Campaign Strategy

Marketing Campaign Strategy That Makes Every Dollar Pull Together

Kreativ HQ plans marketing campaigns for Twin Cities businesses so every channel carries one message toward one goal. We set the offer, audience, timing, budget and measures across ads, website, email and social, so the same budget returns more.

Briefing a campaign with a client team

One Message, Everywhere Your Customer Looks

A marketing campaign is coordinated activity with one message, one audience and one goal over a set period. Our marketing campaign strategy writes that brief once, so everything agrees.

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How We Build a Campaign Strategy

Almost every failed campaign we see started at step six.

  • 1. Set the Campaign Goal. One number, with a date. Awareness with no number is not a goal.
  • 2. Define the Target Audience. One audience per campaign, described well enough to write to.
  • 3. Research the Market and Competitors. What everyone else is saying, and what nobody is claiming.
  • 4. Craft the Message and Offer. One argument and a reason to act now. The hardest step.
  • 5. Choose Your Channels. Usually two, run properly, not five run thinly.
  • 6. Build the Creative Assets. Ads, pages and emails, all written from the one brief.
  • 7. Set the Budget and Timeline. Enough money and time to get a real answer.
  • 8. Measure, Test and Improve. A mid-point review, one test at a time, and a written result.

Types of Marketing Campaigns

Kreativ HQ team at work
  • Integrated Campaigns. Search, social, email and print, making one case.
  • Email Campaigns. Cheapest to run, quickest to read. Explore Email Marketing
  • Social Media Campaigns. Built around creative people stop for. Explore Social Media Management
  • Brand Awareness Campaigns. Slowest to measure, easiest to waste.

Common Campaign Strategy Mistakes

Awareness with no number. Starting with the creative. Stopping too early. The last two steps of our process exist to prevent all three.

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers to what people ask before they call.

A Kreativ HQ team member

What are the 5 main marketing strategies?

Most frameworks come down to search, paid advertising, social, email and content, with partnerships and direct outreach close behind.

The list is less useful than the question underneath it: which two or three do your buyers actually use when they have the problem you solve. Funding all five thinly is the most common campaign mistake.

What is the 3-7-27 rule in marketing?

A rule of thumb that it takes about three impressions for somebody to recognise a brand, seven to remember it, and twenty-seven to prefer it. Treat it as an argument for consistency rather than as arithmetic.

What are the 7 main types of marketing strategies?

Most lists come down to search, paid advertising, social, email, content, partnerships and direct outreach. For a service business the useful question is not how many types exist but which two or three your buyers actually use.

Can you run a campaign on channels we already buy?

Yes. We would rather improve the brief on spend you already have than move it somewhere new to look decisive.

One Argument, Made Everywhere at Once

Tell us what you are launching and who it is for. We will tell you what the campaign should say.