The potential of using social media as a marketing campaign can be huge, but one must take note of the following points before starting one: defining goals, defining success through numbers, keeping to one track at a time, putting all down in writing, bringing it to life with visuals, using analytics to monitor and tune, investing in a social media management tool, profiling our ideal customer, auditing our social pressure, identifying key success indicators, testing out content ideas on Twitter and continuing to create and curate highly engaging content. Once mastering the above points, a social media marketing campaign is good to go. Read more at: http://www.socialmediatoday.com/marketing/12-things-consider-starting-social-media-marketing-campaign?utm_source=web&utm_medium=links&utm_content=12%20Things%20to%20Consider%20Before%20Starting%20a%20Social%20Media%20Marketing%20Campaign&utm_campaign=related-items

Firms often spend a huge amount of money on display marketing. But as a consumer, do you remember at all the last display ad you saw. The answer is NO. Display Marketing can be very effective if targeted. It is important to know which item should be placed on which site and what part of the site. Most vendors don't go into details of the strategy, thus shelling out more money out of those interested in display marketing. Algorithmic attributions can be used to determine how the impressions will impact the ROI. Learn more about it in the article written by Sandy Martin (Sr. Business Consultant) at : http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/analytics/how-to-get-more-from-display-marketing-with-analytics/

Planning a marketing campaign is an important part and it requires methodical effort. If one spent time for planning, it will help in the success of the campaign. One should be clear about the target audiences. Once you have decided on your target audience, you need to decide how to appeal to them more effectively and be sure your message includes both an offer and a call to action. Read more at: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/insidecrm/making-a-marketing-campaign-70767

CRM plays a vital role in a successful marketing campaign by doing everything from keeping multiple campaigns straight to segmenting sub-populations to be targeted by the campaigns. One of the major benefits CRM offers marketing campaigns is the granularity and also helps in emphasizing on the people who are most likely to respond to this particular campaign. CRM makes it easy to keep the responses honest so you can judge the success of each individual campaign and also makes it easy to keep track of the details of each response. Read more about the benefits of CRM in organizing marketing campaigns at - http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/insidecrm/managing-a-marketing-campaign-with-crm-70528

Recently, email marketers are using the coupons. It was found in a research that 71% of the population say coupons sent in emails very useful.  Email coupons can work very well as a promotional tool and can be effective when they are personalized by product preferences. Jordie van Rijn (author) in his blog writes how we can improve the usage of coupons to improve business. Read more at: http://blog.getresponse.com/making-your-email-coupons-work-harder.html

Mobile phones have done a paradigm shift in marketing products and services. It has created an entirely new marketing channel which cannot be ignored. You, as a business owner, marketing manager or alike, have definitely noticed it.

Fixing budget for marketing your products or services is really a daunting job. With mobile marketing, this job has become more difficult. The growth of mobile usage will not make a halt and as technology will continue to make an upward slope, sophisticated consumers will purchase more through mobile interfaces. So, when mobile is the future, the key to a successful marketing campaign lies here and you must unlock it to make use of its full potential. For this, you will have to rethink over the budget you have allocated for your marketing campaign and you have to lay much importance to the mobile space and justify why you are doing so.

Having said that, are you confused about setting your budget? Here are some statistics on mobile marketing from which you can take cues: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/05/04/10-mobile-marketing-statistics-help-justify-budget/ .