Signs That it is Time to Refresh Your Marketing Campaigns

Every holiday and thus every month we all likely hear or see some advert that is promoting something from the past. It might be a concert that happened a few days ago, some sale that ended last weekend, an offer that was sent out last year and someone ran it again and didn't tell anyone. These things happen and so do accidents. The goal though is to try and limit the times you waste your ad budget or worse, you upset your customers and prospects.

Here is Mat's tweet (as shown above):

I feel like all the ads I’m seeing telling me how I can spend my “tax refund” are just trolling me. Pouring salt in the wound. Yea like imma have a refund.

Examples of Campaigns That Need Refreshing

As we got to talking we both realized just how many ads and overall marketing campaigns we have heard or seen recently that were great examples.

Tax refunds

Promoting Concerts days/weeks/months later

Radio(Spotify) ad promoting past events

Does the product, social, marketing, PR, and other teams talk to each other?

Changing URLs for yearly events each year

How to prevent your campaigns from going stale

During the podcast we cover a ton of examples and ideas that you can implement and here are just some of them:

Use URLs that don't mention dates or years

Don't just update the year, look at the content and links

Yearly holiday campaigns - really validate all of the content

Double check landing pages - are they still active and/or relevant

Update images and offers at least slightly each year

Create a checklist for end of life for projects and campaigns

Set calendar reminders or alert

Add a final task to a campaign or project in your project management system

If you get nothing else from this episode, remember that here in the US tax day is April 15th!

Episode 92 Mentioned Tools & Resources

Mat's campaign refresh idea