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Becoming a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing Functional Consultant

By : Malin Martnes
Book Image

Becoming a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing Functional Consultant

By: Malin Martnes

Overview of this book

Marketing is one of the most powerful entities in the modern world with the potential to make or break a business. The mighty Microsoft Dynamics 356 Marketing tool offers a wide range of marketing automation tools, understanding which is an essential skill for a successful marketer. This in-depth guide to the ins and outs of Dynamics 365 Marketing will help you grasp all the information you need to implement and use the system the right way. Starting with the setup and configuration of your Dynamics 365 Marketing instance, you'll explore fundamental concepts, such as leads, accounts, and contacts, and the creation and administration of segments and lists. Once you've grasped these basic concepts, you'll advance to the core of the book. From the email editor to outbound and real-time customer journeys and from the event module to Customer Voice, you'll develop a solid understanding of the fundamental topics crucial for anyone who wants to be a Dynamics 365 Marketing functional consultant. By the end of the book, you'll be ready for Dynamics 365 Marketing end-to-end implementations.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1 –The Foundation of Dynamics 365 Marketing
5
Part 2 –Core Features of Dynamics 365 Marketing
11
Part 3 –The Microsoft Ecosystem Adding Value

Analytics

It’s always important to analyze what you do. How can you know whether you created a good email if you don’t look at the analytics? You need to see whether your recipients read the email and click on the links you send them. How many bounces you have will tell you a bit about the quality of your data. If you have a lot of bounces, your email might get flagged as spam by more email servers. If you send too many emails, your customers might not be happy with you.

There is a difference between what you’ll see in Outbound marketing and Real-time marketing when it comes to analytics. Let’s start with how this looks in the Outbound marketing area.

Outbound analytics

In the out-of-the-box dashboard, as you can see in Figure 5.46, you can see an overview of your emails. You can see statistics and analytics of the emails in your system:

Figure 5.46 – Out-of-the-box email dashboard

For each email, you can see different...