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1. Slay your Seasonal Campaign: Poured your creativity
into your work. And when it comes to selling it, well, that's when
things get messy. And during your special season, that one time of the year where campaigns really matter to you, it's even more important
than ever to get it right. It could be Black Friday, it could be the holiday season. Any season or campaign that really speaks to
you and your craft is one day you want to cherish and make sure that
it's working for you. The real question is,
how do we do that? Well, my name is Fab Giovanetti, M market is the author and
founder of marketing school. This short mighty class, we're going to simplify your Black Friday and holiday
marketing planning, thinking about clarity,
strategy, and action. We'll start by helping you
define your campaign goals. We're really building offers that align with your business, your audience, and what
you're trying to achieve. We're also going
to map those goals to Smart seasonal offers. So that your creativity
feels purposeful and promise actually land
to the right people. They are looking for
what you have to give. No matter what the season is,
promotion can feel really heavy and we want to find a
way together to make it fun, engaging, and valuable for
you and your audience. Finally, we'll talk about
how to measure what worked. You can learn, improve, and feel confident doing it
all again next year. This class is perfect
for creative freelancers and even small business
owners and marketers, especially if this time of the year is your
time to shine. We are going to
build together is a Seasonal Campaign Playbook, a plan that outlines
goals, offers, content, and timeline,
and you can use to track success again and again for
many, many campaigns to come. I want to build a
system with you and processes that you can learn once and repeat again and again. So if you're ready to
build a campaign that works as hard as you do,
and I know that you do. Then let's get started to build the best seasonal
campaign out there yet for you. I will
see you in class.
2. Set your Goals: If I gave you an
unlimited budget for your Black Friday campaign, what's the first
thing you would do? Would you run Facebook ads, send an email every day for
a week, hire an influenza? Well, most people jump
straight into tactics. If you don't know
exactly what you're trying to achieve, who
you're speaking to, or where the most
likely to listen, you're building your campaign
on literal guesswork. So if Black Friday as a concept doesn't resonate with
you, that's okay. Think of this course as
a way to reframe it, not just as a
weekend of discount, but an opportunity
to amplify others, maybe support courses
you care about, and approach the holiday
season differently. Whether you run a Black
Friday campaign or not, the principal tactics
and examples we cover will help you design promotions
that are intentional, creative, and built to last. In this first lesson,
we're slowing down so that we can
speed up later. Many of our students have taken
the strategies you learn. Apply them way
beyond Black Friday from holiday seasons to
Valentine's launches, summer promotions, and even community
events starting out, we're going to get
crystal clear on three things before we
even touch your offer. The goal your Black Friday
campaign is working towards, the audience you
most want to reach, and the channels where you can connect with them
most effectively. Imagine you're planning
a road trip on a new destination,
a great city break. Most of the times you will want to pick the
destination first. You might end up planning
where you're going to eat, where you're going to stay, and the things you can
experience along the way. After all, it's the
first time you're going to go to the city
and you've never been be. You put everything
to the chance, yes, you might explore and
discover hidden gems. But without that clear
destination and plan, you might just
waste time, energy, and even investments, not really finding
the best experience. Yes, as I said, there might be interesting things
along the way, but you might just
get really frustrated and not want to go
back to the city. Friday Campaign
is not different. Your destination can help you make the most
of your experience. It might be revenue boost, clearing out all stock, launching a limited
type product, or even create a high
ticket sales push. Maybe it's audience growth. Use it to build your email list, increase social followers, or grow even your SMS
list ahead of next year. Some people use it
for brand awareness to get more eyes on your name and message if sales isn't
the primary metric right now. Maybe you want to
fundraise for charity, highlight a sustainable pledge, or run a give back campaign, or you focus on attention. You want to reward your existing customers and keep them loyal. Remember, your goal
should be tailored to where you're looking at
going in the next quarter. Which of these
statements best describe a retention focus goal for
your Black Friday Campaign. My goal is to acquire 100
new email subscribers by 30th of November. My goal is to have 30% of
