Email Marketing RulesFind Your Email Inspiration in the 2014 Best of the Email Swipe File
A swipe file is a record of your top-performing campaigns that you return to for learnings and ideas. It was this concept that inspired us to create the Email Swipe File on Pinterest, where we share the emails and landing pages that excite and impress us. We’ve already shared more than 310…
Email Marketing Double-Dog Dares: Vol. 4
Since email is a fast-moving, fast-evolving channel, marketers must be experimenters to succeed at a high level. With that in mind, I dare you—no, I double-dog dare you—to test these six out-of-the-box, bleeding edge, and fun/weird ideas: 1. Bring transparency and rewards to email activity. Especially now that ISPs are factoring engagement…
Infographic: The Growing Adoption of Mobile-Friendly Email Design
We’ve been tracking the mobile-friendliness of the promotional emails sent by a group of nearly 160 B2C brands since October of last year. We saw a big bump in the adoption of mobile-friendly email design during the holiday season and this summer we expect major progress, followed by another jump in adoption…
7 Years as a MediaPost Email Insider Columnist and Counting
It was seven years ago this month that I started regularly writing for MediaPost’s Email Insider blog. My column tomorrow will be my 149th and I’m particularly excited about the concept I discuss in it, so I hope you’ll check it out. But I wanted to take this opportunity to share five…
The Email Design Toolkit: The Basics + Coding + Data Strategy
Email design is like nothing else. To ensure that you have a solid design foundation, we’ve created the Design Toolkit, a 3-part report will help you create email that… Look good. In Email Design Basics, I give you a crash course in the essentials. Work well. Get a general guide to writing…
Top Models of the Email Runway: Presented by Fashion Week
In honor of New York Fashion Week, I wanted to share some email-specific tactics for model photography. Of course, models are essential to conveying your brand image and demonstrating products, particularly how a garment looks on its own and with other items. But email presents some unique constraints and goals that model…
The State of Email Marketing Is…
…strong, but could be stronger, according to the finding of our 2014 State of Marketing report, which surveyed more than 2,500 marketers. First, the testaments to email’s strength: Eighty-eight percent of marketers use email marketing and another 9% said they plan to launch an email program this year. Only 3% said they…
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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