Email Marketing RulesWebbula: What Are the Top 3 Skills for a Successful Email Marketer in 2023?
Along with 9 other email experts, I share what I think are the top 3 skills that an email marketers need to have to be successful. For me, they need to have: Curiosity…about consumer behavior, new platform developments, and more A comfort with numbers, as the art and science of email marketing…
Digital Marketers Are Afraid to Make Mistakes: 4 Negative Repercussions
Basketball hall of famer and greatest of all time Michael Jordan once said, “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that…
Good Taxonomy Leads to Great Digital Marketing Optimization Opportunities
Digital marketing is flush with optimization opportunities, but only if you have a highly organized program. A central key to that is having a solid taxonomy, where you use tagging to keep track of various program elements. This kind of tagging system is key to easily and regularly optimizing your: Audience acquisition…
Email Marketing in Flux: The Biggest Changes Impacting the Channel
Email marketing is more powerful than ever, but the strategies and tactics needed to succeed are changing because of 3 mega-trends: The sunsetting of third-party cookies driving an increased focus on customer identification and the collection of zero- and first-party data Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection forcing marketers to take a holistic, cross-channel…
Dyspatch: Interview with Chad S. White
What will email marketing look like in 2023, 2024, and beyond? Do you think other inbox providers will adopt Mail Privacy Protection? Should marketers pay attention to what subscribers say or do? Will AMP for Email be a centerpiece of email marketing in 10 years? Sepy Bazzazi, Growth Marketing Manager at Dyspatch,…
Email Deliverability Warning Signs Heading into Holiday Season
The last thing email marketers want during the critical holiday season is deliverability problems, which is why many dedicate considerable time during the third quarter to getting their sender reputations and inbox placement rates as healthy as they can get them. However, marketers are facing two unique challenges this year that may…
10 Common Email Marketing Mistakes that Are *Fairly* Easy to Fix
Email marketing is a complicated interplay of tactics and strategies, and it’s easy to make mistakes. I recently wrote about 10 common email marketing mistakes that are easy to fix, and now I’d like to share another 10 common mistakes with fixes that are slightly more involved, but still very much worth…
The Last Word on August 2022
A roundup of email marketing articles, posts, and tweets you might have missed last month… Must-read articles, posts & reports Did Email Just Defeat Social Media for Good? (Unemployable) B2B Digital Marketing Trends: Top Channels and Tactics for 2022 (MarketingProfs) Five Things Your Email Marketer Wants You to Know (Email Snarketing) Are…
Email Newsletters: The New Best Practices
Nothing in email marketing is static, because ESP technology, inbox providers, and—most importantly—consumers are constantly changing. That change extends to the email newsletter, a mainstay of B2B marketing. To get a read on the latest newsletter trends, I spoke with our Creative Services and B2B teams here at Oracle Marketing Consulting about…
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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