What
is a Campaign? A Campaign is a marketing project to promote
business for your company that is managed and tracked through salesboom.com
This could be marketing conducted through the mail, email, radio
advertisements, printed advertisements or some other marketing initiative.
Use the
Campaigns tab page to create, update and
manage your campaigns. You can link contacts, opportunities, leads,
accounts, notes and tasks to each campaign. There are numerous sort
and filter options available to help you locate key campaigns quickly.
You can also generate and print reports.
Campaigns
Tab Page Use
Featured Campaigns to view
your current campaigns. Make a selection from the
Show
drop down box to generate a summary of your campaigns using predefined
search patterns.
Viewing
Campaigns From the
Show drop down box you
can generate a campaign summary. Simply choose one of the options
from the drop down box. A summary of all campaigns matching your
selection will be displayed in a few seconds. To view a campaign
in detail click the
View link located to the left
of the campaign.
Custom
Campaign Views See: Creating
Custom Views
Featured
Campaigns The
Featured Campaigns section
displays a campaign summary. Use the
Show drop
down box to display campaigns that match a certain criteria. To
view a listed campaign in detail, click the
View
link.
See Also: Sorting
Reports and Views
Managing
Campaigns
Click
to View the Managing Campaigns Video Tutorial
Creating
a Campaign There are two ways that you can add a new campaign.
Use
Quick Campaign if you want to quickly add a
new campaign without entering a lot of information. Further details
can be filled in at a later time. Use
Detailed Addition
if you want to create a new campaign with a detailed profile.
Quick Campaign
- Choose the Campaigns tab located at the top
of the page.
- Scroll down to the Quick Campaign section.
- Enter the information for the new campaign in the fields provided.
Fields highlighted in red and marked with an asterisk are required
fields. The other fields may be left blank if you wish.
- Click the Save Campaign button to create
the new campaign.
Detailed Addition
- From the Campaigns tab page, click the Add
Campaign button located in the upper right region of
the page. This will bring you to the New Campaign
form.
- Fill in your campaign information using the Campaign
Information, Address Information and Description
Information sections of the form. Fields highlighted
in red and marked with an asterisk are required fields. All
other fields may be left blank if you wish.
- Use the campaign Summary section to attach
Tasks (Activities) and Notes
to the campaign.
- Save your campaign by clicking the Save or
Save & New button.
See Also:
Edit, Delete or Print an Campaign
Notes
Tasks
See Also:
Editing,
Deleting and Printing a Campaign
Saving
a Campaign
Saving
a Campaign When you have created a new campaign or have
made changes to an existing campaign you will be able to save the
campaign information using either of the following two methods:
- Click the Save & New button to save your
new campaign. You will then be presented with a blank form on
which you can create another new campaign.
- Click the Save button to save your new campaign.
This will bring you to a summary page for your new campaign.
From this page you can Edit, Delete and Print
your campaign information.
Editing,
Deleting and Printing a Campaign When campaigns are displayed
on the
Campaigns tab page or in a search or generated
report, click the
View link to view the campaign
in detail. You can then
Edit, Delete or
Print
the campaign.
Edit: Click the
Edit button to
change the information for the campaign. Be sure to fill in all
required fields. These are highlighted in red and marked with an
asterisk. To save your changes click the
Save or
Save & New button.
Delete: Click the
Delete button.
You will be prompted to verify that you want to delete the campaign.
Click
OK to delete the campaign. Click
Cancel
to cancel the deletion.
Print: Click the
Printable button
to view a print preview of the campaign information. Select the
Print This Page link located at the top right corner
of the preview to print the campaign information. If you do not
want to print the campaign, simply close the window.
See Also: Saving
a Campaign
Adding a
Lead to a Campaign Leads are potential customers. Add leads
to campaigns in order to keep track of the amount of interest that
is generated from each campaign.
- Go to the Campaigns tab page.
- Use the Featured Campaigns summary to list
the campaigns you are interested in.
- Click the View to view the campaign in detail.
- Scroll down to the Related Records section
and click the Leads tab, if not already selected.
- Click the Add Lead button. This will take
you to the New Lead page.
- Fill in the required information and click Save.
The new lead is now linked to the campaign.
Adding
an Opportunity to a Campaign Opportunities are pending sales.
Add opportunities to campaigns in order to keep track of pending
business generated from each campaign.
- Go to the Campaigns tab page.
- Use the Featured Campaigns summary to list
the campaigns you are interested in.
- Click the View link to view the campaign in
detail.
- Scroll down to the Related Records section
and click the Opportunities tab, if not already
selected.
- Click the Add Opportunity button. This takes
you to the New Opportunity page.
- Fill in the required information and click Save.
The new opportunity is now linked to the campaign.
Adding
an Account to a Campaign Accounts are current or potential
customers. Add accounts to campaigns in order to keep track of the
amount of revenue generated by each campaign.
- Go to the Campaigns tab page.
- Use the Featured Campaigns summary to list
the campaigns you are interested in.
- To view a campaign, click the View link.
- Scroll down to the Related Records section
and click the Accounts tab, if not already
selected.
- Click the Add Account button. This takes
you to the New Account page.
- Fill in the required information and click Save.
The new account is now linked to the campaign.
Adding
a Contact to a Campaign
- Go to the Campaigns tab page.
- Use the Featured Campaigns summary to list
the campaigns you are interested in.
- To view a listed campaign, click the View
link.
- Scroll down to the Related Records section
and click the Contacts tab.
- Click the Add Contact button. This takes
you to the New Contact page.
- Fill in the required information and click Save.
The new contact is now linked to the campaign.
Adding a Lead
Web Capture Tool to a Campaign The web capture tool allows
you to create an HTML form that can be filled out on your web site.
When the user fills in and submits the form, a new lead is created
in your salesboom.com organization containing the information entered
by the user. This tool is invaluable for tracking potential customers.
Leads that are captured using the Leads web capture tool are automatically
added to the campaign.
See Also:
Web Capture Tool