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Oracle Marketing Consulting: Issue 81

As we head into the heart of the holiday season…

Make sure you’ve created a detailed, documented plan that maps out what you’ll do if performance metrics start to look soft. That plan should include confirming who is authorized to approve changes on the fly, as well as an agreed upon definition of what requires action and what does not. Having a playbook of supplemental campaigns and even audience filters pre‑built will give everyone a sense of comfort and control, and enable changes to go into effect as they’re needed.

Heather Goff
Strategic Director of Email Deliverability Services,
Oracle Marketing Consulting

 
 

In this issue:

  • Afraid to fail: 4 repercussions
  • 8 reasons to pause campaigns
  • MPP breaks open-triggers
  • Email and omnichannel
 
 
 
While athletes, entrepreneurs, and many other professionals have a healthy perspective on failure as a route to success, that’s not always the case with digital marketing professionals.
Only Influencers

Digital Marketers Are Afraid to Make Mistakes: 4 Negative Repercussions

A shockingly high 78% of digital marketers say they’re hesitant to admit to mistakes for fear of being fired or suffering other repercussions.

 
Why that’s a problem
 
 
The Sept. 8 passing of Queen Elizabeth II prompted many UK brands to suspend their digital marketing campaigns. Explore other reasons to hit pause.
CMSWIRE

8 Reasons to Pause Your Digital Marketing Campaigns

Sadly, brands have faced an increasing number of circumstances in which they’ve decided it was in their best interest to cancel or delay their digital marketing campaigns.

 
 Would you pause for these? 
 
 
None of these alternatives can replicate the experiences subscribers had prior to MPP, but some will get you fairly close.

MPP Breaks Open-Triggered Email Series: Pros & Cons of 8 Alternatives

The auto‑generated opens churned out by Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection are breaking open‑triggered journeys, which are particularly popular with B2B brands.

 
 Explore these 8 fixes 
 
 
People do not engage with channels,” says Chad. “They engage with brands.
One Signal

Email Is an Important Part of Omnichannel Journeys

Oracle’s Chad S. White joins Josh Wetzel on the OneSignal Podcast to talk about how email marketing works with other channels as part of an omnichannel strategy.

 
 Listen in 
 
 

Say What?

 

“Email design is a reflection of a marketer’s goals, so as Mail Privacy Protection has shifted email marketing KPIs, it has also shifted email design. The biggest change has been the migration down‑funnel away from opens to clicks as campaign goals.”

 

Jason Witt
VP, Executive Creative Director,
Oracle Marketing Consulting

 
 
 

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