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9 Worthwhile Product Launch Templates for Busy Leaders

9 Worthwhile Product Launch Templates for Busy Leaders

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Launching a product doesn’t have to feel like blindly solving a Rubik’s cube — the right product launch template will help you map out your strategy, high-level goals, in-the-weeds details, and all the work it’ll take to get there. These are some of the best tools and templates to start with, whether you’re introducing your first digital course or your tenth physical product to the market monday.com: A product launch template for marketing teams monday.com is an all-in-one tool for launching products, managing marketing campaigns, and handling dozens (or hundreds) of projects. The free plan comes with two user seats, over 200+ templates, and three project boards. It’s fine if you’re just getting started or want to try monday.com, but teams will likely have to upgrade to a paid plan pretty quick. My favorite product launch template is specifically for marketers — it helps ensure brand messaging is consistent and that all of your promo materials align along the way. More on monday.com: monday.com Review | monday.com vs Wrike | monday.com vs Airtable. Align marketing …

9 Podcast Planning Templates You Can Download Right Now

9 Podcast Planning Templates You Can Download Right Now

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From brainstorming ideas to booking guests and outlining show topics, there’s a lot of work involved with planning a podcast episode. Podcast planning templates can help you keep track of sponsors, manage your editing and production process, and even map out promotional content once your episodes go live. These are some of my favorite free options for beginners, seasoned hosts, and everyone in between. monday.com: A podcast planning template for smooth production monday.com is one of my favorite project management tools on the market. It’s a great way to plan your podcast because it has everything you need to stay organized and ensure none of your production tasks slip through the cracks. It also has a great mobile app, allowing you to manage podcast planning from the palm of your hand. You can sign up for monday.com’s free plan to unlock access to 200+ templates, up to three project boards, eight custom column types, and seats for two collaborators. It’s a great place to start or try it out but most teams will likely need …

7 Go to Market Strategy Templates for a Successful Launch

7 Go to Market Strategy Templates for a Successful Launch

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Introducing a new product or service to the market requires meticulous preparation. A go to market strategy template helps streamline the planning process and reduce risk while helping you develop a clear plan of action. After launching dozens of services, products, and businesses over the years, these are my top recommendations for anyone who needs help getting started.  monday.com: A versatile template for any go to market strategy monday.com is one of the most flexible project management tools I’ve used. It works for personal use, small teams, and even big brands working on cross-departmental initiatives or managing an entire business.  The free plan includes two seats, unlimited documents, and over 200+ other templates. It’s not the best free plan out there, but it works to try it out.  Alternatively, try any premium plan for free with a 14-day trial to see if it’s right for your team.  More on monday.com: monday.com Review | monday.com vs Wrike | monday.com vs Airtable. monday.com makes it easy to prioritize your most important tasks while tracking costs and completion …

8 Easy Content Calendar Templates You Can Use for Free

8 Easy Content Calendar Templates You Can Use for Free

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A content calendar is a great way to visualize your publishing schedule. From blog posts and social media content to email campaigns and YouTube videos, keeping track without one is a pain to say the least. It gets even more challenging when you’re publishing across multiple platforms and managing a team of creators, editors, and producers. These are some of my favorite content calendar templates for staying organized. monday.com: A multi-purpose content calendar template Looking for a flexible and powerful way to manage content and other types of work in one place? monday.com is one of the top project management solutions I’ve used. The free plan is great for up to two users and is more than enough to try monday.com’s free content calendar template. However, paid plans come with far more functionality and are better suited for teams needing automation, formulas, integrations, and dashboards. Learn more about monday.com: monday.com review | monday.com’s newest features. This monday.com template gives you project tracking and a powerful content calendar in one solution. Image: monday.com This content calendar …

7 Free Marketing Campaign Templates Worth Your Time

7 Free Marketing Campaign Templates Worth Your Time

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Marketing campaign templates help you add structure and clarity to upcoming campaigns. They can also help ensure each campaign aligns with big-picture goals and contains a full plan on how to execute, track, and measure everything. Some campaigns are quick one-off emails while others last weeks or months and encompass multiple marketing channels. This post covers the best free templates for various tools and situations, from complex campaigns using project management tools to simpler approaches using a spreadsheet. monday.com: Manage campaigns, projects, and tasks in one Monday.com is a great project management tool that lets you plan campaigns and manage all of the work in the same place. You can even use it to track other types of projects, your budget, digital assets, content, and more. With built-in project management features, you’ll be able to easily create tasks, assign ownership to your team, and stay on top of everything. More monday.com coverage: monday.com Review | Trello vs monday.com | Asana vs monday.com.  monday.com makes it easy to plan, track, and execute campaigns alongside other types …

