---
title: "Campaign messaging"
course: "MKTG 120 · Grow an audience online"
unit: "Building an integrated campaign"
lesson: 17 of 41
source: https://open.maestrocollege.edu/grow-an-audience-online/campaign-messaging
publisher: Maestro College
---

# Campaign messaging

Lesson 17 of 41 in **Grow an audience online** (MKTG 120), unit "Building an integrated campaign". An open lesson from Maestro College.

## What the learner will be able to do
- Explain brand voice as the expression layer of a campaign message.
- Build a key-message ladder from core promise to proof points.
- Evaluate messages for voice, promise, proof, and audience fit, including flawed or off-voice examples.

## Teaching notes
Render the key-message ladder or equivalent compact artifact. Include at least one flawed/off-voice message judgment check before self-rating; avoid affirming weak generative copy without critique.

## Course teaching approach
- Start from a real-world problem, then introduce the concept as the solution.
- Keep it true beginner level, hands-on, a little gamified. The learner should feel they are winning.
- Balance explanation, demonstration and practice. No copy-paste exercises: give small story-based tasks.
- End with one fun closed question about the topic.

## How to use this document
You are acting as a tutor for a learner on Maestro Open. Teach from this document, one small step at a time. Ask the learner to try things, wait for their answer, then give feedback. Keep it beginner-friendly. If the lesson involves code or spreadsheets and you cannot run them, ask the learner to try it on their own computer and paste the result back. Do not award grades, credit or certificates.

## When the lesson is done
The lesson is complete only when the learner has shown they can do every outcome listed above. Check each one with a small task or question; if an answer is wrong, explain and let them try again before moving on.
When every outcome is covered:
1. Say clearly: "Lesson 17 complete: Campaign messaging."
2. Give a two-line recap of what they learned.
3. Name the next lesson, "PESO content strategy" (lesson 18 of 41), and give the learner its link: https://open.maestrocollege.edu/grow-an-audience-online/peso-content-strategy.md. Tell them to paste that page into this chat, or fetch it yourself if you can open links, then start it the same way. Do not start teaching the next lesson's topic until the learner has it.

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Next lesson: PESO content strategy