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There are currently 451 articles on my site. You can scroll through the latest posts below, or use the search functionality to find content based on specific key words. Articles cover a range of subjects including Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, Power Automate, Power Apps Portals, and D365 Marketing (Customer Insights - Journeys).
If you aren’t already aware, it’s good to understand the difference between how consent is handled in Outbound Marketing vs. Realtime Marketing specifically for Contacts. Outbound looks at three different fields on the Contact record. You have a an Email field, Bulk Email field and Allow Tracking field. All are set to either Allow or … Continue reading Checking Contact Attributes Or Contact Point Consent Records In Realtime Marketing
In previous posts we’ve looked at sending out Event Registration information dynamically rather than needing to create emails individually for different Events. Also, the difference between doing a button with ‘Add To Calendar’ and also pulling in the right QR code. I was asked by a blog reader, how can we text the QR code … Continue reading Sending Event Registration QR Code Via SMS
I’ve written about using the out of the box Marketing Event Registration Created trigger to create emails that can be used in one Journey and still make sure the information in those emails is unique and related to the Event that was registered for. This is a cool feature and great way to just set … Continue reading Send Unique Event Registration Response With QR Code Using No Code
Back in June 2022, I wrote a blog showing how you could create a custom trigger, and build a couple of flows in Power Automate to generate one journey for ALL of your Events if you wanted to. The challenge otherwise was there was no way to get a unique ics file for each person … Continue reading Send Unique Event Registration Response Emails For Each Event Using No Code
There can be challenges when capturing a mobile phone number from a Realtime Marketing form in Customer Insights – Journeys (D365 Marketing). Some of these issues you might not even be aware of. Jake Chen detailed the problems in a recent blog post walking through what happens when turning off the built in validation on … Continue reading Removing Issues With Mobile Phone Numbers On Realtime Forms
There is SO much information in the Power Platform it’s hard to keep up with everything. Sometimes Microsoft makes announcements that we miss, and just happen to find later. This is one of those things, and I figure if it passed me by, it’s likely the same for others. So sharing just in case you … Continue reading No More Dynamics 365 For Phones & Tablets From April 2024
Triggers in the Marketing App (Customer Insights – Journeys) are pretty awesome. They can be used to create what can be a very manually arduous task and turn it in to something automated that can just run on it’s own with you needing to step in and set stuff up. Even better, there are quite … Continue reading Auto Responder Emails For Gated Content Via Realtime Forms
In a previous post, I reviewed the ability to manage consent from Contact and Lead records in Customer Insights – Journeys (D365 Marketing). As of the time of writing this post, that is still a preview feature for removing email addresses from suppression. Another preview feature is the ability to remove email addresses from suppression, … Continue reading Removing Email Addresses From Suppression In D365 Marketing
The March 2024 release for Customer Insights – Journeys includes a much awaited for feature. The ability to manage consent from Lead and Contact records is finally here! It is this feature from the Wave 1 2024 release plan, and the documentation can be found here. However, with many things, there is more to learn … Continue reading Access To Manage Consent From Lead And Contact Records
I’m hoping this helps people who have scratched their head for ages wondering why their Leads or Contacts are not being created when someone submits a Realtime Marketing Form. This has actually occurred for two different clients in a given week, so time for a post about. All you see is that the form submission … Continue reading Resolving Error While Creating Target Entity Issue on Realtime Marketing Form Submissions
