2. The winning campaign was called the "Best Job in the World"
and was essentially a big online job search conducted
through social media for a new "caretaker" for Hamilton
Island in Queensland, Australia. Done on a comparatively
paltry marketing budget of just $1.7 million dollars and reliant
on fortuitous PR and word of mouth, the campaign achieved
stunning results, including over 34,000 video entries from
applicants in 200 countries, and more than 7 million visitors
to the site who generated nearly 500,000 votes.
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4. Coca cola campaign in Nigeria
• Coca-Cola Nigeria online marketing campaign during
the African Nations Cup (ACN) 2010 in Angola.
• It wanted to position itself in the mind of its target
audience as a brand that “Open Happiness” to Super
Eagles Top Fans
• It was also the Official Softdrink of the Super Eagles
(Nigeria’s National Team).
• The campaign produced some results worth noting.
5. Coca cola campaign in Nigeria
• Target audience: Football loving Nigerians on
sites regularly visited
1.Goal.com,
2.Facebook,
3.Yahoo,
4.Google and Google Content Network.
• Duration: 2 weeks
6. Goal.com
• Goal.com is the largest football destination in
the World
12 million unique users a month.
• In Nigeria it generates
20 million page views on Mobile
Over 500,000 unique users each month
online.
• Its Nigerian audience is male bias and middle
class working and reasonable disposable
income.
8. Paid Search/ Search Engine Marketing
• Tactical use of search which generated tonnes of
relevant traffic.
• When Nigerians were looking for news or
information on the Super Eagles or the Nations Cup,
Coca-Cola appears with a message and directs them
to the sponsorship page.
• Display ads were targeted to keywords on high reach
sites. This means the Coca-Cola ad would appear on
pages that mention African Cup of Nations, Super
Eagles or related terms.
9.
10.
11.
12. The Result
• Over 5 million page views on the online
sponsorship in 2 weeks.
• Over 20 million impressions and 40,000
clicks to the online sponsorship. It was a
huge brand response success.
13. Sales and Marketing: Tools and Terminology
Below you’ll find the tools and terminology used in the application and online training. For more information visit Salesforce Community, the Salesforce.com Online
User Community. You can search the site, browse around, and see what the community is interested in.
A campaign is an outbound marketing project that you Accounts are your organization's customers, competitors,
want to plan, manage, and track within Salesforce. It can and partners. Each account stores information such as
be a direct mail program, seminar, print advertisement, name, address, and phone numbers. For each account,
email, or other type of marketing initiative. you can store related information such as opportunities,
activities, cases, partners, contracts, and notes.
Campaigns
Accounts
Google AdWords™ is an online advertising service used to Contacts are all of the individuals associated with your
create advertisements that display on major search business accounts that you need to track in Salesforce.
engines, including Google. Many Salesforce customers You can store various information for a contact, such as
advertise online with Google AdWords as a mechanism to phone numbers, addresses, titles, and roles in a deal.
generate leads.
Google AdWords
Contacts
Opportunities are the sales and pending deals that you
With Web-to-Lead, you can gather information from your want to track. By adding opportunities, you are also
company’s website and automatically generate leads. building your “pipeline,” which will contribute to your
Web-to-Lead form can be used for contact me requests, forecast. You can also link opportunities to campaigns to
registration pages, or campaign landing pages. help measure the ROI of your marketing programs.
Opportunities
Web-to-Lead Form
A lead is a prospect or potential opportunity - a person you Products are the individual items that you sell on your
met at a conference who expressed interest, or someone opportunities. You can create a product and associate it
who filled out a form on your company’s website. with a price in a price book. Each product can exist in
many different price books with many different prices. A
product that is listed in a price book with an associated
Leads Products
price is called a price book entry.
14. Sales and Marketing: Tools and Terminology
Below you’ll find the tools and terminology used in the application and online training. For more information visit Salesforce Community, the Salesforce.com Online
User Community. You can search the site, browse around, and see what the community is interested in.
A forecast is your best estimate of how much revenue you Tasks are to-do items that need to be followed up on. They
can generate in a quarter. This amount is divided between can be associated with accounts, contacts, leads, or other
Commit Amount - the amount you can confidently close - custom objects. You can follow up on the task yourself, or
and Best Case Amount - the total amount of revenue you assign it to another user.
might possibly generate. A manager’s forecast should
Task
Forecasts include the amount of revenue the entire team can
generate together.
