Why hypothesis-driven testing transforms your email marketing strategy A/B testing in email marketing is everywhere. But truly strategic, insight-generating tests? They’re rare. Why? Because too often, marketers jump into testing without the one thing that turns a test from a gamble into a learning tool: a hypothesis. Without a clear hypothesis, tests become random stabs… keep reading →
One of the most common “shortcuts” I see in email marketing is this: Test two variants on 10% each of your audience. Send the winner to the remaining 80%. Sounds efficient, right? But in truth, this 10/10/80 split is a gamble. It cuts corners and can do more harm than good, especially if your goal… keep reading →
Yes, email is the most misunderstood marketing channel in your digital stack Email isn’t just a communication channel. It’s your richest source of behavioural insights from email—a built-in testing lab, a conversion engine, and an audience microscope, all in one dashboard. Email can be a powerful audience microscope and your most controllable growth lever …… keep reading →
Life in the marketing trenches can be an exercise of stressful tunnel vision. There can be so much pressure to get the next campaign out the door that there’s no time to sit back and look at the big picture. To achieve anything more than fumbling blindly in the dark marketers need a strategy. This… keep reading →
Here’s what email marketers should and shouldn’t do to manage inactive subscribers and rebuild engagement. I thought I could get through 2023 without having to address a perennial problem for email marketers: how to manage seemingly unengaged subscribers without cutting them off. I was wrong. On Dec. 1, Google removed accounts people created over two years ago… keep reading →