Sendinblue: 15 Experts Predict the Future of Email

Sendinblue - Email Marketing Trends for 2021

From technological advances to the impact of Covid-19, the future of email marketing will bring both opportunities and challenges. To make sure you’re prepared, Sendinblue asked me and 14 other email marketing experts which trends we think will have the biggest impact this year. My advice centers on the fact that changing…

ZeroBounce: Email Marketing Tips to Help You in 2021

Email Marketing Tips to Help You in 2021

I join 9 other email marketing experts in sharing my advice about how to succeed with email in the year ahead in this post on the ZeroBounce blog. My advice centers on how open time behaviors have changed during the pandemic and how adoption of send time optimization has increased significantly in…

Holiday Marketing Quarterly: First Quarter 2021 Checklist

First Quarter 2021 Holiday Marketing Quarterly

Oracle’s Holiday Marketing Quarterly gives B2C brands a quarter-by-quarter checklist for how to achieve more during the critical holiday season with their email marketing and other digital marketing channels. Along with guidance on planning, strategy, and prioritization, you’ll get advice and tips from some of Oracle Marketing Consulting’s more than 500 digital…

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…

Smart Insights: Email Marketing Trends 2021 – 5 Trends to Watch

Email Marketing Trends 2021

The pandemic upended email marketing plans during 2020 and Smart Insights wondered where our industry is headed in 2021. They asked me and four other email marketing experts for our predictions. Here are the key trends that we identified: Email marketing through the K-shaped COVID-19 recovery Strategy first, solution second Bringing customer…

The Future of Travel: Long-Term & Short-Term Recommendations

How to Prepare for the Future of Travel

No industry has been more heavily impacted by social distancing, government-mandated health and safety restrictions, and regional and countrywide lockdowns than travel and hospitality companies. Even once travel restrictions are completely lifted, marketers within these businesses will have the tricky job of messaging to consumers who are reluctant to take trips for…

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…

Seasonal Adjustment to Make to Your Automated Campaigns to Stay Relevant

Seasonal Automated Campaign Adjustments to Stay Relevant

“Automated campaigns—whether sent via email, SMS, or mobile push—perform so well that they’re often overlooked as not needing attention,” says Jennifer Lancaster Dana, Vice President, Oracle CX Marketing Consulting. “However, it’s because of their high engagement and conversion rates that we should be constantly giving automated campaigns extra attention and trying to…

How to Improve All 5 Steps of a Curbside Pickup

Improving All 5 Steps of a Curbside Pickup

Driven by health concerns and health regulations restricting store capacities, curbside pickup has become a significant new fulfillment channel for retailers, restaurants, and other B2C brands. However, because of the sudden need for this channel, it was implemented and ramped up hastily, often with manual processes and temporary fixes that have led…