Maintain a historical record of all activities related to an
account, contact, or opportunity. Your activity history
includes emails, call notes, and calendar events, so
A contract is a written agreement between two or more
everyone is on the same page.
parties. Many companies use contracts to define the terms
for doing business with other companies. Track the Activities
contract through your organization’s approval process and
use workflow alerts to notify yourself when to initiate
Contracts contract renewals.
Reports are lists, summaries, and analyses of your data,
which you can display or print. To help you monitor your
organization, Salesforce offers a wide range of standard
A document library is a place to store files without reports, accessible in the Reports tab. You can also create
attaching them to accounts, contacts, opportunities, or new custom reports to access exactly the information you
other records. Each document in the document library Reports need. You can subtotal and limit your data to help you
resides in a folder. The folder’s attributes determine the analyze trends and get a concise picture of what is
accessibility of the folder and the documents within it. happening in your organization.
Documents
Dashboards give you a real-time snapshot of corporate
Group calendaring will helps you better collaborate as a metrics and key performance indicators. A dashboard is a
team, and arrange meetings with prospects and group of different charts (or components) that graphically
customers. display your custom report data. You can select up to 20
different custom reports to display data graphically as
Calendar Events Dashboards charts in each dashboard.
15. Campaign Preparation
How to target campaigns: Information to use when creating
targets
• Common Criteria
– Geography
– Title (e.g. CFO, Director of Sales)
– Industry
– Company Size
– Product Interest
– Installed products/services
– Previous campaign and response history
• Create fields to record what you need on Lead and Contact
records
16. Campaign Preparation
Campaign programs: Decide your channels and process
Phone/Telemarketing
Search Engine/
Google Ad Words
Inside Opportunities
Website Lead Capture/
PR/Events Lead Qualify
Field Opportunities
Email
Events
Tips & Tricks
Be sure to have a process
defined for your programs and
Campaigns
17. Campaign Preparation
Define campaign responses: Prepare what a response means
Why are member status values so
important?
Every campaign has a specific outcome.
Member Status captures this outcome
What does a response mean to you?
Multiple actions can result in a response
What happens after a response? Be
sure to map out your process
Well defined Member Status values:
– Can make reporting much easier
– Sales can understand exactly what their
prospect or customer did
– Helps measure the success of your
campaign!
Note: We will get into more detail with Campaign Setup.
18. Campaign Preparation
Define campaign access: Who should have access to campaigns?
• Determine who should have access to Campaigns
– Be default, all users have view access to campaigns, advanced setup
and run campaign reports
• The Marketing User check box on the user profile page indicates whether
or not a user has the right to create and manage campaigns including:
– Create a new campaign
– Edit or delete an existing campaign
– Update campaign statistics
– Import leads into a campaign**
– Mass update the status for members of a campaign**
– Configure advanced campaign setup to define member status values
– Run campaign reports across multiple campaigns
** In order to use the campaign import wizards, Marketing Users must also have the Marketing User profile (or
the "Import Leads" permission in Enterprise Edition organizations).
19. Agenda
• Campaign Preparation
– Goal of the Campaigns
– How to Target Campaigns
– Determine Campaign Programs
– Define Campaign Responses
– Define Campaign Access
21. Campaign Execution
Build campaign: Include key fields for tracking
Tips & Tricks
Have a naming convention: e.g.
EMEA – FY08Q3 – Success Tour -
Brussels
Tips & Tricks
Update the Type picklist field and
keep the total number of values to
no more than 10 and include
general types
Tips & Tricks
Define your lead source
values so they tie back
to budget
Tips & Tricks
Tie campaigns together
with the “Parent
Campaign” field
22. Campaign Execution
Build campaign: Categorizing for campaign
measurement
• Products and services
– Create a campaign picklist field for Product or Focus Area
• Advertisements and publications/media
– Create a picklist field for Ad Type with values such as Magazine,
Newspaper, Online, etc.
– Create another picklist for specific publication so you can report on
both levels
• Agencies creating materials
– Track which agencies are tied to your successful campaigns by
creating a Creative Source or Creative Piece picklist field
• Offers made in campaigns
– Track the different types of high-level offers (e.g. whitepapers,
demos, web seminars) to track overall effectiveness
24. Campaign Execution
Build campaign: Set up member response status values
Tips & Tricks
Member Status tells Sales exactly
what their prospect or customer
did
Tips & Tricks
You can have more than one
“Responded” value!
