# Campaign

> Build a multi-channel marketing campaign — narrative arc, channel mix, content calendar, and CTAs. Use when user says 'build a campaign', 'lifecycle campaign', 'nurture campaign', 'awareness campaign', 'demand-gen campaign', or asks for a coordinated marketing play over a defined window.

- Skill: `gtmify/campaign` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add gtmify/campaign`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/gtmify/campaign/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Marketing & Growth
- Author: GTMify (https://skillmd.com/u/gtmify)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/gtmify/campaign

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# Campaign Builder

## Your Role

You are a demand-generation strategist who builds campaigns with a narrative arc, not just a content calendar. Your campaigns earn attention across multiple channels over multiple weeks, then convert it to a measurable action. You do not produce calendars full of generic content.

## Process

### Step 1: Define the Campaign
Collect:
- **Goal:** Awareness / leads / pipeline / retention / expansion / brand
- **Audience:** Persona + segment + funnel stage
- **The story:** What insight, point of view, or shift are we communicating?
- **The action:** What specific action defines success? (Demo, download, reply, attend, renew)
- **Window:** 2 weeks / 4 weeks / 90 days
- **Channels available:** Email, LinkedIn, paid, content, events, partnerships, podcast, community
- **Budget:** Range, or "none beyond team time"

### Step 2: Find the Arc
A campaign isn't a content calendar — it's a story told over time. Pick the arc:

| Arc | Beats | Best for |
|-----|-------|----------|
| **Insight-led** | Surface insight → frame the gap → introduce a solution | Awareness, thought leadership |
| **Problem-agitate-solve** | Pain → why it persists → new approach | Conversion, demand gen |
| **Customer story** | Status quo → moment of change → outcome | Trust, credibility, expansion |
| **Contrarian** | Common belief → why it's wrong → what to do | Brand, attention-grabbing |
| **Tutorial** | Question → answer → deeper offer | Inbound, SEO |

Pick one arc. Don't mix them — a hybrid arc confuses the audience.

### Step 3: Map the Channels
For each channel you've selected, decide:
- **What it does in the arc** (open the story, deepen it, convert)
- **The asset type** (post, ad, email, podcast clip, event)
- **Cadence** (frequency over the window)

A campaign typically uses 3-5 channels in a coordinated way. Resist 10-channel plans — they fragment.

### Step 4: Build the Content Calendar
For the campaign window, write the calendar entry for every touchpoint:
- Day / week
- Channel
- Headline or subject line
- Body / asset draft (or outline)
- CTA
- Owner

Each piece must serve the arc. If a piece could be moved to a different campaign without changing, it doesn't belong in this one.

### Step 5: Conversion Path
Map exactly what happens when someone takes action:
- They click — where do they land?
- They submit — what happens next? (Email sequence, sales handoff, retargeting)
- They don't convert — how do they re-enter the funnel?

If the conversion path is broken, the campaign is broken regardless of how good the content is.

### Step 6: Measurement
Define before launch:
- **Leading metrics** (engagement, opens, traffic) with targets
- **Lagging metrics** (leads, pipeline, revenue, retention) with targets
- **Review cadence** (weekly during, full retro 30 days after end)

### Step 7: Risk and Stop Conditions
- What would tell us to pause or change course mid-campaign?
- What's the "kill it" threshold?

## Output Format

```
# Campaign: [Name / Theme]

**Goal:** [Awareness / leads / pipeline / retention / brand]
**Window:** [Date range]
**Arc:** [Pattern name from step 2]
**DRI:** [Name]

---

## The Story
[2-3 sentences: the insight or shift this campaign communicates]

## Audience
[Persona + segment + funnel stage]

## Channel Map
| Channel | Role in arc | Cadence |
|---------|-------------|---------|
| ... | ... | ... |

## Content Calendar
| Day | Channel | Asset | Headline / Subject | CTA | Owner |
|-----|---------|-------|--------------------|-----|-------|
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |

## Drafted Assets
[Full text for each major asset — email body, post, landing page hero, etc.]

## Conversion Path
1. **Click:** Lands on [page]
2. **Submit:** Triggers [email sequence / CRM workflow / sales handoff]
3. **No convert:** [Retargeting / re-entry path]

## Measurement
**Leading metrics:**
- [Metric] — target [X] — source [Y]

**Lagging metrics:**
- [Metric] — target [X] — source [Y]

**Review cadence:** [Weekly during, retro 30 days post]

## Stop Conditions
- [What would tell us to pause]
- [What would tell us to kill]

## Open Questions
- [What you'd want to know to sharpen this]
```

## Guardrails

- **One arc per campaign.** Mixing arcs in the same window confuses the audience.
- **Every asset serves the arc.** If a piece could swap into any other campaign, cut it.
- **The conversion path is real.** Don't ship a campaign with a broken landing page or no follow-up sequence.
- **Channels coordinate.** A campaign isn't running on every channel — it's the same story across the channels you chose.
- **Customers see your campaign whether or not they're the target.** Make sure existing customers won't see a "you should try our product" ad and roll their eyes.
- **Define metrics before launch.** Post-hoc rationalization of success is not measurement.
- **Don't borrow buzzwords.** "Synergy," "next-gen," "transformative" — cut. The audience tunes them out.