Infographic: 2017 Shopping Cart Abandonment Email Trends

The majority of online shoppers abandon their shopping baskets. Some return on their own and convert, and some will never convert no matter what. However, some of those cart abandoners benefit from a nudge from a well-timed and smartly messaged shopping cart abandonment email. Whether you currently have a cart abandonment email…

I’m a Who in Phrasee’s ‘Who to Follow’ Series

I’m excited to be the latest to be interviewed for Phrasee’s fun ‘Who to Follow’ Series. We talk about the new edition of my book, Email Marketing Rules, and where email marketers go wrong with metrics and subject lines. We also talk about what the future holds for email marketers and how…

LiveIntent’s Everything Email Podcast: The 6 Stages of the Subscriber Lifecycle and More

In this episode of the Everything Email Podcast, I join the show’s hosts, Ali Swerdlow and Kerel Cooper, to discuss: The 6 stages of the subscriber lifecycle: acquisition, onboarding, engagement, super-engagement, re-engagement, and transition How email attention spans have increased over the past 6 years Email virality, including what drives it, what…

Marketing Cloudcast: It’s 2017. Are You Still Making These Email Marketing Mistakes?

I was fortunate to be asked back to be a guest again on Salesforce’s Marketing Cloudcast, which is hosted by Heike Young and Joel Book. During the 34-minute episode, we discussed the upcoming 3rd edition of my book, Email Marketing Rules, and what has changed over the years and is on the…

Top Email Marketing Trends of 2017

Litmus asked more than 1,200 marketers which of the following six promising email marketing trends they were most excited about for 2017: Interactive emails Email encryption HTML5 video in email Big Data personalization in emails Omnichannel email experiences Automated emails None of those trends got the majority of respondents excited, so we…

The Evolution of Email Marketing: Past and Future

Anyone who says email hasn’t changed much in the past few decades is simply demonstrating that they don’t know much about email. It’s a dangerous mistake for brands to underestimate the evolution of email marketing over the past couple of decades, as it sets them up to not be agile enough to…

17 Ecommerce Marketing Trends for 2017

Ometria asked me and 16 other experts what we thought would be big in ecommerce marketing in 2017. Predicted trends included a focus on content, understanding customer journeys, the rise of social commerce, a consolidation of retailers’ technology stack, and more. My prediction about e-commerce marketing next year centers around broadcast vs….

The (Largely Invisible) Key to Holiday Email Marketing Success

Most retailers are in serious planning mode for their holiday season promotional campaigns. We’ll start to see a sprinkling of holiday email marketing campaigns in the weeks ahead—and then holiday messaging will get going in earnest on Halloween and the days following. In light of the planning that’s currently going on, Vaida…

Holiday Email Marketing: 4 Reasons to Start Planning Now!

Black Friday, the unofficial start of the holiday season, is just a little more than three months away—and 80% of marketers haven’t begun planning their holiday email marketing campaigns yet. Here are four reasons that email marketers should be planning further out for peak season campaigns like holiday campaigns: Most retailers send…

Innovative Partner Interview with Movable Ink

I recently spoke with Movable Ink, which just integrated Litmus’ Instant Previews into their platform. Here are the questions they asked me: How does email marketing fit into the larger digital marketing picture? How have you seen email greatly impact your business? When is email data most critical to your efforts: During…