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The Stork’s Nest Child Academy | Day Care                        4

The Weight Loss Show | Events & Exhibitions                      6

All American Fence Corp | Fencing Contractor                     8

Value Logistics | Transportation                                 10

The ALEA Group | B2B Lead Generation                             12

Mobile Mark | Telecommunications                                 14

ABC Glass & Mirror | Shower Door and Window Installation         16

Mardi Gras Casino & Racetrack | Casino, Racing & Entertainment   18

Poco Solar Energy Inc. | Solar Energy                            20

First Consulting Group (FCG) | Training and Consulting           22

Cornerstone Montessori Prep School | Private School              24

The Fireplace Center & Patio Shop | Retail                       26

Gillett & Johnston (Croydon) Ltd. | Manufacturer of Clocks       28

Sage Realty | Real Estate                                        30

Kaya Skin Clinic | Beauty and Skin Care                          32

Eggington Dairy | Local Milk Dairy                               34

CBT Coaches | Luxury Coach Hire Services                         36

Diablo Solar Services | Solar Energy                             38
B-Safe Electric | Electrical Services                40

Sunsweet | Food and Beverage                         42

Mustard Seed Canada | Non-Profit                     44

Tallinn Hotels (Aldera Hotel Ltd.) | Accommodation   46

HR Solutions, LLC | Human Resources / Consulting     48

Victron Inc. | Electronics Manufacturing Services    50

Poirier & Associates | Life Insurance                52

Streeter Marshall | Solicitors / Legal Services      54

Milton Keynes College | Education                    56

Eleg Distributors | Automotive Parts Distributors    58

Maid in California | Cleaning Services               60

focusIT Inc. | Information Technology                62

Smart2BeGreen | Eco-Newsletter Publication           64

Le Lys d’Or | Flower Shop                            66

Cruga Ltd. | Online Retail                           68
THE STORK’S NEST
             CHILD ACADEMY
                    Day Care

         www.storksnestchild.com




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Goals and Challenges:
                                                  Rhode Island”, “Daycare East Greenwich,
                                                  Daycare Warwick”, “Daycare Smithfield”.
Stork’s Nest was advertising through              Since starting the project, there have been
traditional methods of Yellow Pages, radio        over 150 leads with approximately 50 new
and local newspaper ads. Their original           enrollments both full-time and part-time.
website was 100% Flash and not recognized
by the search engines. Due to the downturn
in the market, enrollments were dipping.
They needed a measurable way to attract                        TESTIMONIAL
new visitors to the school for enrollment.
                                                       “In a tough economy, we were
                                                       hesitant to take on another
The Solution:                                          expense for advertising, but WSI
                                                       helped us to see that website
WSI’s solution for The Stork’s Nest Child              marketing was a necessity in
Academy was to build a new website using               today's market. They were right!
the WSI eFusion platform. WSI also optimized           Our business has really blossomed
the website for local place search in the              and it is through the referrals that
spring of 2009. Afterwards, WSI initiated a            came through our website! We are
pay-per-click (PPC) campaign using the call-           truly grateful to work with such
to-action of “free initial registration worth          talented people and a company as
$75”. For existing families, they were able to         fantastic as WSI. The return on
access easily downloadable calendars.                  investment (ROI) was astounding
                                                       to me and it is all through WSI's
The Results:                                           commitment to our site that this
                                                       was possible!”
WSI’s solution for Stork’s Nest provided the
                                                       Michele Stevenin
day care with a steady stream of leads
                                                       Vice President
coming from the website with workflows and
                                                       The Stork’s Nest Child Academy
requests for tours sent to specified locations.
They immediately experienced a dramatic
increase in leads and new enrollments to the
school. WSI also used email marketing to
follow up with prospective families that did                   WSI Consultant:
not enroll but showed interest. This way,
those leads were not forgotten but were                      SCOTT WASSERMAN
nurtured for potential future enrollments.                    Rhode Island, USA
                                                             www.wsiwikipro.com
From a search engine perspective, the
website ranked page one for the following
keywords: “Daycare Rhode Island”, “Day Care




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THE WEIGHT LOSS
                 SHOW
             Events & Exhibitions

         www.weightlossshow.ae




                                            TESTIMONIAL
                                    "There would have not been any
                                    other way to expand awareness on
                                    the Weight Loss Show to so many
                                    people as we managed to do
                                    through WSI’s Internet marketing
                                    services. We at Linkviva Events
                                    appreciate WSI’s team for their
                                    expertise, advice and
                                    professionalism in customizing an
                                    Internet marketing campaign that
                                    was absolutely suited to our
                                    business and generated not only
                                    huge interest for our business
                                    online but also visitors walking to
                                    our event!”

                                    Niousha Ehsan
                                    Business Development Manager,
                                    Linkviva Events
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Goals and Challenges:                              The Results:

Prior to working with WSI, the client had          By targeting the campaigns, WSI helped the
challenges reaching anEnglish and Arabic-          client achieve 560 registrants for the event
speaking target group interested in the topic      within 3 weeks specifically through WSI’s
of weight loss. They were running campaigns        efforts. In addition, 12,352 visitors came to
within a short period of time and seeing very      the site in only one month and more than
little results. WSI’s objectives were to:          1,500 local leads registered online.

    Gain exposure                                 The client is extremely happy with the
    Leverage call-to-actions                      campaign and how targeted and effective it
    Increase conversions                          was. The campaign has achieved enormous
    Capture information                           results and value for money that traditional
    Target specific segments                      promotional activities could not deliver
                                                   before. This in turn has resulted in impressive
                                                   footfall at the event, which pleased both the
The Solution:
                                                   organizers and exhibitors.
WSI’s advanced digital marketing strategy for
the Weight Loss Show included:

    Web presence (Conversion Architecture)
    Brand building (online banners)
    Database building (registration form)
    Lead nurturing (email marketing)
    Ongoing review (testing and enhancing)

The solution that WSI implemented for the
client included a great deal of creative design
for the website and several banners that the
company used to advertise its events. A
professional website was built for
informational purposes and acted as the                          WSI Consultant:
uniting tool for all other marketing activities.
A separate landing page was built in Arabic                     HUSAM JANDAL
for those who clicked on the banner ads,                         Dubai, UAE
which had Conversion Architecture elements.                    www.ezwsinet.com
WSI used a top-notch email marketing and
database system for the client and provided
regular reports on the results of each
campaign.




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ALL AMERICAN FENCE
                CORP
             Fencing Contractor

       www.allamericanfencecorp.com




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Goals and Challenges:                               Website traffic has more than doubled
                                                     because of WSI’s Internet marketing
                                                    Monthly visitors have increased from
It became very clear to All American Fence
                                                     1,600 in Sept 2009 to 4,000 in Aug 2010
that customers are more and more relying on
                                                    Almost all of the client’s targeted
the Internet to find contractors and not as
                                                     keywords are now ranking in the top 5
much on the Yellow Pages. They began to
                                                     positions on Google, Yahoo! and Bing
realize they needed to focus more on the
                                                    Back in Sept 2009, most of the keywords
Internet for their marketing, so they decided
                                                     were not even in the top 100 across all 3
to sign up for WSI’s digital marketing system.
                                                     search engines
WSI’s objectives were to:

  Increase the company’s web presence and
   generate leads                                              TESTIMONIAL
  Start PPC to generate immediate leads              “Through WSI’s customized SEO
  Start SEO for a long-term Internet                 and PPC marketing system, we
   presence and to be found on major search           have been able to jump to the
   engines above their competition                    front page of major search
                                                      engines. WSI has always been very
The Solution:                                         knowledgeable, thorough, prompt
                                                      and dependable. The WSI team is
                                                      always accessible and able to
WSI’s solution involved: website design and
                                                      answer any questions we may
development, search engine optimization
                                                      have right away. We would
(SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC). We replaced
                                                      recommend WSI to any business
their old website with a new design and a
                                                      that is looking to expand and
new content management system (CMS).
                                                      develop their marketing online”.
The website is now ranking at the top of
Google’s page one listing for all of their
                                                      Kim Myers
originally targeted keywords. WSI plans to            Owner
add additional keywords to expand                     All American Fence Corporation
geographic coverage.

The Results:
                                                               WSI Consultant:
As a result of working with WSI, All American
Fence Corp is now being found on the first                         JASON YI
page of the major search engines. Traffic to                   California, USA
the site has increased significantly in the past             www.ezwsiweb.com
12 month. WSI measured the results using
ranking reports, web analytics reports and
pay-per-click reports.




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VALUE LOGISTICS
                Transportation

              www.value.co.za




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Goals and Challenges:
                                                 The client gained 1,978 inquiries from their
Prior to working with WSI, Value Logistics had   website through WSI’s campaign between
no website presence at all despite their         May 2009 to July 2010, 10% of which
status as a Johannesburg Stock Exchange          converted into customers resulting in over
listed company. Instead, the company was         $100,000 worth of sales.
spending $180,000 annually on Yellow Page
advertising. WSI’s goal was to develop a
professional web presence for the client and
help them generate leads online.

The Solution:
WSI created a customized digital marketing
plan for the client that included:                            TESTIMONIAL
                                                      “WSI and their team have been
  A new, professionally designed marketing           instrumental in generating leads
   website                                            and growing Value’s business
  Online “request a quote” forms                     online. WSI has helped us achieve
  SEO for the entire website                         excellent results in this competitive
  5 content pages per month                          industry”.
  Analytics measurement and regular
   consulting                                         Tracey Le Roux
  Article submissions                                Marketing Manager
  An ongoing link building strategy                  Value Logistics
  Advertising in online classifieds and
   industry-specific directories

The Results:
As a result of working with WSI, the client                    WSI Consultant:
was able to compete more effectively online
against bigger competitors through their                    FRANCOIS MUSCAT
professional online presence. WSI reduced                       South Africa
their Yellow Pages marketing spend by 50%                     www.wsioms.co.za
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THE ALEA GROUP
            B2B Lead Generation

          www.thealeagroup.com




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Goals and Challenges:                             As a result, traffic to their site has increased
                                                  drastically as well. Between September and
The ALEA Group had no Internet marketing          December 2010, website traffic increased
strategy before working with WSI. The             89% over the traffic received between May
company was only found online for keywords        and August 2010.
related specifically to their company name.
WSI’s objectives were to improve the
company’s visibility on the search engines for
industry-related keywords, showcase their
president as a thought leader as well as
generate leads online.                                          TESTIMONIAL
                                                       “We engaged with WSI 3 months
The Solution:                                          ago to help with ALEA's SEO
                                                       ranking on Google. WSI presented
                                                       a plan and delivered on the plan.
WSI created a content marketing blueprint              We are now on page 1 of Google
for the company. In addition, we conducted             when you type ‘lead generation’.
initial keyword research, compiled a                   WSI made the process painless and
competitor report, optimized some pages on             seamless. It is like watching
the company’s existing website and began a             someone who is in complete
monthly search engine optimization (SEO)               control of their craft at work. I
campaign focused on article marketing and              have no hesitation recommending
link building.                                         WSI for any web-related project”.
We also re-designed the company’s blog,                Louis Foong
optimized the WordPress plug-ins and                   President
published content for the blog, which the              The ALEA Group
company provides, on a regular basis.

The Results:
The ALEA Group’s website is now being found
on the search engines for industry-related
keywords in a very competitive area. The                         WSI Consultant:
keywords that the site has been optimized                          LIANA LING
for include: “B2B lead generation”, “lead
                                                              Ontario, Canada
generation” and “appointment setting
                                                           www.wsiwebconnects.com
service”. This is a highly competitive industry
and the company is very happy that they are
now visible in the search engines for
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MOBILE MARK
            Telecommunications

           www.mobilemark.com




                                         TESTIMONIAL
                                 "We have heard nothing but
                                 positive comments about the new
                                 website. Visitors are drawn in
                                 from the first page and find it easy
                                 to move around the website. We
                                 are grateful for the advice and
                                 assistance we received from WSI.
                                 WSI guided us through web design,
                                 page creation, database
                                 maintenance and search engine
                                 optimization. It is one thing to
                                 have a website and another to
                                 have an effective website. It was
                                 an eye opener to realize all the
                                 factors that go into building an
                                 effective website”.

