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Erick Weitkamp: Hello, everyone.
Today, I want to give you a quick overview of a few new
features that are included in the Dynamics 365 Marketing 2020
release wave 1.
Now, key investment areas for this release are personalized
marketing with improved segment design and templates, email
usability improvements and an email preview header;
also, an improved event management experience, including a
consistent forms experience, integration with third party
websites, and improvements to reoccurring events.
Our scenario here is that we're getting ready for a big
product launch, so we're going to do a pilot of our customer
journey.
We'll start by targeting our pilot campaign only to customers
from one city who we've already classified as engaged.
And then we'll build a dynamic email for our customers.
Well, let's see how this all works.
First, we have to define our customer segment.
We need to identify our customers who've engaged with our past
marketing campaigns.
So, we start by opening the Contoso Winter Collection's
journey.
And we review the data on the emails that were sent out in the
past.
We're specifically interested in the contacts that have opened
emails.
We can work with the data here in marketing or we can take all
of these interactions, save them to Excel, where we can do
additional analysis.
We then build our own launch pilot by creating a dynamic
segment from customers who are in the city of Seattle and who
have opened one of the Winter Collection emails.
Now, we're also adding a handpicked set of customers that we've
labeled premium resellers.
We have the option to edit these segments and will use that
option to dive into the premium reseller segment and add one
more person to the record.
Now, notice that marketing warns us that this is a live record
and it's in use by another campaign.
This warning is extremely valuable when you have multiple
people working in parallel.
And as we start to add our additional premium reseller,
marketing gives us a list of our available contacts to choose
from.
Now, this is a pilot customer journey, so we'll want to use
this model for events in other cities.
So to support this, we'll save this segment as a template.
And once the template is created, we can add guidance to the
text box, like enter city names, so the rest of the team can
easily use this template for other events in other cities.
Now, let's take a look at the emails that we're going to send
out.
It's important that all marketing emails have a consistent
branding and messaging.
So, we start by selecting a template.
And with the new labeling option, we can see that this one has
the layout enabled and this one is new.
So, we select our template.
And with the new drag and drop, I can quickly resize items.
I can navigate the hierarchy from button to column layout,
where I can use the new color picker to set the background and
I can enter text with a highlight so that it shows against the
image.
And I'll add a dynamic section to include the contact's name.
This email formatting is great, but people decide to open an
email while it's still in their inbox, so we've added preview
text that shows before they open it.
This text can also include dynamic content and it encourages
the customer to open the full email.
And the result looks like this in their inbox.
And when they open it, they see our fully formatted email with
the personalized dynamic content.
Now, let's talk about the event management improvements in
Dynamics 365 Marketing 2020 release wave 1.
Now, Contoso is about to do a product launch, so we'll have
multiple events, each with its own signup form.
And we want to setup a reoccurring series of training events
for our own people.
Let's see how this all works.
We'll start with a Contoso Black Tie Dinner Event that we want
our event resellers to attend.
And we have a registration form that we've developed that we
want to embed in a third party page.
Here, you see the details of the JavaScript that marketing has
generated to embed our form in that page.
The key here is that you don't need to reformat that page.
You're just getting the form embedded.
So, this is how our form looks in that third party webpage.
And if we go look at the source of this page, we can see the
JavaScript that links to our form.
Now, we also need to set up some internal training for the
team, so we'll set up a reoccurring weekly event.
We can also view these training meetings as a list of events.
And after reviewing and adjusting each of these events if
required, we select go live and each event will individually
and sequentially go live.
As you've seen, key investment areas for the 2020 release wave
1 update to Dynamics 365 Marketing include personalized
marketing with improved segment design and templates, email
usability improvements and an email preview header;
also, an improved event management experience, including
a consistent forms experience, integration with third party
websites, and improvements to reoccurring events.
For more information, use these specific links or go to the
release [MUSIC] overview guide.
