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Thursday, March 29, 2012

8 Tips For Leaving a Quick Creative Brief on Voicemail

You’re in your car on the clogged 75/85 highway, heading to the airport to catch a flight to New York. You are mentally crossing off items on your must-do-before-boarding-plane-and-turning-off-cellphone list. With about two minutes left until your flight, there's one last thing on that list – send the details of a creative brief to your digital marketing agency for your next campaign. 

A creative brief essentially outlines instructions for work to be done by the agency. It’s an incredibly useful tool for focusing the efforts of the creative team. Here are a few tips to help you deliver a clear and concise voicemail creative brief:

1.      Overview – What is the overall project scope and goal? Are you introducing a new product? Reinforcing an existing brand position? Trying to drive traffic to a new digital app or improved online site?

2.      Most important concept – This is the key takeaway for the creative team to spring from. What is the big idea? What one key thing do you want to express?

3.      Deliverables – Website? Social media campaign? Digital animation video? Mobile app? Say what specific tools you need from your agency.

4.      Primary audience – You know your target markets better than anyone; explain who your audience will be for this campaign.

5.      Tone – What image are you trying to convey? Do you want to project a friendly/casual tone or one that’s more formal?

6.      Top features/benefits – Try to summarize in one sentence the unique value proposition and key features/benefits of your product or service compared to the competition.

7.      Budget/schedule – What is the target date for campaign rollout? What is the budget for the project? If you don’t yet have a specific approved dollar number, try to provide a range.

8.      Don’t wants – It’s important for the agency to know anything you definitely don’t want to see in a campaign. If you hate ads with dancing animals or irritating spokespeople, say so.   

Now that we’ve passed along these tips, you can concisely deliver a creative brief without sounding like one of those fast-talking radio ads

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