{"id":2406,"date":"2021-08-06T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T10:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2023-01-06T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T12:34:57","slug":"announcekit-cgboost-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/announcekit-cgboost-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"CG Boost Keeps Their Customers Up-to-Date Easily with AnnounceKit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><br><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\">E-learning companies such as <a href=\"https:\/\/cgboost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CG Boost<\/a> often struggles to <a href=\"https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/how-to-announce-product-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/how-to-announce-product-updates\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announce product updates<\/a> about online courses and new tutorials to customers, especially when they are enhancing their sources without ceasing.<br><br>So, announcing source and video updates to their customers and engaging with them were the main problems CG Boost wanted to solve.<br><br>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/announcekit.app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AnnounceKit<\/a> gave us the tools we needed for a reasonable price, to easily keep our audience and customers up-to-date,&#8221; said Z<meta charset=\"utf-8\">ach Reinhardt, the founder, and lead instructor at CG Boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/50-1024x204.png\" alt=\"announcekit success story\" class=\"wp-image-2413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/50-1024x204.png 1024w, https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/50-300x60.png 300w, https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/50-768x153.png 768w, https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/50-1536x306.png 1536w, https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/50.png 1919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cgboost_logo_horizontal-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cgboost_logo_horizontal-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cgboost_logo_horizontal-1-300x57.png 300w, https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cgboost_logo_horizontal-1-768x146.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Company<\/strong><br>CG Boost<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Website<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/cgboost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">cgboost.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Headquarters<\/strong><br>Salzwedel, Sachsen-Anhalt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Industry<\/strong><br>E-Learning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features Used<\/strong><br>Standalone Feed<br>In-App Feed<br>Announcement Bar Booster<br>Pop-Up<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\">CG Boost is a Salzwedel-based E-Education company, which offers online courses for the 3D tool Blender. They make learning and understanding this comprehensive tool easy and fun. Their goal is to help people tell their own stories in 3D animations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CG Boost merges Zach&#8217;s former brand Zacharias Reinhardt.com and the Weekly CG Challenge. CG Boost worked on bringing all the stuff I do online, under one roof with the new <strong>CG Boost<\/strong> brand. This contains three main areas, <strong>CG Boost Academy<\/strong> with quality online courses, <strong>CG Boost Challenge <\/strong>with contests for 3d artists, and <strong>CG Boost Magazine<\/strong> with quality tutorials and videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their big goal at <strong>CG Boost<\/strong> is to empower aspiring CG artists to bring their Blender 3D skills to the next level and eventually make a living with what they are passionate about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>E-Learning companies such as CG Boost often face a struggle to announce updates to their customers, especially when there is a high velocity on the improvement of training sources. With many course updates each week, it becomes harder and harder to announce this news and stay in touch with customers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-border-color has-theme-palette-2-color has-text-color\" style=\"border-color:#ffffff\"><blockquote><p>AnnounceKit\u00a0gave use the tools we needed for a reasonable price, to easily keep our audience and customers up-to-date.<\/p><cite><span style=\"color:#168abc\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\">ZACH REINHARDT, THE FOUNDER AND LEAD INTRUCTOR AT CG BOOST<\/span><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since CG Boost is updating their courses regularly, and they post new content on different platforms like YouTube, they had a hard time getting everyone interested up-to-date with their recent news and updates. <br><br><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Z<meta charset=\"utf-8\">ach Reinhardt stated that &#8220;First we created a public Notion page, which had the problem there people could not subscribe to updates. Then we looked into Beamer, but it was lacking some features we needed.&#8221;<br><br>They also tried sending out newsletters or updates on social media and in communities. However, their audience had no centralized place to check for updates and new content. So many people were missing out on new additions to their courses or new videos on YouTube. This led them to have fewer people convert into customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>AnnounceKit gave them the tools they needed for a reasonable price, to easily keep their audience and customers up-to-date.<br><br>With a mission to educate, CG Boost&nbsp;uses AnnounceKit to have a single place for product updates, in which their customers can see the new videos, sources, tutorials, and other news.<br><br>&#8220;The main purpose was to keep our audience up-to-date with all new content and updates in one place,&#8221;  said Z<meta charset=\"utf-8\">ach Reinhardt. And since they implemented it on all their websites, one can access it from anywhere on their site. With the small notification icon popping up on their landing page, which is also highly visible, no one will miss the updates!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-theme-palette-2-color has-text-color\"><blockquote><p>If you want a hassle-free way of getting everyone in your audience on the same page, what is new and what updates you have, AnnounceKit is a great choice.<\/p><cite><span style=\"color:#168abc\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><span style=\"color:#168abc\" class=\"has-inline-color\">ZACH REINHARDT, THE FOUNDER AND LEAD INTRUCTOR AT CG BOOST<\/span><\/span><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/zach_reinhardt_2048_square-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/zach_reinhardt_2048_square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/zach_reinhardt_2048_square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/zach_reinhardt_2048_square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/zach_reinhardt_2048_square-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/announcekit.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/zach_reinhardt_2048_square.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>They wanted a place to announce product updates with customers and gather feedback from them to improve their product. Since they can now collect user feedback with each AnnounceKit post, they can see how happy people are with the updates and content they post.<br><br><meta charset=\"utf-8\">They use features like <a href=\"https:\/\/updates.cgboost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">standalone feed<\/a> and in-app feed to inform all of their audience about their fantastic news, and they use eye-catching widgets and pop-ups to take the attention of their audience. (We also appreciate what they do!) <meta charset=\"utf-8\">CG Boost has shared 50+ posts with AnnounceKit so far, and by doing so, decreased the number of people who miss the product updates and saved a great deal of time.<br><br>By using AnnounceKit, they are also now saving time to send out emails and posts on social media to notify people with updates, since they just need to add it once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Outcome<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBefore using AnnounceKit, we had a hard time getting everyone interested up-to-date with their recent news and updates,&#8221; Zach says. That&#8217;s why they chose AnnounceKit to keep their audience engaged.<br><br>Across <strong>CG Boost Academy<\/strong> with quality online courses, <strong>CG Boost Challenge <\/strong>with contests for 3d artists, and <strong>CG Boost, <\/strong><meta charset=\"utf-8\">and <strong>CG Boost Magazine<\/strong> with quality tutorials and videos, the CG Boost team builds stronger and deeper relationships with their customers through AnnounceKit&#8217;s all-in-one platform to announce product updates. <br><br>Lastly, we would like to share Zach&#8217;s experience with our customer support from his eyes. &#8220;One thing that satisfied me the most was the super quick and helpful customer support. Since due to my lack of knowledge in dealing with code, I had some issues implementing the AnnounceKit widget on some of my sites. The team at AnnounceKit quickly took over and set everything up for me. 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