It’s exciting to launch a new advertising campaign. Whether you’re launching a paid search campaign, new Facebook ads, or even direct mail, advertising your company’s product or service is a great moment. Of course, a lot of hard work goes into setting up a successful advertising campaign. Before you even decide on the type of campaign you are going to run, the targeting, and what your creative angle will be, you need to develop a creative brief or messaging document.
For decades, creative briefs have been used in the advertising industry to ensure that the agency and the client are completely aligned on what they are trying to accomplish. Without a brief, the agency could conceivably spend weeks developing amazing ideas, creative executions, and media campaigns that don’t align with their client’s goals.
No matter how you create your advertising campaigns, it’s vital for all your internal stakeholders to be aligned on what the goals and outcomes should be for your company’s marketing initiatives. Starting with a creative brief before every project is key to everyone being on the same page and working toward the same goal.
A good creative brief doesn’t have to be long or complex, but it does need to answer some key questions and help boil down your strategy and goals into simple terms.
By taking the time to answer these questions and thoughtfully plan how you want to market your product or service, you can ensure that your campaign is set up for success.
Once you have clear answers to these 10 questions, it’s time to communicate with your team. Ensure that everyone involved in creating the campaign is working from the same set of core concepts and ideas. From your copywriter to your social media manager, the brief will let everyone know the key components of the campaign and what they need to do to successfully implement their very important task.
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Once you've finished running your campaign, it's time to evaluate your success. These questions will help you determine how well your campaign performed, if you should make tweaks to it, and if your results are repeatable.
The questions above will help your team understand how well your campaign performed and plan better for future campaigns. Running marketing campaigns is a process of continuous learning and iteration — there are always new ways to optimize and improve over time.
Beyond the questions above, marketers should also consider how leads will want to convert on your ad. Will they fill out a form to book an appointment or get more information? Will they convert in an online shopping cart? Will promotional products help move them down the funnel? Or will they want to make a phone call to speak to a human being and complete their purchase? The answer to these questions often depends on your industry and what you are selling — businesses with products and services that are complex, expensive, infrequently bought, or urgent purchases often generate more inbound calls than online leads.
Determining whether people will convert online or over the phone will not only impact your call to action for your ad and landing pages, but the technologies you will need to track conversion rates. Online conversions can be tracked using tools like Google Analytics. But if you think leads are likely to convert by making a phone call, then you would want to get attribution and intelligence on those phone leads using a conversation intelligence solution.
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