Creating a marketing dashboard is an effective way to see how you are doing against your marketing targets. What channels are most effective for generating pipeline? How many leads did we generate this month compared to last month? In this post, I’ll share some example marketing dashboard components and some tips and tricks for creating dashboards in Salesforce.
Tip #1: View the unique count of records in a reportWant to know how many accounts or companies attended an event, webinar or interacted with a marketing campaign? The “show unique count” option within Salesforce reports can be enabled to view this information.How it worksWhile editing a report in the report builder, find the column for which you want to count unique values.Click Show More | Show Unique Count.Click Save.A count of unique values appears…
Refreshed and republished on September 10, 2021This post was originally published on February 2, 2021. After this post was published, Salesforce released the ability to check if a field has been changed. Previously, the solution was to clear out the UTM field values after the flow ran. The new solution is to use the is changed feature instead of clearing out field values.The ConceptIf a lead or a contact’s fields for UTM Source, UTM Medium…
You have your lead lifecycle set up, your scoring set up, and the MQLs are flowing in. Now it’s time to pull reports in Salesforce to see how you are doing against your targets. Maybe you don’t know where to start, what reports to pull or what extra data points you need. In this post, I’ll share some example MQL reports and some tips and tricks for creating reports in Salesforce.Getting your data readyTo pull…
Salesforce campaigns can help you track each of your marketing initiatives in detail. These can include online advertisements, emails, or more specialized marketing events such as demos and tradeshows. You can use campaigns to analyze how many leads you are generating, how much pipeline you are building, and how many deals are closing as a result of your marketing efforts. However, in order to track and analyze your campaigns effectively, you need to have an organizational structure in place. Whether you are setting up campaigns for the first time or looking for a way to get more out of campaigns, here are 7 tips to help you get started with your campaign organization.
