Holiday Marketing Quarterly: First Quarter 2020 Checklist

Oracle's 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…

How to Turn Email Addresses on File into Opt-Ins

Maximizing Your Email Audience Potential: Turning Email Addresses on File into Opt-Ins

Everyone wants more subscribers who are regularly converting. While going out and attracting new, high-value subscribers is one path that every brand should explore, it’s also the most expensive. Thankfully, there are many other paths open to marketers to achieve their goals when they take a step-by-step approach to maximizing their email…

Optimizing Your Email Signup Forms to Maximize Your Email Audience Potential

Maximizing Your Email Audience Potential: Optimizing Your Email Signup Forms

Everyone wants more subscribers who are regularly converting. While there are many paths open to marketers to achieve this goal, one of the most important is having email signup forms and processes that are as friction-free as possible, says Oracle Marketing Cloud Consulting’s Kaiti Gary. In this post, she breaks down all…

Holiday Marketing Predictions: What to Expect This Year

Holiday Marketing Predictions: What to Expect This Year

Every holiday season is a little different because of a variety of factors, including technology trends, consumer sentiment, and the timing of the calendar. Oracle Marketing Cloud (OMC) Consulting’s experts share their thoughts and predictions on how this holiday marketing season will be different from past ones. Our predictions this year revolve…

Email Marketing Isn’t Owned Media—It’s Granted Media

Email Marketing Isn’t Owned Media—It’s Granted Media

Email marketing has an unfortunate reputation as being owned media. It’s unfortunate because it doesn’t align marketers with their subscribers and inbox providers, who are the true owners of email. And that results in strategies and tactics that invariably end up hurting their email programs and their businesses. Some of you might…

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…

SEMrush’s Marketing Scoop Podcast: What Works Best for Email Marketing Now?

Marketing Scoop 2.33

How can content marketing and email marketing work together? That was the central question that AWeber’s Jill Fanslau and I tried to answer when we appeared on the Season 2, Episode 33 of SEMrush’s Marketing Scoop podcast. During the episode, we talked about: What’s changed in email marketing over the past few…

Industry Spotlight on Email Marketing at Nonprofits

Industry Spotlight: Email Marketing at Nonprofits

Every industry does email marketing a little differently. They have different goals, different business models, different conversion channels, different offers, and on and on. That’s definitely the case with nonprofits. Nonprofits tend to be fairly small compared to businesses in other industries. Their organizations are usually driven primarily by donations, and therefore…

Holistic Email Marketing: The State of Retail Email Subscribe Forms in 2018

With GDPR going into effect in May, many brands are having to make changes to their email sign-up processes to become compliant. But since you’re touching all of your subscriber acquisition sources anyway, why not optimize them so that they perform better? The State of Retail Email Subscribe Forms in 2018 from…

Webinar Recording + Q&A: Email Tactics Customers Hate

Email Tactics Customer Hate webinar recording

There’s a disconnect in today’s email marketing technology. While some tactics are helping brands get closer to their customers, others are undermining their return on investment by pushing customers away. For instance, 17% of brands are buying email addresses to grow their list and reach new prospects. However, many of those brands…