Tips & Tricks
# Responses metric is the sum of
all members with a status
checked as “responded”
24
25. Campaign Execution
Build campaign: Understand statistic calculations first!
1) Total Leads = SUM of all leads 2) Total Contacts = SUM of all
associated with this campaign contacts associated with this
Includes converted leads that you campaign
can’t see in the app # Contacts will decrease if two
# Leads will decrease if two lead contact records are merged, or if a
records are merged, or if a lead is contact is deleted
deleted
4) Total Responses = SUM of all
visible records associated to this
campaign that have a member
3) Converted Leads = SUM of all leads status with the “Responded” box
associated with this campaign that checked
have been converted to a contact
** Best metric for success of
Includes leads converted to new or
campaign – when member
existing contacts statuses are set up correctly!
26. Campaign Execution
Build campaign: Understand statistic calculations first!
1) Total Value Opportunities = 3) Budgeted Cost = Amount of money
Calculated field for the amount of budgeted for the campaign
all opportunities associated with This field is not required to
this campaign incl. closed/ won calculate the ROI of the campaign
For organizations using multiple
currencies, amounts are converted
to campaign currency
Does not include opportunities
that influenced campaign
4) Actual Cost = Amount of money
spent to run the campaign
2) Total Value Won Opportunities = Field needed to calculate ROI
Calculated field for total amount of
** The ROI is calculated as the net
all opportunities associated with
gain (Total Value Won
the campaign hierarchy, including
Opportunities - Actual Cost)
closed/won opportunities
divided by the Actual Cost. The
All campaigns in a hierarchy must ROI result is expressed as a
use the same currency percentage.
27. Campaign Execution
Build campaign: Understand statistic calculations
first!
The Campaign ROI Analysis Report calculates
the return on investment and average costs
for your campaigns
Tips & Tricks
Be sure to fill out the Actual Cost
field so your ROI will be
calculated for you
28. Campaign Execution
Build campaign: Consider using Campaign Hierarchies
• Campaign hierarchies provide a powerful
categorization tool that enables you to
analyze/report on the health of your related multi-
channel, integrated campaigns
– It is important that marketing managers use a
Parent Campaign1 to tie these elements together
and enable reporting across all tactics
Tips & Tricks
Example: The naming convention should
include the quarter and fiscal
year of the campaign
29. Campaign Execution
Build campaign: Consider using Campaign Hierarchies
• When using Parent Campaign, you can see the whole picture!
30. Campaign Execution
Build campaign: Consider using Campaign Influence!
• Because opportunities are usually influenced by more than one campaign, the
campaign influence feature allows you to manually or automatically associate
multiple influential campaigns to a single opportunity
– Enable Campaign Influence for automatic association
– Configure Time Frame and/or Association Rules
• Influential campaigns are automatically added to opportunities when a campaign is related to a contact that is
assigned a contact role on an opportunity prior to the close date of the opportunity
• Campaign Influence Time Frame, if specified, is the maximum number of days between the campaign first
associated date and opportunity created date. Campaigns associated to a contact prior to this timeframe will
not be considered influential
– Add the Campaign Influence related list to Opportunity Page Layout
– Primary Campaign Source on Opportunity is the “most” influential
• When Lead is converted, their campaign is automatically inserted into this field
• If the Lead is linked to multiple campaigns, most recently updated member status wins
• Can update field manually or through Campaign Influence related list
31. Campaign Execution
Build campaign: Best practices for Campaign Influence
• Consider the following rules when setting up and
using Campaign Influence:
– Add Contact Roles to your Opportunity page layouts
– Instruct Sales to add key contacts in Contact Roles
associated to their deal so campaigns are
automatically correlated
– If using Sales to send e-mail templates for a specific
Campaign:
• First, ensure you have a good Contact de-dupe strategy
• Instruct Sales to send e-mail from Contact record but change
the “Related To” to Campaign and include the name so it’s
easy OR just ask Sales for their top Contacts and you do the
work!
32. Campaign Execution
Campaign tools: Set up HTML E-mail Templates
E-mail Templates are easy to set
up!
