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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.

PlanningIntermediateMarketing

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

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

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the window, channels, and audience before drafting.
  2. Break the window into weeks and list activities per week per channel.
  3. Sequence work so assets, emails, and paid pushes are ready before launch week.
  4. Mark sales handoff touchpoints and follow-ups in the relevant weeks.
  5. Flag gaps: empty weeks, channel overload, missing assets.
  6. 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.