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5 Undeniable Benefits of Social Listening

5 Undeniable Benefits of Social Listening Social Listening from CGT Marketing

As a business executive or social media marketer, we know your schedule can be busy, but it’s worth dedicating some time each week to social listening. What is social listening? Social listening involves actively monitoring your social media pages and various online forums for conversations about your brand and products or services. It’s all about… Continue Reading 5 Undeniable Benefits of Social Listening

Top 5 Tips for Establishing Your Business as a Thought Leader

Top 5 Tips for Establishing Your Business as a Thought Leader Becoming an Industry Leader - CGT Marketing

Be the source that your audience wants to come to for information. Establish your company as a thought leader in your industry. The best way to do this is to focus on providing value and engaging your target market. In order to build trust and hold a distinctive position in your customers’ minds, educate your… Continue Reading Top 5 Tips for Establishing Your Business as a Thought Leader

Follow This Winning Formula to Create Valuable Social Media Posts

Follow This Winning Formula to Create Valuable Social Media Posts

Want to Keep Customers Engaged on Social Media? Have you ever seen a company on social media that only posts about their promotional offers? There’s a good chance you stopped following them… How to Create Valuable Content For Social Media Posts Provide Value, Not Sales Copy Sharing too much sales content can actually drive your… Continue Reading Follow This Winning Formula to Create Valuable Social Media Posts

Here’s What to Do if Your Facebook Ads Keep Getting Rejected

Here’s What to Do if Your Facebook Ads Keep Getting Rejected

So, you’ve set up an ad in Facebook Ads Manager, chosen your audience, set the duration of your campaign, specified your budget, and it’s all set to go! You just know the ad will resonate with your audience, and the estimated daily results look promising… You periodically check up on the “Under Review” status to… Continue Reading Here’s What to Do if Your Facebook Ads Keep Getting Rejected

5 Social Media Marketing Mistakes Not to Make in 2021

5 Social Media Marketing Mistakes Not to Make in 2021

When it comes to social media marketing, there’s always room for improvement. Sometimes the simplest modification can make the biggest difference! Here are five common mistakes that social media marketers make, and that you should not make in 2021! 1. Not developing a content strategy Tracking your posts’ performance and looking at key performance indicators… Continue Reading 5 Social Media Marketing Mistakes Not to Make in 2021

How to Come up With New Content Ideas

How to Come up With New Content Ideas

If you’re not actively creating content, you’re missing out on a great opportunity to elevate brand awareness and help establish your business as an industry leader. Content marketing is informative opposed to promotional, and it’s aimed to target and engage a specific audience. The intent is to educate your readers through your industry expertise, ultimately… Continue Reading How to Come up With New Content Ideas

3 Agile Marketing Tips to Improve Your Marketing Agility

3 Agile Marketing Tips to Improve Your Marketing Agility

What is Agile Marketing? Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, successfully marketing your company can be challenging. Current events and what’s important to your audience can change on a day-to-day basis and even at a moment’s notice, ultimately affecting your marketing strategy and overall messaging. In fact, according to the Association of National Advertisers,… Continue Reading 3 Agile Marketing Tips to Improve Your Marketing Agility

3 Tips for Social Media Community Management in the Time of COVID-19

3 Tips for Social Media Community Management in the Time of COVID-19

Now, more than ever, social media is an integral part of the success and growth for most businesses. While many people are socially distancing and spending a lot of time online, it’s an especially important time to focus on your digital footprint, which would include social media. One of the critical elements of an effective… Continue Reading 3 Tips for Social Media Community Management in the Time of COVID-19

Communicating and marketing through these unprecedented times.

Communicating and marketing through these unprecedented times.

This is a unique moment in time where we, as businesses, need to focus on what we can do to help our customers, and ourselves. Now is your time to lead. Although in-person meetings are frowned upon, there are other communication options or B2B Marketing and B2C Marketing such as the internet (online meetings, social… Continue Reading Communicating and marketing through these unprecedented times.