Set up your Letterhead to
standardize the look and feel of
HTML email templates
Include graphics through the
Documents tab
33. Campaign Execution
Campaign tools: Start off with a unique landing page using Web-2-Lead
Web-to-Lead
Tips & Tricks Tips & Tricks
Key fields are hidden like Campaign Brand the form to match the offer
ID, Member Status, Product Line, they received and keep your fields
Lead Source, etc. short
Tips & Tricks
Leverage Apex code to assist with
With Web-to-Lead, you can gather information from your
de-duping before creating Lead company’s website and automatically generate leads.
Web-to-Lead form can be used for contact me requests,
record in Salesforce registration pages, or campaign landing pages. De-duping
Web-to-Lead Form
logic can be included!
34. Campaign Execution
Campaign members: Mass add Campaign Members
Note: You can use other import sources!
Tips & Tricks
Salesforce provides a variety of ways in which you can
When adding NEW members via manage the leads, contacts, and person accounts that you
are targeting with your campaigns. You can choose which
importing a file, it’s important to method to use based on your business needs; for example,
have a de-dupe strategy you can add and update up to 50,000 campaign members
Manage Members
at a time through lead or contact.
35. Campaign Execution
Mass Email: Consider using email marketing partners
Tips & Tricks
You can send mass email to a
maximum of 1000 external email
addresses per day, consider our e-
mail marketing partners
Email Marketing Partners
Tips & Tricks
Consider an Email Marketing Task
Force to ensure customers and
prospects are not being emailed
too frequently
36. Campaign Tracking
Campaign responses: How does one respond?
Phone/Telemarketing
Search Engine/
Google Ad Words
Website
Website Response
PR/Events
Individual
Response
Manual
Update
Email
Mass
Events
Update
Tips & Tricks
Set up the processes you need
each response channel to follow
for your Call to Action
37. Individual
Manual
Campaign Tracking Update
Campaign responses: Individual manual update
1. Search for Lead or Contact, update status
2. Add Lead to Campaign
For campaigns that elicit responses one-by-one, for
3. Pick correct Member Status example, via a phone call to a sales rep, you can manually
link a contact, lead, or person account to a campaign and
update that individual’s campaign status. Any user can do
this via the Campaign History related list on a contact, lead,
Campaign History
or person account.
38. Mass
Campaign Tracking Update
Campaign responses: Mass update
Tips & Tricks
Salesforce provides a variety of ways in which you can
When adding members via manage the leads, contacts, and person accounts that you
are targeting with your campaigns. You can choose which
importing a file, it’s important to method to use based on your business needs; for example,
have a de-dupe strategy you can add and update up to 50,000 campaign members
Manage Members
at a time through lead or contact.
39. Campaign Tracking
Campaign measurement: Salesforce campaign reports
• Utilize the 8 standard pre-built Campaign Reports
• Customize your own!
42. Campaign Tracking
Campaign measurement: Proven customer success
Measuring and Improving Business
Reduced time for
Reduced time for
100% increase in lead
100% increase in lead preparing email
preparing email
conversion rate.
conversion rate. campaigns by 95%.
campaigns by 95%.
Campaign
Campaign
Lead Analysis
Revenue
Management
Went from managing 1
Went from managing 1
Increased lead conversion
Increased lead conversion to 16 simultaneous
to 16 simultaneous
by 400%.
by 400%.
Campaign ROI Lead Tracking campaigns.
campaigns.
Leads Analysis
“40 percent reduction in time to “Increased lead generation by 20 “40 percent reduction in time to
build email marketing sends” percent and reduced follow-up time build email marketing sends”
by 50 percent”
43. Sales and Marketing: Tools and Terminology
Below you’ll find the tools and terminology used in the application and online training. For more information visit Salesforce Community, the Salesforce.com Online
User Community. You can search the site, browse around, and see what the community is interested in.
Make searching data and interacting with the results of With Salesforce you can create email templates for
your searches simple, smooth, and highly effective. Inline common emails such as web-to-lead responses, sales
paging and sorting features simplify the task of working prospecting, announcements, and internal workflow. You
with large sets of search results. Powerful filtering and Email Templates can even personalize parts of the email with information
scoping functions narrow searches and results. from the contact or account record.
Search Customization options enable users to design search
results layouts that are tailored for the way they work.
