Marketing with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0

Understand how to plan successful campaigns using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. Creating campaigns, campaign tasks and activities, and marketing lists can be very important to an organization, and these articles are designed to help your organization succeed.

Organize your communication into campaigns

Campaigns from start to finish

Have you ever wondered how to put everything together into a single campaign in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0? Learn how to use Microsoft Dynamics CRM to manage your campaigns from inception through completion.

Diagram: What’s the difference between campaigns and quick campaigns?

With similar names, it’s sometimes difficult to understand the difference between campaigns and quick campaigns. This article highlights the key differences between these two ways of communicating with potential customers.

4 ways to put campaign responses to work for you

A customer responded to your marketing campaign. Now what? Using campaign responses in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, you can record this interest to track for reporting and follow-up.

Diagram: Follow a campaign response through the marketing process

What can you do with a campaign response? This article describes how you can convert campaign responses to various record types and use them to grow your business.

Connect with campaign respondents in 4 steps

Responses have started flooding in to your e-mail quick campaign. Now what? How about a more focused e-mail blast to only the people who responded?

Take advantage of e-mail communication methods in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Bulk e-mail, quick campaigns, and full campaigns -- there are several distinct ways to connect with your customers using e-mail in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. What’s the difference between these approaches, and what scenarios might you use them in?

Help meet your sales quota with an e-mail quick campaign

Need help meeting your sales quota at the end of the month? With a new update from Microsoft, you can use e-mail quick campaigns to automatically send messages to your customers from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0.


Increase your marketing efficiency

Video: Get the word out with e-mail campaigns

View this video that demonstrates how to use Word mail merge to e-mail your Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers with your business’s latest offers.

Create mailing labels from a marketing list

Learn how to export a marketing list to Microsoft Excel with the correct columns and then create mailing labels in Microsoft Word.

Fine-tune your marketing lists with Advanced Find

Are your marketing lists incomplete or out of date? Qualify your marketing lists by applying filter criteria to them using Advanced Find.

Leverage marketing lists across your team

In Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, you can use marketing lists to accomplish a wide variety of goals. Use Advanced Find to create a targeted marketing list, and then use it to perform a mail merge and print a call-down sheet.

Save time with a library of campaign templates

You can create templates for letters, e-mail messages, and contracts in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. But did you know you can also create templates for and from your marketing campaigns?

Send birthday greetings to your customers

Create a list of birthdays of your contacts and wish them happy birthday in e-mail messages.

Quick time-savers

Set your e-mail messages apart with a signature
Prevent lead build-up by bulk processing leads
Manage your time and activities with help from reminders
Sort records by multiple columns
Save clicks with a personalized Workplace
Top 10 keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Related links

Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Microsoft Dynamics CRM community
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Product documentation downloads

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Help

View a standalone version of Help, or install the latest updates with corrections and new content based on customer feedback.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Implementation Guide

View the information needed to successfully implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM in your business.