Plan your work. Then work your plan.
^ That's one of my favorite quips of all time.
Why, you ask?
Because it's simple + practical + super helpful.
Proactively planning your marketing campaigns helps you:
So… how can you reap all of those benefits?
I'm glad you asked. 😉
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What Is A Marketing Campaign? (For The Sake Of Understanding Everything In This Post)Here's your marketing campaign definition:
A marketing campaign is a project consisting of multiple pieces of content or events, connected together by a unified theme, with clear start and end dates.
Marketing campaign planning, then, is the process of organizing everything behind the scenes to ensure a smooth, efficient process. Planning helps you nail every deadline for every piece/event you publish/host within your campaign.
A Few Marketing Campaign ExamplesSome marketing campaign examples may help illustrate this concept a little better.
1. Product LaunchesHas your business launched a new product or service? It's likely you didn't just publish one blog post and called it good.
Product launches are great opportunities for a multi-faceted marketing campaign. The last thing you'll want to do is share the news once and assume everyone in your audience now understands you offer something new.
For product launch campaigns, you may consider:
Kathryn, our Head of Product Marketing, manages product launch marketing campaigns like this all the time. Here's a screenshot of what this actually looks like mapped out on a calendar:
Not all of this content needs to ship at the same time. You can plan when each piece will publish, outline the tasks you need to complete for each, map out the dates when each task needs to be completed, and delegate accordingly.
^ This is what you'll learn throughout this blog post.
2. Content LaunchesImagine publishing a brand new course, e-book, video series, podcast, microsite, or tool.
Just like a product launch, these large-scale content projects deserve more than one-and-done communication. You'll likely want to schedule:
^ You get the picture…
You invest a lot of time + effort into large-scale content. Make the most of it by scheduling a campaign to share it long after the initial launch.
For example, when CoSchedule recently released the Marketing Strategy Certification Course, this is what the campaign looked like:
Events often require promotion beforehand (to get attendees), during (to communicate where attendees need to go + what attendees need to know or do), and after (to reiterate the value of the event + convert prospects as necessary).
Examples here include conferences, virtual summits, webinars, and Meetups.
Your event campaign may include:
Before
During
After
Again, you get the idea here.
Here is an example of a webinar campaign Kathryn organized when we collaborated with Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income:
An event is definitely a marketing campaign with a clearly defined start and end date for each phase of the project, with all communication centered around a topic (the event itself).
Use These Marketing Campaign Examples To Plan Your Own Content + Promotion ChecklistsYou're going to learn a lot more about this throughout the campaign planning checklist. But essentially, with each of the examples above, I simply brainstormed all of the content pieces that would make sense for each campaign.
You will do the same for your own marketing campaigns.
It's not rocket science. But rather, identifying the content ideas that you can realistically execute to make your campaign more successful than publishing one-and-done content.
If you'd like more content ideas to kick start your campaign brainstorming, read this comprehensive blog post:
Recommended Reading: 113 Content Types To Organize With Your Marketing Calendar
Your Marketing Campaign Planning ChecklistOur CEO and Co-Founder, Garrett Moon, says…
The simplest approach is often the best place to start.
It's easy to let the amount of things you could do overwhelm you. And overwhelm makes it hard to start, especially because humans are naturally adverse to change.
That's why the following checklist is kinda… minimalist.
I recommend NOT overcomplicating the process here simply because it doesn't have to be complicated.
Based on my experience managing marketing campaigns for years, this is what I highly recommend you do (consider this a marketing campaign planning checklist):
[ ] Draft The Campaign Launch BriefYour launch brief is the version of truth for the high-level communication behind the campaign. It includes:
^^^ You can simply copy + paste that list into a Word Doc, Google Doc, or Evernote Note, then flesh out the details. There is also a free Word Doc template in the bonus content within this blog post—you can simply download that and get started immediately.
Think about these seven points as an outline that will help you easily communicate the purpose of your campaign and how you will execute it.
So let's take a look into each of these points. I've found it helpful to answer questions as a framework for clarifying your plan:
[ ] Clarify The Marketing Campaign IdeaAnswer this: Who will this campaign benefit the most?
As you think through your audience:
At this point, you will also describe the project in a couple sentences or paragraph, essentially coming up with the campaign definition. Think of this as the elevator pitch for your campaign.
For example, when we recently released the Marketing Strategy Certification Course, this is what the project description looked like:
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As in the example, your campaign description connects the dots between what you will provide (e.g. the content within the campaign) and the value the audience gets (e.g. what's in it for them). You'll learn more about understanding what your audience values in the following Speaking Points check.
[ ] Know Your Resources + BudgetAnswer this: What kind of resources might you need to complete the campaign?
As you consider this question, you will:
^^ At this point, you are thinking high-level. These are estimations (all aside from budget, which you can clearly know for actual money you will need to buy tools or services from external vendors). The rest is a very educated guess based on your experience.
In the Content + Promotion check, you will literally map out every piece of content within a campaign, then determine who will do specific parts + how much time it will take to complete. That will help you understand and define exactly what to expect from your resource.
Right now, knowing your resources and budget at a high-level can help you get sign-off from the big wigs so they know what to expect as you take on this campaign.
[ ] Define Goal + How You'll Measure ItAnswer this: What results will this campaign produce?
If you have data from similar campaigns, you may be able to get to a specific figure here. This extremely detailed blog post will help you understand what to expect from future content performance based on your historical data.
