Email Marketing RulesYour Most Important Job as an Email Marketer Is…
When you saw the headline for this post, what did you think? Perhaps you thought… To get your campaign opened? To get your campaign clicked? To get a campaign conversion? To explore your options for where to put your focus… >> Read the entire post on Oracle’s Modern Marketing Blog
Apple’s Link Tracking Protection: The Impact on Email & Other Channels
First Mail Privacy Protection, and now Link Tracking Protection (LTP). Apple’s latest platform privacy change will undoubtedly have already-traumatized marketers concerned, given how much MPP undermined open rates and made it much harder to only send to engaged email subscribers. However, LTP is mostly aimed at online advertisers, so marketers will generally…
Rightsizing Your Use of Digital Marketing Agencies
Digital marketing programs are dynamic, with needs, goals, and circumstances that change from year to year—even quarter to quarter. Regardless of what is changing, working with a digital marketing agency can be the solution. That’s because most agencies offer a variety of kinds of engagements that range from short-term to long-term, as…
The B2B Content Show: Has Generative AI Established a New Content Floor?
For content creators and brands, this is a pivotal question. SparkToro’s Rand Fishkin argues that “If your content isn’t better than what AI can produce, it’s not worth making.” I mentioned Rand’s point of view in a MarketingProfs column, The Future of Content Marketing: Five Predictions, and added my own spin. In…
AI-Generated Code: Generative AI Concerns & Opportunities for Marketers
Ready or not, we’re rapidly heading into a world where generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Dall-E, and others do more of marketers’ day-to-day work. That transition is not much in question. The only question is how well your organization makes that transition. To make that transition as smoothly as possible, we recommend…
Webbula: What’s One Tool Email Marketers Aren’t Using But Should?
I join 10 other email experts in this Webbula roundup as we answer the question: What’s one program or tool email marketers aren’t doing but should be doing? I was happy to see that I wasn’t the only participant to cheat a little and give more than one answer. For larger senders,…
Picking the Right Sender Name: Brand or Person?
Perhaps it’s the focus on empathy and connecting with our subscribers on a human level. Or it’s all of the emphasis on writing in plain English—using colloquialisms, sentence fragments, emojis, and even slang. Or maybe it’s the risky desire to con their way into the Primary tab instead of the Promotions tab….
The Gmail Promotions Tab: 10 Years of Email Marketing Misunderstandings
Ten years ago, Gmail introduced inbox tabs, including the infamous Promotions tab. Among marketers, the development caused panic. You see, there were reports that open rates were slipping at Gmail, and marketers blamed the Promotions tab. To combat this shift, many major senders ran campaigns asking their subscribers to re-tab their emails…
The Last Word on July 2023
A roundup of email marketing articles, posts, and social buzz you might have missed last month… Must-read articles, posts & reports Consumers Worldwide Are Most Willing To Share their Email Address (MediaPost) Public Web Unravels in AI-Driven Storm (Axios) Rising Interest Rates Might Herald the End of the Open Internet (Wired) Animated…
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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