Creative

Creative Strategy

A creative strategy captures how the brand will tell its story to a targeted audience, the personality, and behaviors the brand will need to adopt in order for success and, potentially, the communication themes that will bind the storytelling together.

Key Areas

The key areas to identify in creative strategy are:

Determining what is best content to create, what will the message be, how is it different?
What will you do that will encourage your audience to respond, engage and converse?
What will everything look like, is there a visual theme or guideline?
Refer to the content strategy, remember this is the story we are trying to tell
our audience base?

Developing A Successful Creative Marketing Strategy

Marketing teams don’t have time or budget to waste. To achieve success, considerable thought must be put into what and how you do it. We suggest you heed this advice:

Make it goal-oriented and focused. Your creative strategy should answer the why, what, and how you will achieve a defined goal.

Be mindful of time. Include a timeline in your strategy so each team member stays on track and avoids any last-minute problems.
Share it with relevant stakeholders. Achieving your marketing goal requires a high level of collaboration, which means each stakeholder must see and understand how it aligns with their work, such as brand strategy.

Clearly define your goals
Write a creative strategy statement
Choose your key performance indicators (KPIs)
Determine on your messaging and marketing channels
Set a budget
Create a timeline

By focusing on the key components, we’ve outlined above, you can construct a creative strategy that helps ensure you are spending your team’s budget, time, and energy wisely.

Developing Content That Is Transferable

The biggest challenge in the asset development stage is maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of your assets. creating assets that can easily be converted to suit other social platforms. For example:

Shoot high-quality video: Shoot video in the largest quality and consider video being effective as a vertical or horizontal video. During production, you should consider readability and video resolution across devices to ensure you can engage your audience on a mobile or desktop.

Capture GIFs: GIFs can be captured out of video creative to be used in other campaigns or to complement existing ones.
Convert assets: Convert existing creative assets into dynamic assets if appropriate. Examples of this would be on Facebook canvas where advertisers can create a rich mobile experience to target their audience on Facebook and Instagram mobile apps.
Use existing assets: Take existing visual assets, like TV ads, and editing them to suit digital formats and channels.
Aid SEO: Identify and use anything that you built as more content for your site to aid SEO. These assets include things like infographics which can be distributed on social or email and drive links for SEO off-site link building.

Now it’s time to take your strategy and build creative messages and ideas that you will communicate through digital. Remember, you must consider the budget when developing a creative strategy. It is important not to limit your initial thinking, but at the same time, at some stage, you need to draw the line and be realistic about your possibilities.

The Main Types Of SEO And How They Are Important To Your Overall Marketing Strategy

On-page search engine optimization (SEO)

On-page SEO relates to the content on your website

This type of SEO includes:

Keyword research: Finding the best keywords to target on a page of content
Content creation: Publishing high-quality content focused on target keywords
Keyword optimization: Using the target keyword in all the right places and using good meta tag SEO.