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Managing change doesn’t have to be a slow and methodical process. In fact, to expect slow change is to do a disservice to the organization and its people, accepting a pace of change that actually falls behind the pace of change around us. The post Hesitant to Ask Your Organization... Read more »

Almost all of the policies and procedures that dictate our day-to-day efforts are vestiges of years gone by. Unless we institute a discipline of regularly examining them, we’ll soon be rendered obsolete by the pace of change around us. The post One of the 25 most important lessons I’ve learned... Read more »

How important is it to implement software for tracking leads? “It is critical” says Larry Caretsky, president of Commence Corporation, a provider of lead tracking for sales pipeline management. Many of the sales executives I talk with are frustrated with the accuracy of their monthly and quarterly sales forecast. They... Read more »

Let’s face it. Marketing is critical to the health of your business. If you are not generating revenue, it can be difficult to remain in business and if you are expecting growth well forget about it. Despite this, many executives of smaller businesses see marketing as an expense that never... Read more »

By Larry Caretsky CEO, Commence Corporation CRM software has been around for 20 years, and at this point people are tired of hearing about it. It is often viewed as a commodity; just a tool differentiated primarily by price and a few unique features that may or may not be... Read more »

Commence CRM has been featured on MSN.com as one of the Top 7 CRM Solution Providers for Businesses in 2024 | Best in Customization and Affordability. Below is an excerpt and link to the original post: In 2024 finding the right CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution is more important than... Read more »

Spring 2024 – FeaturedCustomers has identified Commence CRM as a rising star in the CRM sector. This award is based on the quality of the product, its robust functionality and customer testimonials. Commence CRM is ideal for small to mid-size businesses that require more functionality and customizability than is offered... Read more »

Orbisresearch.com has published a report titled “Industry Forecast to 2031,” adding new insights to its database on the topic of ticket management. This report serves as a valuable resource for stakeholders, providing a holistic understanding of the Ticket Management System market landscape and guiding strategic decision-making processes in an ever-evolving... Read more »

Over my career as a sales expert, I’ve personally and contractually worked with over 500 sales organizations. I’ve learned some things. Here’s one: Very few chief sales officers have a good handle on the economics of the sales force. And very few entrepreneurs think about the economics of a sales... Read more »

Recently while trying to set Bookable Resource Booking record’s status as completed or trying to change Settings >> General >> Field Service Settings >> Time Entry, we were getting below error We can see the Dynamics 365 Project Service Installation Failed and on retrying the installation it was giving below... Read more »

Had written a post on deleting the elastic table record earlier – How to Delete Elastic Table Records in Dataverse (SDK). We need to pass the partitionid value through an alternate key to delete the elastic table records. We will have the alternate key auto-created by the system when we... Read more »

Double Opt-In is a two-step process for email subscription: This process ensures that the person who signed up wants to hear from us—and that the email address is valid. Enable the Double Opt-In Feature Below is how we can enable it in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journey Go to... Read more »

Sometimes, we might create a new view for a table, and not everyone in our organization needs to see it — or maybe, only a specific team should have access to the existing views, now we can achieve it through security roles. This feature is governed by the EnableRoleBasedSystemViews property,... Read more »

In Dynamics 365 / Dataverse, sometimes we want to show or hide a ribbon button based on a form field value. But when the button is on a subgrid, it does not refresh automatically when a field changes on the form. We can handle this requirement using gridContext.refreshRibbon(). It is... Read more »

When working with Choice fields (Option Sets) in Dataverse, we mostly use the label and internal numeric value. But there’s also a lesser-known property — External Value — which can be quite handy, especially in integration scenarios. Below is the Priority column of the case table. We have Severe, Moderate,... Read more »

While working on a LINQ query using early-bound classes in a Dynamics 365 plugin, we encountered a familiar error. “Could not find an implementation of the query pattern for source type. ‘Where’ not found” At a glance, everything looked fine. The query was syntactically correct, and the early-bound class was... Read more »

Recently, we had to write a small utility—a console application—that would go and update a bunch of existing records in our Dynamics 365 environment. However, we didn’t want any of my custom plugins to trigger during this update. Because the updates were internal, more like data correction / cleanup, and... Read more »

Dataverse provides a flexible way to manage data through choice (option set) fields. One of the newer enhancements is the Hidden property, which allows administrators to hide specific choice values from selection while retaining them in the system. To see it in action, Navigate to Dataverse Table Designer in the... Read more »

In one of our plugins, we encountered “The specified domain does not exist or cannot be contacted – System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format” error. Basically this issue can arise due to incorrect string formatting, unexpected data types, or missing values. Our initial thought was that it... Read more »

The copilot-powered data visualization in views feature, currently in preview, allows us to generate quick and insightful charts from Dataverse table views using natural language. We can select a table view and ask Copilot to generate visualizations, making data interpretation easier. To enable it, for the environment, navigate to Settings... Read more »

When working with Power Automate (Cloud Flows) for Dataverse, a common scenario is handling multiple triggers efficiently. By default, we often create separate flows for different events, such as Create, Update, or Delete. However, using the SdkMessage field, we can identify the event that triggered the flow and handle different... Read more »

Recently we got the below error while trying to assign the record. Unable to save. This form can’t be saved due to a custom setting. Turned out we had certain conditions in the OnSave event for the form, and if the record satisfies those conditions we were canceling the save... Read more »

MultiSelect OptionSet (Choices) fields in Dataverse provide a flexible way to store multiple values within a single field. However, querying and filtering these fields require different techniques depending on the approach used. In this blog post, we will explore various ways to filter records based on the Skills field (cr1a7_skills),... Read more »

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No matter how great your product or service is, it won’t sell itself. Marketing is what connects your business to […] The post 8 Types of Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses [2025] appeared first on EngageBay - All-in-one marketing, sales, and service.... Read more »

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