What makes a successful marketing campaign? For starters, there is a lot of hard work involved in creating and executing a quality marketing campaign. Developing a marketing campaign isn’t just about promoting a particular product or service – you have to strategize far beyond simply what you are promoting and consider the other pieces to the campaign puzzle. Let’s talk about some tips on how to develop and execute a successful marketing campaign.
Identify the Value Component of What You Are Promoting
Regardless of what you are promoting, you need to clearly state the advantages and benefits to your customers/clients. What makes your product or service better than what your competitors are offering? Or if you are developing a campaign to promote an event or raise awareness on an important issue, why is this a campaign that your audience would want to participate in? Identify the value of your campaign and make sure that your audience is clear on its purpose.
Include a Clear Call to Action
A call to action compels your audience to take immediate action, which makes it a vital part of your marketing campaign. You need to tell your customers what you want them to do so that you encourage participation and get the most out of the campaign. A call to action can be as simple as saying, “Call us today to schedule a free consultation” or “sign up today for a free monthly newsletter.”
Identify Your Target Audience
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This is one of the most important aspects of executing a successful marketing campaign. If you don’t know who your target audience is, then how can you know how to market to them? In order for a marketing campaign to be successful you have to reach the right people with your marketing efforts. Identifying your target audience takes some work doing market research and data collecting, but once you have that information your marketing strategy becomes that much easier.
Determine a Marketing Route for Your Campaign
Once you’ve learned all about your target audience the next step is determining the best way to reach them. Think about whether you want to rely more on traditional marketing or if you want to go the digital marketing route. This all depends on who your target audience is and how they are most easily reached. Maybe you even want to mix in a little bit of both, which can also make for a successful marketing campaign. In the world we live in today, it is never a bad idea to test the waters of the digital marketing world.
Create a Timeline and Plan Ahead
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It is always advised to map out your campaign plan well in advance so that you can make room for tweaks and adjustments where they may be needed. Planning ahead also gives you the advantage of looking at the campaign as a whole from start to finish and set specific dates for milestone events. It is important to allow for flexibility and the need to adapt the campaign to evolving circumstances.
Monitor Your Campaign’s Success
In order to be able to adapt your campaign to evolving circumstances, you have to be able to measure the campaign’s performance from start to finish. The digital marketing route makes this very simple, allowing you to measure the amount of traffic to your website, the number of clicks on a given post as well as social media engagement. If you are new to these types of measurement tools, Google Analytics is a great place to start. Some social media platforms even offer analytics of their own that can help to measure the performance of your campaign.
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Consistency is Key
Make sure that everyone on your creative team has all of the information they need in order to keep the same message across all campaign mediums completely consistent. Regardless of how many different platforms that you are utilizing for your campaign, the takeaway from your audience should always be consistent for each outlet. Planning ahead and creating an editorial calendar is a great way to ensure that your campaign message is consistent across all platforms.
Have an idea for a marketing campaign in mind, but need help executing your plan? Reach out to us at The Storyteller Agency. Call us at 850.267.0931 or send us an email toinfo@storytelleragency.com. We can help you plan a successful marketing campaign and set it into motion.