Email Marketing RulesWebinar: 8 Trends That Will Define the Future of Email Marketing
Email marketing has experienced great shifts in recent years, and is poised to undergo dramatic changes before the end of the decade. We explored the future of the channel in our recent “Email Marketing in 2020” report, where we asked 20 experts to share their vision for how email will change over…
The 3 Kinds of Inactive Email Subscribers and How to Manage Each of Them
Your inactive email subscribers are not all the same, so you need different strategies for addressing them. By my count, there are 3 different kinds of inactives: Never-Actives, who are new subscribers who have never engaged Lapsed Customer Inactives, who are inactive subscribers who have also become inactive customers Current Customer Inactives,…
20 Predictions from 20 Experts about Email Marketing in 2020
How will email marketing change by the end of the decade?” That’s the question we posed to 20 experts for our Email Marketing in 2020 report. Their answers predict dramatic changes in personalization, automation, interactivity, compliance, and much more. In this SlideShare, we’ve selected our favorite prediction from each of our 20…
My Predictions for What Email Marketing Will Look Like in the Year 2020
In honor of Leap Day, Litmus asked 20 email experts what their vision was for the channel in the year 2020, which is when the next Leap Day will be. Their Email Marketing in 2020 predictions covered everything from inbox functionality to email service provider functionality, and from legislation to personalization. Of…
Email Marketing in 2020 Report
Email marketing is not for the faint of heart. The channel is constantly evolving—whether mobile devices and wearables are redefining email design, inbox providers are redefining engagement and deliverability, or ESPs are redefining personalization and targeting. All this change means that marketers are always reacting, learning, and planning for the future as…
Following the Big Data Breadcrumbs to Email Insights
The scale at which consumers generate data across web, social, mobile, offline, and other channels is truly staggering. To compete and serve our customers well, the scale at which we sort through all that data for actionable insights needs to match. Enter Big Data. Matt Laudato, Senior Manager of Big Data Analytics…
Going Beyond Demographic Segmentation & Finding the Right Segments
Achieving one-to-one messaging is a great goal, but reducing our reliance on one-to-all broadcast messaging is probably a better, more realistic goal for most brands. This is where the one-to-some of segmented messaging can be very powerful. Jen Rhee, Email Marketing Manager at online learning marketplace Udemy, knows a lot about segmentation…
Different Subscriber Segments Require Different Success Metrics
Our subscribers aren’t all the same. They have different goals, which means that marketers should have different strategies for optimizing those relationships and measuring the success of those relationships. Vicky Ge, Marketing Manager, Trade Books, at Amazon.com, is very mindful of the different audiences that the ecommerce giant serves. At The Email…
The Shadow War for Holiday Email Marketing Victory
Retailers have long been concerned about tipping their hands to competitors, particularly during the critical holiday season. Using more personalization, segmentation, and triggered messaging increases the fog of war, making it more difficult for competitors to broadly know what you’re doing, especially when these strategies account for a majority of program revenue….
10 Tips to Get Your Email Marketing Program Ready for the Holiday Season
It’s November, which means that it’s official: The holiday season is here! Retailers, hopefully you’ve been warming up your subscribers and generating some early holiday sales over the past month or two, but now things start getting serious. To help you make the most of the holiday season, here are 10 tips…
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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