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Social Campaign
Planning Checklist
A Stress-Free Guide to Concept and Collaboration
Planning & Discovery
If you downloaded this checklist, it’s probably because you are looking for a better way to plan
your social campaigns. You’re in good company—even the most sophisticated social teams
could stand to iron out a few kinks in their planning process.
We created this step-­by­-step checklist to help keep your team on track. Use it to plan the social
elements supporting an integrated campaign or to build a purely social activation. By the time
you complete this checklist you will have uncovered eight essential elements to building a
successful social campaign. Get your pens ready—let’s do this.
Eight Steps to a Successful Campaign
Goals | Set S.M.A.R.T. goals for your campaign that ladder up to your overall social
program goals and key business objectives.
Theme & Concept | Clearly state the primary message you want to communicate and
the desired audience reaction.
Audience | Identify your target audience and determine where they spend their time
on social channels and what motivates them.
Creative & Voice | Bring the campaign concept to life with creative and copy across
multiple channels.
Engagement & Response | Build an engagement and response plan that is flexible
enough to cover planned, best-, and worst-case scenarios.
Timeline | Develop a timeline for the campaign with a clear beginning and end
(including plenty of time to develop offers, copy, and creative.)
Measurement | Establish a measurement and reporting process to track against your
established goals and KPIs.
What’s Next | Share results with stakeholders and archive learnings to inform
unfuture campaigns.
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A Word About Resources:
The right people, budget, and tools are essential ingredients of a successful social campaign.
We’ll touch on these elements throughout the checklist, but it’s always smart to know what
resources you have available at the outset of a campaign.
Team
Who do you need to successfully execute your social campaign? What are their roles and
responsibilities? This includes both internal resources and any agencies or partners that will
contribute to the success of the campaign.
Budget
Feel free to roll your eyes if any of your colleagues are still suggesting that “social media is
free.” Then develop a campaign budget inclusive of any creative and production needs, social
ad spend, and any other campaign costs.
Tools
What technology solutions do you need to manage the campaign from start to finish? Think
about content creation, workflow and planning, listening and engagement, and social/web
analytics solutions. If you are a Spredfast customer, your bases are covered.
Ideas:
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Discovery
Fill-in-the-blank:
The goal of the ___________________ campaign is to ____________________ by _________________.
This goal is ___________________ based on _____________________. We will measure ____________ to
evaluate success.
1. Goals
The first step to any successful social campaign is setting S.M.A.R.T. goals. Let’s get started.
Specific | Measurable | Accountable | Realistic | Time-bound
What is your goal for this campaign?
Is this goal aligned to your overall
social program goals?
How does this goal ladder up to your
key business objectives?
How will you measure goal attainment?
What tools will you use?
Who is responsible for campaign success?
Who is the ultimate stakeholder? Who is the project lead?
Is your goal attainable based on past performance,
benchmarks and available resources (people, budget, time)?
What is the timeline to achieve this goal?
What is your goal
for this campaign?
Just one?! While you may
have several results you
want to achieve with
a single campaign, the
clearer you can state
your primary goal, the
more you can focus on
achieving it.
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(campaign name) (specific intended results) (point in time)
(feasible/stretch/unrealistic) (benchmark) (KPIs)
Not Sure How to Define Your Goals?
Here are some of the most common goals and associated key performance indicators (KPIs):
Ideas:
Brand Reach
Brand Engagement
Lead Generation
Sales
Social Care
Audience Size
Potential Impressions
Actual Impressions
Facebook: Likes, Comments, Shares
Twitter: Retweets, Replies, Favorites
LinkedIn: Likes, Comments, Shares
Click through to digital properties
Conversions to Download, RSVPs, etc.
Cart Size, Conversion Rates
Ratio of inquiries to responses
Service Level Agreement Response Time
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Your campaign concept should support the goal you just defined. Aligning your social and
creative teams on the campaign approach up front will save you a lot of headaches down the road.
Discovery
Ideas:
2. Theme & Concept
Does your social campaign relate to an existing campaign? What existing elements
(offers, creative, messaging, etc.) must be consistent across channels?
