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Marketing SOP Templates

Marketing runs across a dozen disconnected tools, and the handoff between them is where things get missed: a UTM that never got set, a flow that quietly stopped sending. These marketing SOP templates cover the procedures that carry real cost when they slip: campaign launches, email flow audits, content publishing, and analytics reporting. Record your screen while running the process and ReccordSOP generates the SOP with screenshots of every step. Drift detection flags the moment your documented process stops matching what the team actually does.

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Campaign launch checklist

A campaign that goes live without tracking set up is spend nobody can attribute. This checklist catches the gap before the ad account starts spending.

  1. 1.Finalize creative assets and get brand or legal sign-off where required
  2. 2.Set up UTM parameters for every channel and link before scheduling
  3. 3.Configure audience targeting and exclusion lists
  4. 4.Set up conversion tracking and confirm pixel firing in a test event
  5. 5.Schedule across channels with launch time confirmed against the campaign calendar
  6. 6.QA the landing page and checkout flow on desktop and mobile
  7. 7.Notify customer support of the offer and expected volume

Email flow audit

A flow set up once and never revisited is how a welcome series still references a discontinued product a year later. This audit catches the drift on a schedule instead of by accident.

  1. 1.Pull send, open, click, and revenue-per-recipient for every active flow
  2. 2.Check each flow's trigger conditions still match current customer behavior
  3. 3.Review flow copy and offers for anything discontinued or outdated
  4. 4.Test each flow end to end from trigger to final email
  5. 5.Flag flows below the deliverability or conversion benchmark for a rebuild
  6. 6.Document findings and assign an owner for each fix
  7. 7.Re-audit on a quarterly cadence, sooner after a platform migration

Content publishing and SEO checklist

A post published without a meta description or canonical tag is invisible to search no matter how good the writing is. This is the pass that catches it before it goes live.

  1. 1.Final edit and proofread against the style guide
  2. 2.Add meta title and description within the character limit
  3. 3.Optimize images: compress, add descriptive alt text, confirm no broken embeds
  4. 4.Set the canonical URL and internal links to related content
  5. 5.Verify the schema markup renders correctly in a structured data test
  6. 6.Schedule social promotion across the defined channels
  7. 7.Submit the URL for indexing once it's live

Monthly analytics report

  1. 1.Pull data from each analytics and ad platform on a fixed schedule
  2. 2.Reconcile platform-reported numbers against the source of truth
  3. 3.Calculate KPIs against the targets set for the period
  4. 4.Build visualizations that isolate what changed month over month
  5. 5.Write an executive summary that leads with the number that moved most
  6. 6.Flag anomalies for follow-up before distributing
  7. 7.Distribute to stakeholders on the same day each month

SMS and email compliance check

  1. 1.Confirm every recipient has documented, timestamped opt-in consent
  2. 2.Verify quiet-hours and frequency rules are enforced in the sending platform
  3. 3.Include required unsubscribe and business identification language on every send
  4. 4.Process opt-out requests immediately and confirm suppression across all channels
  5. 5.Retain consent records for the legally required period
  6. 6.Audit a sample of recent sends quarterly against the compliance checklist

Frequently asked questions

What is a marketing SOP?

A marketing SOP is a written procedure for a repeatable marketing task, covering the trigger, the exact steps and tools involved, and who approves before it goes live. It turns a campaign launch or a flow audit that one person knows how to run correctly into something anyone on the team can execute the same way.

What should a marketing SOP include?

The trigger (a launch date, a quarterly audit schedule), numbered steps naming the exact platform involved, the QA checkpoint before anything goes live, like tracking or compliance review, and the person responsible for each step. A screenshot at each checkpoint makes it usable by someone running the campaign for the first time.

How is a marketing SOP different from a campaign brief?

A brief covers strategy for one campaign: audience, message, budget. An SOP covers the repeatable mechanics behind every campaign: how tracking gets set up, how a flow gets audited, how a post gets published. You write a new brief every time; the SOP stays the same until the tools or process change.

How often should marketing SOPs be reviewed?

Quarterly at minimum, since email and ad platforms ship UI changes that quietly invalidate screenshots and steps. Review immediately after switching platforms or launching a new channel, and any time a flow's performance drops without an obvious cause, since that's often a sign the documented process and the live one have drifted apart.

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Why Klaviyo flows go stale: a quarterly audit framework

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The SMS marketing compliance SOP for DTC brands

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