Email Marketing Trends for 2021: Unproven Opportunities
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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…
Anatomy of an Email: Envelope & Body Content
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To sketch an accurate depiction of a person takes a good understanding of human anatomy. Similarly, the art of email marketing requires understanding the anatomy of an email. This anatomy is broken up into two major content groups: The envelope content, which is the part of an email that’s visible in the…
Email Innovations Summit 2020: Prioritizing Which Email Innovations to Pursue
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You can’t—and shouldn’t—chase every email marketing trend. To help you prioritize which email innovations you should invest in, we surveyed Oracle CX Marketing Consulting’s more than 500 digital marketing experts, asking them to rate the current adoption of a range of email marketing technologies and tactics, as well as their predicted impact…
Subject Line Writing: 6 Trends that Are Driving Strategy Changes
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Have your subject line writing strategies and tactics kept up with the times? Check and see if you’re accounting for these six changes in subject line writing, going from the oldest to the newest trend: Subject lines need to work with preview text. Subject lines can include many more visual elements. Subject…
Email Annotations in the Gmail Promotions Tab: Opportunities and Concerns
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Google’s mission is to sift through the ocean of data out there and bubble up the most critical information so you can find it more easily. They do that in their search results and they increasingly do that in Gmail, whether it’s through Gmail Highlights, featuring the “Top Deals” in the Promotions…
How to Use AI Subject Line and Copywriting Tools Successfully
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Brands are turning to AI and machine learning to answer extremely complex questions, including, “What words should I use to communicate most effectively?” Companies like Persado, Phrasee, Touchstone, and others have turned AI’s data-crunching and pattern-finding power onto email subject lines, as well as other marketing copy. Oracle Marketing Cloud Consulting has…
How Marketers Can Adapt to Voice-Assistants Reading Emails
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The launch of the Apple iPhone in 2007 prompted a decade-long effort for marketers to make their emails mobile-friendly. The rise of voice-assistants will likely have a similar impact on email marketers, although less tectonic and probably much messier. In this blog post, Oracle Marketing Cloud Consulting’s Kathryn Alva, Henry Alva, and…