Email Marketing RulesWebbula: If You Could Only Use 2 Email Metrics
As part of their Ask the Experts series of video interviews, Webbula asked: “If you could only use two email metrics, which two would you use?” I was happy to be among eight email experts selected to answer. I said return on investment (ROI) to help prove business justification, and subscriber lifetime…
How to Optimize Web Modals and Boost Visitor Engagement
Popups, popovers, slide-ins, lightboxes, and other web modals are powerful because they demand attention. However, when they demand too much attention too loudly or especially too often, they can be incredibly annoying. That can lead to an increase in site abandonment, and even keep consumers from returning if they anticipate being harassed…
Drive Your Customer Loyalty Program with Automated Campaigns
Just like email subscribers have their own distinct lifecycle that’s separate from the overall customer lifecycle, loyalty program members do too. They’re acquired by loyalty programs, get onboarded, need engagement as well as reengagement, and eventually transition out, usually passively. Automated email, SMS, direct mail, and other marketing campaigns have a key…
The Advantages of Gender-Neutral Messaging
Gender-neutral marketing creates new possibilities for your customers, allowing them to view your products and services free of gender constraints. To put it plainly, gendered marketing reduces your addressable audience and alienates a growing number of consumers who prefer gender-neutral messaging, while gender-neutral marketing is more inclusive and more reflective of our…
Holiday Marketing Quarterly: Third Quarter 2021 Checklist
Oracle’s Holiday Marketing Quarterly gives B2C brands a quarter-by-quarter checklist for how to achieve more during the critical holiday season with their email marketing and other digital marketing channels. Along with guidance on planning, strategy, and prioritization, you’ll get advice and tips from some of Oracle Marketing Consulting’s more than 500 digital…
The Last Word on June 2021
A roundup of email marketing articles, posts, and tweets you might have missed last month… Must-read articles, posts & reports ‘Dear Intern: it gets better.’ Monica Lewinsky joins Twitter users backing the HBO Max intern behind the ‘Integration Test Email’ fail (MarketWatch) Losing Open Tracking Will Not Kill Email (Martech Today) BIMI:…
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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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