                                 Eleanor Sylvan
                                 Vice President Marketing
                                 Mobile Mark, Inc.
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Goals and Challenges:                               Press releases were distributed online
                                                     with links back to the website
Mobile Mark wanted to generate interest             The sales team was able to direct
among existing customers and prospects in            prospects to the product information on
their database for the SMW Series, a modular         the website and they were able to send
antenna design that allows 2, 3, or 4 different      out electronic links to the brochure
antennas to be combined in 1 antenna
housing. They also wanted to generate entirely
new leads.
                                                  The Results:
                                                  The website was launched in May 2009 and
The Solution:                                     below are some of the results achieved:

A printed application brochure was developed        Total SMW & MGW units sold increased
to explain the features and benefits of the          64% year-over-year based on Jan-May
product, explain model numbers and the many          sales
combinations possible, and give application         For just the SMW antennas, the units
examples so that their customers can envision        increased 74% in the same period
the antenna in their setting.                       Using the combined SMW & MGW sales
                                                     dollars for the Jan-May period, the sales
It was the electronic use of the brochure in         dollars increased 62%, which is in line
conjunction with other electronic material that      with the increase seen in the units
helped Mobile Mark truly increase the number        For only the SMW antennas, the sales
of people who became familiar with this              dollars increased 73%
product. Here are the details of the solution:      The number of distinct models sold
                                                     increased 22% from 2009 to 2010
  Product descriptions were added to the           For the number of series (i.e. without
   website as models were developed                  considering the cable and connector
  An electronic version of the brochure was         combinations) the number of series
   added to the tech library on the site             increased 27%
  A link to the electronic version of the
   brochure was added on the front page
  A Featured Products section was added to
   the Product Database section of the site                    WSI Consultant:
  Links were added from the Featured
   Product section to the brochure and                         NANCY VINKLER
   product listings                                          Pennsylvania, USA
  An electronic Mobile Mark e-newsletter                   www.wsisimplyroi.com
   was sent out with links to both the
   products and the brochure
  SEO pages were developed to reinforce
   links to the Mobile Mark website



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ABC GLASS & MIRROR
         Shower Door and Window
               Installation

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Goals and Challenges:
                                                   The company estimates that about 80% of all
ABC Glass & Mirror wanted to switch from           new calls come via search on the web. In a
traditional advertising to digital marketing. He   tough economy, they have experienced
had just built a brand new website with            growth over the last two years. They have
absolutely no organic web presence at all. He      brought on two new members this year and
contacted WSI, along with several firms in his     feel they may need to look for additional
area, but decided to go with WSI because we        members if business keeps up.
explained exactly what we would do, how we
do it and what he could expect - in non-
technical terms. WSI’s objectives were to
lessen the company’s dependence on                              TESTIMONIAL
traditional advertising over time and re-               “I just wanted to take a minute to
balance it to primarily online media.                   thank WSI and your team. What
                                                        an awesome job you are doing! In
The Solution:                                           less than two months, I'm finding
                                                        us on the 1st page of Google and in
Before working with WSI, they had zero PR and           some cases we’re in the 1st
did not show up on the search engines for any           position. Business is steadily
search terms at all. WSI initiated a campaign           picking up and with this economy it
that involved: marketing consulting, a website          could not have come at a better
makeover and ongoing maintenance, search                time. I'm letting my friends and
engine optimization (SEO), social media                 colleagues know how much WSI
training and ongoing consulting as well as              has helped us out. Thanks again
implementation assistance.                              for all your hard work!”

                                                        Micah Howell
The Results:                                            Owner
                                                        ABC Glass and Mirror Inc.
ABC Glass and Mirror has seen a dramatic
increase in their online leads and has been
able to rebalance their marketing budget to
the more flexible and measurable (and
effective) online media.                                        WSI Consultant:
                                                               CHUCK BANKOFF
We now have a total of 321 first page rankings,
including several #1 rankings across all of the
                                                                California, USA
major search engines. We also have a                          www.wsieworks.com
tremendous amount of #2 and #3 rankings. In
addition, the company is now interacting with
clients in their local area via social media.




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MARDI GRAS CASINO
           & RACETRACK
           Casino, Racing and
             Entertainment
         www.playmardigras.com
       www.mardigrascasinowv.com




                                           TESTIMONIAL
                                   “We knew we had to launch an
                                   aggressive Internet marketing
                                   program to be competitive in our
                                   market, but we could never get any
                                   real traction until WSI arrived. WSI
                                   brings tremendous value to Mardi
                                   Gras Gaming because they worked
                                   hard to understand the essence of
                                   our positioning and focused on our
                                   most important revenue streams.
                                   WSI has integrated our core
                                   business and offline efforts into an
                                   effective online campaign. Their
                                   SEO program in particular has had
                                   a dramatic impact on our
                                   business".

                                   Cathy Reside
                                   C.O.O.
                                   Mardi Gras Gaming

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Goals and Challenges:                             For Mardi Gras West Virginia, we launched a
                                                  pilot PPC campaign to generate phone call
Before working with WSI, Mardi Gras Casino        reservations for their new hotel
and Racetrack in Florida, USA was not ranking
on the first page of Google in the very           The Results:
competitive gaming and entertainment market
of South Florida. At the time, they had modest
                                                  In less than 6 months, Mardi Gras Casino in
traffic to their 40-page site that was built
                                                  Florida has gone from barely appearing on
without Conversion Architecture and
                                                  the first pages of search results to appearing
inadequate search engine optimization (SEO).
                                                  on page 1 for over 50 search terms. In many
They were not running a pay-per-click (PPC)
                                                  cases, they dominant the first page appearing
campaign, conducted very little social media
                                                  multiple times with results from the site, blog
marketing and did not have a blog.
                                                  and video channels. The volume of site traffic
                                                  during this initial 6-month period has
Mardi Gras Casino and Racetrack in West
                                                  increased over 300%.
Virginia, USA opened a brand new hotel in the
summer of 2010. WSI was assigned the task of
                                                  At the Mardi Gras West Virginia hotel, our
generating reservation requests as well as
                                                  PPC campaign was just as successful. Our
raising overall awareness of the property.
                                                  conversion goal is to generate phone call
                                                  requests for reservations. In the first 4
The Solution:                                     months of the PPC campaign, we have
                                                  generated an average of 122 calls per week
For Mardi Gras Florida, WSI created an entirely   at a cost of $2.38 per call. These results have
brand new 100+ page site as part of a             provided an outstanding ROI for the hotel.
comprehensive online marketing program. We        They expanded the budget for PPC for 2011.
developed a creative concept that provided        We will also be launching a comprehensive
powerful Conversion Architecture to the site      integrated online marketing program for the
focusing on their key profit centers. We wrote    West Virginia property including a new 100+
100 pages of original keyword-rich content        page site.
and continue to make daily content updates to
the site.

Since the launch of the site, WSI began                         WSI Consultant:
managing all of their social media marketing
including: creating new Facebook and Twitter               PETER V. DECRESCENZO
pages, posting to them on a daily basis,                        Florida, USA
developing exclusive Facebook and Twitter                www.wsi-onlinesolutions.com
promotions and running Facebook ads. We
also manage an ongoing PPC campaign, a link
building program as well as write, optimize and
distribute content on their blog weekly.



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POCO SOLAR
                ENERGY INC.
                  Solar Energy

            www.pocosolar.com




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Goals and Challenges:                               WSI began providing reputation management
                                                    services to POCO Solar to monitor reviews
                                                    and encourage positive reviews. We will
POCO Solar was not visible on any search
                                                    continue to monitor, research, and provide
engines. They were relying mainly on
                                                    value added services for POCO Solar.
traditional marketing methods such as Yellow
Pages, direct mailers, etc. But they knew that
marketing is shifting from these traditional
methods to the Internet. They knew they                         TESTIMONIAL
needed to focus more on the Internet because
they realized the power of the Internet and did         “I take this opportunity to
not want to fall behind as their competition            commend the WSI team on the
was making the transition.                              excellent Internet marketing
                                                        results you produced for POCO
                                                        Solar Energy Inc. We know we
The Solution:                                           made the right decision by working
                                                        with a global company like WSI
WSI’s services included search engine                   that’s available to us locally! The
optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC),                project management skills and
content marketing and reputation                        hands-on approach of your team is
management. WSI initially targeted 20                   impressive and has delivered very
keywords for SEO, all of which started to rank          good results for us. We plan to
at the top of the first page in less than a year.       expand our Internet marketing
We have added 50 keywords to the campaign,              efforts and increase reliance on the
20+ of which are already on the first page.             Internet to generate leads for us. I
                                                        would not hesitate to recommend
The Results:                                            WSI to other business owners”.

Here are the results of WSI’s solution:                 Greg Cordero
                                                        President
  Traffic increased more than 50% in less              POCO Solar Energy, Inc.
   than 12 months
  Remarkable improvement in visibility (40+
   keywords ranking on the first page of major
   search engines)                                              WSI Consultant:
  PPC is working well and consistently
                                                                    JASON YI
   providing 300 to 400 clicks and a steady
   stream of leads
                                                                 California, USA
  During Q1 and Q2 of 2010, the client                        www.ezwsiweb.com
   generated $175,000 worth of business
   from Internet leads in about 3 month
  This produced more than enough profit to
   cover the online marketing cost for the year



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FIRST CONSULTING
              GROUP (FCG)
           Training and Consulting
       www.firstconsultinggroup.com.mx




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Goals and Challenges:                              The Results:
Before working with WSI, the client had a lot      This professionally designed website ranks
of people providing basic information, such as     very high in the search results for a lot of the
dates and training programs by phone, face-to-     keywords related to FCG’s services. The site is
face and email rather than through an online       also very functional meeting all the needs
presence.                                          that the client had initially. From July 2009 to
                                                   July 2010, the client experienced a 305%
They also only had local coverage and wanted       increase in direct sales as a result of WSI’s
to expand their reach. WSI’s goal was to           services.
develop regional and national coverage by
helping the client be found in Google, while
reducing costs by having all their information
online.
                                                                 TESTIMONIAL
                                                        “Great work, great design, I don’t
The Solution:
                                                        even want my competition to know
                                                        about what I’m doing. Thanks a lot
To meet the needs of First Consulting Group,            to WSI!”
WSI built a robust website with a very
functional calendar of events where clients can         Juan Manuel Flores Cervantes
register for FCG’s training programs. We also           Socio Consultor
did some search engine optimization (SEO), so           First Consulting Group
they could target their services in different
cities.

We have submitted their seminars to related
directories and we have built many landing
pages per topic, which has helped in the SEO
strategy. This way, the client can be in the top
results not only with one listing but two and
sometimes even more listings.
                                                                 WSI Consultant:
                                                               JORGE CONTRERAS
                                                               Coahuila, Mexico
                                                            www.wsifirstsolutions.com




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CORNERSTONE
           MONTESSORI PREP
              SCHOOL
                 Private School
         www.cornerstoneprep.ca




                                           TESTIMONIAL
                                  “Almost immediately after working
                                  with WSI, we received inquiries
                                  several times per day as well as a
                                  number of walk-ins every week.
                                  Through the website, our enquiries
                                  have increased tenfold and has
                                  enabled us to increase our
                                  marketing profile by a substantial
                                  margin. I have been and continue to
                                  be impressed with the effectiveness
                                  of WSI as well as their level of
                                  professionalism, personal attention
                                  and commitment to their clients'
                                  success. I would highly recommend
                                  them to anyone wishing to enhance
                                  their marketing profile".

                                  Dr. Stephanie Ling
                                  Principal
                                  Cornerstone Montessori Prep School

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Goals and Challenges:                            The Results:
Prior to working with WSI, Cornerstone           Particularly due to the changes Google has
Montessori Prep School had no digital            made to local search recently, the school is
marketing strategy and was only seen online      on page 1 of Google for terms related to
for keywords related to the company name.        “Toronto Montessori School”. When the new
Their lead generation consisted of advertising   website went live and we started generating
in Yellow Pages, educational directories,        traffic from Google PPC ads and Facebook
educational magazines, referrals and the sign    ads, they were receiving 3 calls a day as well
outside their school. They needed to increase    as people dropping in to ask for a tour of the
enrollment to keep the school going.             school and several online inquiries.

                                                 In addition, over the last year:
The Solution:
                                                   32 people signed up for their newsletter
Using the WSI eFusion platform, WSI re-            27 people completed the Admissions
designed the school’s website and conducted a       Application Request
targeted pay-per-click (PPC) campaign for 3        Almost 100 inquiries for more information
months to generate immediate traffic to the         came in via the contact form
website. We also helped them streamline their      Inquiries from other organizations
processes by creating specific forms on the         interested in working with the school
website for job employment inquiries, to book       came through
a tour of the school and a more detailed
Admissions Application. The site is even used    As a result of WSI’s outstanding results for
for parents to RSVP for special events and       the school, they did not renew advertising
raise funds for special charitable projects.     with Yellow Pages or any of the other
                                                 subscription except for the one online
In addition to the above, WSI also created a     directory that is sending them more traffic.
content marketing blueprint, conducted
keyword research, compiled a competitor
report, optimized the website pages and
began a monthly search engine optimization
(SEO) campaign focused on article marketing                    WSI Consultant:
and link building.
                                                                  LIANA LING
Recently, WSI also created a custom Facebook                 Ontario, Canada
page for the school and are in the works of               www.wsiwebconnects.com
designing a blog for the principal.




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THE FIREPLACE CENTER
            & PATIO SHOP
          Retail (Fireplaces, BBQs,
                  Hot Tubs)
         www.fireplacecenter.com




                                              TESTIMONIAL
                                      “On behalf of our entire team, a
                                      big thank you to WSI for your
                                      excellent job in creating our new
                                      website and conducting continued
                                      developments and ongoing
                                      improvements to the site. We
                                      appreciate your quick
                                      understanding to our industry,
                                      your patient and gentle manner in
                                      implementing the latest
                                      technology and our ongoing
                                      marketing meetings to help keep
                                      us focused and on track. I always
                                      feel that WSI has our best interests
                                      at heart and appreciate your fierce
                                      loyalty”.

