Adding the new News source to search topics in Microsoft Social Listening

The Microsoft Social Listening team has just recently added new features to the service, including Location analysis - please see this blog post News publications as a source to collect postsIn addition to the existing sources (Twitter, Facebook, blogs and videos), you can now add news to your search topics and collect posts from news … Continue reading Adding the new News source to search topics in Microsoft Social Listening

New in Microsoft Social Listening – Location Analysis

Now you can analyze posts from specific countries, regions, or location groups in Microsoft Social Listening and filter your data to see where the posts are coming from. You can access location analysis by navigating to Microsoft Social Listening > Analytics > Location. On the Location page, only posts that contain location data (author location … Continue reading New in Microsoft Social Listening – Location Analysis

Mapping the Basic User to Security Role Settings – Suggestions

In Dynamics CRM we have three types of User Subscription Licenses (USLs); Professional, Basic, and Essential Professional users has full rights to 'everything' in CRM Essential users has rights to custom entities primarily Basic users sits sort of in-between, in terms of use rights Note - A fourth USL (Enterprise) is available. Its equivalent to … Continue reading Mapping the Basic User to Security Role Settings – Suggestions

Optimizing Network Connectivity Tips

My collegue Paul Collinge has performed numerous Office 365 Network assessments and reactive visits to resolve issues for customers and to him its apparent that the vast majority of issues are seen time and time again. Hence he has compiled his top 10 tips for you to optimize your O365 network performance and prevent issues from … Continue reading Optimizing Network Connectivity Tips

Free Updated CRM Online Trial Experience and eBooks

Trialing CRM Online has never been easier. Just click http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=252780 and your are only minutes away from a great trial experience If you do have an Office 365 tenant already please use the "Sign in" button at the top right corner to ensure your CRM Online trial is added to your existing tenant. That way … Continue reading Free Updated CRM Online Trial Experience and eBooks

How to purchase Dynamics Marketing and first time setup

Microsoft Dynamics Marketing is an online cloud service that can be purchased through the Microsoft Dynamics Online Portal as a paid instance.  To begin you must sign in to your Office 365 account and go to "Purchase Services" and select "Microsoft Dynamics Marketing". Log into the Office 365 portal (https://portal.office.com) as an admin Click “Purchase Services” in … Continue reading How to purchase Dynamics Marketing and first time setup

How to Build an Event Template in Dynamics Marketing

In Dynamics Marketing you can use Events to manage and plan marketing activities such as trade shows, conferences, exhibits, etc. that take place at a specific venue or location.  Events are the center of which many other functions revolve, and can be simple or complex depending upon what other functions you want to utilize to … Continue reading How to Build an Event Template in Dynamics Marketing

Campaign Automation in Dynamics Marketing

In Dynamics Marketing you can create automated rule-based marketing campaigns using intuitive flowcharting tools to automatically send email messages, queue outbound calls, assign tasks, create leads, send collateral, etc.  You can assign triggers to specific events such as registrations visits to web sites and web pages clicks on specific links And you can set actions to … Continue reading Campaign Automation in Dynamics Marketing

Designing Email Marketing Messages in Dynamics Marketing

With Microsoft Dynamics Marketing you can unleash your marketing potential. You can easily plan, execute, and measure campaigns from start to finish. Bring your marketing vision to life—engage customers across channels, build pipeline, and demonstrate the impact of your marketing. In a series of posts I'll take you around the corners of Dynamics Marketing, starting with … Continue reading Designing Email Marketing Messages in Dynamics Marketing