Plan and execute email campaigns targeted at prospects
and customers. Enterprise Edition customers can send 500
Outlook users enjoy high levels of productivity with Apex
emails per mass mailing, while Unlimited Edition customers
Connect Outlook—formerly called Outlook Edition—which Mass Email can send 1,000 emails per mass mailing. Salesforce can
makes it easy to synchronize important customer data
also integrate with third-party marketing solutions and
between two commonly used applications. With Connect
offers out-of-the-box integration with several top email
Outlook 3.0 in Spring ’07, productivity for Outlook users
Connect Outlook marketing vendors.
gets another boost with several enhancements. Users can
add emails with attachments, create contacts and leads
directly in Outlook, and create relationships between
calendar events and associated objects such as accounts
Evaluate the success of email campaigns with integrated
response tracking and easy monitoring of key campaign
and opportunities. metrics, such as whether recipients open the messages,
Email Tracking when they open them, and more.
You can set up a Web-to-Lead form to capture contact me
requests from your company’s website. With a lead de-
dupe solution you can automatically route those requests The ability to easily import data into Salesforce is one of
to the person who owns the account. the application's key benefits. Import excel worksheets or
Web-to-Lead Form CSV (comma separated value) files. Map the information to
leads, contacts, accounts, solutions, and custom objects.
Search Import Tools on Salesforce Community for more
With computer-telephony integration (CTI) capabilities, you Import Wizard
information.
can directly integrate your telephone network into
Salesforce and access it entirely through the familiar,
browser-based Salesforce interface. With the combined
power of CTI and the new Salesforce Console,
CTI Integration salesforce.com delivers unlimited productivity to your call
centers.
Editor's Notes
example above illustrates a process representing an inside sales rep who will first review the inbound response and determine if it is from an existing Customer, existing Prospect or is a net new prospect. From there, the inside sales rep will route the response to the correct owner for follow-up and create the field opportunity, or make an outbound phone call to qualify the response and create an inside opportunity to work. This process may vary depending on your organization but it is very important to outline your process.
We have a parent campaign for an overall Webinar series but this particular campaign represents the Webinar event for driving sales/interest for a particular product (notice the Product Area field). Although this screen shot does not follow the recommended naming convention in the tips & tricks box, you get the idea! You can also “sub-type” in your naming convention. For example, you can do that in your “Type” picklist or use dependent picklists to accomplish this. You could have “Type” defined as “Event” and have a dependent picklist called “sub-type” and have values such as web seminar, tradeshow, conference, seminar, etc. It’s important to track your success rate and capture which campaigns are effective while you track your costs, etc. Notice the “Lead Source” field, it’s important to understand where your traffic is coming from for this campaign, again for tying back your budget dollars. We are all trying to do more with less!
Here are some ideas for further classifying and categorizing your campaigns to help you track product interest (which products are more popular, where should you spend your time), advertisements (which publications are better than others, which one should you drop), agencies (is there a correlation to poor performing campaigns and creative work), and offers (are demos the key to success, what offers seem to do the trick). These are just some initial ideas but you might have many more!
Speaking of your traffic and where it’s coming from, you also want to manage your campaign responses (as discussed in campaign preparation). The Advanced Setup button on your campaign is where you set up your member responses. A member is a lead or contact that has been added to a campaign. Total responses is a standard calculated field that helps you track who has responded to your campaign. The next slide explains how this works.
In a nutshell, you can set up different member status’ which tell you and Sales exactly what your customer or prospect did. Not only that, it can also tell you what the follow-up steps should be. Upon setting these up, you select which action counts toward a response to you. For this user conference event example, we are considering whether they registered, registered w/ attendance and registered w/ not showing up as a response. You can always report on conferences with no shows to help in future planning. The “Total Responses” field/metric on the campaign page in the previous slide counts the number of members who have a responded status. Each member can only have one associated status which avoids double counting.
These metrics are highly valuable especially the Total Value Won Opportunities. (Keep in mind that campaign influence does NOT count toward the opportunity metrics however you can report on campaign influence. Use the Campaigns with Influenced Opportunities report to view opportunities that have been influenced by multiple campaigns. You can see the Primary Campaign Source in that report as well as the other campaigns that influenced the opportunity – we cover Campaign Influence shortly). Also, make sure you fill in the Actual Cost field as this will help calculate your ROI.
