Carbondale Manufacturer Grows Online Sales with Streamlined Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Strategy

IMEC regularly hosts events that offer guidance, best practices, and resources to help Illinois manufacturers address current challenges. Aware of the need to improve their marketing strategy, it was a no-brainer to take up IMEC on the invitation to attend the timely and appropriately titled “Sustained Sales Growth - Do More with Less in an Online World” event.

StratMG, the IMEC third party resource who presented the information, left a strong impression on Black. He saw an opportunity to strengthen VMC’s SEO program and delegate that task to a reputable team. “We all understood what we were doing when it came to SEO, but we needed someone who can do it better,” said Black. He consulted with the IMEC business growth expert, who facilitated the relationship with VMC and StratMG, which marked the start of what would become an ongoing partnership.

The experts at StratMG formulated a plan leveraging SEO techniques to drive qualified leads to VMC’s website, coupled with conversion rate optimization best practices to monetize the qualified traffic on the company website. The results have been phenomenal, including a 44% increase in sales without using external retail platforms like Amazon and Ebay. Black and his team wanted a long-term SEO strategy that would bring residual results – continuous qualified web traffic over time – so they can have consistent growth in online sales. After seeing successful results during one year of a streamlined SEO strategy, VMC decided to ditch the external retail platforms they were previously using and retain StratMG and IMEC. Going forward, VMC will continue leveraging IMEC and StratMG to increase online sales.