Fundamentals of D365 Marketing Flashcards
What is marketing in it’s simplest form?
It is the process of identifying the needs and wants of potential buyers, and providing goods and sercices to meer or exceed the expectations of those potential buyers
What are the 3 key elements of the concept of Marketing?
1) Needs
2) Wants
3) Demands
In Marketing, how is the Need element defined?
A need is something that people must have in order to live healthy, stable, and safe lives
For example, physical needs like food, water, or shelter, and psychological needs like self-esteem
How is the Want element of marketing defined?
A want is something that isn’t necessary, rather something that is desired, wished for, or aspired to.
Wants aren’t essential to basic survival and are often shaped by culture
In Marketing, how is the Demand element defined?
Needs and wants can become demands when they are backed by the ability to be paid for by many people. Knowing when there is demand is essential. Being able to spot the difference between want and needs vs demand.
For example, a family that wants a bigger house isn’t necessarily a demand. But if a school district is being built, then there will be demand in the surrounding area for houses.
What is the elevator pitch for D365 Marketing?
D365 is a marketing automation software that helps you and your company identify the right leads and nurture them into customers.
D365 Marketing lets you run multi-channel marketing campaigns so that you can target, attract, and engage with customers where you need to.
What channels can you target customers with in D365 Marketing?
1) Email
2) Web
3) Events
4) Texts
5) Custom Channels
What are the steps in the Customer Journey, for lets say, a home buyer?
1) Identify potential buyers
2) Engage with potential buyers
3) Send to sales
4) Deliver home
What can organizations use D365 Marketing for?
1) Create graphical email messages and online content to support marketing initiatives
2) Design interactive customer journeys to nurture leads with personalized experiences
3) Tap into LinkedIn’s business prospects
4) Share information across teams
5) Know your leads better
6) Organize and publicize events
7) Analyze and document your marketing return on investment (MROI)
8) Prioritize leads for more wins
9) Make survey results more actionable
10) Configure and expand the application
How is D365 used in creating email messages and online content to support marketing intiatives?
You can create customizable templates for email and landing pages
Creating content is easy by using drag-and-drop tools
You can personalize messages and set up lead scoring to help support marketing initiatives
What are some things you can do when using the journey designer to create interactive customer journeys?
Use the journey designer to create automated multi-channel campaigns
Use the journey designer to generate follow-up activities, launch workflows, and more
Contacts in your target groups travel down a customized path based on their interactions and indentifies your best prospects
How is LinkedIn used with D365 Marketing?
You can import leads you generated in LinkedIn right into D365 Marketing enabling you to quickly target and connect with the right LinkedIn audiences
How does D365 Marketing enable you to know your leads better?
Connected processes and a single source of information ensure that sales and marketing have the latest data including key contacts, recent activities, past purchases, and open opportunities
How does D365 Marketing give you the ability to organize and publicize events?
1) D365 Marketing keeps all of the information about your event venues, logistics, ticketing, sessions, speakers, and sponsors all in one place
2) Host webinar events easily by using the Microsoft Teams integration
3) Generate event websites where attendees can view event information and register online
4) Events can be integrated into your marketing emails and customer journeys
How can you analyze and document your marketing ROI(mROI) in D365 marketing?
You can utilize dashboard and reports to track performances of your marketing initiatives to help identify your best lead sources and marketing activities
How do you prioritize leads for more wins in D365 Marketing?
You can set up automated lead scoring rules to identify your hottest leads based on their interaction with your events and customer journeys
When a lead meets a “sales-ready” score, they can be automatically routed to a salesperson to follow-up while the lead is hot
What are the bundle of apps and solutions that D365 Marketing comes with to support marketing departments and coordinate with sales?
1) Core marketing features
2) Event management features
3) D365 Customer Voice
4) D365 Connector for LinkedIn
5) D365 Portals
All of these capabilities and features are fully integrated to provide a complete marketing solution
What are examples of some of the core marketing features that comes with D365 Marketing?
Core marketing provides email marketing, customer journeys, behavior tracking, lead scoring, marketing pages, and more
The features above form the core features of D365 Marketing
How does Event Management help marketing teams?
Event Management feature gives marketers the ability to organize and promote in-person or webinar events, which include an online portal that attendees can use to review the event schedule, speakers, and to register for the event
What does D365 Customer Voice give marketers the ability to do?
Create online surveys and analyze the result
How does D365 Connector for LinkedIn help marketers?
They can import leads generated with LinkedIn’s tools directly into D365
D365 Portals can help marketers in what ways..?
The marketing app can use D365 portals to publish its event website, marketing pages, and online surveys
How is Marketing Automation defined?
Software that automates marketing tasks which are typically centered around nurturing leads through targeted content that addresses prospects needs when they want it
How is Marketing Operations defined?
Everything that happens in your marketing automation and customer engagement platform that enables delivery of the right message at the right time to people interested in your products and services
What is a Marketing Campaign?
Promotes products through different ty[es of media such as TV, radio, print, and online platforms
How is Digital Marketing defined?
Any form of digital communication that is used to persuade people to purchase a product or service
How is Events Marketing defined?
A strategy used to promote brands, products, or services through in-person or real-time engagement. Events can be online or off-line.
Companies can be hosts, participants, or sponsors
Define Key Performance Indicator(KPI)
KPI tracks progress towards marketing goals
They enable you to continuously evaluate performance, adjust and optimize your marketing strategy
Define Product Marketing
Product Marketing is the process of bringing a specific product to market and ensuring the product is successful
How is Brand Position defined?
