Custom Creative · Michigan

Custom Creative & Yearly Marketing Playbook in Michigan

One production calendar and original creative for every Michigan campaign — shot locally, built once, and reused all season instead of rebuilt each month.

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40+ finished assets
4 quarters
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Lower CPL
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The Michigan Opportunity

Why Michigan dealers need a creative system, not one-off ads

Michigan riders circle the Great Lakes and head north to Traverse City, so touring and bagger content peaks hard from May through early October. We build Michigan dealers a yearly creative playbook: one brand and page system, one production calendar, and campaign creative that ships on time instead of after the offer expired.

Dealers across Detroit, Grand Rapids, Warren, Lansing fight the same monthly battle: a new offer, a rushed design, and creative that looks nothing like last month's. Michigan's season peaks hard in July and August, so creative refresh cadence matters more than budget size. A playbook fixes the sequence — shoot once, build the templates once, then ship campaign after campaign from that base.

Detroit Grand Rapids Warren Lansing

Production window

May through early October

Shoot locations

the Lake Michigan shoreline, M-22, and the Tunnel of Trees

Audience to reach

Great Lakes tourers and Detroit-area commuters

What works in Michigan

  • Michigan's season peaks hard in July and August, so creative refresh cadence matters more than budget size.

  • Shoot local: the Lake Michigan shoreline, M-22, and the Tunnel of Trees read as authentic to Michigan riders and outperform studio stock in every ad set we test.

  • Match the calendar: all production lands before May through early October, then creative refreshes on a two-week cadence through peak riding.

What's Included

Everything in your Michigan creative program

Design, production, and page systems under one roof — so the creative is never the reason a campaign slips.

Campaign artwork produced from scratch for each Michigan offer, so no two months look like a rebrand of the last one.

Photo and video shot on location at your store and on the roads riders here know, starting with the Lake Michigan shoreline, M-22, and the Tunnel of Trees.

Landing pages built in the same design system as the campaign, so a click from a Michigan ad lands somewhere that matches.

Email, SMS, and direct-mail templates in your brand and OEM-approved layout, pre-built for the May through early October window.

Monthly asset drops sized for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, display, and Google Business Profile, written for Great Lakes tourers and Detroit-area commuters.

A live production calendar covering the May through early October season, so your team always knows what ships next and which offer it supports.

The Yearly Playbook

Your 12-month creative playbook for Michigan

Four quarters, one production calendar. Each quarter ships a defined creative set against a defined offer, so nothing is designed twice.

Q1

Foundation and factory work

We build the year's creative system before the season starts in Michigan: brand kit, photo library, page templates, and the offer structure every later campaign plugs into.

  • Brand and OEM creative kit
  • Location library: the Lake Michigan shoreline
  • Landing page template system
  • Q2 launch brief approved
Q2

Season launch

Spring is the loudest quarter in Michigan. One production shoot feeds the launch campaign, model pages, email series, and paid social without a single reshoot.

  • Spring launch campaign suite
  • Model spotlight creative
  • New-rider academy assets
  • Paid social creative set
Q3

Peak rotation

Creative refreshes every two weeks so the Michigan feed never goes stale during the highest-traffic months of the year.

  • Bi-weekly creative refresh
  • Event and rally assets
  • Inventory velocity creative
  • Retargeting variants
Q4

Harvest and preload

Year-end offers, holiday retail creative, and next-year planning, plus a performance review that sets the Michigan creative budget with real numbers.

  • Closeout and holiday creative
  • Apparel and gift guide assets
  • Annual creative performance review
  • Next-year playbook and budget

FAQ

Michigan custom creative FAQs

What does a yearly creative playbook cover for a Michigan dealership?+
A production plan and a campaign plan in one document — the shoots, the asset drops, the offers each one serves, and the review points. In Michigan that means scheduling production around May through early October rather than after it.
Where do you shoot for a Michigan dealer?+
On your lot, in your showroom, and on the roads riders here already recognize — the Lake Michigan shoreline, M-22, and the Tunnel of Trees. Local settings outperform studio stock because Michigan buyers can tell the difference instantly.
Who is the creative actually speaking to in Michigan?+
Great Lakes tourers and Detroit-area commuters. Michigan's season peaks hard in July and August, so creative refresh cadence matters more than budget size. We cast, light, and write for that audience rather than producing generic dealership photography.
Do you produce the photography and video yourselves?+
In-house from planning through edit. You get finished cutdowns for web, social, email, and in-store screens, plus the raw selects for future campaigns.
How quickly can we start on a Michigan playbook?+
Onboarding takes about two weeks: kickoff, brand and inventory audit, then the first creative set. Most stores ship new campaign creative inside a month, and the full year is mapped shortly after.

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