If you don't have historical data on similar campaign of this kind, it's still helpful for your team to know why you are taking on this campaign (and not something else).
You can write this simply in your launch brief:
The goal of our campaign is to influence {specific metric}.
Now, before you launch, you will need to know how you will track the results the campaign produces. A tool like Kissmetrics will help you track nearly anything. Or you may opt to use Google Analytics with its Goals and Custom Reports functionality.
Let's look at an example of setting up Google Analytics Goal tracking + Custom Reports to view the information. Since a majority of you likely have larger marketing goals to influence email subscriber signups from your campaigns, let's use this as an example for your goal metric for your campaign.
Open Google Analytics and click Admin.
Select Goals.
Click + New Goal.
Name the goal, select Destination, and hit Continue.
Select Begins With for your destination, then write in the slug of the page your users see after they convert into your email list. Oftentimes, that is a specific thank you page on your website, so that's the example you're learning here. Then hit Save.
It takes up to two days for Google Analytics to know you want the tool to track that metric, so give it some time. But in the meantime, let's set up a Custom Report so you can view those results when they start rolling in.
Select Customization and click Custom Reports.
Hit + New Custom Report.
Title your custom report (I like to use the same Name from my goal). In Metric Groups, search for your goal name and select that goal's Goal Completions option from the dropdown. In Dimension Drilldowns, search for and select Goal Previous Step – 1. Hit Save.
Now once Google Analytics starts tracking your goal, you will use the Custom Report to view the pages your audience saw immediately before converting into your email list. This will help you understand which pieces of content within your campaign have been most successful (along with viewing how all of your other content is performing for this goal, too).
^^^ Essentially, now you know how you will measure your marketing campaign's success.
Action item: If getting approval is an issue for your marketing team, you now have enough of a marketing campaign plan to show the big wigs. Get your yes, then move on.
[ ] Research Your Speaking PointsAnswer this: Why will your audience care? What's in it for them?
Now you're looking for the words your audience uses. You'll use these terms throughout all of the content within your marketing campaign to create a unified + cohesive message and appeal to the value your audience will receive from your content.
For example, here are the speaking points from the Marketing Strategy Certification Course:
You will do this for your campaign, too:
From here, think about the value your audience will receive as they consume your content. What's in it for them to spend their precious time reading, watching, or listening to your marketing campaign?
Like the example, write at least 3-5 bullets of speaking points that will fuel how you market your campaign via emails, social media, blog posts, paid ads, and beyond.
[ ] Prepare Your Content + Promotion ChecklistAnswer this: What does done look like?
Marketing campaigns are multiple pieces centered around a unified theme with a launch date + end date. Now you'll define what those pieces are.
Set up a 30-minute meeting with your team, and ask them:
What would a campaign like this look like for our company?
It's your job to write down everything they say (and not to interject). If they start to get way off track or talk about a single idea for too long, simply re-ask the question:
What would a campaign like this look like for our company?
As you do this, make sure everyone on the team participates. You may need to call out your quiet folks who have great ideas but just haven't vocalized them yet.
Afterward, you will sift through the ideas, knowing roughly when you want to launch your campaign, and take on the pieces you can realistically execute.
You can use the free template available in this blog post for mapping out your Content + Promotion Checklist for your campaign. This is essentially a comprehensive list of the pieces you will create for the campaign, along with fields to help you take progress notes.
Each piece of content you take on will likely require several phases of content creation:
A sprint framework helps you think through the process for each piece and when your team members will work on each phase. Start by thinking of the four phases for each piece, then simply layer them together.
This is very subjective, but gives you a visual of who is doing what and when, so you can realistically see if someone has too much (or too little) on their plates. From here, you can modify your publish dates for specific pieces when necessary.
Your free template that complements this blog post gives you a sprint backlog to help you put this advice into practice immediately.
By this point, you understand:
Now you need to:
Luckily for you, the Marketing Projects feature in CoSchedule exists to help you put this advice into practice. For example, here is what the Marketing Strategy Certification Course campaign looked like:
By first mapping your publish dates for each piece, now you can assign tasks (complete with due dates) to the team members who will complete each phase of content creation. To do this, you can use the campaign's sprint backlog as your guide.
If you'd like to learn more about breaking down a piece of content into easily delegable tasks, read this comprehensive blog post on the topic.
[ ] Host Sprint ReviewsPart of the marketing campaign planning process includes making sure execution goes efficiently. Sprint reviews are touch points between you (the campaign's project manager) and your team to proactively prevent roadblocks + keep the campaign content creation moving forward.
Since you know when your team will be creating the content within your campaign, you can proactively schedule 30-minute sprint reviews. In these touch points, you will open your Sprint Backlog and run through each piece of content within the campaign, asking your team a simple question for each piece:
Where are we at with this?
This will help you understand how far along in the process you are. If anything is getting off track, these touch points give you the opportunity to address concerns before you miss any deadlines. This series of questions is a good framework if this happens:
You can schedule these meetings before you start executing to keep everyone on the same page. I recommend at least two per week to make sure everything moves forward smoothly.
In addition to sprint reviews, there is a handy Team Report in CoSchedule to help you track your campaign's progress.
You'll easily see when team members hit their task due dates, if they completed tasks late, and if they have overdue tasks. All of this helps you and your team stay accountable for meeting deadlines and gives you the visibility to keep your campaign on track.
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