Create Realtime Marketing Dashboards in D365

Want to know how to create Realtime Marketing Dashboards in D365? Before we begin, this isn’t new functionality… but it’s taking advantage of age old CRM views, charts and dashboards and creating some overviews that may be helpful for marketers and managers to get an understanding of some of the records being used in D365 … Continue reading Create Realtime Marketing Dashboards in D365

Finding Your Realtime Event Registration Forms In Customer Insights Journeys

If you’ve started using the new Realtime Marketing Forms for Events, you will have discovered it’s a little bit different to creating them in Outbound. For a start, you can’t create them from the forms area (yet, here is hoping that gets added!), and have to actually create an Event to then create a new … Continue reading Finding Your Realtime Event Registration Forms In Customer Insights Journeys

Sending Emails From Contact And Lead Owners In Realtime Marketing

This isn’t a new thing but I am surprised by how often people aren’t sure how to do this, so this post is about how you can send your marketing emails in Customer Insights Journeys (D365 Marketing) from the owner of a Contact or Lead. You could also apply this to other customer fields such … Continue reading Sending Emails From Contact And Lead Owners In Realtime Marketing

Using Browser Session Storage To Add Referrer and UTM Parameters To Leads

I’ve written about getting UTM Parameters from the URL when someone visits your website, then using them to add to hidden fields on a form and passing them through to a Lead record in D365. This is a great way to figure out where your Leads are coming from. However, thanks to Ferdinand Ganter, a … Continue reading Using Browser Session Storage To Add Referrer and UTM Parameters To Leads

Redirect D365 Marketing Forms After Displaying Thank You Notification

I wrote about how to make changes to the default image that shows if you are using the thank you notification instead of the redirect option for your Realtime Marketing forms. I then had a question from someone wondering if you could use both, and redirect D365 Marketing Forms after the thank you message and … Continue reading Redirect D365 Marketing Forms After Displaying Thank You Notification

Sales Access To Marketing Insights And Timeline Interactions

Often as consultants or administrators, we forget that we have higher levels of access than other users. The same can be said for users who have been given one of the out of the box security roles for Marketing. We just assume others can see the same things we can. There are two areas specifically … Continue reading Sales Access To Marketing Insights And Timeline Interactions

Responsive Social Media Content Blocks On Desktop And Mobile Devices

One of the smart approaches to take with your emails in Customer Insights Journeys (D365 Marketing) is to build Content Blocks that can be used when creating email templates or one off emails as needed. Building them is easy and makes sense for repeated things such as headers, footers, unsubscribe copy and social media profiles. … Continue reading Responsive Social Media Content Blocks On Desktop And Mobile Devices

Track D365 Marketing Form Submissions In GA4

Back in 2021, prior to Google Analytics going from Universal to GA4, I wrote a post about tracking D365 Marketing form submissions in Google Analytics. This was to help track all conversions even if you were not using a redirect to a thank you page (the easiest way to track your conversions). GA4 is not … Continue reading Track D365 Marketing Form Submissions In GA4

Change Default Form Submitted Image For Real-time Marketing Forms

When creating Real-time Marketing Forms in D365 Marketing/Customer Insights – Journeys, there are two options in terms of what happens when a form is submitted. You can either redirect the person to another page, OR you can opt to display a message (which is the default submission option). Although you can set what the message … Continue reading Change Default Form Submitted Image For Real-time Marketing Forms

What Is The Correct Layout For Your Marketing Forms?

Did you know there is a right way to add the fields to your marketing forms in Real-time Marketing? It might not be immediately obvious but the order in which you add the fields and the overall layout you pick can make a different to your customers or prospects filling out the form, and even … Continue reading What Is The Correct Layout For Your Marketing Forms?