loyalty program members make a repeat purchase during
our early access VIP sale. Or my goal is to
sell FT units or new product within the first
24 hours of the launch. Option B is the one
that really focuses on retention driven goals
because it focus on obviously existing customers and encourages them to
make a purchase. You can create your
own retention goal using a very simple template. My goal is to have a
number of percentage of existing customers
make a repeat purchase between a start date and an end. You might be wondering, though, which goal is right for me? It's really important to
think about three things. What happened in
the past quarter, where you want to go by
the end of the year. Is there any quick
win that you can tap into for your
Black Friday campaign? These are three
powerful elements that you can look into
when defining your goal. You don't always have to
go for revenue boost. Can you actually make your Black Friday campaign
work for you? If so, which out of these five different type of goals would work for yourself? Are you not sure just
yet which one to go for? Sometimes the actual
destination is clear. Other times, it's
still a bit muck. So as always, we're
coming to the rescue. If you're still not sure yet, then we're going
to help you pick one goal that fits
your campaign and focus by filling the worksheet that we have attached
to this lesson. Just write one short sentence explaining why this goal
matters for your brand. It will help you identify
where to go next. Black Friday is my
favorite time to spruce up my skincare cabinet
and I love to go back to brands that
I trust and love. I want you now to imagine a skincare brand that you
have been a customer for, let's say, up to three years. You spend over 500
pounds on the products, commending them to
all of your friends and even posted about
them on social. You genuinely love
what they make. Black Friday arrives. You wake up to an
email from them saying special offer for new customers only 40% off your
first purchase. Now later day, go to the website and see the
same messages everywhere. New customer get 40% off. There's nothing for loyal
customers like you. Nothing. How would that make you feel if you overlooked devalued? This is why the brand can work so hard on
attracting new customers. But why is it giting the people that supported them for years? Meanwhile, your friends
who never bought from them before decides to try them
because of that discount. Once she gets a
better deal than you have had despite your
years of loyalty. So you can feel like if only this brand
sent you a special ema with a discount for that one moisturizer that you buy and repeat
every single year, you would have jumped
on that opportunity on blindfolded, right? So what do you think is
the most helpful way to define your audience for
an offer driven campaign? Look at the favorite platform. There goes a challenges on
their stage in your funnel. If you pick C, you're right. When it comes to this type
of campaign is all about the customer journey
more than anything else. This is your reminder if you're trying to
speak to everyone, you end up connecting
with no one. You want to think about the
different audiences you have, your loyal customers,
the super fans that already buy from
you, your new prospects, the people that know you a
little, but haven't bought, and even lapsed buyers, the people that bought before, but haven't returned in months. These different groups will respond to different messages, and it's important to decide which ones you're going to
tap into for Black Friday. Loyal customers want
early BAP access or an exclusive bundle. New prospects might
need a story that shows them why you're
different from anyone else, especially right now in
the midst of the chaos. So can you think of
three ways that you can adapt an offer to
these three audiences? And which audience would you
choose for yourself right now if you only had to pick one for your
Black Friday campaign? Now, a few years back, I
worked with an agency helping a brilliant cook who had two big things to promote
for Black Friday, her in person cooking classes
and her brand new cookbook. She did what most
small business owners do when there's a big
shopping weekend, and it comes round very fast. They put everything on sale, and they post across
every platform they could think of even tried to
talk to everyone at once, and the result was
a lot of noise, but not the kind of
sales she wanted. When I was offered to jump on a project by the agency,
we stripped it back. I suggested choosing
one primal goal. For example, in this
case, it was filling up the next three months of classes and then segment her audience. So we had local foodies that we could focus
on the classes, and we still tapped into the wider online following
for the Cookbook. The most important
thing though was to match each offer
with the right channel. Instagram and local
Facebook groups to the classes and their email
list for the Cookbook. The campaign became
a lot simpler, more focused, and
way more profitable. Simply shows the right
channels constantly, and that's what happened because her messaging
