Email Rendering Continues to Grow in Complexity, Wildly So at the Fringes

Email Rendering Continues to Grow in Complexity, Wildly So at the Fringes

The idea of a pixel-perfect email rendering across every email client died a long time ago. The challenge for most of the past decade has been to achieve platform-perfect rendering, where an email renders up to the fullest capabilities of a particular inbox provider. But even that is an increasingly tall order…

Our Top Learnings from Launching the Oracle CX Marketing Consulting Newsletter

Our Top Learnings from Launching the Oracle CX Marketing Consulting Newsletter

We launched our first issue of the twice-monthly Oracle CX Marketing Consulting Newsletter on Oct. 15, 2019. Since then, we’ve sent 30 issues. We’ve learned a lot from launching it, as well as from running it for a year. Rather than keep these learnings to ourselves, the newsletter team and I wanted…

Modular Email Architectures: What They Are & How They Work

Modular Email Architectures-Efficient Workflow and Foundation for Personalization

Classic email templates are becoming obsolete. They are difficult to maintain, don’t offer enough flexibility, make personalization cumbersome, and take too much time to turn into a final email campaign that’s ready to send. Because of all of those weaknesses, more companies are migrating to modular email architectures and reaping significant improvements….

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…

Litmus’s Delivering Podcast: Seeing Into the Future With Oracle’s Chad S. White

Delivering podcast ep. 28

After a sobering spring, the 2020 holiday season is looking like it may be one of the riskiest and challenging in decades. That’s the focus of episode #28 of the Delivering podcast, where Litmus’s Jason Rodriguez and I talk about: The most beneficial lesson to come out of 2020 The pressures on…

Holiday Marketing Quarterly: Third Quarter 2020 Checklist

Q3 2020 Holiday Marketing Guide

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 digital…

Speeding Up Email Production Workflows & the Potential Consequences

Speeding Up Email Production Workflows: How-Tos & Trade-Offs

It generally takes about 2 to 3 weeks to create, approve, and send a marketing campaign. If your company is larger, more decentralized, or more highly regulated, it can take even longer. Usually that’s not a significant problem, but sometimes you need to be more nimble or reduce production costs due to…

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…

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…

Business Book of the Month Podcast: Chad S. White’s ‘Email Marketing Rules’

Business Book of the Month Podcast - 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…