Use the Digital Marketing planning glossary to give every participant a shared interpretation of planning language. Adapt wording to the organization while keeping measurement, responsibility and decision terms specific enough to prevent incompatible interpretations.
Planning horizon in a Digital Marketing plan
The period in which the plan is expected to guide decisions before formal refresh. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Baseline in a Digital Marketing plan
The current performance or operating condition used for comparison. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Objective in a Digital Marketing plan
A business change the plan intends to influence within a defined horizon. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Key result in a Digital Marketing plan
A measurable signal used to judge progress toward an objective. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. In the Key result in a Digital Marketing plan section, this check matters only insofar as it helps you decide whether this option fits the buyer's acquisition workflow. The adjacent Digital Marketing For Books page covers a different decision.
Assumption in a Digital Marketing plan
A belief that must be documented and tested rather than treated as a fact. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. Use the evidence in Assumption in a Digital Marketing plan to support the specific Digital Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution task to decide whether this option fits the buyer's acquisition workflow. The adjacent Digital Marketing For Books page covers a different decision.
Constraint in a Digital Marketing plan
A limit involving budget, people, time, policy, inventory, data or operations. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. For this Digital Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution workflow, read the point through Constraint in a Digital Marketing plan and the goal to decide whether this option fits the buyer's acquisition workflow.
Dependency in a Digital Marketing plan
Work or evidence that must exist before another activity can start safely. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. Keep the interpretation anchored to Dependency in a Digital Marketing plan: the buyer still needs to decide whether this option fits the buyer's acquisition workflow. The adjacent Digital Marketing For Books page covers a different decision.
Milestone in a Digital Marketing plan
A dated state change that shows the plan has completed a meaningful stage. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. For Digital Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution, connect this point to the Milestone in a Digital Marketing plan decision and the task to decide whether this option fits the buyer's acquisition workflow.
Accepted outcome in a Digital Marketing plan
A conversion or business event that passes quality and reconciliation rules. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Diagnostic metric in a Digital Marketing plan
A supporting signal that helps explain why the accepted outcome changed. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. Apply this point inside Diagnostic metric in a Digital Marketing plan; the page-specific objective is to decide whether this option fits the buyer's acquisition workflow.
Learning budget in a Digital Marketing plan
A capped amount of spend, time or production capacity used to answer a defined question. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Stop limit in a Digital Marketing plan
For the Digital Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution decision, use Stop limit in a Digital Marketing plan to separate a real operating requirement from a broad best-practice statement. Preserve the source, date and owner for predeclared, threshold, pauses, activity, policy and operational whenever they affect the decision, especially when the page compares options or sets a budget boundary. If the evidence does not support the current assumption, narrow the scope or run the smallest reversible test that can resolve it. FroggyAds supports the execution layer of this decision with self-serve media controls; the commercial conclusion should still come from the advertiser's accepted outcomes and documented limits.
Scenario in a Digital Marketing plan
A coherent set of conditions used to test how the plan should respond to uncertainty. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Contingency in a Digital Marketing plan
A prepared action used when a defined risk or scenario occurs. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Decision gate in a Digital Marketing plan
A point where evidence determines whether work continues, changes or stops. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Reconciliation in a Digital Marketing plan
The comparison of platform reporting with CRM, order, product or finance records. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Incrementality in a Digital Marketing plan
The additional outcome caused by an activity compared with what would otherwise have happened. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Owner in a Digital Marketing plan
The person accountable for a deliverable, decision or control. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
RACI in a Digital Marketing plan
A responsibility model covering responsible, accountable, consulted and informed roles. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Plan refresh in a Digital Marketing plan
A dated review that updates assumptions, evidence, priorities and resource allocation. Record the term’s operational meaning for Digital Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.