Campaign Foundations & AI-Enhanced Planning
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Campaign Foundations & AI-Enhanced Planning
This course is part of AI-Powered Content Creation for Social Media Success Specialization
Instructor: Andrew Brooks
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What you'll learn
Set SMART goals, build customer and brand personas, draft an AI-assisted campaign brief, and run QA checks to reduce risk.
Skills you'll gain
- Target Audience
- Campaign Management
- Personalized Campaigns
- Marketing
- Marketing Effectiveness
- Branding
- Marketing Materials
- AI Enablement
- Smart Goals
- Content Strategy
- Social Media Campaigns
- Generative AI Agents
- Quality Assurance
- Persona Development
- Social Media Content
- Goal Setting
- Social Media Strategy
- Marketing Planning
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June 2026
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There are 3 modules in this course
In this course, you’ll learn how to turn scattered marketing inputs into a clear, measurable social media campaign plan, using generative AI to speed up the work without losing strategy or control. You’ll start by organizing the right assets (like brand guidelines, buyer personas, and product sheets), then translate them into SMART goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
Next, you’ll use AI to build customer personas that guide messaging, tone, imagery, and platform choices. You’ll also create a company persona (your brand voice, values, and style rules) so AI-generated drafts stay consistent and on-brand. Finally, you’ll bring everything together by prompting AI to assemble a one-page campaign brief with scope, deliverables, cadence, budget allocation, KPI benchmarks, and reporting frequency. To strengthen your plan, you’ll run an AI quality-assurance pass to flag gaps, conflicts, and risks; then refine your brief based on practical mitigation steps. The graded assignment gives you a realistic scenario (an eco-friendly clothing brand) where you’ll gather assets, define goals, build personas, draft a campaign brief, and reflect on both the benefits and limits of AI.
In this module, you’ll explore the strategic groundwork needed to build an effective marketing campaign. You’ll organize key assets, define campaign goals, develop personas, and use AI to help shape a clear campaign brief. You’ll also examine how AI can support planning, identify gaps, and strengthen your campaign strategy before execution.
What's included
1 video1 reading
1 video•Total 1 minute
- Introduction•1 minute
1 reading•Total 1 minute
- Course Navigation and Safety Statement•1 minute
In this module, you’ll use AI to build the strategic foundation for an effective marketing campaign. You’ll start by turning raw marketing inputs—such as brand guidelines, audience information, and product details—into SMART goals and measurable outcomes. You’ll then use AI to create customer personas that sharpen audience targeting and a company persona that keeps your messaging consistent and on brand. Finally, you’ll bring these elements together in a campaign brief and use AI to review your plan for risks, gaps, and areas for improvement before moving into execution.
What's included
4 videos2 readings1 assignment
4 videos•Total 14 minutes
- AI-Powered Campaign Goals and Desired Outcomes•4 minutes
- AI-Powered Customer Personas•3 minutes
- Company Persona Creation•3 minutes
- AI-Powered Brief & Quality Check•4 minutes
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
- Beginner Checklist of Core Items•10 minutes
- Prompt Starters•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Knowledge Check•30 minutes
In this module, you’ll reflect on how AI can support campaign planning and strategy development through a guided dialogue and a graded assignment. You’ll apply what you’ve learned about goals, personas, and campaign briefs to shape an AI-powered campaign strategy.
What's included
1 reading1 assignment
1 reading•Total 5 minutes
- Let's Practice!•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 60 minutes
- Campaign Planning With AI•60 minutes
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Yes, if you already know basic marketing terms like audience, goals, and social platforms. The course is designed at an intermediate pace and focuses on planning workflows, not platform setup.
You’ll produce a practical campaign plan: a set of SMART goals, one customer persona, one company persona, and a short campaign brief with KPIs and reporting cadence. You’ll also know how to QA the plan for gaps and risks before launch.
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