Email Marketing RulesWebbula: How Did the Email Industry Do During the Pandemic?
Email marketing was in heavy use during the early months of the pandemic. Webbula reached out to 9 email marketing experts, including me, to get our take on how the email industry did? There were definitely a variety of opinions on just how we did as an industry. In my answer to…
Loyalty Program Liabilities: Definitions & Recommendations
When you launch a points-based loyalty program, you’re creating a micro-economy with its own currency, market dynamics, and—most importantly from a legal standpoint—liabilities. Because these points can have monetary value that’s realized at the time of redemption, companies must defer revenue to cover these costs. In this post, Oracle CrowdTwist Senior Strategist…
5 Ways to Generate More Loyalty & Email Signups
The sunsetting of third-party cookies is putting added pressure on marketers to grow their email subscriber and loyalty member audiences. In addition to needing to collect more email addresses as identifiers, they need the zero- and first-party data these programs generate to improve targeting and personalization across all their advertising and marketing…
Inboxing Podcast: Special Guest Chad White
I join host Hillel Berg for the second season of the Inboxing Podcast. During the hour-long conversation, we talk about: Mobile-friendliness Inclusive design and email accessibility Email marketing’s unique advantages The need to continue desiloing the email marketing channel List building Why I wrote “Email Marketing Rules” My top 5 email marketing…
6 Ways to ‘Review and Improve’ Your Automated Emails
As a slogan to promote automated emails, “set it and forget it” has been disastrously successful. That’s because, while it spurred marketers to create lots of triggered campaigns, it set horrible expectations for how to maximize their effectiveness. The truth is that these are living, breathing campaigns that need ongoing care and…
The Future of Email Podcast: A Conversation with Chad S. White of Oracle
I join Matthew Dunn, the host of The Future of Email Podcast, to talk about major email marketing trends and where the industry is headed over the next 12-24 months. Recorded in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, our conversation is pretty heavy, getting into cyber- and geopolitics. We…
The Biggest Shifts in Email Marketing Trends for 2022
The turbulence of the past two years has heavily influenced recent email marketing priorities and is shaping the trends that will dominate 2022. We can see those shifts in the results of our third-annual Email Marketing Trends Survey, where we surveyed Oracle Marketing Consulting’s more than 500 digital marketing experts about the…
The Last Word on February 2022
A roundup of email marketing articles, posts, and tweets you might have missed last month… Must-read articles, posts & reports 9 Favorite Lessons From 20 Years in the Email Marketing Industry (Webbula) Expert Advice for Senders on Shared IPs (Kickbox) Update on the Gmail App Prefetching Images (SparkPost) Uniting the Email Community…
How Mail Privacy Protection Is Changing How Email Marketing Performance Is Measured
Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) is upending how email marketers measure email marketing performance. In addition to hiding IP addresses, blocking forward tracking, and obscuring open times, MPP pre-fetches email content to create a haystack of fake opens in which to hide the needles of real opens by their users. With upwards…
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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