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The Biggest Shifts in Email Marketing Trends for 2023
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Oracle Marketing Consulting: Issue 89

With the US set to formally declare the pandemic over…

Now is a good time to ensure that you understand your customers’ attitudes, desires, and goals. If you haven’t recently, consider doing customer surveys, organizing focus groups, analyzing customer engagement across your channels, prompting subscribers to update their preferences, and other things that get you a fresh view of your customers. Actively leverage those results to position your brand and finetune your messaging going into the second half of the year.

Clint Kaiser
Head of Analytic & Strategic Services,
Oracle Marketing Consulting

 
 

In this issue:

  • Unique concerns during this downturn
  • How to fill your content calendar
  • When to use plain text emails
  • Lessons from past recessions
 
 
 
Lauren Kimball and James Keating stress that industry, regulatory, and competitive forces won't ease up just because of the economic slowdown.

Continued Marketing Investments More Vital than during Past Downturns

When times get tough, brands rely even more on their marketing efforts. But that’s not the only reason to accelerate your marketing spend during this particular downturn.

 
4 more reasons
 
 
Oracle Marketing Consulting's Nick Cantu and Kelly Moran explain our step-by-step process of building out content calendars.

How to Fill Your Digital Marketing Content Calendar in 8 Steps

Here’s the approach that Oracle Marketing Consulting’s Creative Services team uses to build out content plans with our clients.

 
Build a strong calendar
 
 
Plain text emails have been largely supplanted by more capable and user-friendly HTML emails, but they still have their uses.

When and How to Use Plain Text Emails: Use Cases & Best Practices

The nostalgia for the simpler times of plain text emails can lead to overuse, especially for B2B marketers.

 
Explore use cases & best practices
 
 
Chad shares messaging strategies that brands used during the 2008-09 recession.
webbula

How Should Marketers Approach the Economic Downturn?

Oracle’s Chad S. White joins 11 other email experts in this Webbula roundup in sharing how marketers should approach this economic downturn based on our experiences with past ones.

 
Emerge stronger
 
 

Say What?

 

“While it probably won’t make sense to make every image in your emails retina images, we recommend that your logo absolutely be optimized for high-resolution screens. After all, a fuzzy logo makes a bad impression and raises unhealthy suspicions about the legitimacy of your email.”

 

Nick Cantu
Creative Director for Creative Services,
Oracle Marketing Consulting

 
 
 

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