was more relevant. She sold more books than
she had the year before. Even if this wasn't
the main goal. I find that this is where most
marketers get tripped up. They try to be
everywhere for everyone. But if you want a Black Friday campaign that actually delivers, you need to be intentional, especially when it comes to holiday season and Black Friday. You want to ask some questions again and see whether the
answers are changing. For example, where
does your audience already spend time at
this time of year? Which platforms can
create strong content for consistently over
this type of season and which channel aligns best
with your Black Friday go? This is the last
piece of the puzzle. Focus only on one
to three channels for your Black Friday campaign. Master those and you will actually have better
results over time. Say your most active
social platform for awareness and engagement
is social media. Well, email can be great for conversions
and relationships, usually, building with
engaged leads and customers. Whereas you can use
partnerships for credibility and reach
on a new launch. I want you to write
down your top channels for this campaign,
and then on each one, note why is the
right fit based on the audience that you decided
to go for and your goal. Hopefully by the
end of this lesson, you can start mapping
out one clear goal, at least one defined
audience segment for your campaign and one to
three priority channels. This is going to be
at Friday Foundation. Every offer story, and ad you create will build
on these choices. We don't want you to
build a campaign that tags everybody or
that does everything. We want that campaign
that actually aligns with what you're
currently doing, the goals that you're going for, and the lessons that you have learned about
your audience. In a time of year where
there's a lot of noise and everything is very crowded and potentially overwhelming, you want to align
with the way to give value and also enrich the
experience of your audience, not just trying
to push something for ROI sakes. What
are you going to do? If any of the answers
is not clear just yet, once again, go to your
worksheet, answer the questions. This will help you
identify your goal, your audience, and
your platform. Good luck. I cannot
wait to see how you can implement this
next in our next step.
3. Define Your Offer: Of these Black Friday offers best matches a sustainable
fashion brands value. Could it be 20% of
repair services and free mending workshop with
purchases over 50 pounds or maybe 70% of all the products with next day delivery to boost sales volume or buy one get you free on all clear design teams to
move all stock quickly. Guess what? A is the correct answer because
this offer encourages customers to extend the life of their clothes through
repairs and learning, which perfectly aligns with
a sustainable fashion brand. The idea is obviously
to reducing waste, which works incredibly
well, even on Black Friday. If you think about
Black Friday deal that recently caught your eye
as you were scrolling, and you got one in mind, it probably wasn't just a discount. It might have been the way
that the brand made you feel, the way that it
tapped into what you want to do and how you
want to invest your money. Maybe it was a clever twist
that you cared about, or the sense that this
offer was going to be good for you and not just
anybody with a credit card. Also, it's important
that we understand that the offer for any
kind of promotion, especially holiday
season promotions, it's so important because it needs to do two
things at once. Yes, it needs to drive sales or tack into the goal that you have
in the short term, but also this should strengthen the relationship
that you have with your audience for
the wrong goal. It's not just about the goal
you have for this campaign, it's about the relationship
you build afterwards. Get it wrong and you
might make a quick sale, but chip away at trust, which is the most expensive
asset you can lose. How can we do that when it comes to this
type of campaign? The harsh truth is that
Black Friday or any kind of holiday season
campaigns can tempt even the most vallet brands to run office that
don't feel like them. So you can have a
sustainable cookware slashing prices by 70%. That can actually
undermine the buy less better messages that
have been sharing or. Or maybe you have a
primum coche product that runs last chance every
sale every single year. Your clients will see
straight through it and the urgency might
lose its power. As it is straight where
lying to your customers. There are brands like DCM. I don't know if you know
them, but they did something very interesting for the
Black Friday campaign. The skincare company
that is behind the ordinary has been doing something interesting for
the past couple of years. In fact, they've stepped away
from the one day friends ternly and they replace it with something
called slow vember, a month long, 25% discount
across all products. The slower pace was trying to encourage
conscious consumption, giving shoppers time to decide whether they
