Discover the practical advantages of AI-powered enhancements for Dynamics 365 Marketing and Customer Insights.
In this blog, we’ll cover how Microsoft Copilot capabilities help marketers save valuable time and create effective campaigns. These features include quickly segmenting audiences, creating customer journeys using natural language queries, and receiving contextual email content ideas. Let’s dive in and explore these exciting new tools!
Copilot Content Assistant
The Content Assistant for Dynamics 365 Marketing and Customer Insights is designed to help marketers create engaging messages by providing contextual content ideas.
This Copilot feature can help kickstart the email creation process by providing inspiration for content that will increase engagement. Much like brainstorming with a teammate, it generates custom suggestions you can review.
Using existing email content, Copilot will automatically generate a list of initial ideas which can be edited.
Copilot Content Assistant helps marketers craft compelling content with benefits that include:
- Faster email creation process.
- Choose from a variety of generated options.
- Data protection – Copilot does not allow personal data to be generated.
How to use Content Ideas:
Make sure the feature is turned on. You can do this in the Marketing Settings (go to Settings -> Feature switches -> Copilot).
Then, open a new email and follow these steps.
- Select the Content Ideas button in the email editor to open the Content Ideas pane.
- If your email contains at least ten words, Copilot will automatically provide a list of up to five key points to generate new ideas. These are editable, and additional custom points can also be added.
- Before clicking the ‘Get Ideas’ button, an appropriate tone of voice can be selected. Available options include casual, formal and engaged tones.
- Browse the generated ideas in the Content Ideas pane. Select ‘Add to my draft’ to copy the content into your email and make edits.
How can I make the most of email Content Ideas?
- Refine the set of key points to describe what your message should be about. Use up to five descriptive points to describe what your content should be about.
- content from your other marketing emails can also be used to increase the relevance of content ideas. Enabling Copilot to reference your library of active emails will improve the personalised context of its recommendations when suggesting new content ideas.
How does Copilot Content Ideas work?
Content Ideas is built on a machine learning model called GPT-3.5. Trained on many text samples from the internet, GPT-3.5 generates text in English that looks and sounds similar to text written by a human.
Content Ideas uses GPT as its foundation, then (if enabled) considers your organisation’s recent ready-to-send emails and the key messaging points you share for each new email draft. Content Ideas mask any personal data in generated ideas and show only the results that are long enough and unique enough to be helpful.
You can also control your themes using this feature centrally using the Brand Profiles feature, this allows you to load a theme that matches your website across other emails, forms and event registration pages. You can set this up under Settings > Brand Profiles and adding the website.
When creating new content such as an email, you simply need to load the profile you have created on the top right of your view.
Copilot Segment Builder Assistant
Using the Query Assist option allows marketing teams to create audience segments using natural language words and phrases to describe the people to be included.
From conversational language and other expressions, Copilot will translate these terms into conditional rules that define an audience using information collected from your records.
What can I search for using Query Assist?
Below are some audience segment examples you can quickly build using Query Assist.
- People who live in Berkshire
- Contacts that don’t live in London
- Contacts that share birthdates
- Anyone who has a birthday this month
- Men turning 40 before Black Friday
- Contacts that interact with your campaigns
- People who haven’t signed in for three months
- Contacts subscribed to one of our email lists
- Contacts that have upcoming life events
- Contacts with an anniversary in the next 30 days
- Contacts turning 21 in the next week
How do I use Query Assist?
When creating a new segment, the first view will guide you using the query assist.
Type in your criteria for who you want your segment to include and click Create.
This will generate the audience using your query, which you can refine on the right-hand panel.
Query Assist is constantly improving as it learns how to handle queries using AI. We recommend experimenting with this Copilot to simplify the process when creating segments and using the builder to fine-tune the auto-generated definitions.
Copilot Journey Builder
Like the Segment Builder, the Copilot for Journeys enables new marketing journeys to be quickly created from common words and phrases.
Once you type and submit a statement, the builder will translate it to a query using information collected from your segments and triggers, creating placeholders for your content.
You can benefit from the Copilot Journey builder by:
- Spending less time building complex journey flows.
- Quickly creating sophisticated journeys without deep knowledge to navigate complex data structures.
- Simplifying onboarding for new marketers.
How to Copilot for Journeys
Go to Settings > Overview > Feature switches > Journey to get started. Enable the Journey Copilot feature switch toggle and Save.
When creating a new journey, you will see a view that allows you to use the query builder.
You can get started with one of the suggested options to test this feature or begin by writing your query.
Once Copilot has generated the Journey from your prompt, you can use the canvas builder to make revisions and finalise.
How to benefit from the Copilot Journey Builder
For successful outcomes, write prompts that specify your target audience and the trigger to kick off the journey. Then, specify what actions you want the journey to follow.
We’ve shared some examples below:
- Send a personalised message to contacts by email, push notifications or SMS one hour after they post a form.
- When a contact registers for a marketing event, send them reminder emails until they check-in.
- Send a promotional email that targets loyalty members and follow up based on whether an email link is clicked.
Copilot Theme Assistant
This feature is designed to align your email style with your website to ensure branding consistency without the need to edit HTML code directly.
Using the Copilot theme assistant can save time by shortcutting the effort needed when creating emails and templates. For instance, this feature helps marketers to focus on tailoring content to audiences instead of choosing colours.
Add the website URL to the Theme Assistant section to run the “Fetch styles” process.
Once the Theme Assistant retrieves the style from your website, it seamlessly applies to your email theme. The updated display can be previewed in the email editor.
If you are satisfied with the outcome, save your email theme. For additional customisation, use the theme pane to edit the style of your email elements.
Next Steps
These examples highlight just some of the ways that Microsoft Copilot enables businesses to use generative AI to boost productivity and enhance experiences effectively.
Ready to see how you can boost your customer engagement levels and marketing results with these GenAI capabilities for Dynamics?
If you want to learn more about these new capabilities for Dynamics 365 Marketing and Customer Insights, don’t hesitate to get in touch with ServerSys today.
