Email Marketing RulesEmail Deliverability Problems Ahead: 11 Red Flashing Warning Signs
Nothing can destroy your email marketing performance quite like email deliverability problems. Whether it’s the slow slip of inbox placement due to diminishing engagement or the sudden collapse due to a block or blacklisting, it’s always devastating and usually a shock. But, honestly, email deliverability problems are rarely a surprise if you…
When Good Enough Shouldn’t Be: Optimizing Automated Emails
Email marketing is so effective and has such a high return on investment that brands often settle for good enough when they could be achieving much higher returns. In this blog post series, we’ll be examining several overlooked opportunities to increase your email marketing performance. One of the biggest opportunities is around…
Email Deliverability Quarterly: Return Path Acquired, CCPA Update, Yahoo-AOL Merged, and More
Email deliverability is constantly changing, as inbox providers adjust their filtering algorithms, blacklists tweak their listing criteria, and consumers evolve their definition of spam. That’s why even the best email marketing programs suffer deliverability problems sometimes. To help you avoid trouble, the deliverability practice at Oracle Marketing Cloud Consulting (OMCC) shares the…
The Last Word on June 2019
A roundup of email marketing articles, posts, and tweets you might have missed last month… Must-read articles, posts & reports It’s Probably Time to Stop Announcing the Death of Email (Forbes) Is This Common Mistake Affecting Your GDPR Opt-In Rate? (Smart Insights) Email on Tap Episode 11, with Dan Deneweth, Senior Director,…
Why Building Homegrown Email Platforms Is So Out of Favor
Build or buy? When it comes to email marketing platforms, it’s a question that brands rarely bother to ask themselves anymore because nearly everyone buys. And when brands do seriously ask themselves this question, it’s exceedingly rare for them to actually choose to go down the build road. According to Litmus’s State…
Business Book of the Month Podcast: Chad S. White’s ‘Email Marketing Rules’
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with David Bain, the host of the Business Book of the Month Podcast, about my book, Email Marketing Rules. During the 51-minute interview, we talked about a wide range of email marketing topics, including: The Hierarchy of Subscriber Needs How the paid-owned-earned (POE) media model…
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Chad S. White
Head of Research
Oracle Digital Experience Agency
Author of Email Marketing Rules and nearly 4,000 articles about digital and email marketing
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