actually need a product, rather than just obviously
rushing to buy just in case because it's only
a weekend only offer. Black Friday itself,
they even went down to close in
the physical stores and sales altogether
instead they hosted special events
like live music, fashions, and even
art workshops. They wanted to make a
strong bonding statement by building community
and still driving sales, but without compromising on
the integrity of their brand. This is a macro example, but I wanted to remind you that when you offer alliance
with your values, a few things may happen. One, you can attract customers or clients who are
more likely to stay. Two, you're reduced by remorse
and urgency and formal, which means you're going to have fewer returns and
cancellations as well. But also importantly, you reinforce the band's
promise that you've been building all instead of breaking it for just one
weekend of sales. Here's another
example from 2021, the fashion Brian Ribbon
actually encourage customers to skip buying new stuff entirely
for the Black Friday. Instead, they suggested second hand or sustainable
alternatives. This approach was great
because it positioned them as true leaders in the
constant consumption space. You can do this with anything. It's really a brilliant
reminder that offers don't always have to mean slashing
prices or doing new things. You can actually be creative and do something different that aligns with how you
want your customers to feel and once again, repeating myself, the
goal that you have identified and decided for
your Black Friday campaign. Guess what, I've got
something to help you to decide which one is the best Black Friday
offer for yourself. Truth is that you're going to have to overcomplicate things. One year, in an anti
Black Friday move, writer and entrepreneur
Karen True run a Black Friday sale, but he donated all profits to
charity. Yes, all of them. It's one thing to know your hot for should
align with your values. It's another to actually
do it and check that. It does it when you put
it out into the world. It is a great statement. This is why there are
different things you can do and a little help from a four framework can come think about this as
your offer checkpoint, it will build a filter that you can run any idea through
to make sure that it serves your customers
and your business or your marketing without
undermining your brand. Theise four Rs can
help you test whether an offer is truly ready to launch or if it's aligned
with what you want to do. And if it doesn't pass all four, then you can refine
it as you want. The first one is relevant. That's the offer
that you want to push over real need for your
target audience right now. You can tie it to the season, maybe a trending problem or something that your customers
have been asking for. For example, our homes
office store can offer a winter productivity
bundle with a desk clamp. Economic chair cushion
and insulated mug. Return, will this deliver enough value for both your
customer and your business? Yes, we have to think about this because a great deal isn't great if you lose too
much margin or recover. It's really important to think
about the fact that yes, you are also trying to make your offer more aligned
with your values, but it also has to be justifying the effort
that you're going to put into a big campaign like a holiday season campaign
or a Black Friday. Think about responsibility. Does this reflect your ethical, social or environmental values? Align this offer with causes or production method or promises that you made to your
audience in the past. Once again, if a clothing
brand offered a discount on organic basis and
planned a three purchase, the fourth point is resonance. Does this specific offer connect emotionally
as well as logically, especially in the
holiday season? Because people buy with
their hearts and yes, they choos to fight
with their heads. But especially at this time
of year or any time of year, there's a big
promotion in People also want to think about
how they're feeling. A great example could
be the following. A family photography
studio could offer a discounted
generation session to capture extended families
over the holiday season. I want you to take the
current Black Friday idea and run it through
these four Rs. If you hesitate to give a confident is to any one of them, maybe it's time to
refine it so that your offer can be the
best possible one. If you need a bit
of help to think about more offers and
how they could work, well, let's go back
to some fresh ideas. Your offers passed the four Rs and now you need to
choose the right format. For example, you could do
something like Ikea did a few years back
when they invited the customers to return used
furniture to store credit. Turning Black Friday
into an opportunity for reuse and sustainability. Refrained consumption
as circular, it tied into the products and proposition of the
brand in a seamless way, especially during this very
hectic holiday season. If you're an
individual, a creator, or even a sas marketer
who also wants to step away from the
traditional Black Friday offers or narrative, you can take a leaf out of Step Smith with an anti
