Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Mass Email from CRM On Demand at no Cost

This particular article is useful for people who are sending mass emails as newsletters or equivalent, and have been using their outlook to send them. You might have all the Contacts in your CRM, present in your outlook also, but the challenge would be creating a segmented email list. You dont want to send a newsletter on Golf accessories to a contact who would be primarily be interested in fishing accessories :). You will be using your outlook itself to send the emails but what you are doing is leveraging tools that CRM On Demand provides you along with leveraging the CRM data.

You would using Mail Merge document, which is available to download for no cost at all. Below are the steps that will help you attain your mass emails.

Step 1:Design your email template in the Mail Merge Document. The ones highlighted in grey are the wildcards that would be replaced by the actual data from your CRM, depending on the specific Contact record's details.


Step 2: Choose your segmentation criteria




Step 3: Have a quick preview and choose Send Email option in step5 of the mail merge



Click "OK" and thats it, your emails will be sent :)

Note: You will have to use your own discretion on the number of emails that you would send out at one shot as you will be using your outlook to send emails :) you dont wanna jam that up... :)

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3 comments:

  1. What application are you using for the "Get on demand data" Add-in?!?! Is that the offline tool?

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  2. This is the "Oracle Mail Merge for Word Template". You can download the template from the Oracle CRMOD training and support portal.

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  3. its nice that i stumbled upon your website...keep sharing..

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