                                      Andy Cotnam
                                      General Manager / President
                                      The Fireplace Center and Patio Shop

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Goals and Challenges:                               Monthly-specific sales promotions
                                                     matched to offline marketing mix
                                                    Monthly presentation to the executive
A WSI Competitive Analysis revealed that The
                                                     and sales team to ensure the online
Fireplace Center’s online presence was not as
                                                     strategy is aligned to sales strategy
strong as it could be in the following areas:
                                                    Developed a social media optimization
                                                     (SMO) strategy consistent with a mature /
  The look and feel of the website was not
                                                     conservative brand and created branded
   consistent with the offline advertising and
                                                     Facebook page and Facebook profile and
   branding of The Fireplace Center & Patio
                                                     trained staff on social media etiquette
   Shop and the sale of luxury items
                                                    Consulted on aspects of sales and
  Search engine optimization was strong, but
                                                     marketing best practices
   only in the primary products and brand
  Conversion Architecture was non-existent
   and analytics revealed that visitors had       The Results:
   difficulty navigating the 500-page website
  A customer retention strategy was yet to       As a result of WSI’s services, the company
   be established (no email database)             experienced the following:

                                                    14% increase in year-over-year sales
The Solution:                                       28% increase in year-over-year website
                                                     visitors (10,500 more visitors)
WSI’s digital marketing solution for The            188% increase in conversions compared
Fireplace Center included:                           to same period last year
                                                    More business in one day of the spring
  A detailed competitive, market and product        sale than achieved in a quiet month of
   analysis                                          prior year
  Strong Conversion Architecture website           Since launch to date, 76% of the website
   consistent with the sale of luxury goods and      visitors are new to the website
   offline advertising
  100% content creation and creating a
   simplified product hierarchy
  Implementation of an online catalogue
  500-page site was condensed to 100 pages                    WSI Consultant:
   while at the same time increasing search
   engine presence and without diminishing                     ROGER HARLEY
   the value visitors derive from the site                    Ontario, Canada
  PPC campaign design and management                       www.wsiknowweb.com
  YouTube channel creation and embedding
   of videos (TV appearances and ads)




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GILLETT & JOHNSTON
           (CROYDON) LTD.
       Manufacturer of Clocks, Bells
             and Carillons
         www.gillettjohnston.co.uk




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Goals and Challenges:                              Considerable business has been generated by
                                                   the website and they are delighted with the
                                                   results and even more delighted with the
The company has a world-class reputation for
                                                   quality and quantity of business now being
manufacturing clock, bells and carillons for
                                                   generated by their new website.
landmark buildings and churches throughout
the world. Most of the company’s business
was generated by repeat business from
existing clients or word of mouth. Little to no
business was being generated from the                           TESTIMONIAL
Internet.                                               “Further to our telephone
                                                        conversation last week, this is to
Whilst the company is proud of its long                 confirm that we would be
tradition, it was keen not to appear out-of-            delighted for you to use our
date and out-of-touch with the modern world.            website for your [showcase]. I
Their old website looked old fashioned and did          would like to take this opportunity
little for their public image.                          to say how delighted we were with
                                                        the way you managed our project.
                                                        You listened to our requirements
The Solution:                                           and understood what we wanted
                                                        to convey through our website. The
WSI developed a search engine friendly                  follow-up service has been superb
website that conveys the image of a company             and we would have no hesitation
proud of its history whilst appearing modern            in recommending your services".
and progressive. All pages were optimized for
one primary and a couple of secondary                   Jenny Coombes
keywords / key phrases and each page has the            Director
primary keyword in the URL.                             Gillett & Johnston (Croydon) Ltd

The Results:
The new website produces around 200
enquiries from all over the world each month.
It is an excellent showcase of their work and                  WSI Consultants:
achieves the company’s objectives of giving a
modern fresh appearance to an old                      CHRIS GRIFFIN & LESLEY BLACK
established business. Recent commissions                         Surrey, UK
gained via the website include new work from                   www.wsiims.co.uk
a variety of sources, including installations as
far afield and varied as the Falkland Islands,
Singapore, Spain and Haiti.




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SAGE REALTY
                   Real Estate
         www.findahomeinpa.com




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Goals and Challenges:
                                                    Purchased homes had values totaling over
                                                     $2,500,000
In a competitive marketplace where home
                                                    They expect the third client to buy in the
buying was at a near standstill, Sage Realty
                                                     next 2 months with an anticipated
needed to reach these Internet savvy home
                                                     commission of roughly $11,000
buyers. Additionally, they wanted to be sure
                                                    Commissions on the clients who have
to integrate their brand, marketing messages
                                                     bought are over $64,000 this year
and search marketing efforts into a cohesive
Internet marketing strategy. WSI’s objectives
were to continue to move the website
rankings up in the organic search listings as                  TESTIMONIAL
well as distribute marketing messages out on          “WSI’s services are a vital part of
the Internet via digital marketing methods.           Sage’s overall marketing strategy,
                                                      which includes a variety of
The Solution:                                         strategies. The purpose is to
                                                      integrate all as one ‘brand’, with
                                                      Sage being seen as the expert or
WSI trained Sage Realty personnel on how to
                                                      leader in that niche. WSI has
set up and optimize their social media
                                                      encouraged us to move beyond a
accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
                                                      well-designed website with state-
and blog entries. From February 2010 to July
                                                      of-the-art home search features to
2010, Sage Realty began a submission program
                                                      submission of videos, whitepapers,
with WSI that included optimizing and
                                                      press releases, social media
distributing articles, press releases and videos
                                                      postings and other peripheral
to increase SEO exposure.
                                                      strategies to boost our rankings".
WSI not only guided the company through
                                                      Linda Walters
these new technology frontiers, but also
                                                      Owner and Exclusive Buyer Agent
helped them grow their business especially in
                                                      Sage Realty, LLC
an industry where many businesses were
closing their doors

The Results:
                                                               WSI Consultant:
Sage had the following results for 2010 in the
                                                               NANCY VINKLER
2nd year of the new website:
                                                             Pennsylvania, USA
  5 potential home buyers found them                       www.wsisimplyroi.com
   searching online
  3 signed up to buy and 2 bought in 2010
  The rest are potential clients for 2011




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KAYA SKIN CLINIC
            Beauty and Skin Care
         www.kayaskinclinic.me/lp




                                            TESTIMONIAL
                                    “WSI has spearheaded Kaya Skin
                                    Clinic’s entry to the online
                                    platform. They have a good
                                    understanding of consumer online
                                    behavior and are up-to-date with
                                    the latest trends and incorporate
                                    those well into the strategy for our
                                    brand. Our online awareness
                                    scores according to a brand tracker
                                    have doubled since WSI has come
                                    onboard”.

                                    Samir Srivastav
                                    Business Head MENA
                                    Kaya Skin Clinic

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Goals and Challenges:                             • BEFORE: Through campaigns that ran prior
                                                  to WSI’s involvement, the client generated
                                                  approximately 2,400 leads within one year
Kaya Skin Clinic wanted to reach a targeted
                                                  • AFTER: Within the first 3 months, WSI
audience through their web presence. They
                                                  generated nearly 2,000 leads
wanted to promote their clinic online,
generate more leads and achieve a better
                                                  When matching the media budget for
return on investment (ROI). WSI’s objective for
                                                  comparative purposes, the results for the
the client was to achieve the following goals:
                                                  equivalent activities for the sample campaign
                                                  are as below:
  Launch a professionally designed and
   executed online marketing strategy
                                                    WSI’s campaign generated 2 times more
  Generate leads from targeted search
                                                     impressions and most importantly, 2.5
   advertising and banner campaigns
                                                     times more leads
  Increase customer engagement with a
                                                    Independent research by a global market
   strong social media strategy
                                                     research company (TNS) has shown that
                                                     even after the first month of the online
The Solution:                                        campaign launched by WSI, online
                                                     medium as a source of brand awareness
The solution that WSI implemented included           (recognition) by the target audience has
the following Internet marketing services:           increased by 2 times

  Conversion Architecture                        The client was unhappy with their former
  Search engine marketing (SEO and PPC in        Internet marketing partner because they paid
   English and Arabic)                            a lot of money and didn’t get their expected
  Social media (policy development,              results. However, with WSI they are very
   optimizing and tracking social profiles)       satisfied with their current campaigns and
  Online directory submissions                   happy with the cost-effective services that
  Content marketing (blog writing,               WSI offers them.
   publishing, reviews and posting)
  Online banner advertising
  Monitoring and tracking effectiveness
                                                               WSI Consultant:
The Results:
                                                               HUSAM JANDAL
Since launching this campaign, Kaya Skin Clinic                 Dubai, UAE
has achieved the following results:                           www.ezwsinet.com

 • Generated nearly the same amount of
   leads in the first 3 months as what their
   previous agencies achieved within a year!




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EGGINGTON DAIRY
                Local Milk Dairy
      www.eggingtondairymilkdelivery.co.uk




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Goals and Challenges:
                                                           TESTIMONIAL
  Eggington Dairy wished to increase
   awareness of their dairy milk home delivery     "Eggington Dairy, a part of Pecks
   service                                         Farm, has worked with WSI on a
  Eggington Dairy needed milk delivery            number of projects, namely
   orders within a local area                      creating landing pages to help
                                                   promote our home milk delivery
                                                   service and our hand-made, fresh
The Solution:                                      produce hampers. WSI and their
                                                   team have been helpful and
  A landing page was created that was fully       professional throughout, always
   optimized for local search using only           guiding us down the right path,
   organic techniques                              and nothing is too much trouble.
  The landing page included a contact form        Both landing pages have been a
   with a thank-you page                           tremendous success in hitting their
  The landing page was manually submitted         targeted audiences, resulting in
   to the search engines                           increased sales almost from day
  We added search engine verification files,      one, which was a great boost! We
   created XML sitemaps and submitted those        would and indeed have
  We also created robots.txt and geo tags         recommended WSI's services to
   and added those too                             other businesses wanting to
                                                   increase their online presence".
The Results:
                                                   Fiona Peck
Within 1 week of launching the landing page, it    Managing Director
was appearing on the first page of Google for      Eggington Dairy
over 20 different search terms. Most of these
terms appeared not only on the first page, but
also in position 1 of Google. Other results
included:
                                                           WSI Consultant:
  An increase in visitors to her website from a
   standing start to over 1000 visits in a few              TRACY SPENCE
   months – we measured this using Google             Northamptonshire, UK
   Analytics                                        www.totalwsinetsolutions.com
  63% of the traffic to her website coming in
   on a purely organic search - as seen
   through Google Analytics
  Orders placed – 5 new clients in two weeks,
   and continuing to grow – this was verified
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CBT COACHES
         Luxury Coach Hire Services
           www.cbtcoaches.co.za




                                              TESTIMONIAL
                                      “As an existing client of WSI, I had
                                      full faith that they would deliver as
                                      they did with my other business.
                                      They exceeded our expectations
                                      and we have created a profitable
                                      business using WSI as our online
                                      marketing partner".

                                      Jacques Erasmus
                                      Owner
                                      CBT Coaches


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Goals and Challenges:                             The Solution:
This is an existing client of WSI who started a   WSI created a professionally designed
new venture in anticipation of the coach          marketing website for the client and
services that would be needed during the          conducted a series of Internet marketing
2010 Soccer World Cup. Before CBT Coaches         services such as: develop a PPC campaign
became a client, they had no web presence at      that drove targeted traffic to the website,
all because the business was brand new. The       optimize the entire website, provide 4
challenges that lay ahead included:               content pages per month, measure analytics
                                                  and offer ongoing consulting.
  Setting up a web presence from scratch
  Generating qualified leads online
  Competing with other South African tour        The Results:
   operators that were already established
                                                  The project started from scratch since this
WSI’s objectives were to:                         was a start-up business and the results
                                                  exceeded all the business goals for the year.
  Create a professionally designed website       Through this experience, WSI demonstrated
   that would convert well                        that we could generate leads quickly through
  Create a content blueprint for the website     Internet marketing. Some of the results
  Apply an ongoing SEO strategy to improve       include:
   the website’s search visibility
  Design a long-term organic search strategy       4 out of every 10 leads came from the site
   that will keep CBT Coaches at the top of         Generated $8,000/mon recurring revenue
   search engines for “corporate events and         During the 2010 Soccer World Cup month,
   large event passenger transport logistics”        CBT generated $300,000 in revenue
  Develop keyword-specific landing pages for        through their website
   targeted PPC campaigns, designed to                      o 4 sales per month
   convert search visitors into clients                     o Annual revenue $396,000
  Drive targeted traffic to the website
  Develop a content marketing plan to
   increase online brand awareness
  Track performance using Google Analytics                    WSI Consultant:
  Provide the client with monthly                           FRANCOIS MUSCAT
   performance reviews that will drive                          South Africa
   marketing campaign adjustments and                         www.wsioms.co.za
   provide data to determine marketing
   effectiveness




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DIABLO SOLAR SERVICES
                  Solar Energy
            www.diablosolar.com




                                          TESTIMONIAL
                                  “I am approached everyday by web
                                  marketing companies but the
                                  solution offered by WSI made the
                                  most sense to me. The different
                                  levels of service packages allowed
                                  us to ‘test the water’ before
                                  increasing our participation. Your
                                  ongoing result monitoring and
                                  review methodology works very
                                  well as we can make changes to
                                  improve effectiveness and track
                                  our return on investment. Thank
                                  you team WSI!“

                                  Phil Deatsch
                                  Owner
                                  Diablo Solar Services, Inc.
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Goals and Challenges:                               The Results:
Prior to working with WSI, Diablo Solar             As a result of WSI’s services, Diablo Solar is
Services was not being found on the major           now being found on the first pages of all
search engines. In fact, when searched for          major search engines for their keywords.
their company name “Diablo Solar” on Google,        Traffic to the site has increased drastically.
another company would come up above them,
which annoyed the owner great deal.                   Number of visitors has increased more
                                                       than 3 times since September:
They have relied on traditional marketing                     o September 2009: 463
methods and referrals for all of their business               o October 2010: 1466
for over 25 years. They were very successful.         PPC - 500 clicks per month on both Yahoo!
But the owner was beginning to realize that he         and Google
needs to have a better presence on the                SEO - Most of their keywords are ranking
Internet. They have not done any Internet              at the top of the first page
marketing prior to meeting with WSI. This
company is serious about marketing as they          The most remarkable result is this Google
allocated a significant amount of their budget      search result - they get 10 links at the top of
for marketing every year, and they were ready       the first page:
to shift some of that money to the Internet.
                                                      1 for PPC
WSI’s objectives were to help the company be          1 for a local listing
found organically for local searches for solar-       1 for articles/blogs
related keywords within their territory and to        3 for SEO
generate traffic to their website immediately.        4 for videos

The Solution:                                       WSI measured these results using ranking
                                                    reports, Google Analytics and PPC reports.
WSI provided Diablo Solar search engine
optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC), blog
writing, content writing, email marketing and
video optimization services.
                                                                  WSI Consultant:
This is an ongoing campaign. They are ranking                          JASON YI
in the top 5 for all of their originally targeted
                                                                  California, USA
keywords – top of the first page of Google.
                                                                www.ezwsiweb.com
WSI has since added additional keywords to
expand geographic coverage and they are
beginning to show up on the first page for
these terms as well. We have also added
articles and videos to the campaign, which are
also showing up on the first page.


