I want to send an email to every person in my contacts and be able to track
the responses. I see how I can set up a quick campaign and sent an email to
myself but I thought there would be some options for me, as a recipient, to
opt out of receiving these emails.

I also thought that there would be a more automated response format.

Furthermore, when I replied from the email I sent myself and came into work
and clicked track in CRM there still shows no response to the campaign.

What am I doing wrong? There is very little clear information regarding how
to actually do this from start to finish and it is not very intuitive in my
opinion.

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RE: Campaigns by TB38018

TB38018
Fri Sep 21 14:52:00 PDT 2007

I agree with this. Since the e-mail has a unique token, why wouldn't the CRM
E-mail Router recognize this as a response of some sort (it is incoming is it
not). Additionally, if the e-mail were bounced back, it would be helpful to
see this in the Responses area of the campaign, so you can rectify.

From my perspective, this should be part of the standard design of CRM. I
have yet to qualify my thoughts by checking the help files, but so far I have
not been able to affirm, other than go by what the system has actually done
(not track the response).


"M. McManus" wrote:

> I want to send an email to every person in my contacts and be able to track
> the responses. I see how I can set up a quick campaign and sent an email to
> myself but I thought there would be some options for me, as a recipient, to
> opt out of receiving these emails.
>
> I also thought that there would be a more automated response format.
>
> Furthermore, when I replied from the email I sent myself and came into work
> and clicked track in CRM there still shows no response to the campaign.
>
> What am I doing wrong? There is very little clear information regarding how
> to actually do this from start to finish and it is not very intuitive in my
> opinion.
>
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RE: Campaigns by TB38018

TB38018
Fri Sep 21 15:02:01 PDT 2007

I did some more digging in the help text for how the system tracks automated
responses to e-mails.

This is the note from the help text (CRM 3.0 in the Administrators Guide)
"Responses can be automatically generated for campaigns where an e-mail is
sent to your customers. For example, if a marketing e-mail activity (via mail
merge) is created by a sales or marketing person, and the Sender box is
linked to an existing account, contact, or lead; the Direction option for the
activity is set to Incoming; and the Regarding box is linked to a campaign
activity, then when the customer responds to the campaign, a campaign
response will be automatically created when the e-mail is received by
Microsoft CRM. This option is only available if e-mail tracking is enabled.
This is a setting your administrator can set up in the System Settings dialog
box."

This requires that you have the system set up to track e-mails, and that you
have the CRM e-mail router properly configured. I am just not sure why the
bounce-back was not logged as a response, because it included the token.
Other incoming e-mails (tokened - for example, e-mail regarding an
opportunity), appear to track back in to the history of the opportunity (have
not evaluated if CRM router would still bypass the bouce-back in this
regard.. will be testing.


"M. McManus" wrote:

> I want to send an email to every person in my contacts and be able to track
> the responses. I see how I can set up a quick campaign and sent an email to
> myself but I thought there would be some options for me, as a recipient, to
> opt out of receiving these emails.
>
> I also thought that there would be a more automated response format.
>
> Furthermore, when I replied from the email I sent myself and came into work
> and clicked track in CRM there still shows no response to the campaign.
>
> What am I doing wrong? There is very little clear information regarding how
> to actually do this from start to finish and it is not very intuitive in my
> opinion.
>
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> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
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