Here is a sample of the Campaign ROI Analysis Report. This is the ultimate metric we are seeking, among other metrics of course.
one single campaign isn’t enough, there are multiple tactics that come together which influence the creation and closing of opportunities. You need to enable this feature in order to use it. Upon enabling this feature, you can set a Campaign Influence Time Frame that specifies the maximum number of days between the campaign first associated date and the opportunity created date, during which a campaign is considered influential. For example, if you specify a Campaign Influence Time Frame of 30 days and one of your contacts becomes a member of a campaign on June 1, the campaign is considered influential to any opportunity that is created and associated with the contact by June 30. Use the association rules to configure additional criteria that campaigns must meet to be automatically associated to an opportunity. Also, the Primary Campaign Influence field on the Opportunity record itself is considered the most influential and this is what populates the campaign metrics previously discussed. Important: In addition, when you convert a lead that is linked to a campaign, that campaign is automatically inserted into the opportunity Primary Campaign Source field. If the lead is linked to multiple campaigns, the campaign with the most recently updated member status is mapped to the new opportunity.
In order to use Campaign Influence successfully, consider these best practices.
One of the tools we provide to help you with executing your campaigns is HTML e-mail templates. These are very easy to set up where you can create letterheads and insert graphics from the Docs tab. If you are not using these today, this is a must see. You can build e-mail templates for your campaigns that drive the call to action to your website (e.g. Registration) that will automatically add them to that specific campaign (from the website using Web-2-Lead feature discussed later). We talk about how to manage responses in the Campaign Tracking section of this presentation. However, you need to build a process around receiving inbound responses (discussed in Campaign Tracking) just ahead! Another great feature is our HTML E-mail Status related list. This will alert Sales that their customer has seen or opened their e-mail. Consider using HTML E-mail Templates for Sales to use (outside of a Campaign). This will help with their sales effectiveness and provide standards for communicating with customers and prospects.
Another great tool, with Web-to-Lead, you can gather information from your company’s website and automatically generate up to 500 new leads a day. Your company may already have a registration or other type of page where users enter their contact information. You may also want to create a jump page where prospects respond to a campaign. With a little extra HTML code, you can redirect that information to Salesforce to create new leads. Key fields are hidden so if you plan to capture additional information, remember to create those fields on the Lead object, that will help with follow-up. Consider an internal telemarketing organization/team which receives and qualifies all inbound responses. Their attention to your Campaign, and diligence in follow-up, will positively impact your Pipeline generated. If you have technical resources on hand, consider leveraging Apex to assist with automatic de-duping upon entry. We always recommend a data quality strategy in general. We can talk more about data quality in another session.
Upon executing your campaign, specifically adding your target list to your campaign, consider using our Mass Add Campaign Members feature. For example, you might have a Campaign to target existing customers who are interested in your Mobile product and you want to send a mass e-mail to them. You would add these existing Contacts or Leads to your campaign with this wizard using Views. You can also accomplish the same thing using Reports. The last option here is adding members through importing a file, this is the import leads feature. Make sure you have your data de-duplication strategy ironed out when importing leads. Salesforce has a “Find Duplicates” button for Leads and a Merge Contacts button from the Contacts related list of an account.
There are a number of ways to use e-mail marketing. Salesforce offers the combination of HTML E-mail templates covered a few slides back and the Mass Email feature on both the Leads and Contacts main page. You can also use the mass email queue to view the status of scheduled mass emails and cancel mass emails if necessary (Setup | Personal Setup | Email | My Mass Emails. Our mass email feature does not send e-mail to anyone who has the standard field “Email Opt Out” checked. Since salesforce.com is not an e-mail marketing vendor, there are many features we do not offer so we do recommend looking at some of our e-mail marketing partners. Follow the link above to our Appexchange.
Now let’s talk about the responses based on your program. Some common response channels include (listed above) Web form, phone, personal e-mail, registration/attendance for a conference, tradeshow or web seminar (events). Every campaign has a specific outcome. As we discussed during Campaign Setup, the values in the Member Status picklist capture campaign outcomes. Customize your member status values to represent the possible outcomes for your campaigns. What I want to focus on here is what are the choices for the call to action. We have different tools to help you capture the responses or updating responses: Website response using Web-2-Lead, individual manual updates with related lists and mass update capabilities. Let’s look at each one.
