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You might have already noticed this, but there is a new ‘experience’ when accessing the Advanced Settings for a Dataverse/D365 environment. As someone who accesses quite a few environments, I had seen it in some but not others and was curious why. This quick post shows how you can (currently) switch between the two. Note … Continue reading Switching Between The Advanced Settings Experience
The form pre-fill functionality has been around for years, but for Outbound marketing. It was added to Realtime in the September 2024 update in preview. The really exciting thing about how the pre-fill works in Realtime that differs with Outbound, is that cookies are not relied on for it to work. Awesome! This means we … Continue reading Form Prefill In Customer Insights Journeys for Realtime Marketing
My good friend Jeroen Scheper wrote about the new column security profile experience that has been introduced with Wave 2 for Dynamics 365. When reviewing that, I noticed the new secured masking rules that could be added to your solution so I wanted to dig further in to how it all works. It took a … Continue reading Secured Masking Rules In Dataverse (Dynamics 365)
Lead scoring models for Customer Insights – Journeys (D365 Marketing Real-time) has been around for a while now, but when it was first released it had a few ‘issues’ or ‘quirks’ shall we say. It’s taken me a while to write about it while waiting for those teething problems to work themselves out. Now, I … Continue reading Create Lead Scoring Models in Real-time Marketing
Now this one is something I tend NOT to suggest but it is definitely a request that comes up A LOT. How can I create a segment of people I can just add by picking people myself, or based on an upload file. If there isn’t any filtering criteria, you can use the Include Members … Continue reading Create Segments From Marketing Lists In Realtime Marketing
If you are using Customer Insights – Journeys and did so before it became Realtime Marketing only (prior to September 2023), Outbound Marketing is still a thing for you. However, as you SHOULD know, Microsoft have announced that June 2025 is when it will truly go away for good. Hopefully you’ve already started making that … Continue reading What Happens When You Hide Outbound Marketing?
This post is about using a combination of D365 Marketing (Customer Insights – Journeys), Microsoft Clarity, Google Tag Manager and GA4 (Google Analytics) and tracking visitors to your website from the email sent out in your Journeys. Using these tools, we can review recordings and heatmaps for visitors that have come to our website specifically … Continue reading Track Site Visits From D365 Marketing Emails In Microsoft Clarity
The release notes for Dynamics 365 Wave 2 2024 have been published. My good friend Amey Holden and I got together to chat about each proposed change or new feature from the Customer Insights – Journeys section (formerly D365 Marketing). We talk through what each of us thinks of the new proposed features from Microsoft … Continue reading Wave 2 2024 Customer Insights Journey Chat With Amey Holden
Back at the start of 2022, when Realtime Journeys and Triggers were just getting started, I wrote a post all about D365 Real-time Marketing, RSS Feeds & Subscription Centres. It gave you a way to create a Journey that would send an email out when you posted a new blog on your website to all … Continue reading Sending A Journey Using RSS Feeds & Topics In Realtime Marketing
I love our community that blogs about and shares content on the Power Platform. It’s awesome having others there who are able to help or we can collaborate with. Amey Holden is one of those people for me. She and I have worked through challenges with marketing forms in Customer Insights – Journeys and also … Continue reading Display Custom Message When Marketing Form Blocked By Browser
