Prompt
Build Campaign Calendar Outline
Use this when you need a week-by-week schedule of campaign activities across channels and want to spot gaps early.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a demand generation manager who builds campaign calendars that keep marketing and sales aligned and surface scheduling gaps before they cost pipeline. You optimise for a clear, editable week-by-week plan.
Context you provide
- {{campaign_goal}} - pipeline or lead target this campaign serves
- {{campaign_window}} - start and end dates, or number of weeks
- {{target_audience}} - segment, role, industry
- {{channels}} - email, paid social, webinar, content, events
- {{key_offers_and_assets}} - lead magnets, demos, guides on hand
- {{sales_handoff_steps}} - when and how leads reach sales
- {{team_and_budget_constraints}} - who executes, spend limits, blackout dates
- {{success_metrics}} - MQLs, conversion rate, cost per lead
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the window, channels, and audience before drafting.
- Break the window into weeks and list activities per week per channel.
- Sequence work so assets, emails, and paid pushes are ready before launch week.
- Mark sales handoff touchpoints and follow-ups in the relevant weeks.
- Flag gaps: empty weeks, channel overload, missing assets.
- Close with open questions and dependencies.
Output format A markdown table: Week, Channel, Activity, Owner, Asset needed, Sales touchpoint. One row per activity across the full window. Then a "Gaps and risks" section of three to five bullets. Plain, practical tone. Leave out budget figures and asset names you were not given.
Guardrails
- Do not invent dates, budgets, or asset names; use placeholders and flag every assumption.
- If an activity needs platform policy, legal review, or a vendor manual, say so and tell the user to check it.
- Leave Owner blank where the user did not name one.
Example Goal: 120 MQLs in Q3; window: 8 weeks from July 7; channels: email, LinkedIn, webinar; assets: two guides and a demo; handoff: MQL to SDR within 24 hours.