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10 Simple features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 that will help your CX Strategy- Part 2
The first point of contact someone has with a business is usually a visit to the website followed by an interaction with an employee of the company. Both of these touch-points give you the opportunity to provide a first-class customer experience. In the first part of our two-part article looking at 10 simple features of…
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10 Simple features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 that will help your CX Strategy – Part 1
We hear you … “We’ve done digital transformation”…. “We’ve updated our privacy statements for GDPR”…. “We’ve disrupted until we end up being the norm again”…. The next big thing Refreshingly, the next big thing in business seems to be paradoxically looking back to old school values and is based around something that never gets old.…
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Differentiation: How to make your business stand out in a crowded market place
A crowded marketplace We happen to be a company that works within the world of CRM. The CRM marketplace like many other IT based industry sectors is very dynamic and fast moving. A company wanting to make an impact in this already very crowded sector has to work hard to get noticed. Every industry has…
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Adding a digital signature box on Dynamics 365 forms
We often hear the term “paperless” office and if you are an organisation that historically deals with a lot of physical documents you might be considering moving some of those forms to the cloud as part of a digital transformation project. Using Dynamics 365 to create customised input forms with digital signatures can help you…
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Team Licenses explained
Flexible licensing is one of the strong features that makes Dynamics 365 such a compelling CRM choice. A Plan license allows access to everything under the sun! An App license gives access to a particular function set such as Sales, Service, Marketing, Projects and Field Service. There is a third level of licensing, which we…
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Dynamics 365 for marketing: creating a segment
Once you have your Dynamics 365 for Marketing trial set up then the next thing you will want to do is to start creating some segments of contacts to work with. In this blog we will take a look at how to create a segment in Dynamics 365 for Marketing as well as some of…
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What are leads in Dynamics 365?
Actually this is a very common question for people that are new to using Dynamics 365. When customers are first introduced to Dynamics 365 they often need guidance on the difference between leads and opportunities and how they both fit into the overall sales process. Furthermore what’s the difference between a lead and a contact…
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Dynamics 365 for Marketing…here at last !
Microsoft have finally released Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing. This release is a public preview and not yet a full release. The release comes with a full set of documentation so that the self-starters among the community can dive straight in and start to learn the product. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/help-hub Prerequisites If you want to get started…
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Risk Management in CRM Projects: What you don’t know can kill your project
The first thing to say is that all projects have risks. There might be a risk of not completing the project on time, a risk of never realising the expected benefits because the scope and requirements keep changing or simply because they weren’t defined clearly enough in the first place. Risks can take multiple forms…
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There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that’s not training them and keeping them
This great quote from business “guru” Zig Ziglar and really nails the importance of taking employee training seriously Effective employee training is key to a successful Dynamics 365 implementation. Time and time again we come across failed implementations that are technically and logically sound but ultimately were seen as failed projects. This is because insufficient…
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