Black Friday campaign. Hear me out. She discounted her course early well
before Black Friday, then raised the price
by $5 each day. Doubled it on Black Friday. This was interesting
because he flipped the usual last minute
discount script and early birds were
actually rewarded. They wanted to build urgency
and she did it without fake scarcity and the pricing
mechanic became the story. Ama sucker for bundles
and gift sets. Is a great example of
combining products or services into a package
that solves a problem. Or create a complete experience, especially in a time
where people are looking for gifts for others. For example, a
plant shop bundles could create a bundle
of two house plants, a decorative pot, and
a winter care guide. Perfect for your
plant loving friends. So your customers save a little, but the value is also in
the curation as well. Or a language tutor could offer a free group
conversation session for both the referral
and the referee during the Black
Friday campaign. This is a great example of
referral awards, which I love. Reward existing customers
from bringing in colleagues and friends
during Black Friday. I also love a gamified offer, where you make buying fun
through mystery boxes, price draws or tier discounts happening only
during Black Friday. For example, an R supply shop can sell mystery
packs of sketchbooks, pens, and paints for
a specific price. Think about Black
Friday as a time where the inbox is overflowing
with discount codes. Every band is slashing prices,
screaming for attention. Then there's Allbirds. The sustainable footwear brand reimagine Black
Friday entirely with a powerful story that captured headlines
and hearts alike. I don't know if you
heard about this story, but in a ball campaign
called Break tradition, not the planet or Bird
did something different. And yes, it's something
that has been remembered. They actually
raised their prices when everybody else
was cutting them. What they did is that
for every purchase, they added one pound
to the price tag. And then match it with
another one pound from their own pocket.
Why did this goes? Well, all these proceeds went directly to
Friday's for the future, which is Greta Gudbegs
youth led crimate movement. This wasn't their
first countercultural Black Friday move either. In fact, in 2019, they closed all UK stores
during the shopping frenzy, offering free
educational workshops. Instead, it was all about
consume consumption. A very specific time where everybody else was
doing the opposite. So all birds turn
what could have been just ano sale into a
statement about their values. Which is why I think it's so important for you to
take the time to think about your Black Friday or holiday offer really,
really thoughtfully. Doing this in
advance and thinking about how can you make
something that makes a statement is
going to strengthen the relationship with your
own customers or clients. Now, how about you can identify the best Black
Friday offer for yourself? Go back to the primary goal that you have from Lesson one, choose one or two offer types, maybe from the list above
that I gave you that could achieve that goal and then run them through
the four Rs filter. You want to refine it until you have an
offer that you'll be proud to run even if it
wasn't Black Friday. Because up next, we're going to have to build all
the communications and conversations that
are going to happen online in your
preferred channels. Yes, the ones that you
picked on Lesson one.
4. Measure the Efforts: Say you work for a homeware
store, and historically, they measure Black
Friday success purely by the cash you brings
between Friday and Monday. The following January,
instead of going quiet. You suggest sending
a reset your spacema to everybody who bought storage items during
Black Friday. You're going to offer 50% off matching products to complete the set of what they
actually bought. So not only they got a
second wave of sales, more customers might join your loyalty program and
stay engaged afterwards. Why? Because you actually
tapped into what you had at Black Friday and you make sure they
didn't end Black Friday. The way you measure success should actually reflect the fact that things will go ahead
beyond Black Friday. If you watch our email strategy
workshop in Module two, you remember that post
Black Friday emails or Black Friday actions can
keep the momentum going. It doesn't mean that you
have to do it straightaway. It can even be a couple
of months ahead. Yes, if you skipped the email marketing
workshop in that module, please go ahead and
watch it. It's a goodie. Truth is from Taylor product recommendation to
ten key messages, anything that can spark connection and trust,
it's important. But how do you know
what you should do? Also, how do you know what
has worked in your strategy? Let's step back from
the sales dashboard for a moment because I
know it's easy to get fixated on how much
you sold during Black Friday if sales
was your main goal, but that is just one
piece of the puzzle. If we only look at revenue, we're missing the
bigger picture. Especially if our
goal was more about retention or even
