All of us are aware, and have most likely been a target of, mass marketing campaigns via email or direct mail. But how effective were they in getting you to buy the advertised product or service? My guess is not very effective. Probably, like me, you just bin it without a second thought. As I have m
Read the full article hereAll of us are aware, and have most likely been a target of, mass marketing campaigns via email or direct mail. But how effective were they in getting you to buy the advertised product or service? My guess is not very effective. Probably, like me, you just bin it without a second thought. As I have m
Read the full article hereIn this multi-part blog series I’ll show you how you can troubleshoot errors in Dynamics CRM. Part 1 will cover ISV extensions (custom aspx pages); Part 2 will cover plugins, part 3 and 4 let’s see how we go ☺ We specialise in creating xRM solutions and most of them are fairly large involving custom
Read the full article hereI have recently been speaking with a representative of a local transport company providing bus charter services to various businesses and individuals in different parts of the country. The transport company currently uses a system which lacks the ability to accurately calculate travelling distances
Read the full article hereIn CRM, by default, when you create a new record, the left hand navigation area is greyed out until the form has been saved. And the only way to save the form is to fill in every required field, and then click save. Which is fine, but I wanted to make it so that once all the required fields had been
Read the full article hereAs a lot of people know it is possible to make related entities appear on the current form through an iFrame and using some JavaScript to load the grid in the form. For those of you who don’t know how this is done; 1. Create an iFrame on the entity you what to display it on. 2. Give it an appropriat
Read the full article hereAt the bottom of the navigation bar in CRM is the different Areas that CRM provides. Here at Magnetism we have done quite a lot of customisation and, in turn, we have different areas than the standard ‘Out of the box’ product. Naturally, when new areas were made they needed new icons. Because you ca
Read the full article hereNew Zealand Red Cross is a major provider of first aid training that brings in millions of dollars of revenue for the organisation each year. The amount of revenue and training the Red Cross provides is commendable, but their dozen or so databases and paper based system was another story. When Graha
Read the full article hereIn many organisations there is a division between what happens in the marketing department and what happens in the sales department. This causes problems such as lack of visibility and efficiency. Each department is unable to support each other’s efforts and therefore overall marketing effectiveness
Read the full article hereThe Barcode is the one of the biggest inventions in business since the creation of the wheel and money. It allows businesses to process data on huge amounts of various products – instantly. You are able to obtain information such as the price and the location of the products when they’re on the move
Read the full article hereIf, like many New Zealanders, you own or manage a Small Business you might think that using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 to manage your sales workforce, marketing campaigns and customer service would be well out of your price range. However, Magnetism’s Small Business Package makes implementing Dynam
Read the full article hereIn this post I will describe how to change a field name, section name, or even tab name based on the selection of a radio button. As you can see below, what we will be achieving is selecting Customer or Supplier from the Contract Type radio button, which will change the Tab, Section and Field name a
Read the full article hereHave you ever had the need to dynamically change an image on a SQL report based on a field on the form? Just recently I had to try and make this functionality work. The code to do this is fairly basic although it wasn’t until I went to view the report where I ran into some trouble. With SQL you cann
Read the full article hereRecently Magnetism worked with Ezy Build to bridge the Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Accounting gap. Magnetism created an integration process between the two systems – Dynamics CRM and Xero - using a CRM2XERO connector. I would like to highlight the key points of the Ezy Build case study. There is a li
Read the full article hereOkay, I’m going to be perfectly honest - I get bored easily. From the array of majors I could have chosen from at University - Marketing appeared to be the least boring one. Not only that, as it happens, it is not boring at all. Marketing is ever-changing and always challenging. Just look at the evo
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