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Instructions on Sending a PowerMailChimp Email Blast in Dynamics CRM

Post Author: Joe D365 |

There is a lot of great, highly detailed documentation available for all of the PowerPack add-ons, like PowerMailChimp. Once you've read it, you'll be ready to send a PowerMailChimp email blast. With these step by step instructions, you'll be creating a static marketing list for an existing campaign, populating the marketing list using Advanced Find, syncing the Marketing List to MailChimp, and finally, creating and sending a PowerMailChimp email blast to the marketing list.

Creating a Marketing List

  1. Hover pointer on Microsoft Dynamics CRM in Navigation Bar, and click on Marketing.
  2. Hover pointer on Marketing in Navigation Bar, and click on Marketing Lists.
  3. Select Active Marketing Lists in Views menu (next to thumbtack)
  4. To create a new Marketing List, select New (next to plus sign)

5. Fill out the name of the Marketing List
6. Leave list type as Static
7. In Targeted At field, select the Entity
8. Select Save

9 .Click the plus sign for Campaigns.
10. Select the magnifying glass below the Name line.
11. Click Look Up More Records.

12. Find the appropriate Campaign in the list and put a check mark next to it.
13. Click Select, then click Add.

14. In the Confirm Addition box, leave "To the campaign and all undistributed campaign activities" selected and click Add.

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15. Click the plus sign in the Members section.

16. In the Manage Members box, select Add using Advanced Find, and click Continue. 

 

17. In the Manage Members window, under Use Saved View , select the Necessary View.
18. Select Find.

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19. Select Add all the members returned by the search to the marketing list.
20. Click Add to Marketing List.

Now let's make the Marketing List into a MailChimp Marketing List:

21. On the Marketing List page, make sure you're on the Information form by clicking on the downward pointing arrow above the large bold name of the marketing list.
22. In the PowerMailChimp section of the page, click the Select MailChimp List button.


23. Select your master list (previously set up in MailChimp), and click OK.

24. Click the ellipses at the top of the Information page, and click Sync Now.

 

25. Click Close on the pop up window.

 

Create and Send a PowerMailChimp Blast

26. Hover pointer on Microsoft Dynamics CRM in Navigation Bar, and click PowerPack.
27. Hover pointer on PowerPack, scroll to PowerMailChimp Blast, and click.
28. Click New.

29. Fill out the blast name, From Name, Subject, and Reply to Email, then click Save.

30. Click the Plus sign to the right of Associated Marketing Lists.

31. Check the desired Marketing List, click Select, then click Add.

32. Click Select MailChimp Template in the Email Contents section.

33. Select the desired template and click OK.

34. Click Save. You should now see a MailChimp Blast ID.

35. Click the ellipses, and click Send Now.

And there you have it! The email blast has now been sent. Soon enough you won't be needing these tips and tricks and you'll be sending email blasts without instruction!  Remember that you can always watch our webinars to see the PowerPacks in action! Keep it classy out there and as always... Happy CRM'ing!

 

Joe CRM
By Joe D365
Joe D365 is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 superhero who runs on pure Dynamics adrenaline. As the face of PowerObjects, Joe D365’s mission is to reveal innovative ways to use Dynamics 365 and bring the application to more businesses and organizations around the world.

4 comments on “Instructions on Sending a PowerMailChimp Email Blast in Dynamics CRM”

  1. Hi Joe,

    One of our customers is using the Power Mail Chimp solution in combination with their dynamics CRM system.
    This customer successfully sent out a Power MailChimp blast: We can see the statistics of the blast in Mail Chimp.
    However, we can not manage to get their statistics in CRM.
    On the record of the e-mail blast no statistics are displayed: it should display the # of sents, opens, clicks, etc.
    I let the Power MailChimp blast in CRM Sync with Dynamics several times, but it doesn't put the stats into the blast record.

    Do you have any idea why the data between Power MailChimp and CRM are not synchronised?

  2. I do all as write in this post, but members of marketing list does not sync with marketing list in mailchimp, and email not sent

  3. I can't add Marketing Lists to the blast. It appears the following Message:

    " An Error has occurred. Please Return to the Homepage and try again".

    Can you tell me how to solve this problem?

  4. We were able to send PMC blasts up to October but have been unsuccessful since. We don't get any error messages, but the status just stays as not sent.

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