What type of campaign is this? Is it a seasonal campaign (i.e. Holiday or Back to School)?
A product launch? An event?
What is the primary message you want to communicate?
What do you want your audience to think, feel, or do after engaging with the campaign?
Do you plan to use any specific tactics, such as a celebrity endorser or sweepstakes?
What digital or physical destination will you be driving towards? (i.e. a landing page,
ecommerce site, brick and mortar store, or live event)
Who owns what? Clearly establish decision makers for key campaign components (such
as creative, copy, channel strategy, etc).
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Think Big:
Tips for a Productive Brainstorm Session
Start building a high-level campaign messaging document that includes key points, the
overall “feeling” that you’d like to convey, and even specific branded terms and hashtags.
Here are some tips to get there:
Yes, And…
Borrow a line from improvisational comedy and spend time as a group creating a master list
of ideas. No “no’s” allowed.
Pin It!
You probably already use Pinterest to plan home renovations and wardrobe overhauls. Make
use of shared boards to Pin ideas and examples of other successful executions to get your
team inspired. Worried about prying eyes? Use secret boards.
Look Back.
Review similar campaigns you’ve executed in the past. What worked well? What didn’t? This
litmus test can help you trim your list of good ideas down to just the great ones.
Ideas:	
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Once you have the right message, you want it to reach the right people. Before creating
targeting profiles or promoting content, be sure you really know you audience.
Discovery
Listen Up!
People already send a lot of signals about who they are, their preferences, and how they spend
their time. Using a tool like Spredfast Intelligence to interpret the abundance of social data
available can help you identify signal within the noise.
Identify Audience
Think about a
person, not just a
persona
Your audience isn’t
one-dimensional, so
don’t define them that
way. In addition to
demographic data (and
firmographic data if
you’re B2B), clarify the
interests, obligations,
and desires of your
Who makes up your audience in your social channels?
(Keep in mind—your audience on Twitter may look very
different from your audience on Facebook, and so on.)
What are those audience segments interested in?
Who is your target audience for this campaign?
Where do the target audience and your social
channel segments intersect? (This will help you
identify key campaign channels.)
What motivates your target audience?
(i.e. Do they want deals? To look or feel a
certain way?To receive exclusive content?)
What channels and tactics have worked
best in the past to reach this audience?
Which channels and tactics will best support this
particular campaign, its message, and goals?
3. Audience
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Your team is aligned on the high-level campaign concept. It’s time to bring the vision to life with
creative and copy.
Discovery
Room to Doodle:
4. Creative & Voice
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How will the creative approach translate across individual
channels? (Don’t forget about paid specifications!)
Will you use a branded hashtag or will
you be tapping into a broader conversation?
Which brand elements must be included?
(Consider creative elements like logo, fonts,
colors, and copy requirements such
as voice and tone.)
Will you be working with agency partners
or outside vendors to execute this campaign?
What budget do you have available? How will
you coordinate final approval and sign-off?
What types of visual content will support your
campaign? Think about format (images vs. short-
or long-format video) and style (highly-polished
branded imagery vs. authentic user-generated content.)
Size Matters
As social network
interfaces and paid
offerings continue to
evolve, it’s important to
stay up-to-date on video
and image specs. Keep
our 2015 Social Video and
Image Size Guide on hand.
Hold a Content Line-up
When production work begins, do a side-by-side comparison of your content to look for
campaign consistency. You should double check that individual elements align with the style
and specifications of the networks and channels where they will be shared.
The Usual Suspects:
Organization
Stay organized by housing these elements in a single, easily accessible location. In Spredfast
Conversations, the Content Center allows users to store content with useful labels, set
embargoes on content availability, and instantly optimize image sizes by social network within
Image Studio.
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One surefire sign of a successful social campaign is that it gets people talking. Put together an
engagementandresponseplanthatisflexibleenoughtocoverbest-caseandworst-casescenarios.
Discovery
Ideas:
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5. Engagement & Response
Which teams need to be involved in response planning? Do you need legal sign-off on
a sweepstakes? PR approval when working with an edgy celeb spokesperson?
How will you reward your most active community members?
