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Whether it’s for reporting and offloading queries from production, there are things you need to keep in mind when using a Geo Replicated Azure SQL Database Readable Secondary. Discuss with MVP Monica Rathbun the challenges when it comes to performance tuning, what to keep in mind, and what to expect.
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Email marketing is one of the top advertising channels. For every dollar you pay, you expect to receive a significant return on your investment. However, have you yet to achieve a high Return On Investment (ROI) from your email marketing efforts? If not, here are some tips to get on the right track to achieve high sales figures and big profits.
One crucial factor that plays an essential role in all email marketing strategies is the subject line. The subject line is one of the first few emails that will arrive in the recipients’ inboxes. Thus, your subject line must be catchy, attractive, eye-catching, and personalized to make sure that your emails stand out from the crowd. However, before you get into the subject line personalization, you must understand the benefits of doing so. This article will provide you with valuable tips that will help you personalize your emails and achieve high marketing conversion rates.
Personalization is the best way to differentiate your brand from the rest. Studies have shown that email marketing strategies that focus on offering customers personalization achieved better results and achieved higher levels of response and engagement. In fact, a recent study revealed that email marketing strategies that provide customers personalization gained twice the response rate as those which did not. So, in this case, personalization is not only about making your emails stand out from the crowd, but it is also about convincing your customers to give your emails a second look.
Personalization is also an important email marketing strategy to counter the “spam” problem. Studies show that spam messages often receive the worst open rates of any email marketing strategy. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that your emails don’t end up in the spam folder. The easiest way to do this is to personalize your email marketing strategies.
Another email marketing strategy that many companies overlook is designing sponsorship email campaigns. Typically, sponsorship email campaigns are characterized by text-based content. However, plain text proves to be much more effective than the typical image-based email copy. A plain text sponsorship email campaign is often more compelling for your target audience because text is more informative and unique than the average image-based email copy. Furthermore, the text is more customizable, allowing you to design email copy that is specific to your target audience. Finally, one can enhance email campaigns designed for mobile devices with custom graphics and images. One reason why mobile email campaigns are much more successful is that these devices are easier to access and use on a regular basis. Because of this, you must invest time in ensuring that your email designs are accessible across all different types of mobile devices. By investing time and effort into making sure that your email campaigns are accessible across various mobile devices, you will be able to enjoy a higher level of revenue per customer.
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The pandemic has permanently changed how organizations of all sizes work. A substantial increase in hybrid and remote work has presented new compliance challenges, and organizations have responded by growing their compliance functions. A recent study shows that there were 257 average daily regulatory alerts across 190 countries in 2020 and keeping up with regulatory changes continues to be the top compliance challenge[1].
To help organizations simplify compliance and reduce risk, we built Microsoft Compliance Manager, generally available since September 2020. Compliance Manager translates complex regulatory requirements into specific recommended actions and makes them available through premium assessment templates, covering over 300 regulations and standards. By leveraging the universal mapping of actions and controls, premium assessment templates allow customers to comply with several requirements across multiple regulations or standards with one action, providing an efficient solution to manage overlapping compliance requirements. Premium assessment templates along with built-in workflows and continuous compliance updates allow organizations to constantly assess, monitor, and improve their compliance posture.
To meet customers where they are in their compliance journey, we are excited to announce that Compliance Manager premium assessment templates will no longer require a Microsoft 365 E5 or Office 365 E5 license as a prerequisite. This update enables all enterprise customers to assess compliance with the regulations most relevant to them and meet their unique compliance needs. Starting July 1st, 2021, all Enterprise customers, both commercial and government, can purchase premium assessment templates as long as they have any Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscription. Customers who have already purchased a premium assessment template or are using the default templates included with their subscription will not experience any disruption or change. Customers with Microsoft 365 E1/E3 or Office 365 E1/E3 subscriptions will now be able to see the list of 300+ premium assessment templates in their tenants. The capability to create a new template, customize an existing template, or add customized actions to a given template will continue to require a Microsoft 365 E5 or Office 365 E5 subscription.
We look forward to hearing your feedback.
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Navigate to the Microsoft 365 compliance center or sign up for a Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance trial to get started with Compliance Manager premium assessments today! Compliance Manager premium assessment SKUs can be purchased in Microsoft admin center.
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Shilpa Bothra,
Product Marketing Manager
On behalf of the Compliance Manager team.
[1] Cost of Compliance, 2021, Thompson Reuters
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It’s been nearly two years since we first announced the July 31, 2021 retirement of Skype for Business Online. Hundreds of upgrade workshops and millions of successful Skype for Business Online to Teams transitions later, we’re closing in on this significant milestone.
With a month before service retirement, we encourage remaining Skype for Business Online customers to continue transitioning users and workloads to Teams. Here’s some additional guidance to help ensure a successful journey to Teams:
Organizations that have not yet upgraded to Teams Only will be scheduled for Microsoft assisted upgrades to Teams to help with last-mile technical elements of the transition. Scheduling notifications are sent to tenant admins within the Microsoft 365 Message Center and Teams admin center 90 days before the date of the assisted upgrade. Even after scheduling, customers may still self-upgrade prior to the assisted upgrade date to better control the timing of their upgrade experience.
Assisted upgrades will begin in August 2021 with tenant-specific dates shared in the scheduling notifications mentioned above. Organizations that are scheduled for assisted upgrades after July 31, 2021 will be able to use Skype for Business Online until their upgrade is complete.
The assisted upgrade experience will differ slightly depending on whether organizations have a Skype for Business Online-only or a Skype for Business Online with hybrid environment.
The duration of the upgrade will vary by volume of users and the characteristics of the deployment. In most cases, users within a tenant will be upgraded within 24 hours of the start of the upgrade. During this time, end users will still have access to Skype for Business Online functionality. Once the upgrade has completed and users sign out of Skype for Business Online, they’ll start using Teams for messaging, meetings, and calling. Post-upgrade, all new online users will be added in Teams Only mode.
Learn more about the post-upgrade experience.
Regardless of whether an organization manages all aspects of the upgrade or use the assisted process, our guidance includes steps to ensure meetings and contacts are successfully migrated from Skype for Business Online to Teams.
Here are a few other things to know about the retirement of Skype for Business Online:
The following upgrade resources are available to help enable a successful transition to Teams and prepare for the retirement of Skype for Business Online:
Organizations that have completed their transitions can attest to the transformational benefits Teams brings. And while the retirement of Skype for Business Online has us a little nostalgic, we can’t be more excited about how Teams helps our customers accomplish more across work, school, and life.
See you in Teams!
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