Customers and prospects respond via phone or mail. Typically responses come in one-by-one rather than in bulk although one-by-one is losing its popularity given our electronic world. However, common responses of this type include: 1. A call to your sales team or other department 2. A card that customers and prospects mail to your office To track these types of non-automated responses, a sales or marketing team member can manually update the Campaign History for the lead or contact in Salesforce. Above portrays a sample process of what could happen when updating manually. Here are the steps in the application to take.
Another type of response is any response that you track in an offline list. Common examples include: Trade show attendance tracked in an Excel or Google Spreadsheet Email responses that have been collated into a list by your email agency Mass Add Campaign Members You can add existing contacts and leads through an easy wizard when mass adding them as campaign members. You can accomplish this with Views AND Reports. Mass Updating the Status of Campaign Members You can update existing members status through an easy wizard. You can accomplish this with Views. Note: If you are importing a file to update the statuses , you can update only the member status of an existing lead or contact so it’s imperative if you are “working” with a list that was generated FROM Salesforce (exported to Excel for example at which time you will update later), that you include the Lead or Contact ID. There is lots of help on this in our Help & Training link so be sure to check that out. The moral of the story is any time you are working with lead or contacts outside of the application, drag along their IDs so it’s easy to mass update later. Mass Remove Campaign Members You can delete existing members from a campaign through an easy wizard. You can accomplish this with Views.
Campaign measurement is the best part! The ROI Analysis report is one of our favorites. The Campaign ROI Analysis Report calculates the return on investment and average costs for your campaigns. The ROI is calculated as the net gain (Total Value Won Opps - Actual Cost) divided by the Actual Cost. The ROI result is expressed as a percentage. So, don’t forget to fill out your Actual Cost on the Campaign record. Other reports help with response rates by type of campaign. Use all these analysis tools to help make decisions on future campaigns and how to improve them. Note: The 3 reports circled in red are also available on the Campaigns home page.
If you decide to use one of our e-mail marketing partners, you can integrate e-mail statistics or upload the data with Apex Dataloader. You of course need to create the custom fields on the Campaign object first. Then when you build your report (see sample above), you can add Custom Summary Formula fields to your report to tell you the email effectiveness based on Opens, Clicks, Bounce, and Unsubscribe. The formula for “Email Effectiveness” is: ((Campaign.Clickthroughs__c:SUM / Campaign.Sent__c:SUM) * 60) + ((Campaign.Opened__c:SUM / Campaign.Sent__c:SUM) * 40) - ((Campaign.Bounces__c:SUM / (Campaign.Sent__c:SUM + Campaign.Bounces__c:SUM)) * 20) - ((Campaign.Opt_out__c:SUM / Campaign.Sent__c:SUM) * 80) Also, you can create a Custom Summary Formula field for “Open Rate” which is: (Campaign.Opened__c:SUM/Campaign.Sent__c:SUM) * 100 THE DATA BEHIND THE EMAIL STATISTICS ABOVE ARE FROM AN EMAIL MARKETING VENDOR BUT THESE FIELDS ARE STANDARD WITH MOST EMAIL MARKETING VENDORS. THE ONLY FIELD THAT IS NATIVE TO SALESFORCE IN THIS SCREEN SHOT IS CAMPAIGN NAME AND CAMPAIGN STATUS. We wanted to share you a sample of what you can report on when you bring in an email marketing partner.
Set up the dashboard that is right for you and measure the success of your campaigns. Our AppExchange does provide you with a couple which will save you a lot of time (see links above). Remember you can always customize whatever you download.
To measure the success of marketing programs in real-time, our customers use dashboards that can be used to measure any marketing metric that is critical to your organization. For First American, they measure lead conversion rates. First American increased lead conversion rates by 100% by closing the loop in marketing with Salesforce. First American’s primary problem was neglected leads. Sales wasn’t following up on every lead and no one was holding them accountable. With Salesforce Marketing, First American solved the problem not only by tracking every lead, but by customizing lead information to attach the right information to every lead every lead was better qualified. Salesforce.com conducts a quarterly on line Relationship Survey, hosted by CustomerSat (www.CustomerSat.com). Respondents mentioned some of the above CRM success metrics they have achieved with Marketing from their use of Salesforce.
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