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               Electrical Services
           www.b-safeelectric.ca




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Goals and Challenges:                               Basic metrics: number of visitors, time
                                                     each visitor spends on the site, number of
Before working with WSI, B-Safe used to have         pages visited, bounce rates, etc.
a basic website for several years, which did        Other metrics: geographic area of visitors,
not produce results for them. When B-Safe            sources of traffic, keywords that generate
started working with WSI, our goals for the          traffic, names of the companies who are
new site were to:                                    finding the B-Safe Electric website

  Create a professional looking site that
   reflected the company’s brand and image
  Achieve higher Google rankings for relevant                 TESTIMONIAL
   keywords                                           "We have had a website for many
  Generate more leads and a better                   years and the site was not doing
   conversion rate                                    much for my business. In February
                                                      2009, WSI started managing my
The Solution:                                         website. They meet with us on a
                                                      regular basis and contunously
WSI’s solution was to start with a small              adjust it. My website is now
website (10 pages) for B-Safe. We optimized           updated and keeps growing. But
that site for local search focusing on                the neat thing is that now B-Safe is
Mississauga and the Greater Toronto Area.             at the top of Google for relevant
Our overall campaign included: search engine          searches, which have generated
optimization (SEO), web analytics, Google local       hundreds of thousands of dollars in
listings and copywriting.                             business with customers that I
                                                      otherwise would have never met".
The Results:
                                                      Brian Scheele
As a result of working with WSI, B-Safe now           Master Electrician
has a professional looking website that is            B-Safe Electric
constantly being updated. The site is visited by
hundreds of visitors that find the website using
dozens of relevant keywords related to the
company and its industry. B-Safe is now                        WSI Consultant:
generating around $50,000 from new
businesses every month.                                    VICTOR CASTELLANOS
                                                             Ontario, Canada
To evaluate and continually enhance our                  www.wsileadgenerator.com
results, WSI measures the following:




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SUNSWEET
              Food and Beverage
              www.sunsweet.it
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Goals and Challenges:                               The Results:
Prior to working with WSI, Sunsweet’s primary       Below is a summary of the results:
marketing focus in Europe was traditional
advertising channels, primarily TV. Our               16,770 visits and 9,976 unique visits
challenge was to devise an Internet marketing         59.17% new visits
initiative that integrated well with Sunsweet’s       80,662 page views (total)
traditional TV advertising campaign.                  33,651 video views
                                                      3,745 email subscriptions
The Solution:                                         Conversion rate of 37.5%

Collaborating with our WSI colleagues in Italy,
                                                                 TESTIMONIAL
we launched a new website dedicated to the
Italian market and ran successful search                 “WSI has consistently proven to be
engine marketing campaigns. Some of the                  a highly professional and reliable
elements included search engine optimization             supplier. Their work is always of a
(SEO) and paid search campaigns with a focus             high calibre and executed in a
on building targeted traffic and ultimately a            timely manner. WSI wants to go
customer loyalty program enabling the client             the extra mile, wants to find the
to engage in an email marketing initiative with          best way to do things. They are
existing and prospective customers.                      creative and are endlessly
                                                         resourceful both in terms of design
In collaboration with Sunsweet’s marketing               and ideas for online activities. They
team, WSI also ran an online video contest               have a genuine concern to deliver
over a 6-week period. The online campaign                value for money, and have a
ran in conjunction with an offline TV ad                 relentless attention to detail”.
campaign and was heavily promoted on
product packaging that hit the stores prior to           Amanda Bishop
the launch of the online campaign.                       Marketing Director
                                                         Sunsweet Europe
Below are the elements that we developed
and executed for the Sunsweet campaign:

  Development: website, landing page,                           WSI Consultant:
   Facebook Fan page and YouTube channel                       CORMAC FARRELLY
  Marketing: PPC, social media strategy, SEO                   Dublin, Ireland
   strategy                                                 www.wsionlinemarketing.ie
  Consulting: split testing different ad groups,
   defining target audience for campaigns
   listed above




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MUSTARD SEED
                CANADA
                   Non-Profit
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Goals and Challenges:                              WSI has completed Phase 1 of the project,
                                                   which is to increase brand awareness for the
Before working with WSI, the non-profit            organization and start building relationships
organization, Mustard Seed Canada, had no          with a younger donorbase. Since then, they
Internet marketing strategy, was using a           have received a few inquiries from other
template website and was very concerned            organizations that found them online and
that their current donorbase was aging with        want to be involved in a project.
no strategy to get new, younger donors. WSI’s
objectives were to re-design the website,
improve its visibility in the search engines for
industry keywords, generate support online                      TESTIMONIAL
and create a social media strategy for them.            “We knew mass mailing was
                                                        proving to be less and less
The Solution:                                           rewarding. Now with WSI, we’re
                                                        learning new ways to share how
WSI re-designed the organization’s website              Mustard Seed is providing better
using the WSI eFusion platform and set up a             opportunities for children in
method for staff and volunteers to make                 Southeast Asia. As we learn how
changes to the website as necessary. In                 to engage people online, we’re
addition, we created a content marketing                finding more people keeping in
blueprint, conducted initial keyword research,          touch. And yes, we’ve found that
completed a competitor report and began a               there are young people out there
monthly search engine optimization (SEO)                who care enough to make a
campaign focused on article marketing and               contribution”.
link building.
                                                        Lucie Howell
We also ran a targeted pay-per-click (PPC)              Administrator
campaign for 3 months to generate immediate             Mustard Seed Canada
traffic to the website. We also created a
custom Facebook page for them and did a 3-
month social media campaign to start
generating interest.
                                                                WSI Consultant:
The Results:                                                       LIANA LING
                                                              Ontario, Canada
As a result of WSI’s services, Mustard Seed                www.wsiwebconnects.com
Canada began to appear on page 1 of Google
for 4 of the 5 keywords we were targeting.
Their fanbase on Facebook went from 0 to
almost 800 people. In addition, they have
received increased traffic to their new site.



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TALLINN HOTELS
          (ALDERA HOTEL LTD)
               Accommodation
            www.tallinnhotels.ee




                                           TESTIMONIAL
                                   “After few meetings with WSI, we
                                   felt that this is the right company
                                   to work with – now considering the
                                   new website we admit that the
                                   choice was right! They are helpful
                                   and respond quickly to our
                                   concerns. All questions have been
                                   answered. We already see how
                                   successful our cooperation has
                                   been. Within the first months of
                                   our website being online and after
                                   our monthly meetings with WSI,
                                   we have seen how the most
                                   important numbers have been
                                   doubled. I am very satisfied we
                                   chose WSI”.

                                   Alver Pupart
                                   Sales and Marketing Director
                                   TallinnHotels / Aldera Hotell OÜ
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Goals and Challenges:                               TallinnHotels’ Facebook and Twitter pages
                                                    were designed following the website style.
Before working with WSI, the client had an          Also new email templates and email footers
outdated website design and a poor Internet         were designed. To make it complete, we
marketing strategy. They were not satisfied         designed new business cards as well. WSI is
with their website statistics: bounce rate 67%,     doing SEO and running PPC campaigns in 5
average time on site only 1:24 and only 2           countries and helping them with email
pages seen per visit. As their main source of       marketing.
leads and bookings comes online and their
budget for this is quite high, they realized that
                                                    The Results:
they were wasting money and asked WSI to
help them.
                                                    The hotel is very happy with WSI’s solution
                                                    and the results we have produced. They like
TallinnHotels operates 4 hotels with different
                                                    the new look of the website and other
price range. One of the project goals was to
                                                    marketing materials as well as the social
make it easier for clients to find the best hotel
                                                    media pages.
for them. The objective of this project was to
re-design the brand for TallinnHotels, starting
                                                      They appear on the first page of Google
from the website and end with business cards.
                                                       for the main keyword phrases “Tallinn
We also wanted to create a search engine
                                                       Hotels” and “Tallinn Hotel”
optimization (SEO) strategy and integrate
                                                      Total visits increased from 4000 to 5000
social media to marketing plan and get more
                                                      Website bounce rate dropped from 67%
bookings online.
                                                       to 45%
                                                      Average time on site increased from 1:24
The Solution:                                          to 2:26
                                                      Pages per visit increased from 2.0 to 3.5
WSI designed and created a new website for
the company focused on Conversion
Architecture and integrated it with social
media. The website features: online booking
functionality, contact form, phone booking,
email booking and social media connections. In
addition, we added an online support feature                     WSI Consultant:
allowing the hotel staff to help their clients                     ARMIN TULL
book the right room.
                                                                Hajumaa, Estonia
                                                                www.wsionline.ee
To make it easier for clients to decide which
hotel room to book, we integrated a 360-
degree view feature within this site. The site is
in 4 languages: English, Estonian, Russian and
Finnish.



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HR SOLUTIONS, LLC
      Human Resources / Consulting
          www.hrsolutionsllc.com




                                             TESTIMONIAL
                                     “Since the WSI team took over my
                                     web marketing, I have seen a
                                     significant increase in website
                                     inquiries and new business
                                     generated from the website. We
                                     track where all of our business
                                     comes from, and in the past year,
                                     web marketing has surpassed all
                                     other forms of marketing for new
                                     business”.

                                     Renee McNally
                                     Owner
                                     HR Solutions, LLC

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Goals and Challenges:                             WSI continues to provide complete SEO
                                                  services, as well as assistance with blog
Prior to WSI, HR Solutions was using multiple     updates and suggestions for making better
companies/consultants for web design, copy        use of the website in general. Most recently,
writing, email marketing and site updates.        HR Solutions started using separate secure
Company owner Renee McNally was                   zones on the website for their individual
managing pay-per-click (PPC) ads on her own.      client companies.
WSI was brought in to handle search engine
optimization (SEO), and frequent
disagreements arose between all parties as to     The Results:
the best courses of action – a classic case of
"too many cooks in the kitchen". The company      In the initial 3 months after WSI began
owner was constantly forced to make                working with HR Solutions, website traffic
decisions with conflicting input from several      increased by more than 41%. Search engine
consultants. Overall, web marketing became         traffic went from 54% of all website traffic to
stagnated.                                         71% of all traffic. As of December 2010,
                                                   website traffic is up 56% overall, with more
The objectives of the project were to provide a    than 86% of all visits coming through search
more cohesive and comprehensive web                engines.
marketing plan, and to provide the company
owner with a single point of contact, with        The website enjoys number 1 rankings for
consulting input that was based upon verified     valid, competitive key phrases in all the
best practices. It was also evident that a        major search engines:
website solution that included a blog, e-
commerce and email marketing could benefit          The client reports that between 50% and
the company.                                         60% of all new business comes through
                                                     the website
                                                    Website inquiries are up 78% overall
The Solution:
WSI recommended modifications to the
existing website design to make it more user-
friendly, based upon current Conversion
Architecture practices. The website was                         WSI Consultant:
converted into a WSI eFusion site, with                         JEFF HARRISON
training for the company to make their own
                                                              Maryland, USA
website updates and send newsletters.
                                                          www.wsiwebspecialist.com
Features of WSI eFusion used include: e-
commerce, email marketing, ad rotators,
categorized literature lists and the blog.




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VICTRON INC.
         Electronics Manufacturing
                  Services
              www.victron.com




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Goals and Challenges:                             The site is now ranking at the top of major
                                                  search engines for many of the targeted key
Victron’s old site was not representative of      phrases, contributing significantly to traffic
their status and reputation. It was built years   and exposure. Most importantly, the
ago, rarely maintained and looked very old        company has reached global prospects due
and simple. The company was embarrassed to        to WSI’s Internet marketing strategy applied
show it to their clients. Also, they were not     to their business.
showing up on any searches even when their
name was entered. Instead, other companies
with the same name showed up.                                  TESTIMONIAL
                                                       “I would like to provide a very
Victron wanted to have a more modern and
                                                       positive recommendation
professional looking site that they would be
                                                       regarding WSI. WSI’s efforts,
proud to show to their clients. They also
                                                       consultations and advice has
wanted to be found when people search for
                                                       produced results that were quite
their industry in the major search engines.
                                                       surprising to us. WSI’s efforts have
                                                       translated to increased business
The Solution:                                          opportunities for our company.
                                                       Personally, I’ve valued WSI’s
This is an ongoing project. WSI designed a new         collaborative/consultative style as
professional looking website for Victron.              well as their firm understanding of
Shortly after, WSI started a search engine             the channels across the Internet
optimization (SEO) campaign for 20+ key                and commitment to offering
phrases related to the company’s industry. In          practical, effective ideas for us to
addition, a content marketing strategy was             pursue. Thank you WSI!”
implemented to keep the company blog
updated with fresh, relevant content on a              Craig Miller
regular basis.                                         Director, Business Development
                                                       Victron Inc.
The Results:
The new site is professional looking and
reflects the company’s image very well. WSI                     WSI Consultant:
updates it regularly with new information that
employees are proud to show.                                        JASON YI
                                                                California, USA
The website was built using the WSI Business                  www.ezwsiweb.com
Edge platform, which makes site maintenance
very easy. The website is constantly being
updated with new press releases and content
keeping the site interesting and fresh.



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POIRIER & ASSOCIATES
                 Life Insurance
     www.ineedemployeebenefits.ca




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Goals and Challenges:                            As of July 2010, the firm has completed 5
                                                 deals as a result of the PPC campaign that
Prior to WSI, Poirier & Associates had a         WSI was conducting. The total income to the
website with no idea if they were getting any    firm is in excess with $16,000. They also have
traffic. Even the odd time when a prospect       4 more prospects that could turn into deals
called them from the site, they did not know     very soon, and they continue to receive leads
how that person found the firm. The client’s     online every week.
website was not found on Google.

