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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

Scottish Summit (https://scottishsummit.com/) is one of the biggest community events in the Microsoft world. Scottish Summit uses Dynamics 365 Marketing to keep track of its events and communication with contacts. The analytics we can see in Figure 6.32 are an email blast that was sent to previous attendees of Scottish Summit:

Figure 6.32 – Customer journey to previous attendees

If I click on the Audience tile in a customer journey that has run, I will see some data end statistics about the audience.

If I click on the Send an email tile, I will get a different set of statistics, as shown in Figure 6.33:

Figure 6.33 – Statistics from an email tile

All the different tiles you are using will show you different statistics based on how your contact has interacted with that specific tile.

When you’ve selected an email tile and see the delivery KPIs, you can click on View details, as shown in Figure 6.34...