Hi! My name is Kaila
Woodside and I am a Business Development Manager at Compendium.
Actually one of the first employees of the Company. Thus far I have
enjoyed watching the company grow and grow with it.
Hi! My name is Kaila Woodside and have recently joined Compendium Software
as the Marketing and Account Associate.
I am originally from Pennsylvania and am hoping to use this blog to report on things I have learned from my experiance here at Compendium as well as address tips and information that everyone can use while blogging!
A few weeks back Compendium took a weekend to do a little team building - via white water rafting. The trip was amazing and everyone came back with a new energy and feeling of real camaraderie. Wilderness Voyaguers, my rafting company of choice in Ohiopyle is actually one of Compendium's clients. So as opposed to blogging immediately after our trip on our blog - I made a guest post on the WV blog. You can check it out here. 
Who has the best clients? We do. This past week I have been working with Hilary and Travis @ Fairytale Brownies on a blogging for business strategy. Fairytale Brownies is an Arizona based company that was started in 1992 by Eileen Spitalny and David Kravetz (friends who met in Kindergarten) using a family brownie recipe!After a few short months of working with Compendium, I am going to start off my sales career by selling our blogging solution! And it has been a great experiance thus far.
Since we are offering a product that every business needs, its been fun to show marketing managers why they need this product and how easy it is to use.
What I have learned most by selling Compendium's software is that alot of people are looking for a blogging solution as way to step into the social media aspect of marketing- and show thier customers real people are behind thier product.
I am learning a great deal about blogging and how it can help business win thier search - and it is very exciting to education others about how Compendium's Blogging Solution can do just that!
A NEW FEATURE!
After our new website release, rebranding, and other upgrades - Blake Matheny our FABULOUS head of Technology just released video embedding technology! This is such a fanatastic advantage to our blogging software and a great way build SEO to your blogs.
If you have never embedded a video to a blog here is the how to:
1.) Upload your video to YouTube or another video source. (I will use YouTube for example)
2.) When you upload your video to YouTube make sure that you TAG YOUR BLOG
3.) After your video is live on YouTube copy the "embedding code"
4.) Paste the embedding code directly into the text editor.
5.) DONT FORGET CONTENT -- the content is the most important part of the blog. Using the keywords to make sure your video blog post is compended to the applicable compended blogs as well has increasing your SEO.
Here is an example of how well these videos view on our software: (this is me raft guiding through Dimple Rapid on the Lower Youghiogheny in Pennsylvania)
Today in the office Marty presented a webinar to our current clients and others interested in compendium's software. This was my first experience attending a webinar and I didn’t know exactly what to expect. Is he just going to run through a slide show? Is this an interactive experience? What can people gain from attending such an event? Fortunately I learned the answers to all my questions today.
So a webinar is basically a live information feed which is presented to the audience via their computer and phone. While sitting at their own desk the participant simply logs on to the site where the webinar is taking place and is automatically seeing the presenter’s computer. Along with this they can also join into a conference call where they are able to hear the presenter’s presentation and easily respond to questions, ask for further information, or give their own feedback.
While the webinar is taking place is there also an area where participants can “chat” (this was where I took part in the session). Participants who had trouble logging in, needed to ask questions, or give their opinion could simply type it up in this area. It was my job to attend to these request.
It was fun to be a part of something on the front end of our business and I learned a lot. Webinars are such a fantastic tool to bring together your clients to a place which is convenient to them (sitting at their own desk while listening on their own phone).
So I'm a small town country girl - moving from Pennsylvania into the city to work for this blogging software company! And what a better way to welcome me to Indianapolis than with the NFL kickoff concert? I am not a huge Colts fan, but I am sure that I will be converted by
the end of the season (althogh I will still be a Pittsburgh Steelers
Fan at heart). The concert featured Kelly Clarkson, Hinder, and Faith Hill! And after scoring some great VIP passes and fighting my way to the front row - I ended up getting some great shots.
The concert was very rewarding after a week and a half of finding myself in a very new place. Corporate Blogging itself is fairly new to me but I have caught on very quickly. Compendium Software offers such a great atmosphere and is selling easy to use blogging software -- which ultimately creates a fun working environment. And keep a watch here on my blog because within a short while I will be able to create some best practices for the blogging community - or maybe even get Kelly Clarkson to start up her own company blog!
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