WSI’s objectives were to help Poirier &                       TESTIMONIAL
Associates gain a strong web presence,
generate a stream of leads online and see a           “WSI started a PPC campaign with
return on their investment.                           me to give my business a regular
                                                      web presence. With their method
The Solution:                                         of explaining the process in a
                                                      language I could understand, I
WSI implemented an online marketing                   have learned the importance of
strategy that included the following:                 having a website and landing page
                                                      that actually encourages prospects
  Started a PPC campaign to drive traffic to         to call or email me. Prior to
   the original website (the original                 engaging with WSI, I had a website
   webmaster was managing)                            up for years but did not get any
  Continued to provide analytics about the           business from it. I’m very satisfied
   visits and their conversion rate                   with the consulting advice WSI has
  Suggested changes to the site that would           provided. I will continue to refer
   help with the conversion rate (again, the          my business associates to them".
   original webmaster was managing this site)
  Since conversion rates for the original            Ron Poirier
   website were still below average, WSI              President
   suggested a landing page with the focus on         Poirier & Associates
   conversion by a phone call to the office or
   an email submission form
  Continued with a PPC campaign to the new
   landing page that WSI designed                             WSI Consultant:
                                                             DAVID MOTKOSKI
The Results:                                                 Alberta, Canada
                                                        www.smartwsimarketing.com
WSI’s strategy has provided Piorier &
Associates with a professional web presence,
a stream of online leads and a great ROI in a
very challenging and competitive vertical.



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STREETER MARSHALL
          Solicitors / Legal Services
        www.streetermarshall.com




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Goals and Challenges:                             The Results:
Streeter Marshall is an old established firm of   Web analytics show that the ongoing PPC
solicitors and notaries with 3 offices in the     campaign, which has continued at the same
South East of England. The old website was        advertising spend level as previously, is now
built by WSI back in 2005, but had become         only accountable for 10% of the website
outdated and did not convey the modern            traffic. Meanwhile, organic search is now
image needed by this progressive firm.            sending around 70% of visitors each month
                                                  (over 1,200 visitors each month).
Whilst the old site had been successful in
bringing new client business to Streeter
Marshall, most Internet business came via the
pay-per-click (PPC) campaign that WSI                          TESTIMONIAL
conducted with very little business coming             “We are delighted particularly at
from organic search.                                   the speed the website moves from
                                                       screen to screen compared with
The Solution:                                          the old site. In addition, the color
                                                       and clarity is much better with a
The initial site WSI created for them used             more modern image. Many thanks
dynamically generated URLs and the new site            to WSI for all your help over a long
that WSI developed recently is far more search         period of time. We are pleased
engine friendly. The website was created with          with the input that you have made
each web page being optimized for one                  into the development of the site, a
primary, and a couple of secondary keywords /          much better product than what we
key phrases. Also, the page URLs contained the         had originally".
primary keyword on each page.
                                                       David Moore
The new website also reflects their new                Senior Partner
corporate branding and whilst the client was           Streeter Marshall
keen in having a graphic intensive home page,
we have managed to overcome the SEO issues
caused by this with the creative use of
javascript and ALT text for the service images.
                                                               WSI Consultants:
WSI will continue to work with the company to         CHRIS GRIFFIN & LESLEY BLACK
review its ongoing Internet marketing strategy                   Surrey, UK
and expect more of their marketing budget to                   www.wsiims.co.uk
move from traditional advertising to organic
search / social media optimization.

Streeter Marshall is overall very pleased with
the results that WSI generated for them.


