Campaign Execution Best Practices
The Campaign is the most used tool and the backbone of your marketing ecosystem. Here are the best practice recommended for Campaign users after years of working with this engine. Incorporate the 4 principles of Best Practices into your group Reuse, Organize, Automate and Share. Execution specific Best Practices Create derived fields or custom macros when you need an aggregation of data that doesn’t exist currently on the database. Create control groups at the lowest level of segmentation, and use the random selection functionality provided in the software. When building a new campaign meet as a group and brainstorm the new design before building it. Then after the campaign is built, meet again as a group to review the design and evaluate the campaign from all three vantage points: Performance, Ease-Of-Use, and Flexibility. Define offer and promotion history so that each discreet contact with a customer can be identified in the database. Use Campaign user attributes to capture more information or create derived fields to support this requirement. Use ‘Check Syntax’ for syntax checking at all times. Use the ‘Summary Tab’ to capture Campaign metadata and descriptive information. Apply suppressions early in the Campaign design process (so that your surviving population is smaller as you progress down the processing chain). To obtain waterfall or cascading counts, use a separate process box for each Select or Segment process, the results can then be displayed with the cell waterfall report. Use the ‘Cell Size Limit’ function to limit output records to particular channels based on constraints. When entering multiple conditions in SELECT and SEGMENT process boxes, enter criteria piece per line and place the AND/OR operators on a separate/newline. Enter the AND/OR operators in ALL CAPS. Use the ‘General Tab’ to capture comments about the processes you have created. When creating multiple...