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Sitecore 9 Playground Series - Marketing Automation, Custom Predicates, Activities, Page Events and More

This is going to be a series of blog posts that I am going to follow a scenario and build a demo project step by step.

Here is the plan:

Imagine that you have a website displaying movies. Visitors are able to see movie details and take some actions like save movie or share it. 

You want to follow the visitors' activities and you want to take some marketing actions based on those activities. For example, if a contact visits a movie more than X time or she/he saves a movie, you want to send those movies to an external system. In addition, there is going to be a limit to send same movie. Such as, it will not be possible to send same movie more than 2 times. 

You want to configure this as a marketing automation plan to give flexibility to your marketing managers. They should be able to add configurable rules and activities. 

To be able to carry out this plan, I am going to implement and show those topics:
I am going to attach this scenario to every post to remind what I am building. 

Hope, it can be useful who needs similar things!
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