Marketing Agency & ConsultingSG MARKETING GROUP

Building audiences around live experiences.

I founded SG Marketing Group in 2023 while in college and developed it into a multi-market live-event marketing agency.

SG Marketing Group logo

LIVE EVENT MARKETING · SOCIAL MEDIA · DIGITAL ADVERTISING · CAMPAIGN STRATEGY

MY ROLE

Founder · Strategy, digital execution, promotional operations & creative oversight

PROJECT STATUS

Founded in 2023 · Multi-year agency portfolio

OUTCOME / PROGRESS

43+ events organized or marketed across five states.

Explore the featured campaign
01 / THE AGENCY

Built from experience.
Expanded through execution.

SG grew from my work marketing events through WatHeSay Productions, a production company I co-founded that produced large-scale events, digital media, and film/television.

I expanded beyond our own productions to support other production companies, promoters, venues, event organizers, entertainment partners, and artist-related campaigns. My work connected audience development and marketing strategy with the day-to-day operations of getting an event in front of people.

43+

Events organized or marketed

Since founding SG in 2023

5

States

Ohio · Kentucky · Illinois · Wisconsin · Alabama

4,000+

Documented online tickets

Selected available records; excludes undocumented door admissions

808K+

Instagram views

2026 year-to-date reporting represented in the supplied Meta analytics

These measures describe different dimensions and reporting periods. Online ticket records are incomplete and do not represent total attendance or lifetime revenue.

02 / MY ROLE

Agency leadership.
Hands-on execution.

Strategy & leadership

  • Founder
  • Live event marketing strategy
  • Campaign development & planning
  • Promotional strategy
  • Audience development
  • Partnership marketing

Digital marketing

  • Social media management
  • Digital advertising & paid social campaigns
  • Content distribution
  • Campaign analytics
  • Ticket / website traffic strategy

Promotional operations

  • Promotional team management
  • Street marketing coordination
  • Radio promotion coordination
  • Multi-channel campaign execution
  • Event promotion operations

Creative & content oversight

  • Creative direction
  • Photographer & videographer commissioning
  • Event content production oversight
  • Content repurposing
  • Recap content strategy
03 / BUILDING THE PLATFORM

Building the brand
behind the events.

SG became an agency brand, an event-discovery channel, and a promotional distribution network. Its social presence brought campaign creative, partner promotions, photography, and recaps into one content hub.

The feed reflects a growing portfolio of event experiences and a place to introduce the next one. Follower count is only one part of that story.

04 / DIGITAL PERFORMANCE

Building reach
beyond paid media.

During the supplied 2026 year-to-date reporting period, Meta documented 808,449 Instagram views, including 785,871 organic views and 22,578 views from ads.

The report demonstrates substantial distribution beyond paid promotion. It is a reporting-period snapshot, not lifetime SG performance or a ticket-attribution report.

808,449

Instagram views

85.3K

Reach

48.2K

Content interactions

05 / INTEGRATED PROMOTIONAL OPERATIONS

Campaigns
beyond the feed.

Digital, street, radio, and event-day working together.

For larger events, I managed promotional teams, organized street-marketing activity, coordinated radio promotion, and aligned those efforts with organic social, paid advertising, and partner distribution.

Street marketing brought the campaign into relevant communities and target markets. The promotional mix varied by event, with the channels working toward a coordinated final push rather than operating separately.

The SG campaign lifecycle

  1. 01Event / client brief
  2. 02Audience & market strategy
  3. 03Campaign positioning
  4. 04Creative development
  5. 05Promotional team organization
  6. 06Organic social distribution
  7. 07Paid digital advertising
  8. 08Street marketing
  9. 09Radio promotion
  10. 10Ticket / website traffic
  11. 11Final event push
  12. 12Event-day execution
  13. 13Photography & videography
  14. 14Recap content
  15. 15Content repurposing

A framework adapted to each event; not every campaign used every channel.

06 / CREATIVE & CONTENT OPERATIONS

Creating assets
beyond event night.

For selected events, I commissioned photographers and videographers, coordinated their involvement, and managed how the resulting content was used.

They documented crowd energy, venue atmosphere, performers, audience engagement, and key moments. Those assets supported recaps, future promotion, social distribution, and the ongoing development of SG.

