Stan Bogdashin

Stan co-founded Comrade Digital Marketing and serves as its marketing strategist and IT expert recruiter. Stan intuitively understands that every project is unique and believes delivering great results requires creativity, not just relying on the status quo approach too common in the digital marketing industry. Stan’s vast experience spans 15-years and more than 40,000 hours in the realms of PPC, SMM, SEO marketing consulting, web development, marketing architecture and project management, UX and design analytics.

Comrade’s early days as a Chicago digital agency required Stan to grow from his previous role as a search engine optimization consultant and wear many new hats, from human resources manager to chief marketing officer and everything in between. To ensure clients’ success, Stan attended hundreds of additional self-improvement, business and marketing training programs to bolster not only his technical acumen, but learn the most sophisticated solutions to date.

As Comrade’s digital marketing strategist, Stan ideated and executed more than 100 projects across a range of industries. Highlights include:

• Raising $130,000 on Kickstarter in 45 days with only a $3,000 marketing budget
• Enabling a small mom and pop granite company to dominate the entire Chicagoland market space
• Increasing ROI for multiple eCommerce platforms by 500% in just six months
• Delivering Comradeweb.com 3+ billion search results on Google and a Top-3 ranking

Stan holds a Masters Degree in Programming and Robotechnics and his first IT role involved teaching gifted children programming in C++. He believes in an eco-conscious lifestyle, is a daily meditator (hello Tiffany), Burning Man participant, and a sports and cultural enthusiast. He embraces personal growth and a glass is half-full philosophy, believing we can advance the cause of humanity through love for each other and our planet.

Stan has come a long way from a local SEO expert, now having lived and worked in more than 40 cities around the world. You can find him working in Tibet, Spain, Peru and Siberia (during winter), to name a few. Needless to say, we all want to be Stan when we grow up.