A weekly marketing meeting agenda should cover this month's numbers against goal, campaigns in flight, results from tests, requests from other teams and what goes out in the next two weeks. A monthly marketing strategy meeting is different: it looks back at the month by channel, moves budget and sets the big campaigns for the next 60 to 90 days. This page has an agenda for both and one notes template for the weekly meeting.
| Item | Owner | Time | What we need to leave with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers against this month's goals | Marketing lead | 8 min | Which numbers are behind and a guess at why |
| Campaigns in flight | Campaign owners | 10 min | Each campaign on track, at risk with a fix, or late with a new date |
| Test results | Test owner | 7 min | Keep, change or stop for each finished test |
| Requests from other teams | Marketing lead | 5 min | Each request accepted with a date, parked or declined |
| Next two weeks | Content owner | 5 min | No gaps or clashes in what goes out |
| Decisions and action items | Notes taker | 5 min | Every item has one owner and a date |
| Item | Owner | Time | What we need to leave with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last month against goals, by channel | Marketing lead | 15 min | What worked and what didn't, with numbers |
| Customer and market changes | Anyone, sales invited | 10 min | Anything that should change the plan: seasonality, competitors, what sales hears |
| Budget by channel | Marketing lead | 20 min | Where money moves next month and why |
| Big campaigns for the next 60 to 90 days | Campaign owners | 20 min | Goal, dates and one owner for each |
| Tests to run next month | Team | 15 min | Two or three tests, each with an expected result |
| Decisions and owners | Notes taker | 10 min | Decisions written down, open questions with a decider |
| Measure | Goal | To date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Why it's ahead or behind |
| Campaign | Owner | Launch | Status | Biggest risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not started / On track / At risk / Late / Live |
| Test | What we expected | Result | Keep, change or stop |
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Item | Owner | Due | Done looks like |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measure | Goal | To date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online revenue | $68,000 | $51,200 | Behind pace. Needs about $2,800 a day for the last 6 days, against about $2,000 a day so far |
| New email subscribers | 1,200 | 870 | Sign-up pop-up was broken for six days. Nate thinks it's fixed, needs confirming. |
| Paid social spend | $9,000 | $7,600 | On budget |
| Paid social revenue per $1 spent | $3.00 | $2.40 | Retargeting ads have run unchanged since August |
| Wholesale inquiries | 15 | 9 | Behind. Bea's sell sheet request should help. |
| Campaign | Owner | Launch | Status | Biggest risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holiday gift boxes | Jess | Nov 13 | At risk | Photos for 2 of 5 boxes not shot yet |
| Black Friday email series | Nate | Nov 27 | On track | Offer not decided, see below |
| Subscription page refresh | Nate | Oct 21 | Live | None |
| Café partner sell sheet | Colin | Nov 6 | Not started | New this week |
| Test | What we expected | Result | Keep, change or stop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free shipping on the first subscription order | More subscription sign-ups | 61 sign-ups in 14 days, up from 44 the two weeks before. Margin effect not checked. | Keep for now, decide after the margin check |
| New retargeting video ad | Lower cost per purchase | Only 4 days of data | Call it on Nov 2 |
| ID | Item | Owner | Due | Done looks like |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Shoot photos for the last two gift boxes | Colin | Oct 30 | All 5 boxes have photos on the product pages |
| M2 | Send Ray both Black Friday options with margin per order | Jess | Oct 28 | One-page comparison in Ray's inbox |
| M3 | Check the sign-up pop-up on mobile and desktop | Nate | Oct 27 | Test sign-ups from both show up in the email list |
| M4 | Work out margin on first subscription orders with free shipping | Aisha | Nov 2 | Margin per first order, before and during the test |
| M5 | Draft café sell sheet | Colin | Nov 6 | Draft approved by Bea |