Client Testimonials

Tenon SEM is proud to work with some very industrious and ambitious businesses. Here are some selected client testimonials.

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ATEK Distribution
Minneapolis, MN

ATEK is a certified SDVOSB with the VA and state of Minnesota that provides the products needed to help contractors compete for federal and state-funded projects. ATEK needed a comprehensive ecommerce solution so Tenon SEM built a Shopify site that grew to house over 50k products. We built custom import scripts to maintain the product data. We also connected the site with Google Merchant Center to increase exposure. In 2023, ATEK decided to move towards a B2B lead generation site so Tenon moved to a customized WordPress site to meet their needs.

“Tenon SEM has helped ATEK Distribution spin up an e-commerce platform with thousands of products and then rolled up their sleeves and moved us to a lead generation site with a whole new branding scheme and marketing mix when we needed a change. I recommend them for any business who needs a marketing outsourcing partner regardless of technical demands.”

— Jeff Anderson, ATEK Distribution

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Backyard Connection
Tyler, TX

Backyard Connection is a very busy pool and outdoor living construction company. So busy, in fact, that one day they noticed it had been a very long time since they had updated their site. To stay current in this very competitive space, they contracted Tenon SEM to get a lead generation site built and they could continuously update with photography of their latest projects.

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Union Hotel Sierra Retreat
LaPorte, CA

The Union Hotel was first built by the Murray family in 1855 and opened at its current location at Kittis Hotel. It was renamed The Union Hotel in 1860, in honor of the local Union soldiers.

After years of attracting clients strictly by word of mouth, the Union Hotel contracted Tenon SEM to refresh their site and update content to align with current SEO best practices.

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Palmetto Flooring Gallery
Simpsonville, SC

Palmetto Flooring Gallery was launched in 2018. They needed a way to generate leads in a crowded Greenville flooring market. To do this, SDM built a lead-oriented site from the ground up. A marketing plan was launched that included Google Ads aimed at driving both phone calls and visits to lead-capture landing pages.

“Our foot traffic just blew up once we started our paid search campaign. We are much more competitive now that we have an organized marketing plan driving traffic to our store and our site. We are even planning on expanding to offer on-site consultations with a new “flooring truck” in 2021.” – Patricia


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Palmetto Floor Sanding
Simpsonville, SC

Palmetto Floor Sanding needed to update its site. The original hurried out the door to get an expedient website up. But the site languished and wasn’t competing with newcomers in the Upstate South Carolina. Owner Chris Norris hired Tenon SEM to deliver an easy-to-update news and video blog. We simplified lead generation for desktop and mobile with improved forms and click to call. Search engine optimization improved and soon, Palmetto Floor Sanding started ranking well. Their leads increased and the quality of their leads has also gone up. They have seen a nice upward tick in new business.

“Palmetto Floor Sanding has had a website since 2009 but we needed a refresh to help us compete in a really tight marketing. Sean at Tenon SEM completely redesigned the site and wrote us new content that he combined with photos that we have taken of our jobs over the years. Before the redesign and SEO, we were falling anywhere from first for some nice keywords to well on the second page or lower for the majority of the rest. After the update, we are consistently in the top three if not the first position for more than 600 keyword phrases and our sales have increased by almost 50%. This past week, we had more than 10 quotes to do for clients. Obviously, we’re pretty happy.”
Chris Norris, owner Palmetto Floor Sanding


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Lay Design/Build
Lindale, TX

Lay Design/Build has enjoyed an explosion in growth over the past two years and decided the time had come to update the design of their site and feature their most recently completed projects. Owner Scott Lay worked with a respected photographer to get the very best images possible for each featured project. Tenon SEM optimized the images for the best page load times and created an image library with a variety of resolutions that could be used both for online and print applications. Online citations for the company were found to be inconsistent so SDM was asked to bring all of the directory listings into compliance. A complete content program has been designed to feature the latest news and updates about the company and its current projects.