System Overview
Getting Started
New to CaliberMind - Start Here!
CaliberMind Home Page & Navigation
Home Page Navigation Redesign
How do I use CaliberMind's search functionality?
Company or Account Detail - Search Results
Campaign Detail - Search Results
Person Detail - Search Results
Opportunity Detail - Search Results
How Does CaliberMind Define a "Channel"?
What Is a CaliberMind Event or Event Table?
How to use Dashboards
Connectors / Integrations
CaliberMind Connectors - Start Here!
Adding Your First Connector
CaliberMind Connectors
How to Connect: Act-On
How To Connect: AdRoll / RollWorks
How to Connect: G2, Bombora, or 6sense
How to Connect: Google Ads [via FiveTran]
How To Connect: Google Analytics
How to Connect: Google Sheets
How To Connect: HubSpot
How to Connect: Klaviyo [via FiveTran]
How To Connect: LinkedIn Ads
How To Connect: Marketo
How To Connect: Microsoft Dynamics
How To Connect: Outreach
How to Connect: Pardot [via FiveTran]
How to Connect: Salesforce [via FiveTran]
How to Connect: Segment [via FiveTran]
How to Connect: Twitter [via FiveTran]
How to Connect: ZoomInfo / DiscoverOrg
How To Connect: Google Campaign Manager 360
Kickfire
Setting Up the LinkedIn Push Connector
Setting Up the Salesforce Push Connector
How to Connect: Slack
Power BI/ Tableau/ Looker Connectors Article
Connecting Your Data Warehouse to CaliberMind - Start Here!
Connecting Tableau to CaliberMind
CaliberMind Data Export to Google Cloud Storage
Ingesting CaliberMind Data Into Snowflake
Pushing CaliberMind Person Engagement Data to Salesforce
Integrations Appendix by Connector
SFTP Connector - Updated 2021
Replicating CaliberMind Attribution Data to Salesforce
How to Connect Facebook Ads
How To Connect: Google Search Ads 360
KickFire De-Anonymization in CaliberMind
Field History SFDC Limits (Salesforce)
SFTP Synced Files - Making a Data Change
Connections - Email Notifications
CaliberMind Data Access FAQs
Microsoft Bing Connector [via FiveTran]
Connector Health and Web Tracker Health reports
Connectors Status Page
In-App Notifications
CaliberMind IP Addresses for Whitelisting
Developer Guide
Developer Guide - Start Here!
CaliberMind Entity Relations and System Tables
What is Google BigQuery
CaliberMind Common Data Sources
CaliberMind Identity Levels
System Configuration
Configuring Funnels
How to Set Up and Configure Funnels
Funnel Stages Configuration and Stage Definitions
Funnels FAQs Technical Documentation
Funnel Company Inclusion Configuration
Event Explore for Funnels
Funnel History Event Configuration
Funnel Static Event Configuration
Funnel Person Inclusion Configuration
Funnel Person Status Exits
Object Manager: Campaign Member
How to See Your Object Manager History and Revert Back to Previous Versions
Setting Your Saved Filters for In-App Reporting
Setting Up UTM Mapping in CaliberMind
UTM Parameters Formatting and Best Practices
Standard Channel Logic
Channel Ranking Logic
Custom SQL Data Transformations
Add BigQuery Users within CaliberMind
Remove a BigQuery User within CaliberMind
Adding Custom Columns in Salesforce
How to Email CaliberMind Reports
Setting Up Account Trend Emails
How does CaliberMind normalize the raw data for use?
List Builder
List Builder - Start Here!
What are Lists?
Creating a List Using the List Builder - Step-by-Step Instructions
Use Case Videos - Creating a List Using the List Builder
Importing a List
Downloading a List - Step-by-Step Instructions
Account List Upload - File Requirements
People List Upload - File Requirements
Campaign List Upload - File Requirements
Creating an Account List From a Campaign
Creating Company Lists in List Builder
Creating Company Lists using SQL
How to create a list of all Opportunities that have a very low Engagement
Where is my Segments Menu?
Keyboard Shortcuts using SQL
Web Tracker Installation & Settings
Web Tracker and Installation Settings - Start Here!
