Email Marketing RulesEmail Marketing Trends for 2023: Unproven Opportunities
Email marketing is constantly evolving, so it can be difficult to know where to invest your time and energy from year to year. It’s extra challenging in turbulent times like these, when the economic environment, consumer behaviors, and business goals are shifting rapidly. To help you prioritize your email marketing efforts this…
4 Ways Brands Go Wrong With Digital Marketing Metrics
Numbers may not lie, but they certainly mislead and withhold the whole truth on a regular basis, if you’re not careful. And in today’s digital marketing world, it’s easier than ever to be fooled by data that’s masquerading as insights. That’s because the end of third-party cookies, the introduction of Mail Privacy…
Mailgun Podcast: Silver Linings in Omnichannel Marketing
“Deliverability and strategy are inexorably intertwined. Deliverability sets the floor for what we need to achieve.” That was just one of the things I said during my time on Email’s Not Dead podcast with Mailgun’s Jonathan Torres, Eric Trinidad, and Nick Schafer. During our conversation, which focused heavily on deliverability and performance…
One Year Later: How Mail Privacy Protection Has Impacted Marketers
Sept. 20 marked the 1-year anniversary of Apple’s launch of Mail Privacy Protection, which has affected everything from email performance measurement to deliverability to email design. Despite the far-reaching nature of these impacts, the results of Oracle Marketing Consulting polls over the past year show that marketers are getting a grip on…
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,…
Third Quarter 2022 Holiday Marketing Quarterly
The holiday season doesn’t have an off-season. Having a successful holiday season means executing a successful year-round strategy. Oracle’s Holiday Marketing Quarterly gives you a quarter-by-quarter plan for how to achieve more during this critical time of the year. The third quarter is focused on the final prep for the start of…
The Definitive Guide to Adapting to Mail Privacy Protection
Prior to the launch of Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) by Apple in the fall of 2021, marketers could easily see the engagement of their subscribers and reliably manage their email deliverability by following best practices established over the course of more than a decade. However, MPP has blurred marketers’ visibility into engagement…
Multi-Touch Attribution: Moving Beyond Overly Simplistic First- and Last-Click Models
Giving 100% of the credit for a sale to the channel that either attracted the customer by generating the first click of an interaction or closed the deal by producing the last click made sense in the early early ’00s when the average consumer used two touchpoints when buying an item. However,…
4 Ways Your Math May Be Steering Your Email Marketing Program Wrong
As more marketers embark on their personal journeys to become data-driven marketers, most are finding the road to be a rocky one. The central problem they’re encountering is a surprising one: It’s that their data doesn’t always lead them to the best decision. Why is that? Sometimes the wrong lesson is being…
Customer First Thinking Podcast: Email Still Rules
Email marketing never seems to get the respect it deserves, yet consumers continue to prefer it over every other media channel, says Stephen Shaw, host of the Customer First Thinking Podcast. I could agree more. I recently joined him on his podcast, where we talked about how the future of email marketing…
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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