Email Marketing RulesBlack Friday Week: 3 Key Email Marketing Insights
The time period from the start of the week of Black Friday through Cyber Monday is the critical beating heart of the holiday season for business-to-consumer brands. Here are three key takeaways for retail and ecommerce marketers: Seize the opportunity to get in front of eager buyers Expand your email audience…carefully Maximize…
4 Major Factors Impacting Email Marketing Performance This Holiday Season
It’s not enough to have meaningful external benchmarks and solid internal benchmarks. Marketers need the right perspective and context to properly use those benchmarks and to appropriately interpret their current results. That’s especially true during fast-moving peak seasons, like the holiday season for retailers and ecommerce brands. When measuring your email marketing…
Leap Day Campaigns: 29 Messaging Ideas
It’s a marketing opportunity that comes around only once every four years. It’s Leap Day. With the next one coming up on Feb. 29 in 2024, the extra day is added to the shortest month of the year because the Earth takes approximately 365.25 days to orbit the sun, so every fourth…
Fourth Quarter 2023 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. Our fourth quarter guide contains a 23-point checklist that helps you wrap up…
12 Trends a-Trending: What to Plan for This Holiday Season
The 2023 holiday season is shaping up to be as dynamic and turbulent as the past few have been. But knowing what to expect and proper planning can help make the best of another tough holiday season. Here are our predictions for 12 trends to account for in your holiday campaign planning…
Digital Marketing Tests to Run in the Runup to the Holiday Season
The back-to-school season, Labor Day, and Halloween represent great opportunities to better align with your ever-changing customers before heading into the all-important holiday season, when digital marketing misalignments are most costly. Is your branding strong? Are your offers clear and focused on what’s in it for your audience? Are we making it…
Third Quarter 2023 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…
Making Seasonal Adjustments to Automated Campaigns to Boost Results
Automated campaigns—whether sent via email, SMS, or mobile push—perform so well that they’re often overlooked as not needing attention. However, it’s because of their high engagement and conversion rates that we should be constantly giving automated campaigns extra attention and trying to make them even better. This is especially true during the…
Second Quarter 2023 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 B2C brands a quarter-by-quarter plan for how to achieve more during the critical holiday season with their email marketing and other digital marketing channels. Our second quarter checklist is…
Navigating the Post-Holiday Season: Gift Returns, Customer Debt, & Gift Cards
The holiday season doesn’t end on Christmas Day—or even at the end of December. The ripple effects of the holidays can be felt well into the New Year. Some of those effects are negative, such as gift returns and holiday-accumulated consumer debt. And some of them are positive, such as increased gift…
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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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