Oct 15, 2017 by
The Campaign Workshop
Because They Don't Hand Out Medals for Campaign Strategy
Now more than ever, it's important to set measurable goals for success and to evaluate your campaign strategy against those goals. What may have worked for another campaign may fail miserably for yours, so keeping your benchmarks for success in mind will be critical. Let's look back at evaluating success for your campaign strategy.
What is success? This is not always the question folks ask when developing a campaign strategy but it should be. When starting on a new project, or even evaluating an older one, it’s important to set goals and measure the success of your campaign strategy. Think about the goals for campaign strategy. Success metrics shouldn’t just be, “did it work?” Rather, you need measurable benchmarks that are meaningful to your organization. Albert Einstein once said, “Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” If you define the success of your campaign strategy by the wrong metric, you can end up continuing a program that isn’t working as well as it should, or worse, cutting off a project because it was not “climbing trees.”
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