There’s a myth in the marketplace of how “third-party data is dead,” especially given the significant changes in policies, privacy and compliance requirements. Some brands think third-party data leads to cost inefficiencies, but typically, these brands are leveraging data from an unknown, non-validated source resulting in poor data quality.

In the ever-changing world of email marketing, it can be difficult to know where to invest your time and energy. To help you prioritize your email marketing efforts this year, we surveyed Oracle CX Marketing Consulting’s more than 500 digital marketing experts, asking them to rate the current adoption of a range of email marketing technologies and tactics as well as their predicted impact during…

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed as a content marketer. After all, you’re competing with the internet, where thousands of new blog posts are being published by the minute. Literally. About 4.4M blog posts are published per day, which works out to about 3000 posts every 60 seconds. And somewhere in that never ending flurry of content, you have to make sure your post gets noticed.…

Let’s cut to the chase. Simply put, mailbox providers (MBPs) are the gatekeepers between your email and your subscribers. Using proprietary algorithms, they filter your email into the appropriate place, be it the proper tab, the spam folder, or the inbox in general. Marketers who are serious about their email ROI are also serious about their deliverability, and by using email analytics, you can start…

It’s been a light blogging month. We’ve been dancing around getting the final plans, financing, and contractors set up for the work we’re doing on the Dublin house and then heading off for our first actual vacation in almost 5 years. But, I wrote half of this answering a question on mailop, so I may as well polish and publish. What is FCrDNS FCrDNS stands…

Developing a compelling email strategy can be difficult. We've found that email manners and etiquette are key to optimizing conversions. Enter our latest guide, Email Manners: A Tale of Two Senders! The post Announcing Email Manners: A Tale of Two Senders appeared first on SendGrid.

Understanding the ever-changing rules of email deliverability takes considerable time and resources. But misunderstanding them can be very costly! Join me and Oracle CX Marketing Consulting’s Email Deliverability Services team for our half-day Email Deliverability Summit, where we’ll cut through all the outdated and outright wrong information you might have read online and give you the latest and most valuable advice about inbox placement. Each…

Learn about the Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) process, pros, and cons to decide if BYOIP is the right solution for your email program. The post Is BYOIP Right for Your Email Program? appeared first on SendGrid.

The first-party data landscape for many traditional CPG brands can be challenging. Most brands lack possession of the transactional relationship that fuels consumer data and is often preserved by grocers and big-box retailers.

Moving email data from one platform to another happens all the time. Perhaps you're switching ESPs or adopting a new CRM or marketing tool. With the MarTech landscape changing as frequently as it does, chances are at some point you'll be tasked with moving a large volume of customer data to another platform. In a recent guest blog post, written for Campaign Monitor, Kickbox Marketing…

Building out your audience and then segmenting that audience to ensure you’re delivering the right message to the right people is critical. However, it can be confusing to determine how best to improve your efforts. That’s why Oracle developed the Marketing Maturity Model, which helps you determine where your organization is in developing its various capabilities and what should be done to enhance those capabilities.…

Lately, everything in marketing is all about “data-driven” and “data-based decisions,” or my favorite, “there’s no place for sentiments, only data.” Then, someone asks me for an opinion about their Facebook Ads performance, and there’s nothing that helps make those “data-based decisions.” That’s why I decided to prepare this guide on how to use Facebook Pixel. Placing a Pixel is the very first step of…

Anyone can create a landing page; it’s easy.  But if you’ve browsed the Internet for any amount of time, odds are you’ve come across numerous landing pages that barely hold your attention for 10 seconds. Now, you sure don’t want your page to be like that — scaring people off once they land on it. You want to build a web page that holds your…

It's important to ensure you're tracking the proper deliverability metrics in order to properly identify and mitigate email deliverability issues when they arise. If you're not familiar with how your email program is performing, it will be difficult to understand the impact those issues have on your business and email program. We asked email deliverability experts Alyssa Dulin from ConvertKit, Chaitanya Chinta from Netcore and…

The best things in life are free, and thus we asked a couple of our most savvy email experts to list and explain some of the best free email development features in this edition of our Email Experts Series. From unsubscribe headers making subscribers’ lives a little easier (helping you reduce your number of spam complaints) to branded links and images to keep your sender…

According to the UK DMA, marketers report improvements in deliverability after GDPR went into effect. I mean, thank you UK DMA for doing the research. Of course deliverability is going to improve when you send mail to those people who have expressly opted into your mail. 76% report an increase in open rates in the past 12 months; 75% say click- throughs are higher; 51%…

In Part 1 of this series on personalization, we discussed the importance of responsiveness and reacting to customer behaviors. These leading indicators of activities you want to accelerate or mitigate in a timely fashion are key to building a highly personalized brand experience. Let’s say you’ve nailed that though. What’s next? Data-driven relationship marketing, which takes a huge step toward meeting customers’ ever-growing expectations. There…

Verizon Media is one of the largest inbox providers in the world, and Anthony Chiulli, our director of product marketing, was lucky enough to be able to talk directly with Marcel Becker, Verizon Media’s director of product management, at a recent email industry event for our Email on Tap video series. Marcel has deep insight into how the email industry works, and how email marketers…

No Bullsh*t Advice From Email Experts The email newsletter still has a place in your email marketing strategy. Does yours check all of these boxes? Find out how to serve up a newsletter your subscribers will find irresistible. This month, we asked email marketing experts from Campaign Monitor, AWeber, eFocus Marketing, Mailninja, Email On Acid, & Email Uplers to share their thoughts on what it…

Over the last few years, the popularity of Instagram has significantly influenced consumer behavior. Not only do shoppers turn to Instagram for product discovery, but they also buy products in-app. Instagram has great sales potential for ecommerce brands. So, if you want to run Instagram ad campaigns on budget, it’s important to learn from other companies and their best practices.Over 25 million businesses use Instagram…