Getting Started with Campaigns

How to create a campaign record:

Creating a campaign is just like creating any other record in Salesforce, with the exception that the user must have the “Marketing User” feature license selected in addition to corresponding object-level security.

How to configure campaign member statuses on a campaign:

Click Advanced Setup on the campaign record.

Add and change responses as desired.

Note: The ‘responded’ attribute is rolled up in campaign summary fields.

How to add a lead or contact to a campaign, and update the status of existing campaign members:

There are a number of different tools that you can use to manipulate campaign membership:

1. Add or edit a single record from the campaign related list on a lead or contact record (the campaign related list must be added to the corresponding page layout).

2. Use one of the wizards on the campaign record to add new members or update existing members.

3. Run a lead or contact report (or list view) and click the “Add to Campaign” button.

4. Configure web-to-lead submissions to join a campaign when the lead is created.

5. Use the data loader to create/update campaign member records.

Email Marketing and Marketing Automation within Salesforce

To add email marketing or marketing automation functionality to Salesforce, you will need the Marketing Cloud or a 3rd party vendor.

Salesforce (without Marketing Cloud) provides very basic mass email functionality (use the mass email wizards on the Leads or Contacts tab), but it is a) limited to 1,000 emails or less per day and b) not CAN-SPAM compliant.

 

14 thoughts on “Getting Started with Campaigns”

      1. Both videos (parts 1&2) would have been a great introduction to this section. It didn’t really work for me to jump right in to the steps without an overview.

    1. This is helpful. I found my self getting lost in the how – to because I did not understand what campaigns are. This helped me understand the how-to better.

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