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WSI Wisdom book 2011

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  • 2. Table of Contents The Stork’s Nest Child Academy | Day Care 4 The Weight Loss Show | Events & Exhibitions 6 All American Fence Corp | Fencing Contractor 8 Value Logistics | Transportation 10 The ALEA Group | B2B Lead Generation 12 Mobile Mark | Telecommunications 14 ABC Glass & Mirror | Shower Door and Window Installation 16 Mardi Gras Casino & Racetrack | Casino, Racing & Entertainment 18 Poco Solar Energy Inc. | Solar Energy 20 First Consulting Group (FCG) | Training and Consulting 22 Cornerstone Montessori Prep School | Private School 24 The Fireplace Center & Patio Shop | Retail 26 Gillett & Johnston (Croydon) Ltd. | Manufacturer of Clocks 28 Sage Realty | Real Estate 30 Kaya Skin Clinic | Beauty and Skin Care 32 Eggington Dairy | Local Milk Dairy 34 CBT Coaches | Luxury Coach Hire Services 36 Diablo Solar Services | Solar Energy 38
  • 3. B-Safe Electric | Electrical Services 40 Sunsweet | Food and Beverage 42 Mustard Seed Canada | Non-Profit 44 Tallinn Hotels (Aldera Hotel Ltd.) | Accommodation 46 HR Solutions, LLC | Human Resources / Consulting 48 Victron Inc. | Electronics Manufacturing Services 50 Poirier & Associates | Life Insurance 52 Streeter Marshall | Solicitors / Legal Services 54 Milton Keynes College | Education 56 Eleg Distributors | Automotive Parts Distributors 58 Maid in California | Cleaning Services 60 focusIT Inc. | Information Technology 62 Smart2BeGreen | Eco-Newsletter Publication 64 Le Lys d’Or | Flower Shop 66 Cruga Ltd. | Online Retail 68
  • 4. THE STORK’S NEST CHILD ACADEMY Day Care www.storksnestchild.com Back to Table of Contents Page 4 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 5. Goals and Challenges: Rhode Island”, “Daycare East Greenwich, Daycare Warwick”, “Daycare Smithfield”. Stork’s Nest was advertising through Since starting the project, there have been traditional methods of Yellow Pages, radio over 150 leads with approximately 50 new and local newspaper ads. Their original enrollments both full-time and part-time. website was 100% Flash and not recognized by the search engines. Due to the downturn in the market, enrollments were dipping. They needed a measurable way to attract TESTIMONIAL new visitors to the school for enrollment. “In a tough economy, we were hesitant to take on another The Solution: expense for advertising, but WSI helped us to see that website WSI’s solution for The Stork’s Nest Child marketing was a necessity in Academy was to build a new website using today's market. They were right! the WSI eFusion platform. WSI also optimized Our business has really blossomed the website for local place search in the and it is through the referrals that spring of 2009. Afterwards, WSI initiated a came through our website! We are pay-per-click (PPC) campaign using the call- truly grateful to work with such to-action of “free initial registration worth talented people and a company as $75”. For existing families, they were able to fantastic as WSI. The return on access easily downloadable calendars. investment (ROI) was astounding to me and it is all through WSI's The Results: commitment to our site that this was possible!” WSI’s solution for Stork’s Nest provided the Michele Stevenin day care with a steady stream of leads Vice President coming from the website with workflows and The Stork’s Nest Child Academy requests for tours sent to specified locations. They immediately experienced a dramatic increase in leads and new enrollments to the school. WSI also used email marketing to follow up with prospective families that did WSI Consultant: not enroll but showed interest. This way, those leads were not forgotten but were SCOTT WASSERMAN nurtured for potential future enrollments. Rhode Island, USA www.wsiwikipro.com From a search engine perspective, the website ranked page one for the following keywords: “Daycare Rhode Island”, “Day Care Page 5 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 6. THE WEIGHT LOSS SHOW Events & Exhibitions www.weightlossshow.ae TESTIMONIAL "There would have not been any other way to expand awareness on the Weight Loss Show to so many people as we managed to do through WSI’s Internet marketing services. We at Linkviva Events appreciate WSI’s team for their expertise, advice and professionalism in customizing an Internet marketing campaign that was absolutely suited to our business and generated not only huge interest for our business online but also visitors walking to our event!” Niousha Ehsan Business Development Manager, Linkviva Events Back to Table of Contents Page 6 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 7. Goals and Challenges: The Results: Prior to working with WSI, the client had By targeting the campaigns, WSI helped the challenges reaching anEnglish and Arabic- client achieve 560 registrants for the event speaking target group interested in the topic within 3 weeks specifically through WSI’s of weight loss. They were running campaigns efforts. In addition, 12,352 visitors came to within a short period of time and seeing very the site in only one month and more than little results. WSI’s objectives were to: 1,500 local leads registered online.  Gain exposure The client is extremely happy with the  Leverage call-to-actions campaign and how targeted and effective it  Increase conversions was. The campaign has achieved enormous  Capture information results and value for money that traditional  Target specific segments promotional activities could not deliver before. This in turn has resulted in impressive footfall at the event, which pleased both the The Solution: organizers and exhibitors. WSI’s advanced digital marketing strategy for the Weight Loss Show included:  Web presence (Conversion Architecture)  Brand building (online banners)  Database building (registration form)  Lead nurturing (email marketing)  Ongoing review (testing and enhancing) The solution that WSI implemented for the client included a great deal of creative design for the website and several banners that the company used to advertise its events. A professional website was built for informational purposes and acted as the WSI Consultant: uniting tool for all other marketing activities. A separate landing page was built in Arabic HUSAM JANDAL for those who clicked on the banner ads, Dubai, UAE which had Conversion Architecture elements. www.ezwsinet.com WSI used a top-notch email marketing and database system for the client and provided regular reports on the results of each campaign. Page 7 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 8. ALL AMERICAN FENCE CORP Fencing Contractor www.allamericanfencecorp.com Back to Table of Contents Page 8 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 9. Goals and Challenges:  Website traffic has more than doubled because of WSI’s Internet marketing  Monthly visitors have increased from It became very clear to All American Fence 1,600 in Sept 2009 to 4,000 in Aug 2010 that customers are more and more relying on  Almost all of the client’s targeted the Internet to find contractors and not as keywords are now ranking in the top 5 much on the Yellow Pages. They began to positions on Google, Yahoo! and Bing realize they needed to focus more on the  Back in Sept 2009, most of the keywords Internet for their marketing, so they decided were not even in the top 100 across all 3 to sign up for WSI’s digital marketing system. search engines WSI’s objectives were to:  Increase the company’s web presence and generate leads TESTIMONIAL  Start PPC to generate immediate leads “Through WSI’s customized SEO  Start SEO for a long-term Internet and PPC marketing system, we presence and to be found on major search have been able to jump to the engines above their competition front page of major search engines. WSI has always been very The Solution: knowledgeable, thorough, prompt and dependable. The WSI team is always accessible and able to WSI’s solution involved: website design and answer any questions we may development, search engine optimization have right away. We would (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC). We replaced recommend WSI to any business their old website with a new design and a that is looking to expand and new content management system (CMS). develop their marketing online”. The website is now ranking at the top of Google’s page one listing for all of their Kim Myers originally targeted keywords. WSI plans to Owner add additional keywords to expand All American Fence Corporation geographic coverage. The Results: WSI Consultant: As a result of working with WSI, All American Fence Corp is now being found on the first JASON YI page of the major search engines. Traffic to California, USA the site has increased significantly in the past www.ezwsiweb.com 12 month. WSI measured the results using ranking reports, web analytics reports and pay-per-click reports. Page 9 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 10. VALUE LOGISTICS Transportation www.value.co.za Back to Table of Contents Page 10 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 11. Goals and Challenges: The client gained 1,978 inquiries from their Prior to working with WSI, Value Logistics had website through WSI’s campaign between no website presence at all despite their May 2009 to July 2010, 10% of which status as a Johannesburg Stock Exchange converted into customers resulting in over listed company. Instead, the company was $100,000 worth of sales. spending $180,000 annually on Yellow Page advertising. WSI’s goal was to develop a professional web presence for the client and help them generate leads online. The Solution: WSI created a customized digital marketing plan for the client that included: TESTIMONIAL “WSI and their team have been  A new, professionally designed marketing instrumental in generating leads website and growing Value’s business  Online “request a quote” forms online. WSI has helped us achieve  SEO for the entire website excellent results in this competitive  5 content pages per month industry”.  Analytics measurement and regular consulting Tracey Le Roux  Article submissions Marketing Manager  An ongoing link building strategy Value Logistics  Advertising in online classifieds and industry-specific directories The Results: As a result of working with WSI, the client WSI Consultant: was able to compete more effectively online against bigger competitors through their FRANCOIS MUSCAT professional online presence. WSI reduced South Africa their Yellow Pages marketing spend by 50% www.wsioms.co.za through effective online marketing. Page 11 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 12. THE ALEA GROUP B2B Lead Generation www.thealeagroup.com Back to Table of Contents Page 12 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 13. Goals and Challenges: As a result, traffic to their site has increased drastically as well. Between September and The ALEA Group had no Internet marketing December 2010, website traffic increased strategy before working with WSI. The 89% over the traffic received between May company was only found online for keywords and August 2010. related specifically to their company name. WSI’s objectives were to improve the company’s visibility on the search engines for industry-related keywords, showcase their president as a thought leader as well as generate leads online. TESTIMONIAL “We engaged with WSI 3 months The Solution: ago to help with ALEA's SEO ranking on Google. WSI presented a plan and delivered on the plan. WSI created a content marketing blueprint We are now on page 1 of Google for the company. In addition, we conducted when you type ‘lead generation’. initial keyword research, compiled a WSI made the process painless and competitor report, optimized some pages on seamless. It is like watching the company’s existing website and began a someone who is in complete monthly search engine optimization (SEO) control of their craft at work. I campaign focused on article marketing and have no hesitation recommending link building. WSI for any web-related project”. We also re-designed the company’s blog, Louis Foong optimized the WordPress plug-ins and President published content for the blog, which the The ALEA Group company provides, on a regular basis. The Results: The ALEA Group’s website is now being found on the search engines for industry-related keywords in a very competitive area. The WSI Consultant: keywords that the site has been optimized LIANA LING for include: “B2B lead generation”, “lead Ontario, Canada generation” and “appointment setting www.wsiwebconnects.com service”. This is a highly competitive industry and the company is very happy that they are now visible in the search engines for keywords related to their industry. Page 13 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 14. MOBILE MARK Telecommunications www.mobilemark.com TESTIMONIAL "We have heard nothing but positive comments about the new website. Visitors are drawn in from the first page and find it easy to move around the website. We are grateful for the advice and assistance we received from WSI. WSI guided us through web design, page creation, database maintenance and search engine optimization. It is one thing to have a website and another to have an effective website. It was an eye opener to realize all the factors that go into building an effective website”. Eleanor Sylvan Vice President Marketing Mobile Mark, Inc. Back to Table of Contents Page 14 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 15. Goals and Challenges:  Press releases were distributed online with links back to the website Mobile Mark wanted to generate interest  The sales team was able to direct among existing customers and prospects in prospects to the product information on their database for the SMW Series, a modular the website and they were able to send antenna design that allows 2, 3, or 4 different out electronic links to the brochure antennas to be combined in 1 antenna housing. They also wanted to generate entirely new leads. The Results: The website was launched in May 2009 and The Solution: below are some of the results achieved: A printed application brochure was developed  Total SMW & MGW units sold increased to explain the features and benefits of the 64% year-over-year based on Jan-May product, explain model numbers and the many sales combinations possible, and give application  For just the SMW antennas, the units examples so that their customers can envision increased 74% in the same period the antenna in their setting.  Using the combined SMW & MGW sales dollars for the Jan-May period, the sales It was the electronic use of the brochure in dollars increased 62%, which is in line conjunction with other electronic material that with the increase seen in the units helped Mobile Mark truly increase the number  For only the SMW antennas, the sales of people who became familiar with this dollars increased 73% product. Here are the details of the solution:  The number of distinct models sold increased 22% from 2009 to 2010  Product descriptions were added to the  For the number of series (i.e. without website as models were developed considering the cable and connector  An electronic version of the brochure was combinations) the number of series added to the tech library on the site increased 27%  A link to the electronic version of the brochure was added on the front page  A Featured Products section was added to the Product Database section of the site WSI Consultant:  Links were added from the Featured Product section to the brochure and NANCY VINKLER product listings Pennsylvania, USA  An electronic Mobile Mark e-newsletter www.wsisimplyroi.com was sent out with links to both the products and the brochure  SEO pages were developed to reinforce links to the Mobile Mark website Page 15 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 16. ABC GLASS & MIRROR Shower Door and Window Installation www.abcglassandmirror.com Back to Table of Contents Page 16 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 17. Goals and Challenges: The company estimates that about 80% of all ABC Glass & Mirror wanted to switch from new calls come via search on the web. In a traditional advertising to digital marketing. He tough economy, they have experienced had just built a brand new website with growth over the last two years. They have absolutely no organic web presence at all. He brought on two new members this year and contacted WSI, along with several firms in his feel they may need to look for additional area, but decided to go with WSI because we members if business keeps up. explained exactly what we would do, how we do it and what he could expect - in non- technical terms. WSI’s objectives were to lessen the company’s dependence on TESTIMONIAL traditional advertising over time and re- “I just wanted to take a minute to balance it to primarily online media. thank WSI and your team. What an awesome job you are doing! In The Solution: less than two months, I'm finding us on the 1st page of Google and in Before working with WSI, they had zero PR and some cases we’re in the 1st did not show up on the search engines for any position. Business is steadily search terms at all. WSI initiated a campaign picking up and with this economy it that involved: marketing consulting, a website could not have come at a better makeover and ongoing maintenance, search time. I'm letting my friends and engine optimization (SEO), social media colleagues know how much WSI training and ongoing consulting as well as has helped us out. Thanks again implementation assistance. for all your hard work!” Micah Howell The Results: Owner ABC Glass and Mirror Inc. ABC Glass and Mirror has seen a dramatic increase in their online leads and has been able to rebalance their marketing budget to the more flexible and measurable (and effective) online media. WSI Consultant: CHUCK BANKOFF We now have a total of 321 first page rankings, including several #1 rankings across all of the California, USA major search engines. We also have a www.wsieworks.com tremendous amount of #2 and #3 rankings. In addition, the company is now interacting with clients in their local area via social media. Page 17 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 18. MARDI GRAS CASINO & RACETRACK Casino, Racing and Entertainment www.playmardigras.com www.mardigrascasinowv.com TESTIMONIAL “We knew we had to launch an aggressive Internet marketing program to be competitive in our market, but we could never get any real traction until WSI arrived. WSI brings tremendous value to Mardi Gras Gaming because they worked hard to understand the essence of our positioning and focused on our most important revenue streams. WSI has integrated our core business and offline efforts into an effective online campaign. Their SEO program in particular has had a dramatic impact on our business". Cathy Reside C.O.O. Mardi Gras Gaming Back to Table of Contents Page 18 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 19. Goals and Challenges: For Mardi Gras West Virginia, we launched a pilot PPC campaign to generate phone call Before working with WSI, Mardi Gras Casino reservations for their new hotel and Racetrack in Florida, USA was not ranking on the first page of Google in the very The Results: competitive gaming and entertainment market of South Florida. At the time, they had modest In less than 6 months, Mardi Gras Casino in traffic to their 40-page site that was built Florida has gone from barely appearing on without Conversion Architecture and the first pages of search results to appearing inadequate search engine optimization (SEO). on page 1 for over 50 search terms. In many They were not running a pay-per-click (PPC) cases, they dominant the first page appearing campaign, conducted very little social media multiple times with results from the site, blog marketing and did not have a blog. and video channels. The volume of site traffic during this initial 6-month period has Mardi Gras Casino and Racetrack in West increased over 300%. Virginia, USA opened a brand new hotel in the summer of 2010. WSI was assigned the task of At the Mardi Gras West Virginia hotel, our generating reservation requests as well as PPC campaign was just as successful. Our raising overall awareness of the property. conversion goal is to generate phone call requests for reservations. In the first 4 The Solution: months of the PPC campaign, we have generated an average of 122 calls per week For Mardi Gras Florida, WSI created an entirely at a cost of $2.38 per call. These results have brand new 100+ page site as part of a provided an outstanding ROI for the hotel. comprehensive online marketing program. We They expanded the budget for PPC for 2011. developed a creative concept that provided We will also be launching a comprehensive powerful Conversion Architecture to the site integrated online marketing program for the focusing on their key profit centers. We wrote West Virginia property including a new 100+ 100 pages of original keyword-rich content page site. and continue to make daily content updates to the site. Since the launch of the site, WSI began WSI Consultant: managing all of their social media marketing including: creating new Facebook and Twitter PETER V. DECRESCENZO pages, posting to them on a daily basis, Florida, USA developing exclusive Facebook and Twitter www.wsi-onlinesolutions.com promotions and running Facebook ads. We also manage an ongoing PPC campaign, a link building program as well as write, optimize and distribute content on their blog weekly. Page 19 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 20. POCO SOLAR ENERGY INC. Solar Energy www.pocosolar.com Back to Table of Contents Page 20 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 21. Goals and Challenges: WSI began providing reputation management services to POCO Solar to monitor reviews and encourage positive reviews. We will POCO Solar was not visible on any search continue to monitor, research, and provide engines. They were relying mainly on value added services for POCO Solar. traditional marketing methods such as Yellow Pages, direct mailers, etc. But they knew that marketing is shifting from these traditional methods to the