Installing AnalyticsJS (CaliberMind snippet)
Two ways to identify prospects that submit a form containing email address using AnalyticsJS
Install AnalyticsJS on a HubSpot website
Using AnalyticsJS Identify on embedded Hubspot forms
Using AnalyticsJS Identify on embedded Marketo forms
Types of Analytics.js Calls
Analytics.JS Overview
Using Analytics.js to Track Web and Product Events
How Cookie Settings Affect the Analytics.JS Tracking Script
Google Tag Manager (GTM) Ad Blockers
Using AnalyticsJS with Drift
Using AnalyticsJS with Qualified
How to check your AnalyticsJS implementation
Identify users using Intercom Messenger
Flows
CaliberMind's Most Popular Flows | Automations
How to use QuickFlows
Flows Status Page
Merge records in Salesforce CRM
Add a Quick-Flow to Salesforce Campaign
Using ClearBit Flows
Setting Up Workflow - Lead Deduplication
ZoomInfo - Add-to/Enrich your database
Setting Up Workflow - Website Repair
Setting Up Workflow - Account Deduplication
Creating Sales Campaigns from Salesloft and Outreach Activities
Setting Up Workflow - Contact Deduplication
Campaigns
Campaigns - Start Here!
Custom Programs for Campaigns
Campaign-Program Membership
Custom Campaigns
Program Logic for Campaigns
Setting Up Answers
Setting Up Answers - Start Here!
Using CaliberMind Answers to Understand Campaign Performance
Using CaliberMind Answers to Understand Account Engagement
Using CaliberMind Answers to Understand Funnel Performance
Using CaliberMind Answers to Understand Funnel Impact
Using CaliberMind Answers to Understand Funnel Flow
User Administration & SSO
Administration and SSO - Start Here!
Single Sign On (SSO) Setup
Manage Users - Viewing, Inviting, Updating Users and Roles
User Authentication and Provisioning
CaliberMind Data Warehouse Access in Google BigQuery
CaliberMind Insights Dashboards
Working in Insights
CaliberMind Insights - Browser Requirements
CaliberMind Insights - Sharing Dashboards & User Permissions
CaliberMind Insights - Navigating to Insights/Dashboard
CaliberMind Insights - Using Dashboards
CaliberMind Insights - Dashboard Refresh Schedule
CaliberMind Insights - Application Concepts and Terminology
CaliberMind Insights - Filters & Aggregation Type
Building Dashboards - Insights
Attribution Dashboards - Insights
Insights - Attribution - Start Here!
Insights - Attribution Terminology and Key Concepts
Insights - Attribution Overview Dashboard 2.0
Engagement Dashboards - Insights
Insights - Engagement - Start Here!
Insights - Engagement - Dashboard Terminology & Key Concepts
Insights - Engagement Overview
Insights - Engagement - System Account Detail
Insights - Engagement - Person Detail
Build Insights Dashboards - Start Here!
Creating a Custom Pipeline Dashboard (VIDEO)
CaliberMind Insights - Creating Custom Dashboards
Build Your Own Insights Pipeline Dashboard
Building Formulas with Functions
Insights - ROAS Dashboard Use Cases
Creating and Editing a Widget Formula
Using Conditional Statements
How is CaliberMind ROAS Reporting Different than Insights ROI?
Insights - ROI - Start Here!
How to Create a Filter Bookmark
Create Date Range Filters - Step-by-Step
Creating Formulas Based on Criteria and Conditions (Filters)
Insights Data Connector Health Dashboard
Dashboard Function Reference
Introduction to Formulas - Start Here!
Insights Web Tracker Health Dashboard
Using Quick Functions
Insights - ROAS Terminology & Key Concepts
Insights Engagement Dashboard - Aggregation Dates
Filters
Object Mapping for Filters - Start Here!
Custom Configuration for Object Mapping
Object Mapping Filters
How to Map Your Salesforce Opportunity Revenue Field
Object Mapping: Create a Filter
Object Mapping: Create a Mapping
Object Mapping: Create a Replacement
Object Mapping: Create a Campaign Substitution
Filters Update for Creating Filter Sets
Filter Drawer Definitions
CaliberMind Sandbox
GDPR Compliance with CaliberMind
Data Dictionary
Attribution
Analytics
Attribution
Attribution Overview: Summary Tab
Attribution Overview: Comparisons Tab
Attribution Overview: Explore Tab
Attribution Overview: Opps Tab
Attribution Overview: People Tab
Attribution Overview: Events Tab
Campaign Types: Best Practices for Easy-to-Read Attribution
Virtual Campaigns in CaliberMind
Attribution - CaliberMind versus Embedded Attribution in Salesforce?