Who are the influential members of your community? How can the help amplify your
campaign? How do you plan to engage with them?
Are you prepared to care on every channel? Answering inquiries in 140 characters on
Twitter is different than addressing questions within your Instagram comment threads.
“What’s the worst that could happen?” Ask this tough question up front to avoid a
panic attack if limited quantities of a highly sought after item runs out or your “viral”
video gets a lukewarm reception. Plan ahead.
Build a Well-Balanced
Engagement & Response Plan
A detailed engagement and response plan will cover the good, the bad and the ugly. Take
some time to think through how you will respond to community members that engage with
your campaign, and how you’ll amplify your campaign with influencers. Don’t skip planning
for care or worst case, crisis scenarios.
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Crisis
Care
Influencers
Community Management
With a clear goal, a specific audience, and a killer creative idea in mind, the only thing left to do
is do it. Don’t let logistics trip up a winning campaign.
Discovery
Campaign Timeline
Provide all team members with access to a comprehensive, shared campaign timeline.
Within Spredfast Conversations, users can collaborate and maintain full visibility within the
calendar view.
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6. Timeline
Do you have a timeline for the campaign with a clear beginning and end?
Have you created a work-back plan that incorporates ample time to develop offers,
copy, and creative? Include time for revisions.
When the campaign has ended will any assets continue to live on? What needs to be
updated, archived, or removed?
What concurrent campaigns and offerings are running? How will this affect the cadence
of campaign content?
Do you have a regularly scheduled standup with all stakeholders to share insights,
status updates, and roadblocks?
If this is a multichannel campaign, do you know when all other campaign elements will
go live (Out of Home, Email, Radio, Print, etc.)?
7. Measurement
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One of the most important pieces to running a successful social campaign will be the
measurement and reporting that happens along the way. Even if you fail to meet your
established goals and KPIs, you can learn a lot about what worked (and what didn’t).
Progress reports, a wrap report, and post-campaign debrief will give you the chance to discover
your campaign’s successes, as well as areas for growth that you can implement in the future.
Discovery
What tools will you use to measure
progress (i.e. social software platform,
web analytics, CRM, listening tools)?
What do you need to set up ahead
of time (keywords, trackable URLs)?
What is your reporting cadence and
process to measure campaign success?
What is the expected timeline for
your final campaign wrap report?
What is the expected timeline for
your debrief?
Who needs to be included in your final
report? (Probably your teams identified
initially, but maybe some execs, too!)
Creating an
Effective Report:
Don’t report every
data point you have.
Find the ones that are
important and tell a
story. Display your
findings in visual ways.
Think of the best way
to effectively report
your findings. Is it a
Powerpoint? Is it an
infographic? Do you
send out an email or
present outcomes in
a meeting?
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Things to Measure
During the Campaign:
After the Campaign:
Ideas:
Ready to Launch:
Now that you’ve planned your campaign, it’s time to put your plan in action. Be sure to check
in on step 8 once your campaign is a wrap. Good luck!
How are you making progress against your goals and KPIs?
Where is there room to make tweaks and optimize while your campaign is still running?
Was your campaign effective?
Did you meet your campaign goals?
Did you make progress against your overall social and business goals?
Did the results of this campaign merit the investment of time, money, and effort?
8. What’s Next
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Congratulations! You’ve just wrapped up your social campaign. Now comes the fun part:
distilling your learnings into a simple takeaway that can be shared across your organization
and used to inform future campaigns. Get together with your team to discuss the campaign
using these prompts:
Copy your campaign goal from page 3 of this checklist. _______________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
What were the actual results? Did you meet your goal? _______________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Did this project stay within scope (timeline, budget, etc.)? _____________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
What messaging resonated, which tactics worked (or didn’t), and what can you do
better next time?______________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
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What were the top performing pieces of content? And the worst performing pieces?
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Provide a few examples of audience response/engagement (both good and bad).
Summarize the overall reception of the campaign. ____________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Which internal processes worked really well? Which failed? ___________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Identify areas to improve your planning process for future campaigns. _______________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Pop Some Champagne:
The final step is to celebrate your success. Take these learnings and put them in an easy-to-
present format to send to your stakeholders and executives. Don’t forget to archive this so you
can easily reference it the next time you plan a social campaign.

