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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

Real-Time Marketing Journeys

In the previous chapter, we went through what customer journeys are – how you interact with your audience. Outbound customer journeys was the first way of doing this. Real-time marketing journeys are the new preferred way of doing this. Microsoft is focusing on developing real-time marketing journeys, so this is where all the new and helpful tools will be.

In this chapter, we are going to go through real-time marketing triggers and journeys, how you can create them, and what you can do with them.

We’re going to cover the following topics:

  • Real-time marketing triggers
  • Creating and understanding real-time marketing journeys
  • Analytics

We’re going to start by looking at how you create and understand real-time marketing journeys. We’re going to see how you can use them and how you can utilize the real-time marketing triggers to create marketing journeys for your customers in real time. By the end of the...