Category: Blog


  • Variety of Muffins

    Our series of conversations with communications leaders continues this week with a look at the impact of COVID-19 on small business. Ali Palmer is VP Business Development & Marketing at Gingerbread Construction Company, a family-owned and operated business just North of Boston and she gives us a little insight into the last several weeks –…

  • Decorative Letters SEO

    Think about your blog posts as quality organic content inspired by the interests of your target audience to inform and encourage no-pressure engagement. Here’s our cheat sheet to developing quality, SEO-guided content.

  • Simmons College Building

    In the first in a series of new conversations with communications and marketing leaders we take a look at the impact of COVID-19 on higher education. We talked with Simmons University‘s Associate Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs Jeremy Solomon, who brings us behind the scenes as the school navigated the earliest days of the coronavirus…

  • True connection, as we humans know it, is actual dialogue. It’s shared experience. It’s real time. At the end of the day, if this quarantine has taught us anything, it’s that engagement isn’t an outcome or a metric, it’s a human drive.

  • On World Health Day 2020, as we think about the healthcare workers who are the true heroes right now, here are some things we are doing to try to support our people.

  • Kite in blue sky

    When will we able to get back to the office? The answer may lie in the story of a kite, a dad and our leaders.

  • If you’re like the rest of us, Zoom and Google Hangouts have become a fixture in your daily lives. And if you’re relatively new to video conferencing, you’ve seen that it’s fairly easy to get up and running. But how do you make the most of it? CTP’s Director of Creative Content Will Claflin offers…

  • Empty Fenway Park

    The world has changed dramatically since Chris Sale threw his last fastball. For marketers, that new world already is under way, if the shifts from Black Swan events like coronavirus can’t be fully absorbed for years. What might this new normal look like, whether that’s fall or winter or sometime in 2021 and beyond?

  • People eating queso dip off each other’s fingers at a party may have drawn a smile when Mint Mobile first launched its fingerdipping campaign two years ago. Today, framed against obsessive hand washing and social distancing, the spot was mocked into retirement. With quarantines and forced closures, businesses find themselves scrambling to survive. Operations, sales, finance,…

  • Over the last few years, there has been a considerable shift in what consumers expect from the brands they interact with. We hold brands to a higher standard where quality, convenience and competitive pricing are table stakes. Sure, value is important. But what’s more important? Values. We’re no longer influenced by a company simply having great…