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What Are 8 Steps To A Successful Social Campaign Plan And Checklist? #slideshow

  • 1. brought to you by: Social Campaign Planning Checklist A Stress-Free Guide to Concept and Collaboration
  • 2. Planning & Discovery If you downloaded this checklist, it’s probably because you are looking for a better way to plan your social campaigns. You’re in good company—even the most sophisticated social teams could stand to iron out a few kinks in their planning process. We created this step-­by­-step checklist to help keep your team on track. Use it to plan the social elements supporting an integrated campaign or to build a purely social activation. By the time you complete this checklist you will have uncovered eight essential elements to building a successful social campaign. Get your pens ready—let’s do this. Eight Steps to a Successful Campaign Goals | Set S.M.A.R.T. goals for your campaign that ladder up to your overall social program goals and key business objectives. Theme & Concept | Clearly state the primary message you want to communicate and the desired audience reaction. Audience | Identify your target audience and determine where they spend their time on social channels and what motivates them. Creative & Voice | Bring the campaign concept to life with creative and copy across multiple channels. Engagement & Response | Build an engagement and response plan that is flexible enough to cover planned, best-, and worst-case scenarios. Timeline | Develop a timeline for the campaign with a clear beginning and end (including plenty of time to develop offers, copy, and creative.) Measurement | Establish a measurement and reporting process to track against your established goals and KPIs. What’s Next | Share results with stakeholders and archive learnings to inform unfuture campaigns. 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 3. A Word About Resources: The right people, budget, and tools are essential ingredients of a successful social campaign. We’ll touch on these elements throughout the checklist, but it’s always smart to know what resources you have available at the outset of a campaign. Team Who do you need to successfully execute your social campaign? What are their roles and responsibilities? This includes both internal resources and any agencies or partners that will contribute to the success of the campaign. Budget Feel free to roll your eyes if any of your colleagues are still suggesting that “social media is free.” Then develop a campaign budget inclusive of any creative and production needs, social ad spend, and any other campaign costs. Tools What technology solutions do you need to manage the campaign from start to finish? Think about content creation, workflow and planning, listening and engagement, and social/web analytics solutions. If you are a Spredfast customer, your bases are covered. Ideas: 2
  • 4. Discovery Fill-in-the-blank: The goal of the ___________________ campaign is to ____________________ by _________________. This goal is ___________________ based on _____________________. We will measure ____________ to evaluate success. 1. Goals The first step to any successful social campaign is setting S.M.A.R.T. goals. Let’s get started. Specific | Measurable | Accountable | Realistic | Time-bound What is your goal for this campaign? Is this goal aligned to your overall social program goals? How does this goal ladder up to your key business objectives? How will you measure goal attainment? What tools will you use? Who is responsible for campaign success? Who is the ultimate stakeholder? Who is the project lead? Is your goal attainable based on past performance, benchmarks and available resources (people, budget, time)? What is the timeline to achieve this goal? What is your goal for this campaign? Just one?! While you may have several results you want to achieve with a single campaign, the clearer you can state your primary goal, the more you can focus on achieving it. 3 (campaign name) (specific intended results) (point in time) (feasible/stretch/unrealistic) (benchmark) (KPIs)
  • 5. Not Sure How to Define Your Goals? Here are some of the most common goals and associated key performance indicators (KPIs): Ideas: Brand Reach Brand Engagement Lead Generation Sales Social Care Audience Size Potential Impressions Actual Impressions Facebook: Likes, Comments, Shares Twitter: Retweets, Replies, Favorites LinkedIn: Likes, Comments, Shares Click through to digital properties Conversions to Download, RSVPs, etc. Cart Size, Conversion Rates Ratio of inquiries to responses Service Level Agreement Response Time 4
  • 6. Your campaign concept should support the goal you just defined. Aligning your social and creative teams on the campaign approach up front will save you a lot of headaches down the road. Discovery Ideas: 2. Theme & Concept Does your social campaign relate to an existing campaign? What existing elements (offers, creative, messaging, etc.) must be consistent across channels? What type of campaign is this? Is it a seasonal campaign (i.e. Holiday or Back to School)? A product launch? An event? What is the primary message you want to communicate? What do you want your audience to think, feel, or do after engaging with the campaign? Do you plan to use any specific tactics, such as a celebrity endorser or sweepstakes? What digital or physical destination will you be driving towards? (i.e. a landing page, ecommerce site, brick and mortar store, or live event) Who owns what? Clearly establish decision makers for key campaign components (such as creative, copy, channel strategy, etc). 5
