25/08-05   -   Press releases

Coleman Deploys Mondosoft’s Search Solution for Online Branding

Mondosoft’s Site Search Enhances Consumer Experience with Online Marketing Tool

Copenhagen, Denmark & Palo Alto, California—August 25, 2005. Mondosoft, a pioneer in Enterprise Search and Behavior Analytics, today announced that The Coleman Company, Inc. has fully deployed MondoSearch on its web site www.coleman.com as a key component to Coleman’s marketing strategy of increasing brand awareness by providing rich product information and customer support.

Mondosoft’s site search solution helps Coleman meet the primary objective of its web site: deliver an online marketing tool that promotes the valuable Coleman brand, in complement with its overall marketing strategy and leveraging its advertising campaigns.

Coleman.com is an online marketing presence featuring a rich product catalogue as well as content including technical support, expert info, instruction manuals and dealer locations. For its site search solution Coleman required a tool that worked as a database look-up, and that would also index and return such unstructured content as press releases, checklists and product support questions. MondoSearch met Coleman’s infrastructure requirements, and also fit into the site’s existing SQL server database environment.

“With MondoSearch we deliver the information that we know people want, when they want it, efficiently and quickly," commented Heath Brady, Senior Open Systems Developer at Coleman. “Further, we have achieved our goal of understanding the behavior of people who visit the site, thanks to BehaviorTracking. For example, we can now see the top ten search terms visitors are using and adjust the site so that even incorrect spelling pulls the desired search result."

Coleman was able to rapidly and effectively deploy feature-rich search and then determine whether the search was successful thanks to BehaviorTracking, Mondosoft’s bundled search analytics application included with MondoSearch. The Mondosoft search engine allows results on the thousands of products presented on coleman.com to be refined so certain products and product lines have priority in search results.

The site is subject to continuous optimization and shows excellent results: MondoSearch currently returns links for 87% of searches on the site, and site search results show that nearly 100% of visitors click on the links provided.

Beyond search and categorization functions, MondoSearch allows Coleman to optimize search results to drive marketing initiatives, such as special seasonal promotions. This season, Coleman has been promoting tents in a national TV advertising spot and in synchronous banners on coleman.com, and has programmed MondoSearch so that when a visitor types “TENT", a banner appears that mimics the TV ad and brings them to the “TENTS" section on the site.

The Coleman Company Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of camping and outdoor recreation products and offers a wide range of products available at sporting goods stores, mass merchants, hardware, home centers and food and drug stores across the United States, Canada and more than 100 other countries around the world.

About Mondosoft
Mondosoft pioneers, licenses and hosts technology for companies who use web sites to improve sales or communications with customers, partners and prospects. The company´s flagship product, MondoSearch™, is an advanced, multi-lingual search engine adopted by 1,800 customers worldwide. BehaviorTracking™ and InformationManager™, provide site managers with the most actionable data analytics available to fine-tune search. Mondosoft was founded in 1998, and has dual headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark and Palo Alto, California. Mondosoft customers include Belkin Corporation, Bosch, Coleman, FranklinCovey, Lawson Software, Maersk, Overnight Transportation, Shell Oil, Siemens, The Vatican Holy See and United Technologies. For further information, please visit www.mondosoft.com.