Email Marketing RulesHow Tariff Messaging Can Make or Break Brand Loyalty
Chaotic tariff policies have disrupted businesses and cratered consumer confidence. According to The Conference Board, consumer expectations for the future are at a 13-year low, having fallen for the fifth consecutive month as of April. Separately, the preliminary reading of consumer sentiment in May dropped to the second-lowest on record since the…
Gmail’s Email ‘Upgrades’ Are Actually a Step Backward
Just like the saying, “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” when you’re the biggest online advertising company in the world, everything starts to look like an ad. This thinking appears to be behind more and more of Google’s recent changes at Gmail. Let’s examine three programs,…
The Unintended Consequences of Inbox Providers Ignoring Email Marketers
It’s not that inbox providers sit between brands and their subscribers, but rather that brands need to satisfy both their subscribers and inbox providers. Just like brands have their own goals and desires, so do subscribers and so do inbox providers. For example, subscribers want content that’s valuable to them, doesn’t arrive…
Is This the Beginning of the End of Big Social Media?
A few years from now, we may look back on 2025 as the beginning of the end of two long-standing mega pillars of the internet. The first is Google’s domination of the search engine marketplace, which is being disrupted by generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity, with Google’s market share falling…
The Biggest Shifts in Email Marketing Trends for 2025 [with on-demand webinar]
Email marketing is constantly evolving, so it can be difficult to know where to invest your time and energy from year to year. Just a few of the recent changes and challenges that email marketers have faced include: Economic uncertainty caused by global trade disruptions, high inflation, and high interest rates Changes…
Marketing, Demystified podcast: The Future of Email Marketing
Email marketing is undergoing massive changes, from AI to inbox changes to new branding options in the inbox. I join Marketing, Demystified podcast host Jenn Mancusi to discuss these changes and how marketers can adapt. During the 55-minute episode, we talk about: 3:37 – How generative AI is transforming email marketing and…
10 Big CX Ideas for 2025 [with on-demand webinar]
The customer experience is undergoing a dizzying evolution that’s disrupting the status quo like never before. Brands must evolve their CX strategies along with these changes—to both avoid massive pitfalls and seize new opportunities. In this blog post and 54-minute companion on-demand webinar, we discuss 10 major changes affecting the customer experience…
What XMail’s Launch Could Mean for Email Marketers
Among the new developments to watch in the email space in 2025 may be the launch of XMail, an email inbox platform from X. On Dec. 15, X Owner Elon Musk said on X that XMail is “on the list of things to do.” In a separate post, he indicated that XMail…
Email Marketing’s Future and Beyond
Named a 2024 Contributor of the Year, I chat with CMSWire about a range of issues that will be critical to marketers this year and beyond, including: The future of email marketing Balancing personalization & broad appeal Improving customer journeys via email Email metrics and insights Overcoming common email marketing challenges >>…
Is Email Marketing’s ROI Sky-High or Irrelevant?
For the better part of the past two decades, email marketing’s return on investment has hovered around 40:1, according to a variety of sources. For instance, a recent Litmus survey of more than 2,000 marketers found that email marketing’s ROI is 36:1. That means the average brand can expect to earn $36…
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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