Setting Up Your First Campaign

Congratulations on getting your new Track Revenue account set up! You're finally ready to start running your marketing campaigns.

Here's a brief step-by-step guide on how to do this

Create an Offer
Create a Campaign
Run your Campaign link to your Offer
Use your Campaign link to bring in Traffic

1. Create an Offer

In Track Revenue, an Offer is the link to whatever your Affiliate Network (or Advertiser) is trying to promote. It is the final destination for where your campaign traffic will go.

Go to the Campaigns>Offer Management page.
Click "Create new Offer"
Set an Offer Name, Url, and Payout

Once you've created a name for your Offer, you'll need to set the URL (aka the destination link where you will send the traffic to). You'll also need to set the Payout. We'll use this to track how much money you are being paid by your Affiliate Network on your Statistics.

Set your Affiliate Network, Hide Referrer, and Offer Caps Settings (optional)

These are optional menus for setting up an Offer. For more details on what each item means, check out our Offers Tutorial Page.

2. Create a Campaign

Now that you've created an Offer -- or a destination for your traffic to go to -- you can create a Campaign to run that Offer.

Go to the Campaigns>Campaign Management page.
Click "Create Campaign"
Configure your Campaign Settings

This is where the magic happens! Track Revenue has an incredibly comprehensive set of menus for you to customize your Campaign however you wish. Here is a list of our most essential menu settings. For a complete breakdown of all of our menu items, check our Campaign Management Tutorial Page.

Item	Definition
Direct Link	"Direct Link" directs traffic straight to offer
Landing Page	"Landing Page" directs traffic to the Landing Page before the Offer
Smart Link	"Smart Link" directs traffic through a Smart Link of our choice set up on the Smart Links Tab. For details, see our Setting Up Smart Links tutorial.
Name	Name your campaign! You may use anything you like, although many customers usually include country code, offer, traffic source, traffic pricing model, device target, etc.
Campaign URL	This is an auto-generated campaign link. This is the link that you will send to your traffic source.
Cost Tracking	Enter your static traffic cost. CPC = Cost per click CPA = Cost per Action Revshare = Cost as % of Revenue CPM = Do not track If you want to track dynamic traffic cost, contact your Account Manager to activate this feature. Make sure that your traffic source can pass the cost amount per click as a c-token.
Domain	Select one of the Tracking Domains that you set up on your Tracking Domain page to use for your campaign. For details, see Setting Up Tracking Domains.
Campaign Group	Select one of the Campaign Groups that you set up on your Campaign Group page to use for your campaign. For details, see Setting Up Campaign Groups
Traffic Source	Select one of the Traffic Sources that you set up on your Traffic Source page to use for your campaign. For details, see Setting Up Traffic Sources.
Manager	Select the Manager User Account who you wish to manage this campaign. Managers will see all the details necessary to track this campaign.
Landing Page Expiration	Landing Page. After expiration, revisits will arrive directly to the offer (skipping the landing page).
Time Zone	By default, the campaign time zone is set to be the same as the user account's time zone. A different time zone can be selected here if desired
Campaign Group	Select one of the Campaign Groups that you set up on your Campaign Group page to use for your campaign. For details, see Setting Up Campaign Groups
Traffic Source	Select one of the Traffic Sources that you set up on your Traffic Source page to use for your campaign. For details, see Setting Up Traffic Sources.

Under the Campaign Configuration settings, set Type to Direct Link

Note:

As you become a pro at using Track Revenue, you will find that we provide 
TONS of customization for sending your Campaign traffic to your desired
Offer.  For the sake of keeping this guide simple, we'll use 
the direct link setting only.

3. Run your Campaign link to your Offer

Select the Offers tab next to the Configuration tab
Select the "Add Offer" button
Search and select the Offer you created in step 1 that you wish this Campaign to run traffic for

4. Use your Campaign Link to Bring in Traffic

Not too shabby for a first Campaign! And remember, Track Revenue allows you a LOT more customization for directing your Campaigns to your Offers.

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