The event media shown here demonstrates campaign and content oversight. It is not a claim that I personally photographed, filmed, or designed every asset.

07 / SELECTED CAMPAIGNS

Different events. Different audiences.
One marketing platform.

A selection from a broader body of 43+ events. Campaign material and event media show the range of the work; they do not establish exact attendance.

From the feed to the room.

CAMPAIGN → LIVE EXPERIENCE

Freaknik / Icebreaker

Objective
Build awareness around a college-focused icebreaker event.
My role
Event marketing and SG promotional distribution.
Campaign
Themed creative and social promotion connected the event identity with its intended audience.
Documented results
Supplied promotional creative and event photography document both the campaign and the live experience. No attendance total is inferred from the photographs.
CAMPAIGN → LIVE EXPERIENCE

KAIOS Halloween

Objective
Position a seasonal live event for a college audience.
My role
Campaign promotion and social distribution through the SG / WatHeSay network.
Campaign
Halloween-led creative communicated the venue, entry details, and event timing, followed by event content on social media.
Documented results
Historical Eventbrite documentation records 543 tickets for The Night After / KAIOS. The supplied social post also documents the event setting; online tickets are not complete attendance.
CAMPAIGN → LIVE EXPERIENCE

Spring Fling

Objective
Give a spring event a recognizable promotional identity.
My role
SG event promotion and content distribution alongside WatHeSay Productions.
Campaign
A seasonal creative direction carried from the promotional flyer into branded event photography.
Documented results
The supplied campaign creative and event photograph document the promotion and live experience. No event-specific sales or attendance total is claimed.
08 / FEATURED CAMPAIGN — BIG BOOGIE

Connecting paid promotion,
social content, and live dates.

Big Boogie / The Big Party is one of SG’s most extensively documented campaigns, combining social distribution, paid digital advertising, ticket-page traffic, promotional content, and post-event media across multiple dates and markets.

MY ROLE

Paid advertising & promotional social distribution

ROCKFORD CAMPAIGN

April 24–25, 2026 · Rockford, Illinois

OUTCOME / PROGRESS

Events recorded 516 tickets and $45,490 in net Eventbrite sales; not ad-attributed totals.

I ran paid advertising for Dracula Productions’ Rockford concerts and distributed promotional content through SG Marketing Group platforms. These responsibilities do not imply that SG owned or produced those concerts.

THE OBJECTIVE

The business need.

The Big Party tour’s Rockford engagement needed digital promotion around two concert dates. The work brought together paid advertising and social promotion, with Eventbrite records documenting the overall ticketing outcome.

STRATEGY & EXECUTION

My contribution.

Support the event campaign

I ran paid ads for Dracula Productions and promoted the concerts through my own marketing group’s social platforms.

Bring the audience to the event

The campaign included event creative and social distribution, with Meta reporting showing link-click and landing-page activity. The displayed creative is campaign material; this case study focuses on my marketing and distribution role.

Separate performance from attribution

I reviewed ad metrics alongside Eventbrite ticket sales for both dates. They tell related parts of the campaign story, but the ticketing totals are not presented as purchases directly attributed to my ads.

OUTCOME & STATUS

Results and deliverables.

Across the two dates, Eventbrite recorded 516 tickets and $45,490 in net sales. These are event-level results, not an ad-attributed revenue or return-on-ad-spend claim.

EVENT OUTCOMES

Two dates. One campaign story.

Dracula Productions · Rockford, Illinois · April 24–25, 2026

516Eventbrite tickets across both dates
$45,490Eventbrite-reported net sales
Source: Eventbrite sales records supplied for both concert dates. Net sales are not profit, and these totals are not attributed solely to paid advertising.
Concert dateTicketsNet sales
April 24, 2026401$36,780
April 25, 2026115$8,710

Promotional social content

A promotional post distributed through my marketing group’s platforms recorded 87,818 views and 1,375 interactions, with 1,238 accounts engaged. These are the supplied post’s snapshot totals, not unique concertgoers or attributed ticket purchases. The report does not establish a paid-versus-organic split.

