Email Marketing RulesCommon Marketing Outliers: Identifying & Managing Them
The chances are high that your audience across your various channels is diverse—made up of people with different needs, different values, different constraints, and more. That’s why smart marketers develop marketing personas to help them better cater to the various groups of people that their brand attracts. However, sometimes one or more…
Netcore Podcast: Strategies to Reduce Email Churn Rates
Since email has been the heart of marketing strategy, especially during the COVID-19 crisis, preventing email churn is the top priority for most email marketers. However, before you get to the task of retaining your email subscribers, it’s important for you to understand why your subscribers are churning, as well as which…
On-Demand Webinar: The Questions to Ask Instead about Email Frequency & List Building
Not achieving your email marketing goals is frustrating, but achieving your goals and then not achieving success is devastating. This happens when marketers and executives ask the wrong questions. When that happens, the answer almost doesn’t matter, because it’s likely to cause you to put the wrong strategies in place regardless. A…
Email Evolution Conference 2020: The State of Email Marketing
Marketers are operating in turbulent times. The challenges are daunting: The worst health crisis since 1918 The worst financial crisis since 1933 The worst social unrest since 1968. The shock to the system has been so great that marketers have largely scrapped their 2020 marketing plans. March marked the new start of…
Netcore Podcast: There Is Opportunity in Disruption and Email Is the Key
Email marketing has changed in dramatic ways since March. I join Netcore’s Email Unplugged Podcast to speak with Dennis Dayman about these changes and how marketers have responded and what they should think about moving forward. During our conversation, we talk about: Companies’ coronavirus crisis messaging in mid March and how consumers…
On-Demand Webinar: The Questions to Ask Instead about Email Performance Measurement
Not achieving your email marketing goals is frustrating, but achieving your goals and then not achieving success is devastating. This happens when marketers and executives ask the wrong questions. When that happens, the answer almost doesn’t matter, because it’s likely to cause you to put the wrong strategies in place regardless. A…
LiveIntent Podcast: What Does the Change in Email Behavior Mean for Marketers?
I join Kerel Cooper and Nick Dujnic, co-hosts of LiveIntent’s Real Time Banter podcast, to talk about how email behavior has changed during the coronavirus pandemic and what those changes mean for marketers. Watch to hear insights on: How content consumption has changed during the pandemic How email behaviors like open times…
The Last Word on May 2020
A roundup of email marketing articles, posts, and tweets you might have missed last month… Must-read articles, posts & reports The Old Reliable: Salesforce Study Shows Email Still Ranks High In Marketing Use (MediaPost) How to create a BIMI-compatible logo using SVG images (ValiMail) Insightful & entertaining tweets Opting-in is something someone…
How Coronavirus Has Shifted Consumer Preferences
The COVID-19 pandemic clearly drove some new consumer behaviors: 28% of online grocery shoppers surveyed in March, for example, had made their first online grocery order ever that month because of coronavirus concerns, according to CPG marketing agency Acosta. The unknown is whether those behaviors will stick. Human behavior is incredibly elastic…
On-Demand Webinar: Understanding Email Deliverability
Email deliverability can feel out of your control, like your emails are hot air balloons being blown whichever way the inbox provider winds blow. However, this isn’t really true. Businesses actually have a lot of control over whether their emails reach the inboxes of their subscribers, but they have to understand the…
Welcome! Email Marketing Rules is your guide to understanding the best practices of this complex, often misunderstood channel as you craft the best executions for your brand. Every week, we’ll explore strategies and tactics, discuss tips and inspiration, and dig into industry news and trends.
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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