  • 7. Think Big: Tips for a Productive Brainstorm Session Start building a high-level campaign messaging document that includes key points, the overall “feeling” that you’d like to convey, and even specific branded terms and hashtags. Here are some tips to get there: Yes, And… Borrow a line from improvisational comedy and spend time as a group creating a master list of ideas. No “no’s” allowed. Pin It! You probably already use Pinterest to plan home renovations and wardrobe overhauls. Make use of shared boards to Pin ideas and examples of other successful executions to get your team inspired. Worried about prying eyes? Use secret boards. Look Back. Review similar campaigns you’ve executed in the past. What worked well? What didn’t? This litmus test can help you trim your list of good ideas down to just the great ones. Ideas: 6
  • 8. Once you have the right message, you want it to reach the right people. Before creating targeting profiles or promoting content, be sure you really know you audience. Discovery Listen Up! People already send a lot of signals about who they are, their preferences, and how they spend their time. Using a tool like Spredfast Intelligence to interpret the abundance of social data available can help you identify signal within the noise. Identify Audience Think about a person, not just a persona Your audience isn’t one-dimensional, so don’t define them that way. In addition to demographic data (and firmographic data if you’re B2B), clarify the interests, obligations, and desires of your Who makes up your audience in your social channels? (Keep in mind—your audience on Twitter may look very different from your audience on Facebook, and so on.) What are those audience segments interested in? Who is your target audience for this campaign? Where do the target audience and your social channel segments intersect? (This will help you identify key campaign channels.) What motivates your target audience? (i.e. Do they want deals? To look or feel a certain way?To receive exclusive content?) What channels and tactics have worked best in the past to reach this audience? Which channels and tactics will best support this particular campaign, its message, and goals? 3. Audience 7
  • 9. Your team is aligned on the high-level campaign concept. It’s time to bring the vision to life with creative and copy. Discovery Room to Doodle: 4. Creative & Voice 8 How will the creative approach translate across individual channels? (Don’t forget about paid specifications!) Will you use a branded hashtag or will you be tapping into a broader conversation? Which brand elements must be included? (Consider creative elements like logo, fonts, colors, and copy requirements such as voice and tone.) Will you be working with agency partners or outside vendors to execute this campaign? What budget do you have available? How will you coordinate final approval and sign-off? What types of visual content will support your campaign? Think about format (images vs. short- or long-format video) and style (highly-polished branded imagery vs. authentic user-generated content.) Size Matters As social network interfaces and paid offerings continue to evolve, it’s important to stay up-to-date on video and image specs. Keep our 2015 Social Video and Image Size Guide on hand.
  • 10. Hold a Content Line-up When production work begins, do a side-by-side comparison of your content to look for campaign consistency. You should double check that individual elements align with the style and specifications of the networks and channels where they will be shared. The Usual Suspects: Organization Stay organized by housing these elements in a single, easily accessible location. In Spredfast Conversations, the Content Center allows users to store content with useful labels, set embargoes on content availability, and instantly optimize image sizes by social network within Image Studio. 9
  • 11. One surefire sign of a successful social campaign is that it gets people talking. Put together an engagementandresponseplanthatisflexibleenoughtocoverbest-caseandworst-casescenarios. Discovery Ideas: 10 5. Engagement & Response Which teams need to be involved in response planning? Do you need legal sign-off on a sweepstakes? PR approval when working with an edgy celeb spokesperson? How will you reward your most active community members? Who are the influential members of your community? How can the help amplify your campaign? How do you plan to engage with them? Are you prepared to care on every channel? Answering inquiries in 140 characters on Twitter is different than addressing questions within your Instagram comment threads. “What’s the worst that could happen?” Ask this tough question up front to avoid a panic attack if limited quantities of a highly sought after item runs out or your “viral” video gets a lukewarm reception. Plan ahead.