Paid-media snapshot

One supplied Meta ad report records 1,552 link clicks with $200.28 spent, at a displayed $0.13 per link click. The screenshot does not show the ad name or reporting dates, so this is not treated as a complete campaign total or tied to either individual concert date.

Event-level Eventbrite results are not ticket purchases or revenue attributable solely to paid advertising. Online tickets also exclude any unrecorded door or walk-up admissions.

09 / BIG BOOGIE — PAID MEDIA

Moving audiences
beyond the feed.

Three separate Meta reports document different pieces of the traffic-generation work. Reporting overlap is not established, so these dashboards are not combined into a master result.

Report 01 · Link-click activity

1,552Link clicks
$0.13Per link click
$200.28Reported spend

One documented Meta ad report. The screenshot does not establish the ad name, reporting dates, or complete campaign budget.

Report 02 · Rockford second-show traffic

1,066Landing-page views
$0.24Per landing-page view
1,271Link clicks
49,378Views
24,677Viewers
1,452Post engagements

Goal: Get website visitors. The supplied second-show ad report documents traffic activity, not verified ticket purchases.

Report 03 · Huntsville concert traffic

2,905Landing-page views
$0.16Per landing-page view
4,354Link clicks
66,571Views
27,380Viewers
30,128Post engagements
25,155Three-second video plays

Goal: Get website visitors. This separate supplied report concerns the Huntsville promotion and is not added to the Rockford ad reports.

10 / BIG BOOGIE — CAMPAIGN TO RECAP

Turning events
into reusable media.

Announcement, awareness, ticket push, final call, event, recap. The post-event story gave the campaign a life beyond the performance and added original media for future social distribution.

Big Boogie · Supplied event recap. Event documentation and content strategy, not an attendance or sales measurement.
11 / DOCUMENTED TICKETING PERFORMANCE

Online records.
Part of the event story.

4,000+

Documented online tickets

Across currently available records for selected SG-supported events. Additional historical records and door admissions are not represented in this total.

Current documentation represents approximately 4,017 ticket transactions: 3,336 across unique historical events, plus 681 across the four distinct newer records below. Repeated events in overlapping historical screenshots are counted once. The two Rockford records are the same 516 tickets already shown above, not another 516.

Selected newer ticketing dashboard. The first value is tickets sold; the second is the dashboard allocation. Gross sales are not net proceeds, profit, or an ad-attributed result.
EventSold / allocationGross ticket sales
Big Boogie Live in Rockford · The Big Party401 / 410$39,986.22
The Big Party · Big Boogie Live, 2nd Show115 / 319$9,506.58
Big Boogie Live at Mr. B’s · The Big Party119 / 150$9,828.21
Jacquees “MOOD 2” Album Release Party46 / 100$2,680.20

The Rockford gross figures correspond to the same April 24–25 events with $36,780 and $8,710 in Eventbrite-reported net sales. Gross and net figures are kept separate. No combined SG revenue total is presented.

Historical records

Overlapping screenshots are retained as source evidence, not summed independently. Digital presales do not account for all walk-up, door, or onsite payments.

12 / REGIONAL FOOTPRINT

Built locally.
Expanded regionally.

Live-event marketing campaigns across the Midwest and Southeast.

OHOhio
KYKentucky
ILIllinois
WIWisconsin
ALAlabama
13 / SELECTED EVENT ARCHIVE

A broader body
of live-event work.

College events, themed parties, and artist-led concerts required different messages and promotional approaches. These campaigns complete an eight-event selection alongside the four featured stories above.

Selected partners & collaborators

WatHeSay Productions · Dracula Productions

Across the broader operation, I worked alongside production companies, promoters, venues, DJs, artists, photographers, videographers, creative collaborators, and promotional teams. Each contributed distinct responsibilities; collaboration does not imply SG ownership.

Explore more marketing work
PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES · COLLABORATIONS · CONSULTING

Let’s connect.

Whether you’re discussing a marketing role, looking to strengthen a brand, or exploring a collaboration, I’d be glad to hear from you.

Start a conversation craig262Lb@gmail.com

For project inquiries, include your business name, the support you need, and your timeline. I offer a free initial consultation to discuss scope.

Email only the details needed for your inquiry. Please do not send sensitive or confidential information. How I handle your information.