Email Marketing RulesFive Ways to Personalize Emails for New Subscribers
Marketers know that personalization is key to both increasing performance and boosting retention and loyalty. However, early in a new subscriber relationship, many marketers struggle to create relevant emails due to a lack of data. However, sometimes this lack of data is due to poor integration, missed data collection opportunities, and gaps…
Welcome Email Best Practices
When someone signs up to receive your promotional emails, it marks the start of what is hopefully a long and mutually beneficial relationship. Start it off right by sending the most effective welcome email possible. Here are nine best practices to follow: Send welcomes immediately. Use a marketing-appropriate sender name. Use a…
7 Ways to Get More Email Clicks in the Age of MPP
By flooding email service providers with auto-generated opens, Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) has substantially devalued email opens and dramatically increased the value of the next most common email action—clicks. In the wake of MPP, clicks have become much more important in two critical areas of email marketing. First, clicks have become…
Received 100+ Welcome Emails. Here’s What I Learned
I shared takeaways from having signed up for promotional emails from 100 brands in my CMSWire last column, so for this one I want to share what happened next: I received a lot of welcome emails! But that’s not to say there weren’t some surprises. There were. Here are my key takeaways…
10 Common Email Marketing Mistakes that Are *Fairly* Easy to Fix
Email marketing is a complicated interplay of tactics and strategies, and it’s easy to make mistakes. I recently wrote about 10 common email marketing mistakes that are easy to fix, and now I’d like to share another 10 common mistakes with fixes that are slightly more involved, but still very much worth…
The Definitive Guide to Adapting to Mail Privacy Protection
Prior to the launch of Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) by Apple in the fall of 2021, marketers could easily see the engagement of their subscribers and reliably manage their email deliverability by following best practices established over the course of more than a decade. However, MPP has blurred marketers’ visibility into engagement…
Automated Campaign Ideas to Explore: An Oracle Consulting Checklist
Checklists can inspire you, help you identify gaps, allow you to take inventory, and provide an easy-to-follow action plan. At Oracle Marketing Consulting, we use checklists all the time with our clients. In fact, we love them so much that we wanted to share some of our most useful checklists, including this…
The Future of Travel: Long-Term & Short-Term Recommendations
No industry has been more heavily impacted by social distancing, government-mandated health and safety restrictions, and regional and countrywide lockdowns than travel and hospitality companies. Even once travel restrictions are completely lifted, marketers within these businesses will have the tricky job of messaging to consumers who are reluctant to take trips for…
On-Demand Webinar: The Email Subscriber Lifecycle
To nourish and grow an email relationship, you need to cater to your subscribers’ needs and wants throughout the entire subscriber lifecycle. That means developing tactics to address the major subscriber moments from beginning to end. During this free 44-minute on-demand webinar, I discuss: The six stages of the subscriber lifecycle, from…
Report: Live Optimization Notebook on Welcome and Onboarding Emails
Creating effective welcome and onboarding emails is hard—and many of your peers are struggling with the very same challenge. In this notebook, onboarding email expert Val Geisler, Litmus Community & Product Evangelist Jason Rodriguez and I review welcome emails submitted by fellow email marketers and provide hands-on copywriting suggestions, design feedback, and…
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
GVP of CRM Strategy
Zeta Global
Author of Email Marketing Rules and nearly 4,000 articles about digital and email marketing
