Is CAN-SPAM Now Meaningless?

Is the Anti-Spam Law CAN-SPAM Now Meaningless?

The US’s anti-spam law, The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act, was passed way back in 2003. That was well before much stronger anti-spam laws were passed in other countries, most notably CASL in Canada and GDPR in the EU, which have set email marketing standards for multinational…

The Business Storytelling Show: The Email Marketing Rules to Follow

Email Marketing Rules to Follow

Some email marketing rules are legally required. Others are essentially required by inbox providers. And still others are driven by the expectations of subscribers. That was the core of the conversation I had with The Business Storytelling Show podcast host Christoph Trappe about email marketing and the 4th edition of Email Marketing…

7 Ways to Get More Email Clicks in the Age of MPP

How 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…

4 Ways to Maximize Double Opt-In Confirmations

4 Ways to Maximize Double Opt-In Confirmations

One of the many impacts of Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection is that it’s now significantly more difficult to determine whether a subscriber is active or inactive. This challenge has led to a decline in deliverability rates and contributed to a spike in Spamhaus listings, with many marketers feeling forced to take greater…

Inboxing Podcast: Special Guest Chad White

Inboxing Podcast with 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…

The Evolving Use of the Email Snooze

The Evolving Use of Snooze in Email Marketing

The email snooze began humbly as a way to reduce unsubscribes during brands’ highest volume times of the year. Positioned before “unsubscribe” on the unsubscribe page, the snooze option would let a subscriber pause their subscription for, say, 30 days or until the end of the selling season, such as the holiday…

Audience Acquisition Source Ideas to Explore: An Oracle Consulting Checklist

Audience Acquisition Source Ideas to Explore

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…

Dyspatch: 11 Quick Tips to Avoid the Email Spam Folder

11 Quick Tips to Avoid the Email Spam Folder

There are no sneaky loopholes to trick the algorithms. But there are rules and tips you can use to hit the inbox and avoid the spam folder. In this post, Dyspatch talks with me and three other email experts to assemble 11 quick, proven ways to send emails that always land in…

Our Top Learnings from Launching the Oracle CX Marketing Consulting Newsletter

Our Top Learnings from Launching the Oracle CX Marketing Consulting Newsletter

We launched our first issue of the twice-monthly Oracle CX Marketing Consulting Newsletter on Oct. 15, 2019. Since then, we’ve sent 30 issues. We’ve learned a lot from launching it, as well as from running it for a year. Rather than keep these learnings to ourselves, the newsletter team and I wanted…

ZeroBounce: Focus on Managing Subscribers, Not Campaigns

ZeroBounce interview with Chad S White

I recently joined Corina Leslie for an interview on the ZeroBounce Blog. We talked about everything from how to learn more about email marketing to the biggest mistakes email marketers make to what to keep in mind this holiday season. For instance, Corina asked… How did you get into email marketing? How…