How you differentiate yourself from your competitors and how consumers identify and connect with your brand
How is Brand Awareness defined?
The overall extent to which people can recall and recognize your brand
How is Lead Nurting defined?
Educating and building prospects trust to help guide them through the buyer’s journey.
The intent of nurturing is to provide prospects a unique experience that keeps them coming back for more, and eventually converts them into customers
How is Customer Journey defined?
A way of tracking and guiding a customer’s experience with your company from a visitor’s first interaction all the way to when they sign a deal
What is a Landing Page?
A webpage optimized for lead generation.
Successful landing pages have well-defined content and clear conversion paths
How is Customer Segmentation defined?
The process of dividing customers into groups based on common characteristics so you can market to each group effectively and appropriately
What is Lead Scoring?
A methodology used to rank prospects against a scale that represents the perceived value that each lead represents to the organization
What are the key components in D365 that you’ll work with to build and drive your marketing efforts?
1) Customers
2) Marketing Execution
3) Lead Management
4) Internet Marketing
5) Marketing Content
What is the Customers component in D365 Marketing about?
Customers represent the individuals you will be targeting as part of your marketing efforts, and there’s multiple options to manage your customers in D365 through using contacts, segments, and subscription lists
Contacts, what are contacts?
Contacts represent the individuals that D365 Marketing content and activities are targeted towards
Segments, what are segments?
Segments group related contacts together so that you can target them with customer journeys
Subscription Lists, what are subscription lists?
Subscription Lists store details related to contacts who have elected / opted out of marketing emails
What is the Marketing Execution component about in D365?
It is the section in D365 Marketing where you’ll create marketing emails, develop customer journeys, and deliver social posts
What is the Marketing Emails feature in Marketing Execution about?
Marketing Emails represents the content sent to contacts. Content and items like images, videos, and other components can be stored within D365 so they can be easily used and re-used in content
What is the Social Posts feature in Marketing Execution about?
It allows you to author and schedule social media content that can be posted to popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
What is the Customer Journeys feature in Marketing Execution about?
It is the GUI that helps you visualize, wireframe, create, and automate the journey customers take on their way to making a purchase.
What is the Lead Management component in D365 about?
It is where you manage your leads using either the Leads or Scoring Models feature
What is the Leads feature within the Leads Management component about?
The Leads feature represents an expression of interest by a contact based on their interactions with your marketing efforts. Once a lead has expressed a specified amount of interest, they are considered sales ready, and are ready to be handled by D365 Sales
What is the Scoring Models feature in the Lead Management component about?
They are used to calculate a lead’s score or level of interested based on scorable interactions such as opening an email, submitting a landing page, visitor your website, or attending an event.
They also help to define when a lead is ready to be considered sales ready
What is the Internet Marketing component about in D365 Marketing?
It enables you to market to your customers over the internet through a few different features including:
1) Marketing Pages
2) Marketing Forms
3) Marketing Websites
4) Redirect URLs
What is the Marketing Pages feature of the Internet Marketing component about?
You can create a webpage that includes a form where people can register for an offer, update their contact information, manage mailing list subscriptions, and more
What is the Marketing Forms feature of the Internet Marketing component about?
You can create a form that defines a set of input fields that are used to collect infortmation
For example, you might add a lead capture form to a webpage where someone can request more information
What is the Marketing Website feature of the Internet Marketing component about?
It enables you to create websites where you can track interactions with the marketing pages. When marketing pages are created, a marketing website is also defined.
What is the Redirect URLs feature of the Internet Marketing component about?
They are links that redirect through your D365 Marketing server on their way to some other piece of content that the person who clicked the link is actually looking for
What is the Marketing Content component in D365 Marketing about?
Used to create a content library realted to marketing assets that are used in your marketing efforts. These assets can be items such as images or video that are used in marketing emails or marketing pages
The Marketing Content section is made up of:
1) Files
2) Keywords
3) Content Blocks
4) Videos
Marketing content such as images, content blocks, and videos are easily inserted into items like marketing emails
What is the Files feature in Marketing Content about?
Files represent images that can be included in marketing content sent to customers
Uploading images/videos to D365 Marekting ensures they can be accessed and displayed correctly when included in emails or marketing pages
Describe the Keywords feature within the Marketing Content component of D365 Marketing
Keywords make it easier to find your images when you want to use them in your marketing content
Keywords can be applied to images when you upload them
Describe the Content Blocks feature within the Marketing Content component of D365 Marketing
They are blocks of common content that can be reused in multiple emails, forms, and pages
Describe the Videos feature within the Marketing Content component of D365 Marketing
It represents vidoes that can be included in marketing content sent to customers
Uploading images/videos to D365 Marekting ensures they can be accessed and displayed correctly when included in emails or marketing pages
Which of the following best describes a Customer Journey?
1) The process of dividing customers into groups that are based on common characteristics.
2) A customer’s experience with your company.
3) The process of presenting a formal offer for products or services to a customer.
2) A customer’s experience with your company.
Which two Dynamics 365 applications would you integrate to get a full marketing and sales automation solution?
1) Dynamics 365 Marketing and Dynamics 365 Commerce.
2) Dynamics 365 Marketing and Dynamics 365 Sales.
3) Dynamics 365 Marketing and Dynamics 365 Finance.
2) Dynamics 365 Marketing and Dynamics 365 Sales.