Internet. They knew they TESTIMONIAL needed to focus more on the Internet because they realized the power of the Internet and did “I take this opportunity to not want to fall behind as their competition commend the WSI team on the was making the transition. excellent Internet marketing results you produced for POCO Solar Energy Inc. We know we The Solution: made the right decision by working with a global company like WSI WSI’s services included search engine that’s available to us locally! The optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC), project management skills and content marketing and reputation hands-on approach of your team is management. WSI initially targeted 20 impressive and has delivered very keywords for SEO, all of which started to rank good results for us. We plan to at the top of the first page in less than a year. expand our Internet marketing We have added 50 keywords to the campaign, efforts and increase reliance on the 20+ of which are already on the first page. Internet to generate leads for us. I would not hesitate to recommend The Results: WSI to other business owners”. Here are the results of WSI’s solution: Greg Cordero President  Traffic increased more than 50% in less POCO Solar Energy, Inc. than 12 months  Remarkable improvement in visibility (40+ keywords ranking on the first page of major search engines) WSI Consultant:  PPC is working well and consistently JASON YI providing 300 to 400 clicks and a steady stream of leads California, USA  During Q1 and Q2 of 2010, the client www.ezwsiweb.com generated $175,000 worth of business from Internet leads in about 3 month  This produced more than enough profit to cover the online marketing cost for the year Page 21 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 22. FIRST CONSULTING GROUP (FCG) Training and Consulting www.firstconsultinggroup.com.mx Back to Table of Contents Page 22 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 23. Goals and Challenges: The Results: Before working with WSI, the client had a lot This professionally designed website ranks of people providing basic information, such as very high in the search results for a lot of the dates and training programs by phone, face-to- keywords related to FCG’s services. The site is face and email rather than through an online also very functional meeting all the needs presence. that the client had initially. From July 2009 to July 2010, the client experienced a 305% They also only had local coverage and wanted increase in direct sales as a result of WSI’s to expand their reach. WSI’s goal was to services. develop regional and national coverage by helping the client be found in Google, while reducing costs by having all their information online. TESTIMONIAL “Great work, great design, I don’t The Solution: even want my competition to know about what I’m doing. Thanks a lot To meet the needs of First Consulting Group, to WSI!” WSI built a robust website with a very functional calendar of events where clients can Juan Manuel Flores Cervantes register for FCG’s training programs. We also Socio Consultor did some search engine optimization (SEO), so First Consulting Group they could target their services in different cities. We have submitted their seminars to related directories and we have built many landing pages per topic, which has helped in the SEO strategy. This way, the client can be in the top results not only with one listing but two and sometimes even more listings. WSI Consultant: JORGE CONTRERAS Coahuila, Mexico www.wsifirstsolutions.com Page 23 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 24. CORNERSTONE MONTESSORI PREP SCHOOL Private School www.cornerstoneprep.ca TESTIMONIAL “Almost immediately after working with WSI, we received inquiries several times per day as well as a number of walk-ins every week. Through the website, our enquiries have increased tenfold and has enabled us to increase our marketing profile by a substantial margin. I have been and continue to be impressed with the effectiveness of WSI as well as their level of professionalism, personal attention and commitment to their clients' success. I would highly recommend them to anyone wishing to enhance their marketing profile". Dr. Stephanie Ling Principal Cornerstone Montessori Prep School Back to Table of Contents Page 24 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 25. Goals and Challenges: The Results: Prior to working with WSI, Cornerstone Particularly due to the changes Google has Montessori Prep School had no digital made to local search recently, the school is marketing strategy and was only seen online on page 1 of Google for terms related to for keywords related to the company name. “Toronto Montessori School”. When the new Their lead generation consisted of advertising website went live and we started generating in Yellow Pages, educational directories, traffic from Google PPC ads and Facebook educational magazines, referrals and the sign ads, they were receiving 3 calls a day as well outside their school. They needed to increase as people dropping in to ask for a tour of the enrollment to keep the school going. school and several online inquiries. In addition, over the last year: The Solution:  32 people signed up for their newsletter Using the WSI eFusion platform, WSI re-  27 people completed the Admissions designed the school’s website and conducted a Application Request targeted pay-per-click (PPC) campaign for 3  Almost 100 inquiries for more information months to generate immediate traffic to the came in via the contact form website. We also helped them streamline their  Inquiries from other organizations processes by creating specific forms on the interested in working with the school website for job employment inquiries, to book came through a tour of the school and a more detailed Admissions Application. The site is even used As a result of WSI’s outstanding results for for parents to RSVP for special events and the school, they did not renew advertising raise funds for special charitable projects. with Yellow Pages or any of the other subscription except for the one online In addition to the above, WSI also created a directory that is sending them more traffic. content marketing blueprint, conducted keyword research, compiled a competitor report, optimized the website pages and began a monthly search engine optimization (SEO) campaign focused on article marketing WSI Consultant: and link building. LIANA LING Recently, WSI also created a custom Facebook Ontario, Canada page for the school and are in the works of www.wsiwebconnects.com designing a blog for the principal. Page 25 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 26. THE FIREPLACE CENTER & PATIO SHOP Retail (Fireplaces, BBQs, Hot Tubs) www.fireplacecenter.com TESTIMONIAL “On behalf of our entire team, a big thank you to WSI for your excellent job in creating our new website and conducting continued developments and ongoing improvements to the site. We appreciate your quick understanding to our industry, your patient and gentle manner in implementing the latest technology and our ongoing marketing meetings to help keep us focused and on track. I always feel that WSI has our best interests at heart and appreciate your fierce loyalty”. Andy Cotnam General Manager / President The Fireplace Center and Patio Shop Back to Table of Contents Page 26 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 27. Goals and Challenges:  Monthly-specific sales promotions matched to offline marketing mix  Monthly presentation to the executive A WSI Competitive Analysis revealed that The and sales team to ensure the online Fireplace Center’s online presence was not as strategy is aligned to sales strategy strong as it could be in the following areas:  Developed a social media optimization (SMO) strategy consistent with a mature /  The look and feel of the website was not conservative brand and created branded consistent with the offline advertising and Facebook page and Facebook profile and branding of The Fireplace Center & Patio trained staff on social media etiquette Shop and the sale of luxury items  Consulted on aspects of sales and  Search engine optimization was strong, but marketing best practices only in the primary products and brand  Conversion Architecture was non-existent and analytics revealed that visitors had The Results: difficulty navigating the 500-page website  A customer retention strategy was yet to As a result of WSI’s services, the company be established (no email database) experienced the following:  14% increase in year-over-year sales The Solution:  28% increase in year-over-year website visitors (10,500 more visitors) WSI’s digital marketing solution for The  188% increase in conversions compared Fireplace Center included: to same period last year  More business in one day of the spring  A detailed competitive, market and product sale than achieved in a quiet month of analysis prior year  Strong Conversion Architecture website  Since launch to date, 76% of the website consistent with the sale of luxury goods and visitors are new to the website offline advertising  100% content creation and creating a simplified product hierarchy  Implementation of an online catalogue  500-page site was condensed to 100 pages WSI Consultant: while at the same time increasing search engine presence and without diminishing ROGER HARLEY the value visitors derive from the site Ontario, Canada  PPC campaign design and management www.wsiknowweb.com  YouTube channel creation and embedding of videos (TV appearances and ads) Page 27 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 28. GILLETT & JOHNSTON (CROYDON) LTD. Manufacturer of Clocks, Bells and Carillons www.gillettjohnston.co.uk Back to Table of Contents Page 28 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 29. Goals and Challenges: Considerable business has been generated by the website and they are delighted with the results and even more delighted with the The company has a world-class reputation for quality and quantity of business now being manufacturing clock, bells and carillons for generated by their new website. landmark buildings and churches throughout the world. Most of the company’s business was generated by repeat business from existing clients or word of mouth. Little to no business was being generated from the TESTIMONIAL Internet. “Further to our telephone conversation last week, this is to Whilst the company is proud of its long confirm that we would be tradition, it was keen not to appear out-of- delighted for you to use our date and out-of-touch with the modern world. website for your [showcase]. I Their old website looked old fashioned and did would like to take this opportunity little for their public image. to say how delighted we were with the way you managed our project. You listened to our requirements The Solution: and understood what we wanted to convey through our website. The WSI developed a search engine friendly follow-up service has been superb website that conveys the image of a company and we would have no hesitation proud of its history whilst appearing modern in recommending your services". and progressive. All pages were optimized for one primary and a couple of secondary Jenny Coombes keywords / key phrases and each page has the Director primary keyword in the URL. Gillett & Johnston (Croydon) Ltd The Results: The new website produces around 200 enquiries from all over the world each month. It is an excellent showcase of their work and WSI Consultants: achieves the company’s objectives of giving a modern fresh appearance to an old CHRIS GRIFFIN & LESLEY BLACK established business. Recent commissions Surrey, UK gained via the website include new work from www.wsiims.co.uk a variety of sources, including installations as far afield and varied as the Falkland Islands, Singapore, Spain and Haiti. Page 29 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 30. SAGE REALTY Real Estate www.findahomeinpa.com Back to Table of Contents Page 30 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 31. Goals and Challenges:  Purchased homes had values totaling over $2,500,000 In a competitive marketplace where home  They expect the third client to buy in the buying was at a near standstill, Sage Realty next 2 months with an anticipated needed to reach these Internet savvy home commission of roughly $11,000 buyers. Additionally, they wanted to be sure  Commissions on the clients who have to integrate their brand, marketing messages bought are over $64,000 this year and search marketing efforts into a cohesive Internet marketing strategy. WSI’s objectives were to continue to move the website rankings up in the organic search listings as TESTIMONIAL well as distribute marketing messages out on “WSI’s services are a vital part of the Internet via digital marketing methods. Sage’s overall marketing strategy, which includes a variety of The Solution: strategies. The purpose is to integrate all as one ‘brand’, with Sage being seen as the expert or WSI trained Sage Realty personnel on how to leader in that niche. WSI has set up and optimize their social media encouraged us to move beyond a accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn well-designed website with state- and blog entries. From February 2010 to July of-the-art home search features to 2010, Sage Realty began a submission program submission of videos, whitepapers, with WSI that included optimizing and press releases, social media distributing articles, press releases and videos postings and other peripheral to increase SEO exposure. strategies to boost our rankings". WSI not only guided the company through Linda Walters these new technology frontiers, but also Owner and Exclusive Buyer Agent helped them grow their business especially in Sage Realty, LLC an industry where many businesses were closing their doors The Results: WSI Consultant: Sage had the following results for 2010 in the NANCY VINKLER 2nd year of the new website: Pennsylvania, USA  5 potential home buyers found them www.wsisimplyroi.com searching online  3 signed up to buy and 2 bought in 2010  The rest are potential clients for 2011 Page 31 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 32. KAYA SKIN CLINIC Beauty and Skin Care www.kayaskinclinic.me/lp TESTIMONIAL “WSI has spearheaded Kaya Skin Clinic’s entry to the online platform. They have a good understanding of consumer online behavior and are up-to-date with the latest trends and incorporate those well into the strategy for our brand. Our online awareness scores according to a brand tracker have doubled since WSI has come onboard”. Samir Srivastav Business Head MENA Kaya Skin Clinic Back to Table of Contents Page 32 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 33. Goals and Challenges: • BEFORE: Through campaigns that ran prior to WSI’s involvement, the client generated approximately 2,400 leads within one year Kaya Skin Clinic wanted to reach a targeted • AFTER: Within the first 3 months, WSI audience through their web presence. They generated nearly 2,000 leads wanted to promote their clinic online, generate more leads and achieve a better When matching the media budget for return on investment (ROI). WSI’s objective for comparative purposes, the results for the the client was to achieve the following goals: equivalent activities for the sample campaign are as below:  Launch a professionally designed and executed online marketing strategy  WSI’s campaign generated 2 times more  Generate leads from targeted search impressions and most importantly, 2.5 advertising and banner campaigns times more leads  Increase customer engagement with a  Independent research by a global market strong social media strategy research company (TNS) has shown that even after the first month of the online The Solution: campaign launched by WSI, online medium as a source of brand awareness The solution that WSI implemented included (recognition) by the target audience has the following Internet marketing services: increased by 2 times  Conversion Architecture The client was unhappy with their former  Search engine marketing (SEO and PPC in Internet marketing partner because they paid English and Arabic) a lot of money and didn’t get their expected  Social media (policy development, results. However, with WSI they are very optimizing and tracking social profiles) satisfied with their current campaigns and  Online directory submissions happy with the cost-effective services that  Content marketing (blog writing, WSI offers them. publishing, reviews and posting)  Online banner advertising  Monitoring and tracking effectiveness WSI Consultant: The Results: HUSAM JANDAL Since launching this campaign, Kaya Skin Clinic Dubai, UAE has achieved the following results: www.ezwsinet.com • Generated nearly the same amount of leads in the first 3 months as what their previous agencies achieved within a year! Page 33 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 34. EGGINGTON DAIRY Local Milk Dairy www.eggingtondairymilkdelivery.co.uk Back to Table of Contents Page 34 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 35. Goals and Challenges: TESTIMONIAL  Eggington Dairy wished to increase awareness of their dairy milk home delivery "Eggington Dairy, a part of Pecks service Farm, has worked with WSI on a  Eggington Dairy needed milk delivery number of projects, namely orders within a local area creating landing pages to help promote our home milk delivery service and our hand-made, fresh The Solution: produce hampers. WSI and their team have been helpful and  A landing page was created that was fully professional throughout, always optimized for local search using only guiding us down the right path, organic techniques and nothing is too much trouble.  The landing page included a contact form Both landing pages have been a with a thank-you page tremendous success in hitting their  The landing page was manually submitted targeted audiences, resulting in to the search engines increased sales almost from day  We added search engine verification files, one, which was a great boost! We created XML sitemaps and submitted those would and indeed have  We also created robots.txt and geo tags recommended WSI's services to and added those too other businesses wanting to increase their online presence". The Results: Fiona Peck Within 1 week of launching the landing page, it Managing Director was appearing on the first page of Google for Eggington Dairy over 20 different search terms. Most of these terms appeared not only on the first page, but also in position 1 of Google. Other results included: WSI Consultant:  An increase in visitors to her website from a standing start to over 1000 visits in a few TRACY SPENCE months – we measured this using Google Northamptonshire, UK Analytics www.totalwsinetsolutions.com  63% of the traffic to her website coming in on a purely organic search - as seen through Google Analytics  Orders placed – 5 new clients in two weeks, and continuing to grow – this was verified by the client Page 35 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 36. CBT COACHES Luxury Coach Hire Services www.cbtcoaches.co.za TESTIMONIAL “As an existing client of WSI, I had full faith that they would deliver as they did with my other business. They exceeded our expectations and we have created a profitable business using WSI as our online marketing partner". Jacques Erasmus Owner CBT Coaches Back to Table of Contents Page 36 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 37. Goals and Challenges: The Solution: This is an existing client of WSI who started a WSI created a professionally designed new venture in anticipation of the coach marketing website for the client and services that would be needed during the conducted a series of Internet marketing 2010 Soccer World Cup. Before CBT Coaches services such as: develop a PPC campaign became a client, they had no web presence at that drove targeted traffic to the website, all because the business was brand new. The optimize the entire website, provide 4 challenges that lay ahead included: content pages per month, measure analytics and offer ongoing consulting.  Setting up a web presence from scratch  Generating qualified leads online  Competing with other South African tour The Results: operators that were already established The project started from scratch since this WSI’s objectives were to: was a start-up business and the results exceeded all the business goals for the year.  Create a professionally designed website Through this experience, WSI demonstrated that would convert well that we could generate leads quickly through  Create a content blueprint for the website Internet marketing. Some of the results  Apply an ongoing SEO strategy to improve include: the website’s search visibility  Design a long-term organic search strategy  4 out of every 10 leads came from the site that will keep CBT Coaches at the top of  Generated $8,000/mon recurring revenue search engines for “corporate events and  During the 2010 Soccer World Cup month, large event passenger transport logistics” CBT generated $300,000 in revenue  Develop keyword-specific landing pages for through their website targeted PPC campaigns, designed to o 4 sales per month convert search visitors into clients o Annual revenue $396,000  Drive targeted traffic to the website  Develop a content marketing plan to increase online brand awareness  Track performance using Google Analytics WSI Consultant:  Provide the client with monthly FRANCOIS MUSCAT performance reviews that will drive South Africa marketing campaign adjustments and www.wsioms.co.za provide data to determine marketing effectiveness Page 37 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 38. DIABLO SOLAR SERVICES Solar Energy www.diablosolar.com TESTIMONIAL “I am approached everyday by web marketing companies but the solution offered by WSI made the most sense to me. The different levels of service packages allowed us to ‘test the water’ before increasing our participation. Your ongoing result monitoring and review methodology works very well as we can make changes to improve effectiveness and track our return on investment. Thank you team WSI!