brand awareness. You want to look at all the momentum that
your campaign created, all the new doors
that you have opened. Want to know how your
campaign really performed, is a three step audit that you can run after Black Friday. First of all, we're going
to look at engagement. Yes, I want you to have a look
at posts, emails, and ads. Which ones got your
people talking? Check out any saves, shares, comments, and
even click throughs. You want to identify the
themes, the formats, and the timing that really
clicked with your audience. Then we are going to review
your growth data, I promise. We are going to identify how many new people came into your world
during that camaign. Doesn't just mean sales. I'm talking about
email subscribers, social followers, or members joining your online community. Then we're going to
dig a bit deeper. Which channels brought the
best quality sign ups? That's absolute gold for
the next year's planning. You want to look at how many
people converted and yes, you want to jot
down the numbers, which, yes, we do have
a template for that. But you also want to identify where conversion
really happened. Finally, the big question is, did your Black Friday
shoppers come back? Is where you can look
at rep purchase, maybe loyalty sign up or even subscription renewals that happened during this campaign. If you campaign
run with a cause, measure what happened
because that's where you can share afterwards how
much money was donated, how many trees were planted, how much plastic
waste was collected. These numbers are going
to make your audience and your team and
yourself feel proud and it's something that
you can share online too. These are some of
the metrics that I like to keep an eye on. Engagement. Did your
content get people talking? Once again, shares,
saves comments, post, look at all of this and also obviously
email kick through. Audience growth, how many new folks how in your community, whether it's email sign ups, social followers or community
members. Then cause impact. If you run a campaign
with a cause, how many donations came in
or projects got funded? Retention signals, our
customers sticking around. Go back to repeat purchases, loyalty sign ups,
and subscription renewals throughout
the campaign. When you track these alongside
just generic revenue, you got a full picture of
your Black Friday IRI. As you're reviewing
your efforts, it's important to
also make space to identify what you want
to repeat the next year. Yes, I know. You want to make sure that you know
what's worth changing. This is really about thinking about everything you put in, your team's time, your own time, your marketing budget, your mental energy, your resources. You want to look at this
against all the outcome, both financial and
non financial. What's the real cost
benefit balance when it comes to
what you've done? Look at different promotional channels, different
content types, and partnerships and spot where your efforts really
made a difference. Which specific
investments paid off the most if you had to
identify just one. If you could only keep one part of your
campaign for next year, what would it be if you
had to strip it back? Just as important,
which tactics or channels ate up resources without delivering
much in return. When you answer these
questions honestly, you won't build a smarter
approach for next year. You will know what to do
again and what to stop doing. And this is so important. The real winds often show up in the weeks and the months
after your campaign. Whether it's new customers
sticking around, stronger community connections, and even the courses
that you help moving. The time to audit review, and answer these
questions and identify at least one change that you
can make ahead of next year, whether it's adding,
removing or simplifying. Have a look at that
and run your own audit before you identify
how to repeat all of that you learn
and to maybe reuse some of the best things across different seasons
in your business. Because let's be
honest, all this work should not only come up to
a once in a year event.
5. Your Notion Playbook: November, the
marketing leader for Black Friday campaigns finds themselves in the
same situation. Black Friday is a week away. The marketing team
is frantically digging through folders, trying to find last
year's ad creative, rewriting email
sequences from scratch, guessing which influencer
codes even worked. It's not that past campaigns
weren't successful, but they were not capturing
how you pulled them off. Every year is like reinventing the wheel with the
clock ticking. The turning point comes when you build a Seasonal
Campaign Playbook. Inside, you can have the
best performing creatives, key metrics, lessons learned, step by chop checklist and deadlines for each role.
That's what a playbook does. It saves you time, keeps
your best ideas alive and makes each seasonal campaign stronger than the one before. Think about your playbook as
an archive and a blueprint, where you can make your life
easier every single year. That's what I would put in it. First of all, they
campaign over you. Start with the big picture.