Removal effect with a Markov chain model
Attribution Reports Summary
Demand Generation
Data Integrity
Customer Success
Understanding Reports
CaliberMind Analytics Concepts
Overview of Analytics and Attribution
Filters and Hyperlinks
Using the Engagement Trending Report
Analytics Reporting: Salesforce Custom Column Filter Support
Using Tags to Organize Your Lists
Attribution Overview - Campaign Performance Table
Using Campaign Lists in Dashboards
Using Company Lists in Dashboards
CaliberMind Metrics Definition
Product Attribution Dashboard
Self-Hosting CaliberMind AnalyticsJS
ROI
Revolutionizing Marketing ROI: CaliberMind's Innovative New Approach
Return On Ad Spend Dashboards
Revenue Contribution Reports Summary
Channel ROI Overview
Creating and maintaining a custom advertising budget for ROAS
Best Practices for Tracking Return-on-Ad-Spend (ROAS)
Why Is CaliberMind ROAS or ROI Different Than My Ad Platform?
Campaign ROI Overview
Budget for ROI Channel Reporting
Attribution Models
Choosing the Right Attribution Model
Attribution Models: First-Touch
Attribution Models: W-Shaped
Attribution Models: Middle
Chain-Based Attribution Model
The A-Shaped Model
Ad Performance Report - Summary Tab
Ad Performance Report - Attribution Tab
Funnels
Funnels 101
Funnels - Start Here!
Marketing & Sales Funnel Foundations
What is a Marketing Funnel?
Sales Funnel Journey: Questions and Answers
Common Funnel Issues
Sales Funnel Glossary
Funnel Stage Definitions
Funnel Terms and Concepts
Sales Funnel Metrics
What is the difference between an Active Journey and a Journey?
In-App Funnels
Funnel Overview: Summary Tab
Funnel Overview: Progression Tab
Funnel Overview: Cohort Tab
Funnel Overview: Stage Analyzer Tab
Funnel Overview: Comparison Tab
Funnel Overview: Journeys Tab
Insights Funnels
Funnels Use Cases
What channels move journeys through a given stage?
How can I see the number of journeys in or passing through a funnel stage during a period of time?
What touches are influencing each step in the funnel?
How do I see the first event (or "tipping point") in each stage of my funnel?
Where are my customers stuck in journeys?
How do I know the last event that happened before a journey stage change?
How do I identify stage conversion rates?
Funnel Configuration - Insights
Funnel Trigger Events Dashboard
Insights Funnels Reports Explained
Funnel Trend Dashboard
What is a Starter Funnel?
Funnel Cohort Analysis Dashboard
Funnel Cohort Analysis Use Cases
Funnel Data Explore Dashboard
Introducing CaliberMind's Funnels
Funnels - Lead, Contact, Account, Opportunity Statuses and Stages
Pressure Event Dashboard 101
Demand Generation Funnel Dashboard
Engagement and ABM
Engagement Scoring
Model Configuration
Customize Engagement Scoring Models - Start Here!
Engagement Scoring Models Overview
How to Change Event Touch Scores
How to Add or Change Engagement Score Multipliers
Add or Change Engagement Score Filters
Create Multiple Engagement Score Models
Which touches and events are we scoring?
Sales Opportunity Data Model
Engagement Scoring Time Decay - How It Works & How to Change It
Custom Attribution Configuration - Custom Weighting
Using Engagement Score to Trigger an Update in Salesforce
Default ABM Scoring Logic
Recommended Weights for Engagement Scores
Engagement Reporting
Engagement: Summary Tab
Engagement Overview: Companies Tab
Engagement Overview: People Tab
Engagement Overview: Campaigns Tab
Engagement Overview: Explore Tab
Company Engagement AI Summary
Account-Based Marketing Reports
Linking to CaliberMind Reports in Salesforce
ABM Best Practices
Account-to-Lead (A2L) Matching
Lead-to-Account Matching (L2A)
Pushing CaliberMind ABM Scoring Fields to Salesforce.com
Slack AI Company Engagement Summary
3rd Party Intent Signals with Bombora
Tutorials and Use Cases
Digital Marketing Terminology
Customizing Report Visibility (Show/Hide)
How to Manage Your Offsite Events Using CaliberMind
How can I manage my BDR/SDR team activities with CaliberMind?
Combining Engagement Score with Attribution
Enabling the Sales Teams to see the Entire Buyers Journey
How Can I Identify High Risk Opportunities?
How does Sales leverage CaliberMind? Some key use cases.
Running a Sales/Pipeline Review with CaliberMind
How Is CaliberMind Different From My CRM Attribution?
CRM Campaign Member Status and Campaign Response Best Practices
How Do I Optimize Advertising Spend?
Campaign Best Practices Across Systems
How do I use CaliberMind to shorten our sales cycle?
Answering Business Questions Using CaliberMind Reports
Which of my leads are the most engaged?
How Do I Know If a Campaign Is Good or Bad?
