Email Marketing RulesBusiness Book of the Month Podcast: Chad S. White’s ‘Email Marketing Rules’
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with David Bain, the host of the Business Book of the Month Podcast, about my book, Email Marketing Rules. During the 51-minute interview, we talked about a wide range of email marketing topics, including: The Hierarchy of Subscriber Needs How the paid-owned-earned (POE) media model…
Our Favorite Litmus Reports of 2018
Litmus published five reports and six whitepapers during 2018, covering a wide range of email marketing topics from analytics to email service providers and interactive emails to email’s return on investment. The reports and whitepapers we released during 2018 include: 2018 State of Email Analytics 2018 State of Email Service Providers 2018…
Webinar Recording + Q&A: Key Insights from a Year of State of Email Research
If you didn’t have time to read all of the hundreds of pages worth of reports and research insights that came out of our 2018 State of Email Survey, you’re in luck: We’ve condensed the key stats, trends, and takeaways from all our research into a single webinar. In this webinar, I…
Industry Spotlight on Email Marketing at Nonprofits
Every industry does email marketing a little differently. They have different goals, different business models, different conversion channels, different offers, and on and on. That’s definitely the case with nonprofits. Nonprofits tend to be fairly small compared to businesses in other industries. Their organizations are usually driven primarily by donations, and therefore…
NextAfter’s Generosity Freakshow Podcast: Optimizing Email with Chad White from Litmus
I recently joined Brady Josephson of NextAfter on The Generosity Freakshow Podcast to talk about email marketing and nonprofits. We talked about: Why I wrote Email Marketing Rules Where many brands go wrong with email marketing What’s changed with email marketing over the years How nonprofits’ email marketing programs differ from other…
Infographic: Decision Tree for Recovering from Email Marketing Mistakes
Oh, no. You’ve just realized that you made a mistake with your latest email marketing campaign and the panic is starting to set in. What do you do next? Take a deep breath and refer to this decision tree from our latest report, How to Recover from Email Marketing Mistakes. This decision…
Infographic: 6 Ways Nonprofits Can Improve Their Email Creation Process
Nonprofits perform life-changing work, and email marketing is a key way for them to rally people to their cause, raise funds, and direct action. However, nonprofits’ operations are notoriously lean. That is definitely the case with their email marketing operations, according to the responses of more than 240 nonprofits who took Litmus’…
Email Briefs: Why You Should Use Them and What to Include in Them
Every marketing email your brand sends should have a clear purpose and a sound strategy behind it. A powerful solution to ensure that this happens is to create an email brief for every email you create. An email brief should outline the email’s goals, audience, messaging, timing, key performance indicators, and other…
Report: How to Recover from Email Marketing Mistakes
Email marketing mistakes are not a matter of “if,” but “when.” Email is so complex, turn-around times so short, and frequencies so high that it’s impossible to avoid mistakes completely. The best you can hope for is to keep mistakes infrequent and small, and then to manage them quickly and recover with…
Really Good Emails Podcast: Email Benchmarks
In Episode 2 of the new Really Good Emails Podcast, Matt Helbig and Mike Nelson dig into the results of their 2018 Email Industry Conditions study, which is based on survey responses from more than a thousand people in the industry. They talk about some of the most interesting stats—including team sizes,…
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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