of companies who blog for business:
eCommerce Gymnastics Apparel Company:
If you are a current client, this will be a great time to learn about what some of Compendium's most successful customers are doing on their business blog, how they incorporate blogging best practices, and what success really means to them. Come see how you can make improvements to your current blog program.
If you are new to Compendium, come learn about how blogging for search can lead to an increase in traffic to your site, generate leads, and increase sales from people that have actually experienced these results.
As a snapshot, you'll hear from the following types of companies who blog for business:
eCommerce Gymnastics Apparel Company:
- Over $100,000 closed business within a year, directly from blog traffic.
- $10,000 in sales within the first two months of blogging with cheer uniform network.
- 500% increase in keyword reach, compared to the number of paid keywords targeted.
- Receive over 50,000 keyword referrals each month.
- Customer was searching for “spancrete”.
- Found the company’s blog and called.
- $3000 job complete within 48 hours of search.


After recently working with their Director of Marketing, Joshua Hall, their business blog has started to see some great success with their program. Below is a recent email from Joshua regarding their blog program:
Search is like the ocean. It's huge - it's endless - and it contains so much!
We use SEO tools. To complete my analogy: SEO tools = the floatation devices we use to swim with in the ocean. 
There are hundreds to enthusiastic students, alumni, and fans that tailgate in the parking lot. The Notre Dame logo is everywhere. The stadium is packed. The student section is filled with enthusiastic students in "the shirt" for 2009. Green, navy and gold pepper the stadium. Chants are shouted. And they even have a jig...
s a great point, however, Nicki does seem to focs a bit on making your blog a destination within your industry, while this can be a great side effect of quality content, I would recommend for most companies to use a more search marketing mindset when beginning their blogging strategy.

The other day I posted this graph showing the latest of the Gartner Hype Cycle's and the
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Now let's incorporate the search aspect. When I was searching for food at the fair, I went to an area that had many different types of food listed. This is similar to how someone goes about internet search. Go to your search engine, type in what you're looking for (i.e. fair food), and list of options appears. You then sort through those options for what is the most appealing. At the fair, I looked at all my options while standing in one place, saw the word "hotdog," then went to that station. I could have picked anything to eat at that point because it all looked delicious and was covered in grease, but the hot dog sounded most appetizing. It's about the search, and the appeal of finding what you are looking for. 
For those of you who are a lot more "schooled" in biking than I, you probably know I didn't just buy a bike. Oh, no - I bought a bike then it dawned on me... well, how am I going to get it home? So, I bought a trunk carrier, then I realized if I wanted to ride this weekend I probably need a helmet. Oh and, don't forget the air pump!





























