14 Ways Email Marketers Should Adapt to Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection

13 Ways Email Marketers Should Adapt to Apple's Mail Privacy Protection

Apple’s announcement on June 7 of new privacy protections, debuting this fall in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey, and watchOS 8, has generated mixed reactions. Some marketers fear the demise of email marketing, while others have dismissed the announcement as a non-event. We think the actual result will fall somewhere in…

Email Marketing Audit: Spotlighting 4 Commonly Neglected Areas

Email Marketing Audit- Spotlighting 4 Commonly Neglected Areas

It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day operations of your email marketing program—rushing to get the next campaign out. It’s hard work! But if you’re on auto-pilot, you might neglect several strategic and structural areas of your program. While your marketing technology stack is advancing with new features, your marketing…

Email Marketing Trends for 2021: Proven Essentials

Email Marketing Trends for 2021 - Proven Essentials

In the ever-changing world of email marketing, it can be difficult to know where to invest your time and energy. It’s extra challenging in turbulent times like these, when consumer behaviors and business goals are shifting. To help you prioritize your email marketing efforts this year, we surveyed Oracle Marketing Consulting’s more…

Coherent Path Podcast: Coherent Thoughts with Chad S. White

Coherent Path podcast - Chad White

I join Coherent Path CEO James Glover on the Coherent Thoughts podcast to talk about: The biggest misconceptions around email The value of having universal holdout groups Focusing on maximizing the value of a subscriber, not the value of a campaign How lobbying by merchants can distract email marketing from serving subscribers How…

Direct Mail: The Most Overlooked Digital Marketing Channel

The Most Overlooked Digital Marketing Channel - Direct Mail

Hear us out. Direct mail has changed. A lot of marketers think of it as static offset printed letters and postcards that are mass market. While that’s still the case for some direct mail, the channel as a whole has learned a lot of new tricks over the years. Today, with digital…

Inboxroad: How to Build a Strong Email Program in the Years Ahead

Inboxroad: How to Build a Strong Email Program in the Years Ahead

I recently spoke with Ferry van Hoolwerff for an interview on the Inboxroad blog. While we talked about a range of issues, much of the conversation revolved around how marketers should prepare for the years ahead in order to build stronger email marketing programs. Here are the questions Ferry asked me: How…

ZeroBounce: Focus on Managing Subscribers, Not Campaigns

ZeroBounce interview with Chad S White

I recently joined Corina Leslie for an interview on the ZeroBounce Blog. We talked about everything from how to learn more about email marketing to the biggest mistakes email marketers make to what to keep in mind this holiday season. For instance, Corina asked… How did you get into email marketing? How…

Understanding Email Click Rates

Understanding Marketing Metrics - Email Click Rates

Marketing metrics are just numbers. Without the proper understanding and context, you can’t turn these numbers into the valuable insights you need to make better tactical and strategic decisions. In this series of posts, we’ll look at a variety of marketing metrics, discussing how to measure each one, how to use each…

Understanding Email Open Rates

Understanding Marketing Metrics - Email Open Rates

Marketing metrics are just numbers. Without the proper understanding and context, you can’t turn these numbers into the valuable insights you need to make better tactical and strategic decisions. In this series of posts, we’ll look at a variety of marketing metrics, discussing how to measure each one, how to use each…

On-Demand Webinar: The Hierarchy of Subscriber Needs

The Hierarchy of Subscriber Needs webinar

The key to modern email marketing success is creating relevance for your subscribers. However, this cure-all is often discussed in vague, mystical terms within the narrow context of company-specific examples. Although relevance is indeed in the eye of the beholder, achieving it is both describable and measurable. The Hierarchy of Subscriber Needs…