The OKRs for Marketing teams evolve around advertising, brand awareness, content, SEO, social media, or product marketing.
Here are a few examples of OKRs for marketing teams:
Paid ads
Objective: Maximize ROI
Key result: decrease cost per signup by -25%
Key result: increase signup conversion rate from paid channels by +50%
Key result: increase MQLs by +30% for products with highest LTV, while sticking to existing marketing budget
Organic search
Objective: Turn organic traffic into leading acquisition channel
Key result: create 10 highly relevant landing pages (blogs)
Key result: gain 50% backlinks on existing content
Key result: execute SEO audit and implement findings
Key result: rank top 3 in google search for top 5 industry relevant keywords
Brand & PR
Objective: Turn brand awareness into an acquisition channel
Key result: 30 brand mentions in top-tier media
Key result: 20% increase in visitors from brand / company referrals
Key result: 200% increase in brand campaigns engagement
Objective: Improve PR into a brand awareness driver
Key result: achieve 4M media reach
Key result: Participate in 4 speaking events (interviews, podcasts)
Key results: Execute 2 events with media coverage
Social media
Objective: Launch successful social media presence
Key results: 500% increase in followers across all platforms
Key result: 30% improvement in engagement (likes, shares, time)
Key result: 200tsd new MQLs from social media
Product related marketing
Objective: Successful product launch
Key result: 80 product mentions in media
Key result: 1.000 beta version signups
Key result: 20.000 visitors from product campaigns on soc. media
Key result: $700.000 revenue in first 6 months
Objective: Become product authority
Key result: acquire 10.000 visitors from 5 new landing pages and 10 new blogs related to the product
Key result: 20% traffic comes from product related web search