“ Phil Deatsch Owner Diablo Solar Services, Inc. Back to Table of Contents Page 38 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 39. Goals and Challenges: The Results: Prior to working with WSI, Diablo Solar As a result of WSI’s services, Diablo Solar is Services was not being found on the major now being found on the first pages of all search engines. In fact, when searched for major search engines for their keywords. their company name “Diablo Solar” on Google, Traffic to the site has increased drastically. another company would come up above them, which annoyed the owner great deal.  Number of visitors has increased more than 3 times since September: They have relied on traditional marketing o September 2009: 463 methods and referrals for all of their business o October 2010: 1466 for over 25 years. They were very successful.  PPC - 500 clicks per month on both Yahoo! But the owner was beginning to realize that he and Google needs to have a better presence on the  SEO - Most of their keywords are ranking Internet. They have not done any Internet at the top of the first page marketing prior to meeting with WSI. This company is serious about marketing as they The most remarkable result is this Google allocated a significant amount of their budget search result - they get 10 links at the top of for marketing every year, and they were ready the first page: to shift some of that money to the Internet.  1 for PPC WSI’s objectives were to help the company be  1 for a local listing found organically for local searches for solar-  1 for articles/blogs related keywords within their territory and to  3 for SEO generate traffic to their website immediately.  4 for videos The Solution: WSI measured these results using ranking reports, Google Analytics and PPC reports. WSI provided Diablo Solar search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC), blog writing, content writing, email marketing and video optimization services. WSI Consultant: This is an ongoing campaign. They are ranking JASON YI in the top 5 for all of their originally targeted California, USA keywords – top of the first page of Google. www.ezwsiweb.com WSI has since added additional keywords to expand geographic coverage and they are beginning to show up on the first page for these terms as well. We have also added articles and videos to the campaign, which are also showing up on the first page. Page 39 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 40. B-SAFE ELECTRIC Electrical Services www.b-safeelectric.ca Back to Table of Contents Page 40 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 41. Goals and Challenges:  Basic metrics: number of visitors, time each visitor spends on the site, number of Before working with WSI, B-Safe used to have pages visited, bounce rates, etc. a basic website for several years, which did  Other metrics: geographic area of visitors, not produce results for them. When B-Safe sources of traffic, keywords that generate started working with WSI, our goals for the traffic, names of the companies who are new site were to: finding the B-Safe Electric website  Create a professional looking site that reflected the company’s brand and image  Achieve higher Google rankings for relevant TESTIMONIAL keywords "We have had a website for many  Generate more leads and a better years and the site was not doing conversion rate much for my business. In February 2009, WSI started managing my The Solution: website. They meet with us on a regular basis and contunously WSI’s solution was to start with a small adjust it. My website is now website (10 pages) for B-Safe. We optimized updated and keeps growing. But that site for local search focusing on the neat thing is that now B-Safe is Mississauga and the Greater Toronto Area. at the top of Google for relevant Our overall campaign included: search engine searches, which have generated optimization (SEO), web analytics, Google local hundreds of thousands of dollars in listings and copywriting. business with customers that I otherwise would have never met". The Results: Brian Scheele As a result of working with WSI, B-Safe now Master Electrician has a professional looking website that is B-Safe Electric constantly being updated. The site is visited by hundreds of visitors that find the website using dozens of relevant keywords related to the company and its industry. B-Safe is now WSI Consultant: generating around $50,000 from new businesses every month. VICTOR CASTELLANOS Ontario, Canada To evaluate and continually enhance our www.wsileadgenerator.com results, WSI measures the following: Page 41 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 42. SUNSWEET Food and Beverage www.sunsweet.it www.facebook.com/sunsweetones Back to Table of Contents Page 42 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 43. Goals and Challenges: The Results: Prior to working with WSI, Sunsweet’s primary Below is a summary of the results: marketing focus in Europe was traditional advertising channels, primarily TV. Our  16,770 visits and 9,976 unique visits challenge was to devise an Internet marketing  59.17% new visits initiative that integrated well with Sunsweet’s  80,662 page views (total) traditional TV advertising campaign.  33,651 video views  3,745 email subscriptions The Solution:  Conversion rate of 37.5% Collaborating with our WSI colleagues in Italy, TESTIMONIAL we launched a new website dedicated to the Italian market and ran successful search “WSI has consistently proven to be engine marketing campaigns. Some of the a highly professional and reliable elements included search engine optimization supplier. Their work is always of a (SEO) and paid search campaigns with a focus high calibre and executed in a on building targeted traffic and ultimately a timely manner. WSI wants to go customer loyalty program enabling the client the extra mile, wants to find the to engage in an email marketing initiative with best way to do things. They are existing and prospective customers. creative and are endlessly resourceful both in terms of design In collaboration with Sunsweet’s marketing and ideas for online activities. They team, WSI also ran an online video contest have a genuine concern to deliver over a 6-week period. The online campaign value for money, and have a ran in conjunction with an offline TV ad relentless attention to detail”. campaign and was heavily promoted on product packaging that hit the stores prior to Amanda Bishop the launch of the online campaign. Marketing Director Sunsweet Europe Below are the elements that we developed and executed for the Sunsweet campaign:  Development: website, landing page, WSI Consultant: Facebook Fan page and YouTube channel CORMAC FARRELLY  Marketing: PPC, social media strategy, SEO Dublin, Ireland strategy www.wsionlinemarketing.ie  Consulting: split testing different ad groups, defining target audience for campaigns listed above Page 43 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 44. MUSTARD SEED CANADA Non-Profit www.mustardseedcanada.org Back to Table of Contents Page 44 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 45. Goals and Challenges: WSI has completed Phase 1 of the project, which is to increase brand awareness for the Before working with WSI, the non-profit organization and start building relationships organization, Mustard Seed Canada, had no with a younger donorbase. Since then, they Internet marketing strategy, was using a have received a few inquiries from other template website and was very concerned organizations that found them online and that their current donorbase was aging with want to be involved in a project. no strategy to get new, younger donors. WSI’s objectives were to re-design the website, improve its visibility in the search engines for industry keywords, generate support online TESTIMONIAL and create a social media strategy for them. “We knew mass mailing was proving to be less and less The Solution: rewarding. Now with WSI, we’re learning new ways to share how WSI re-designed the organization’s website Mustard Seed is providing better using the WSI eFusion platform and set up a opportunities for children in method for staff and volunteers to make Southeast Asia. As we learn how changes to the website as necessary. In to engage people online, we’re addition, we created a content marketing finding more people keeping in blueprint, conducted initial keyword research, touch. And yes, we’ve found that completed a competitor report and began a there are young people out there monthly search engine optimization (SEO) who care enough to make a campaign focused on article marketing and contribution”. link building. Lucie Howell We also ran a targeted pay-per-click (PPC) Administrator campaign for 3 months to generate immediate Mustard Seed Canada traffic to the website. We also created a custom Facebook page for them and did a 3- month social media campaign to start generating interest. WSI Consultant: The Results: LIANA LING Ontario, Canada As a result of WSI’s services, Mustard Seed www.wsiwebconnects.com Canada began to appear on page 1 of Google for 4 of the 5 keywords we were targeting. Their fanbase on Facebook went from 0 to almost 800 people. In addition, they have received increased traffic to their new site. Page 45 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 46. TALLINN HOTELS (ALDERA HOTEL LTD) Accommodation www.tallinnhotels.ee TESTIMONIAL “After few meetings with WSI, we felt that this is the right company to work with – now considering the new website we admit that the choice was right! They are helpful and respond quickly to our concerns. All questions have been answered. We already see how successful our cooperation has been. Within the first months of our website being online and after our monthly meetings with WSI, we have seen how the most important numbers have been doubled. I am very satisfied we chose WSI”. Alver Pupart Sales and Marketing Director TallinnHotels / Aldera Hotell OÜ Back to Table of Contents Page 46 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 47. Goals and Challenges: TallinnHotels’ Facebook and Twitter pages were designed following the website style. Before working with WSI, the client had an Also new email templates and email footers outdated website design and a poor Internet were designed. To make it complete, we marketing strategy. They were not satisfied designed new business cards as well. WSI is with their website statistics: bounce rate 67%, doing SEO and running PPC campaigns in 5 average time on site only 1:24 and only 2 countries and helping them with email pages seen per visit. As their main source of marketing. leads and bookings comes online and their budget for this is quite high, they realized that The Results: they were wasting money and asked WSI to help them. The hotel is very happy with WSI’s solution and the results we have produced. They like TallinnHotels operates 4 hotels with different the new look of the website and other price range. One of the project goals was to marketing materials as well as the social make it easier for clients to find the best hotel media pages. for them. The objective of this project was to re-design the brand for TallinnHotels, starting  They appear on the first page of Google from the website and end with business cards. for the main keyword phrases “Tallinn We also wanted to create a search engine Hotels” and “Tallinn Hotel” optimization (SEO) strategy and integrate  Total visits increased from 4000 to 5000 social media to marketing plan and get more  Website bounce rate dropped from 67% bookings online. to 45%  Average time on site increased from 1:24 The Solution: to 2:26  Pages per visit increased from 2.0 to 3.5 WSI designed and created a new website for the company focused on Conversion Architecture and integrated it with social media. The website features: online booking functionality, contact form, phone booking, email booking and social media connections. In addition, we added an online support feature WSI Consultant: allowing the hotel staff to help their clients ARMIN TULL book the right room. Hajumaa, Estonia www.wsionline.ee To make it easier for clients to decide which hotel room to book, we integrated a 360- degree view feature within this site. The site is in 4 languages: English, Estonian, Russian and Finnish. Page 47 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 48. HR SOLUTIONS, LLC Human Resources / Consulting www.hrsolutionsllc.com TESTIMONIAL “Since the WSI team took over my web marketing, I have seen a significant increase in website inquiries and new business generated from the website. We track where all of our business comes from, and in the past year, web marketing has surpassed all other forms of marketing for new business”. Renee McNally Owner HR Solutions, LLC Back to Table of Contents Page 48 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 49. Goals and Challenges: WSI continues to provide complete SEO services, as well as assistance with blog Prior to WSI, HR Solutions was using multiple updates and suggestions for making better companies/consultants for web design, copy use of the website in general. Most recently, writing, email marketing and site updates. HR Solutions started using separate secure Company owner Renee McNally was zones on the website for their individual managing pay-per-click (PPC) ads on her own. client companies. WSI was brought in to handle search engine optimization (SEO), and frequent disagreements arose between all parties as to The Results: the best courses of action – a classic case of "too many cooks in the kitchen". The company In the initial 3 months after WSI began owner was constantly forced to make working with HR Solutions, website traffic decisions with conflicting input from several increased by more than 41%. Search engine consultants. Overall, web marketing became traffic went from 54% of all website traffic to stagnated. 71% of all traffic. As of December 2010, website traffic is up 56% overall, with more The objectives of the project were to provide a than 86% of all visits coming through search more cohesive and comprehensive web engines. marketing plan, and to provide the company owner with a single point of contact, with The website enjoys number 1 rankings for consulting input that was based upon verified valid, competitive key phrases in all the best practices. It was also evident that a major search engines: website solution that included a blog, e- commerce and email marketing could benefit  The client reports that between 50% and the company. 60% of all new business comes through the website  Website inquiries are up 78% overall The Solution: WSI recommended modifications to the existing website design to make it more user- friendly, based upon current Conversion Architecture practices. The website was WSI Consultant: converted into a WSI eFusion site, with JEFF HARRISON training for the company to make their own Maryland, USA website updates and send newsletters. www.wsiwebspecialist.com Features of WSI eFusion used include: e- commerce, email marketing, ad rotators, categorized literature lists and the blog. Page 49 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 50. VICTRON INC. Electronics Manufacturing Services www.victron.com Back to Table of Contents Page 50 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 51. Goals and Challenges: The site is now ranking at the top of major search engines for many of the targeted key Victron’s old site was not representative of phrases, contributing significantly to traffic their status and reputation. It was built years and exposure. Most importantly, the ago, rarely maintained and looked very old company has reached global prospects due and simple. The company was embarrassed to to WSI’s Internet marketing strategy applied show it to their clients. Also, they were not to their business. showing up on any searches even when their name was entered. Instead, other companies with the same name showed up. TESTIMONIAL “I would like to provide a very Victron wanted to have a more modern and positive recommendation professional looking site that they would be regarding WSI. WSI’s efforts, proud to show to their clients. They also consultations and advice has wanted to be found when people search for produced results that were quite their industry in the major search engines. surprising to us. WSI’s efforts have translated to increased business The Solution: opportunities for our company. Personally, I’ve valued WSI’s This is an ongoing project. WSI designed a new collaborative/consultative style as professional looking website for Victron. well as their firm understanding of Shortly after, WSI started a search engine the channels across the Internet optimization (SEO) campaign for 20+ key and commitment to offering phrases related to the company’s industry. In practical, effective ideas for us to addition, a content marketing strategy was pursue. Thank you WSI!” implemented to keep the company blog updated with fresh, relevant content on a Craig Miller regular basis. Director, Business Development Victron Inc. The Results: The new site is professional looking and reflects the company’s image very well. WSI WSI Consultant: updates it regularly with new information that employees are proud to show. JASON YI California, USA The website was built using the WSI Business www.ezwsiweb.com Edge platform, which makes site maintenance very easy. The website is constantly being updated with new press releases and content keeping the site interesting and fresh. Page 51 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 52. POIRIER & ASSOCIATES Life Insurance www.ineedemployeebenefits.ca Back to Table of Contents Page 52 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 53. Goals and Challenges: As of July 2010, the firm has completed 5 deals as a result of the PPC campaign that Prior to WSI, Poirier & Associates had a WSI was conducting. The total income to the website with no idea if they were getting any firm is in excess with $16,000. They also have traffic. Even the odd time when a prospect 4 more prospects that could turn into deals called them from the site, they did not know very soon, and they continue to receive leads how that person found the firm. The client’s online every week. website was not found on Google. WSI’s objectives were to help Poirier & TESTIMONIAL Associates gain a strong web presence, generate a stream of leads online and see a “WSI started a PPC campaign with return on their investment. me to give my business a regular web presence. With their method The Solution: of explaining the process in a language I could understand, I WSI implemented an online marketing have learned the importance of strategy that included the following: having a website and landing page that actually encourages prospects  Started a PPC campaign to drive traffic to to call or email me. Prior to the original website (the original engaging with WSI, I had a website webmaster was managing) up for years but did not get any  Continued to provide analytics about the business from it. I’m very satisfied visits and their conversion rate with the consulting advice WSI has  Suggested changes to the site that would provided. I will continue to refer help with the conversion rate (again, the my business associates to them". original webmaster was managing this site)  Since conversion rates for the original Ron Poirier website were still below average, WSI President suggested a landing page with the focus on Poirier & Associates conversion by a phone call to the office or an email submission form  Continued with a PPC campaign to the new landing page that WSI designed WSI Consultant: DAVID MOTKOSKI The Results: Alberta, Canada www.smartwsimarketing.com WSI’s strategy has provided Piorier & Associates with a professional web presence, a stream of online leads and a great ROI in a very challenging and competitive vertical. Page 53 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 54. STREETER MARSHALL Solicitors / Legal Services www.streetermarshall.com Back to Table of Contents Page 54 Copyright ©2011 by RAM
  • 55. Goals and Challenges: The Results: Streeter Marshall is an old established firm of Web analytics show that the ongoing PPC solicitors and notaries with 3 offices in the campaign, which has continued at the same South East of England. The old website was advertising spend level as previously, is now built by WSI back in 2005, but had become only accountable for 10% of the website outdated and did not convey the modern traffic. Meanwhile, organic search is now image needed by this progressive firm. sending around 70% of visitors each month (over 1,200 visitors each month). Whilst the old site had been successful in bringing new client business to Streeter Marshall, most Internet business came via the pay-per-click (PPC) campaign that WSI TESTIMONIAL conducted with very little business coming “We are delighted particularly at from organic search. the speed the website moves from screen to screen compared with The Solution: the old site. In addition, the color and clarity is much better with a The initial site WSI created for them used more modern image. Many thanks dynamically generated URLs and the new site to WSI for all your help over a long that WSI developed recently is far more search period of time. We are pleased engine friendly. The website was created with with the input that you have made each web page being optimized for one into the development of the site, a primary, and a couple of secondary keywords / much better product than what we key phrases. Also, the page URLs contained the had originally". primary keyword on each page. David Moore The new website also reflects their new Senior Partner corporate branding and whilst the client was Streeter Marshall keen in having a graphic intensive home page, we have managed to overcome the SEO issues caused by this with the creative use of javascript and ALT text for the service images. WSI Consultants: WSI will continue to work with the company to CHRIS GRIFFIN & LESLEY BLACK review its ongoing Internet marketing strategy Surrey, UK and expect more of their marketing budget to www.wsiims.co.uk move from traditional advertising to organic search / social media optimization. Streeter Marshall is overall very pleased with the results that WSI generated for them. Page 55 Copyright ©2011 by RAM