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description: Salesforce campaigns help you track engagement and report on your marketing efforts. They’re fully customizable to meet your business needs, which means it takes some planning and a few steps to configure the Campaign object to support effective marketing campaigns.
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# Set Up Campaigns in Salesforce

Salesforce campaigns help you track engagement and report on your marketing efforts. They’re fully customizable to meet your business needs, which means it takes some planning and a few steps to configure the Campaign object to support effective marketing campaigns.

- **[Customize Campaign Types](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.campaigns_customize_types_parent.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The Type field on your campaign indicates the general method or channel for your campaigns, such as Direct Mail or Referral Program. To organize the types of campaigns that your business runs, customize the picklist for this field. When marketers monitor campaign performance, they can use the Type field to see how specific campaign types are performing against others.
- **[Campaign Member Statuses](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.campaigns_customize_member_status_parent.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Campaigns can help you monitor prospects as they interact with your marketing assets. After a person or an account is added as a campaign member, users can apply a member status that reflects their recent activity. To allow users to create a member status at any time, a Salesforce admin must add a related list to campaign records.
- **[Allow Users to Create Campaign Hierarchies](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.campaigns_hierarchy_setup.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Before users can associate campaigns in a hierarchy, an admin must configure campaign page layouts to support it. Set up field-level security, and then add the Parent Campaign field and related list to campaign records.