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Journeys for Quick Send Messages
To create a unique journey for marketing activities when using the Distributed Marketing Quick Send workflow in Marketing Cloud Engagement, follow these steps
When you create journeys for Quick Sends, consider the following.
- Journeys created for quick sends can include any number of standard or custom Flow Control, Customer Updates, Sales & Service Cloud, or Custom activities. However, each journey for quick sends can include at most one email or SMS activity only.
- To avoid adding individuals to multiple journeys at the same time, use a unique entry source per journey.
- A contact filter isn’t required for Distributed Marketing, but can be used as needed.
- The contact entry setting must allow for Re-entry always or Re-entry after exiting. No re-entry isn’t supported for quick send messages.
- Journeys enabled as quick send messages are available in all quick send messages that business users can access.
- In Marketing Cloud Engagement, navigate to Journey Builder.
- Create a Multi-Step Journey.
- Drag an API Event entry source onto the journey canvas.
- Configure the entry source with the unique event data extension you created for this journey.
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Drag journey activities onto the canvas.
Tip A single Email or SMS activity is required. Use non-message activities to make quick send messages more powerful for recipients, senders, and the business. For example, add an Engagement Split activity to a quick send journey. If a contact doesn’t open the email, use the Task activity to suggest business users follow up with a phone call. Or they can resend the email.
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Define the contact entry mode.
Tip Re-entry anytime or Re-entry only after existing is required.
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Name the journey and add a description.
Tip The journey name appears to business users when searching for a message to send. Put uniquely identifiable information for each message in the first 30 characters. For example, use Birthday Template - Summer 2020 instead of Summer 2020 Birthday Template.
- Activate the journey. The journey can now be enabled as a Quick Send message.

