Email Marketing RulesVoice Assistants Reading Emails: How to Create Voice-Friendly Campaigns
Accessibility and inclusive design have become major digital marketing design trends as brands recognize the need to be more welcoming and considerate of consumers with a wider range of needs. Making email campaigns more voice-friendly is one element of this effort. However, it’s not without some contradictions and compromises. Let’s look at…
Inc.: Want Higher Open Rates? Send Good Emails Consistently
ZeroBounce’s Email Statistics Report for 2024 is full of interesting insights about consumers’ inbox and email behaviors, but one of the more interesting ones is this: 47% of people stated that the primary reason they open all emails from a brand is that the brand always sends them relevant messages. In reading…
Email Marketing Trends for 2024: Competitive Differentiators
Email marketing is constantly evolving, so it can be difficult to know where to invest your time and energy from year to year. Just a few of the recent changes and challenges that email marketers have had to deal with include: Economic uncertainty caused by high interest rates New deliverability requirements from…
Email Marketing Trends for 2024: 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. Just a few of the recent changes and challenges that email marketers have had to deal with include: Economic uncertainty caused by high interest rates New deliverability requirements from…
A Year of Email Subject Lines: Seasonal Inspiration from 2023
A catchy, yet descriptive subject line can give your campaign a sizable boost. One way to stand out and be more relevant is to have a hook that’s connected to a holiday, season, or occasion—like the nearly 1,000 we highlight in our 2024 Content Calendar Assistant. To inspire you, we’ve pulled together…
Black 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…
7 of My All-Time Favorite Email Subject Lines & Why
All email marketers understand how critical subject lines are to generating engagement with their messages. That’s why subject lines are tested far more than hero images, calls-to-action, and any other email element. To help inspire you, I want to share seven of my all-time favorite email subject lines. However, these aren’t just…
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…
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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