How to Flatten Your Campaign Structure in Salesforce
Table of Contents
- All Categories
- Tutorials and Use Cases
- How to Flatten Your Campaign Structure in Salesforce
How to Flatten Your Campaign Structure in Salesforce
Why Flatten My Campaign Structure?
Many marketers use parent campaigns to organize their campaigns by business unit, region, or initiative, which makes a lot of sense. That "View Hierarchy" button in Salesforce makes it simple to visualize how your campaigns link together. The problem is that Salesforce (and most reporting solutions) have difficulty reproducing this view and summarizing data across multiple parent-child layers in reports.
When summarizing campaign data hierarchies, expect to be able to only group information by a single parent level. If some campaigns have three levels and others have four or five, you will get different results and repetitive data. (The exception to this are organizations that have built-in custom reporting layers to aggregate this information outside of their CRM.)
This article will cover B2B SaaS industry best practices for configuring your marketing automation system and CRM to get the most out of your campaign data.
What's the ideal way to organize Salesforce campaigns?
The best thing about any Salesforce platform on the market is the ability to customize it. Consider adding custom fields to the campaign object like:
- Region
- Business Unit
- Product Line
If you have sweeping categories that are pretty consistent over time, it's a great candidate for a custom field. The best thing about using custom fields instead of a parent hierarchy is that you are much less limited regarding reporting flexibility. Even if you have a data warehouse to analyze your data, navigating levels takes a lot of processing power and customization. Mapping an additional field, on the other hand, is simple.
In Salesforce, grouping a report by several custom fields is simple, making it a great alternative to those embedded child campaigns.
Regarding tracking channel or advertising platform campaigns, we recommend not using your campaign object to track those interactions. Instead, we recommend stamping the UTM parameters your organization wants to track at both the person level (lead and contact) AND at the campaign member level.
We consider the campaign object as the CTA or action the person takes with your brand. We covered this in our article on campaign best practices. These are interactions like webinars, trade shows, form fills, etc.
We think of UTM parameters as "how they got to" the CTA or what they clicked on before interacting with your brand.
Marrying these two dimensions into a single touchpoint (the CTA is the campaign and the UTM parameters are custom fields on the Campaign Member record) allows for a great deal of flexibility in your reports.
Stamping your UTM values into custom fields on your campaign member records allow you to:
- Flattening the campaign hierarchy for easier SFDC reporting
- Retaining a running history of meaningful UTM interactions in Salesforce per person
- Not needing to duplicate records or use history tracking to uncover a running UTM history
When does it make sense to use a parent campaign?
There are many valid reasons to add a parent layer. Perhaps you're working with a spend optimization tool that groups data differently.
Another fantastic use case is using parents for initiatives that span many different CTAs and channels. For example, if your organization's product has core functionality and your team wants to build an omni-channel set of campaigns to socialize the feature.
Another use case is tracking ABX programs in cohorted groups.
Parent campaigns are a fantastic way to allow your CMO to see summary data - as long as you keep in mind your CRM's inability to stack and summarize multiple parent layers as you're determining your strategy for parent campaign data.
Why not track ad platform data as a campaign? They're important.
UTM data is critical to track. Your digital advertising team needs visibility into how UTM data is linked to opportunity data in order to make the most of their campaigns. Digital marketing is a business-critical function, and marketers need a way to defend the way they spend the company's dollars.
The recommended campaign structure allows us to retain a granular record of UTM parameters while still allowing us to also pivot data to see things how the rest of the organization views marketing priorities. In other words, we think this method delivers what the business needs to know, including UTM cost efficiency.
We recommend focusing the campaign records on the CTA because a CTA is much more closely linked to how likely someone is to convert than the mechanism used to drive them to that form fill. For example, we know that demo requests will convert into opportunities at a rate of 25% or higher. Content downloads convert at rates closer to 1-4%. Regardless of what people click on, what they do with your brand is a better indicator of how likely they are to talk to sales.
By stamping UTM parameters on campaign member records, we keep a running history of UTM interactions as they tie to CTAs. That means we have a link between the ad and how likely someone is to convert or which CTA they are performing. This helps us add another layer to our UTM reports in a way our Salesforce (and other analytics tools) easily supports.
Can I use CaliberMind to push UTM data to my campaign members?
Check back soon. We're developing a solution that will allow us to leverage flows in CaliberMind to push UTM data linked to your CRM campaign members back into your source system.
Recommended Reading
Need additional support for putting this structure in place?
Here's how to capture and pass UTM information along from a leading MAS to Salesforce. Usually, this involves capturing the UTM parameters on the form fill and then creating a workflow to push that data onto the lead or contact object in Salesforce:
Here's how to flow that UTM data down to the campaign member in Salesforce.