The Foundation for Creating Content That Works

The Foundation for Creating Content That Works

Creating relevant content should be the main focus when developing any marketing strategy. Quality content should reflect your brand, motivating people to stay engaged. Without a structure for what you say and a plan for how and when you say it, you risk leaving your followers confused, at best. In the worst-case scenario, your audience… Continue Reading The Foundation for Creating Content That Works

14 Ways a Marketing Agency Can Help You Exhibit Successfully at Trade Shows

14 Ways a Marketing Agency Can Help You Exhibit Successfully at Trade Shows Tradeshows Marketing

As a B-to-B company, exhibiting at trade shows offers numerous benefits: you can increase brand awareness, seek out highly targeted leads, create new business relationships and develop current ones. It also gives you a chance to see what your competitors are doing in terms of new additions to their product line and how they are… Continue Reading 14 Ways a Marketing Agency Can Help You Exhibit Successfully at Trade Shows

Overcome The Most Common Challenge in B2B Content Marketing

Overcome The Most Common Challenge in B2B Content Marketing B2B Content Marketing Challenges

The most common challenge we encounter for B2B marketing in today’s environment is creating quality content. It is proven to generate the most organic search traffic and social shares, and establishes your company as a thought leader. We have seen companies struggle with content week after week, month after month. The answer to solving this… Continue Reading Overcome The Most Common Challenge in B2B Content Marketing

4 Tips to Successfully Market Your Product

4 Tips to Successfully Market Your Product B2B product marketing

Are you struggling to drive opportunities and leads? We understand. B2B Marketing can be a difficult game to play if you don’t know where to begin. Marketing doesn’t have to be a mystery – that’s why we’ve decided to share these tips.. 1. Develop buyer personas. Buyer personas will help you better understand your audiences.… Continue Reading 4 Tips to Successfully Market Your Product

Is Social Media a Relevant Tool for B2B Marketers?

Is Social Media a Relevant Tool for B2B Marketers? social media

To give you a quick answer to the title of this blog post, the answer is a definite yes. Whether you are a social media guru or a newbie, your business will more than likely benefit from a social media presence. A sales prospect in the beginning stages of the decision making process is doing… Continue Reading Is Social Media a Relevant Tool for B2B Marketers?

Top 5 B2B Marketing Tips on Promoting Your Services

Top 5 B2B Marketing Tips on Promoting Your Services

The success of any firm relies on the type of services it provides and the level of expertise and experience that is being offered. What is equally important is how your firm is using marketing to communicate to your potential clients. The educational system doesn’t teach you about marketing strategies, but that is why we’re… Continue Reading Top 5 B2B Marketing Tips on Promoting Your Services

What is the Right Balance of Print and Digital for Manufacturing Companies?

What is the Right Balance of Print and Digital for Manufacturing Companies?

How much time, money and effort should be allocated to digital advertising and to print advertising? This can be a tough question for manufacturers to answer. Let’s take a closer look at each marketing method… Digital Marketing We know that your company’s digital footprint is critical for the buying process. In our experience, some of… Continue Reading What is the Right Balance of Print and Digital for Manufacturing Companies?

How to Find the Right Influencers for Your Beauty Brand

How to Find the Right Influencers for Your Beauty Brand

With an entire social media universe stretching across several platforms and comprised of billions of monthly active users, finding influencers should be a piece of cake, right? Yes and no. On the outside, it appears to be easy, but at the same time, it is extremely overwhelming. With so many to choose from, where do… Continue Reading How to Find the Right Influencers for Your Beauty Brand

Top 5 Myths: Hiring an Agency vs. In-House Marketing

Top 5 Myths: Hiring an Agency vs. In-House Marketing

Within many companies, there is constant debate over whether or not it is necessary to hire an ad agency for marketing work that can possibly be done in-house. We have had experience ourselves with clients who have attempted to build an in-house marketing department, but found that they unfortunately did not produce the results they… Continue Reading Top 5 Myths: Hiring an Agency vs. In-House Marketing

How to Maximize Your B2B Efforts During the Holiday Season

How to Maximize Your B2B Efforts During the Holiday Season

December is fast approaching and a majority of B2Bers will tell you that it’s a particularly slow time for business. Well, we’re here to tell you that there are a few ways you can maximize this time of year for the better. Let’s take a look… 1. People have money to spend As the end… Continue Reading How to Maximize Your B2B Efforts During the Holiday Season