  • 12. Build a Well-Balanced Engagement & Response Plan A detailed engagement and response plan will cover the good, the bad and the ugly. Take some time to think through how you will respond to community members that engage with your campaign, and how you’ll amplify your campaign with influencers. Don’t skip planning for care or worst case, crisis scenarios. 11 Crisis Care Influencers Community Management
  • 13. With a clear goal, a specific audience, and a killer creative idea in mind, the only thing left to do is do it. Don’t let logistics trip up a winning campaign. Discovery Campaign Timeline Provide all team members with access to a comprehensive, shared campaign timeline. Within Spredfast Conversations, users can collaborate and maintain full visibility within the calendar view. 12 6. Timeline Do you have a timeline for the campaign with a clear beginning and end? Have you created a work-back plan that incorporates ample time to develop offers, copy, and creative? Include time for revisions. When the campaign has ended will any assets continue to live on? What needs to be updated, archived, or removed? What concurrent campaigns and offerings are running? How will this affect the cadence of campaign content? Do you have a regularly scheduled standup with all stakeholders to share insights, status updates, and roadblocks? If this is a multichannel campaign, do you know when all other campaign elements will go live (Out of Home, Email, Radio, Print, etc.)?
  • 14. 7. Measurement 13 One of the most important pieces to running a successful social campaign will be the measurement and reporting that happens along the way. Even if you fail to meet your established goals and KPIs, you can learn a lot about what worked (and what didn’t). Progress reports, a wrap report, and post-campaign debrief will give you the chance to discover your campaign’s successes, as well as areas for growth that you can implement in the future. Discovery What tools will you use to measure progress (i.e. social software platform, web analytics, CRM, listening tools)? What do you need to set up ahead of time (keywords, trackable URLs)? What is your reporting cadence and process to measure campaign success? What is the expected timeline for your final campaign wrap report? What is the expected timeline for your debrief? Who needs to be included in your final report? (Probably your teams identified initially, but maybe some execs, too!) Creating an Effective Report: Don’t report every data point you have. Find the ones that are important and tell a story. Display your findings in visual ways. Think of the best way to effectively report your findings. Is it a Powerpoint? Is it an infographic? Do you send out an email or present outcomes in a meeting?
  • 15. 14 Things to Measure During the Campaign: After the Campaign: Ideas: Ready to Launch: Now that you’ve planned your campaign, it’s time to put your plan in action. Be sure to check in on step 8 once your campaign is a wrap. Good luck! How are you making progress against your goals and KPIs? Where is there room to make tweaks and optimize while your campaign is still running? Was your campaign effective? Did you meet your campaign goals? Did you make progress against your overall social and business goals? Did the results of this campaign merit the investment of time, money, and effort?
  • 16. 8. What’s Next 15 Congratulations! You’ve just wrapped up your social campaign. Now comes the fun part: distilling your learnings into a simple takeaway that can be shared across your organization and used to inform future campaigns. Get together with your team to discuss the campaign using these prompts: Copy your campaign goal from page 3 of this checklist. _______________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ What were the actual results? Did you meet your goal? _______________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Did this project stay within scope (timeline, budget, etc.)? _____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ What messaging resonated, which tactics worked (or didn’t), and what can you do better next time?______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________
  • 17. 16 What were the top performing pieces of content? And the worst performing pieces? ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Provide a few examples of audience response/engagement (both good and bad). Summarize the overall reception of the campaign. ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Which internal processes worked really well? Which failed? ___________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Identify areas to improve your planning process for future campaigns. _______________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Pop Some Champagne: The final step is to celebrate your success. Take these learnings and put them in an easy-to- present format to send to your stakeholders and executives. Don’t forget to archive this so you can easily reference it the next time you plan a social campaign.