What were your goals? What office did you run
and were you targeting? It sounds basic, but
we did it together, you just want to make sure that you have this handy to look at next year or for
the next campaign. Then you want to
make sure that you have your performance
highlights. You know, all the things that we talk about engagement rates, subscribers, purchase repeats, and the impact that you caused. The good thing about it is
that we actually have done an audit that you can use and make sure that you get
back to every single time. Look at it ahead of
your next campaign and know which actions you want to take or changes
you want to make. Another thing that
is worth talking about is creative assets because you want to
make sure that you have any ad creatives,
email templates, landing page copies,
social posts that work best for next year, making a noise of any touches, line of CTAs that
got people clicking. These details are goal
for the following year. And then my favorite workflows and timeline. Who
did what and when? Map out the task, the deadlines, and responsibility, and flag any bottle necks so you
can fix the next time. This is very important, almost
as important as pulling up your audit again
and just looking at the last lessons
that you learned. Make sure that you look at what are the things that you
want to do and change. And finally, if you
have a campaign structure, a
messaging framework, or a format that
really deliver it, make sure that you
save it for next time. You can adapt it for
Valentine's Day, summer sales or even
Giving Tuesday. Inventing the wheel.
Remember, this is a resource that you future
yourself will thank you for. The one that means
that you start next year's campaign
already a few steps ahead. And the beautiful
thing is that you can adapt it for
different seasons. According to what we talked
about in this lesson, what is the most
untapped superpower that you can use when creating
a Black Friday campaign? Is it offering the biggest
discount you ever run? Running as many ads as possible to cover all
the different audiences, or is it reusing
the shruck to float the lessons from your campaign or promotions
throughout the year? I know this was cheeky, but the correct answer is
definitely S. The real power of a well run Black Friday
campaign is that it can become a blueprint for success
of any other promotion. This playbook can be for
anything because you might not even want to use Black
Friday or do it ever again. Whatever you decide to do next
year, maybe it's a slower, more cultures campaign
in December or skip it altogether and just push in January, that is
completely fine. The point is that this
playbook is adaptable. You can use it for any campaign, even small business Friday, given Tuesday, pre
Christmas gift pushes, day or January sales, whatever aligns
with your values. And actually how you
want to do things. The important thing
is that you look at the high potential moments in your calendar,
whether, as I said, is a spring launch or an
industry specific event, and take this playbook and reuse it again and
again and again. First of all, make sure that you keep the bones and
change the skin. You can reuse the campaign structure that served you well, but swap the team,
the direction, and the offers for each season. Then you make sure
that you match the obviously holiday season
campaign will lean into maybe warmth and
connection and generosity, but any other campaign
might actually have a different type of thing and a different type of connection that
you want to build. As importantly as
everything else, your audience might be
in a different space depending on the different
time of the year. When it comes to
different platforms or even different places
you're going to be, make sure that you identify which channels you
want to focus. Don't forget to bring
forward your wins. Look at your Black Friday
audit one more time. What worked well? What
can you bring into a new campaign and
refine with new context? The more you reuse
and you adapt, the more you build
better campaigns in less time and your stacking experience
assets and results. Over the last three models, we looked at building strong foundations
for your campaign, creating offers that align with your values and stand out, especially during
a very noisy time. Use partnership, social, and even email to build
anticipation and trust. Measure what really matches
so you can capture the winds and use them on every season of campaign every single year. When you plan with
intention and execute with creativity and measure
with curiosity, you're building momentum that
you can use all year long. Use Black Friday or holiday
season as a personal lab. Take what you can
learn and apply it to the next time that you're actually going to
show up online. You want to make
sure that you build a strategy that you can
reuse again and again. Hopefully, we're giving
you the worksheets and the tools as well as the knowledge for you to do this and put
it into action. This short course can be
taken again and again and again for any type of
campaign that you're on, especially seasonal ones, because you can keep
it fresh and relevant. As always, I cannot wait
to see what you come up with and the simple playbook that you
created for yourself. But until next time, never
stop learning because practice makes progress,
classes dismissed.