11 Marketing Strategy Templates You Can Download for Free

11 Marketing Strategy Templates You Can Download for Free

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A marketing strategy is more than a document. It’s a high-level plan that defines how you’ll connect with customers, outcompete your competitors, and grow over months or years. Your strategy informs every decision you make about campaigns and who you hire. With the right one in place, you and your team have a clear path forward. Marketing strategy templates break down the process into manageable pieces, ensuring you end up with a strategy that’s measurable, ambitious, and achievable. ClickUp: A marketing strategy template with built in project management ClickUp is an aesthetically pleasing project management tool. Its templates help you go from planning to execution without needing any other software to manage work. Instead of a static marketing plan, you’ll end up with a solution that lets you track progress, adjust priorities, and keep your team aligned in real-time. ClickUp’s free plan is more than enough to try out some of their templates and see if it’ll work for you and your team. More on ClickUp: ClickUp review | Asana vs ClickUp | ClickUp vs …

7 FREE Content Plan Templates to Organize the Chaos

7 FREE Content Plan Templates to Organize the Chaos

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Content plan templates make it possible to track content ideas from brainstorming and creation to design, publishing, and packaging. Using a template (or full on system) makes it possible to align these low-level plans with overarching business goals. However, “content plan” is a pretty broad category and means different things to different people. For some, this means a simple editorial calendar. For others, it’s a full-scale project management and content operations system. I’ve used dozens of different tools, configurations, and templates to manage content over the years. Here are my favorite templates that span the spectrum from simple to advanced. Content plan templates for ClickUp ClickUp is a project management and task management software with a comprehensive free plan you can use to get started. It has hundreds of free templates you can start with and you can customize just about everything to match your needs. You can use it to collaborate with your team and manage each stage of the content planning and production process — from brainstorming and assigning to creation and publishing. …

8 [FREE] Content Operations Templates Worth Downloading

8 [FREE] Content Operations Templates Worth Downloading

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Creating content takes a lot of planning, production, and publishing activity. From the people creating it to the tools they use and the processes they follow, production schedules can go from manageable to chaos in a matter of days. Content operations templates and systems help you define processes, determine schedules ahead of time, manage tasks, and ultimately make it easier to scale. Here are the best free templates that won’t feel like a waste of time. ClickUp: Content operations template for SOPs Whether you’re working with a few people or several dozen, standard operating procedures (SOPs) are a vital piece of your content production machine. Without them, you may sacrifice quality, efficiency, cost, or all of the above. This content creation SOP template from ClickUp comes with all you need to create and store your documentation. More on ClickUp: ClickUp review | Asana vs ClickUp | ClickUp vs monday.com. You can use ClickUp to define clear instructions for your team. Image: Clickup.com Unlike other SOP templates, this one is built specifically for content. You won’t …

11 Marketing Budget Templates That Cost Nothing

11 Marketing Budget Templates That Cost Nothing

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A well planned marketing budget helps you ensure costs align with planned expenditures throughout the year. As a side effect, they can also help measure campaign ROI. The best way to stay on top of marketing finances is with an easily repeatable system. The free marketing budget templates below will help you create one so you can categorize expenses, plan ahead, and allocate resources without blowing your budget. Smartsheet marketing budget templates Smartsheet combines everything you appreciate about spreadsheets and relational databases with project management features. Beyond budget tracking, marketing teams can use it to assign tasks, collaborate with each other, and share updates with stakeholders. You’ll get the most from these templates using them inside of Smartsheet. However, there’s no free plan. If you prefer free, you can use the Excel and Google Sheets versions instead. More Smartsheet coverage: Smartsheet review | Smartsheet vs Airtable | Smartsheet vs ClickUp.  A simple and beginner-friendly place to start Smartsheet’s simple marketing budget template is beginner-friendly and super straightforward. It comes with the basics any decision maker …

7 Free Editorial Calendar Templates You Can Use Right Now

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Managing content at scale is a challenge — staying organized, deciding what to post, assigning writers and editors, and monitoring results requires a lot of moving parts. The more people involved, the more complex the system. Editorial calendars simplify all of this. They provide a big-picture overview, making it much easier to strategize and schedule out the week, month, or year. After nearly a decade of managing high volume content teams, here are my favorite no cost editorial calendar templates for different tools. Monday.com: A comprehensive editorial calendar template Monday.com’s editorial calendar template delivers a pre-built content calendar that’s easy to customize alongside team collaboration features and task management capabilities from one of the best project management solutions on the market. It’s great for high level strategy, work management, and centralized content operations out of the box. More on monday.com: monday.com review | Asana vs monday.com | monday.com vs Jira. monday.com’s editorial calendar template doubles as a project management tool. Image: monday.com This template can be used for any and all types of content — …