Steve Spangler

I’m Steve Spangler and I love to do stuff like this. But there’s no way I’d get invited as a science guy and do any of these cool things on television unless I can get found, unless I had an online presence, unless I had a body of work that people could examine online and truly understand and come to the conclusion that I was the expert that they needed in science education.

Well, this is what happened when we turned to Stephan Spencer back in 2003 and I want to talk to you about three different things. I want to talk to you about the SEO Audit, like to talk to you about our long term relationship and I want to talk to you about the ROI, what really happened to go from a small, little website to now a small company that employs almost 30 people producing the coolest hands on science stories you can ever imagine. Back in 2003 we had a little website, not doing well, not moving products, Google the name and couldn’t even come up with that, so I read somewhere that there was this term that was important, search engine optimization, and right across online of course an SEO Audit. And the master of that was Stephan Spencer. So we turned to him and asked what that would look like. An SEO Audit, I want to think of it as a road map, a blueprint, to be able to fix not only the issues, but allow people to plan for the future. What that actually did for us is put together a strategic plan better than anything that we could’ve ever produced on our own and which said this is where you are now, this is where you need to go and this is what you can be given the work and the dedication that you’re going to put into it. That’s exactly what happened to us. We changed our platform, we focused on all of the important pieces that the SEO Audit provided and the greatest part is it turned into this long term relationship that wasn’t a one and done. Because once we had the platform developed, we turned back to Stephan for more help and more guidance and kept him on for over a decade to produce this long term relationship. Here is somebody that truly understands what it takes to continue that presence that you need online and to continue strategies to keep you relevant, to have your content found amidst everybody else’s now caught on the bandwagon and producing content. We had to make our content the best and that’s exactly what he helped us through. That leads us to the last piece and that’s our return on investment. It was hard to convince our leadership team but this is exactly what we needed to do to take this kind of money and to invest it in the strategic planning that was needed to get the blueprint for moving forward. It’s the best thing that we could’ve ever done because not only did it give us an opportunity to do some planning but it gave us the tools that we could use instantly to be able to do some of the things and implement those ideas on our own. We really learned from Stephan how to focus on content, how to keyword rich content, how to increase our presence online by showing our expertise online, that’s exactly what the whole thing did for us. So from a science teacher in Englewood, Colorado turned to a television personality, and now a founder of an e-commerce company, this type of relationship that we formed with Stephan Spencer and the long term effects are something that we’re grateful for and look forward to our future engagement with him as we move forward and blow up something else I guess.