Email Innovations Summit 2020: Prioritizing Which Email Innovations to Pursue

Prioritizing Which Email Innovations to Pursue

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…

As Coronavirus Restrictions Ease, How to Adjust Your Email Strategy

As Coronavirus Restrictions Ease, How to Adjust Your Email Strategy

We’ve talked in recent weeks about how marketers should respond to the systemic shock caused by coronavirus—how you start by sending crisis messaging and then adjust your promotional messaging strategy to stay aligned with new email behaviors and new consumer preferences. Now businesses are facing questions around how to handle the easing…

8 Email Marketing Improvements to Make During Slow Periods

8 Email Marketing Improvements to Make During Slow Periods

When your business’s promotional email frequency is high during its peak season, chances are that your email program is almost exclusively focused on getting that next email out the door. However, you generally have more time to think about your strategy and invest in lasting improvements during your off-season—as well as during…

Systemic Shocks: Adjusting Your Email Messaging in Times of Disruption

Systemic Shocks: Adjusting Your Email Messaging in Times of Disruption

The dot-com bubble. 9/11. The Great Recession of 2009. And now COVID-19. When extreme shocks such as these occur, business as usual ceases. These shocks cause prolonged changes in consumer behavior, forcing smart businesses and marketers to adjust, too. While these adjustments typically start with crisis messaging, that’s just the beginning. Brands…

Holiday Marketing Quarterly: Second Quarter 2020 Checklist

Q2 2020 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 CX Marketing Consulting’s more than 500…

Knowing Your Customers So Well You Can Predict Their Needs

Knowing Your Customers So Well You Can Predict Their Needs

In part 1 of this series on B2C personalization and automation, we looked at the importance of responsiveness and reacting to customer behaviors. In part 2, we looked at the rules for relationship marketing and how to further level up your communications so that your customers know you know (and love) them….

On-Demand Webinar: The Highest Impact Email Marketing Trends of 2020

The Highest Impact Email Marketing Trends of 2020

To help you determine your email marketing priorities for 2020, we surveyed our more than 500 consultants about 26 tactics and technologies. They rated each one for its current adoption and its impact it will have in 2020. We then organized them into adoption-impact quadrants. In this 49-minute on-demand webinar, we focus…

When Good Enough Shouldn’t Be: The Best Email Frequency

When Good Enough Shouldn’t Be: The Best Email Frequency

How often should I email my subscribers? Oracle CX Marketing Consulting’s Head of Strategic Services, Clint Kaiser, says that without a doubt that’s one of the top 5 most frequently asked questions my clients have asked him over the years. First, it’s important to start with the customer, he says. This rocks…

Email Marketing Trends for 2020: Proven Essentials

Email Marketing Trends for 2020: Proven Essentials

In the ever-changing world of email marketing, it can be difficult to know where to invest your time and energy. To help you prioritize your email marketing efforts this year, we surveyed Oracle CX Marketing Consulting’s more than 500 digital marketing experts, asking them to rate the current adoption of a range…

Centralizing Data and Speaking as One Company

B2B Audience Building & Segmentation Best Practices, Part 2: Centralizing Data and Speaking as One Company

Building out your audience and then segmenting that audience to ensure you’re delivering the right message to the right people is critical. However, it can be confusing to determine how best to improve your efforts. That’s why Oracle developed the Marketing Maturity Model, which helps you determine where your organization is in…