Let’s address the elephant in the room that everyone’s going ‘Gaga’ about. Open AI’s Generative Language model - Chat GPT. In just a few months, it's become clear that Chat GPT could potentially bring massive disruptions to marketing, development, and search. Across conversations with my marketing colleagues at KITABOO, some common...

Ask the Expert: Can you share a recent email marketing tactic, strategy, or experiment that you implemented to boost performance? Could you also share the results and provide any suggestions to those who might want to try it out? Yanna-Torry Aspraki Deliverability Specialist & CRO EmailConsul In the ever-evolving world of...

Last month Jacob Wenger, co-founder of Shortwave, was a guest on The Future Of Email podcast series, hosted by yours truly. Shortwave provides a mobile and web email client — “Intelligent email, powered by AI.”  Jacob and his colleagues have been working on this for several years — before ChatGPT blew...

I'm not exaggerating (much) when I say email testing is my life. Whenever I meet with a new email marketing team, one of my first questions is "What kind of email testing do you do?" That's why I ran  a poll on LinkedIn where I asked people, "What is your main...

Personalization. Automation. Metrics. Audience segmentation. Deliverability. And now, ChatGPT. These are the buzzwords that dominate discussions in the world of email marketing. The intriguing, sexy side of the job, if you will. But there's one more term that, though often overlooked and admittedly less glamorous, plays an equally pivotal role: documentation....

AI and its associated technologies like ChatGPT have been major discussion topics at the martech conferences I've been to this year, not just on the stages but in conversations after sessions and during all the networking sessions. We're not just talking about what these models are, but how marketers are using...

The Email Innovations Summit 2023 is just around the corner (June 19-21, 2023), and it promises to be one of the best ever! Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend this year's summit, and I am feeling disappointed about missing out on what promises to be an amazing event. For those...

A while ago I saw a press release from an ESP claiming to be net zero. At the same time, I was actively taking an interest in all things green having taken on an electric car. This seems to be the net zero version of a gateway drug to becoming obsessed...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) appears to be going through a bit of a renaissance of late. With the explosion into the public eye of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Midjourney to name just a few, it seems every tech company in Silicon Valley is becoming more public with their investments into the world of...

Imagine driving your car with the dashboard covered. You see the road ahead but can't see or hear any warnings or indicators telling you something is wrong with your car. There is no speedometer telling you that you are speeding. There is no way to know if the engine is overheating...

Summary: With AI creating time efficiency on many tasks, marketers can (and should) increase their focus on creating richer, more connected, and more customer-centric content. By adding personality and emotion to emails, we can develop conversations beyond simple communication. As an example, I explore how a hotel's well-crafted webpages and emails,...

Unsolicited emails, cold emails, and spam are a hot topic for the Only Influencers crowd as well as email professionals. There is a great deal of uncertainty regarding what constitutes spam, cold email, and illegal email. Many people mistakenly believe that all unsolicited or cold emails are spam, and that spam...

Recently I have been back in the air travelling again. Like many of us, it's been a long time since I got into a plane seat. But as with everything, you quickly get back into the same old habits and routines! What I have found interesting are my customer expectation levels....

Personalisation is a phrase that every marketer is all too familiar with. But far from being a buzzword, personalisation has been proven to have a significant impact on customer loyalty. And businesses who invest in personalised experiences are benefitting from repeat purchases, customer loyalty, and brand advocacy. In this post I...

This is a story about how you may unknowingly be a spammer. Ok, let me rephrase, you may unknowingly look like a spammer. And I say spammer because nowadays in the mailbox providers' eyes, unwanted mail is spam mail. SOME BACKGROUND I consult with a number of different senders with different...

The email marketing landscape is changing rapidly, and what worked years ago may not work today. ISPs now consider a variety of factors to decide if our emails reach their customers. As such, we must continuously strategize new initiatives to remain successful in this ever-evolving ecosystem. All ISPs strive to protect...

Are you spending your working hours efficiently? Can you unlock the full power of email marketing and achieve the highest ROI possible with your current approach? If you read my previous article for OI, you already know that I’m a huge fan of the resource-efficient approach in marketing: I believe that...

I’m not usually one to make assumptions. There’s an old saying about what happens when you assume things (you make an a$$ out of you and me). But, I’m going to ignore that advice and assume that just about anyone reading this has now heard about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how...

With an updated and greatly expanded 4th edition of my book, Email Marketing Rules, out this month, I wanted to look back at the predictions I made about the future of email marketing in the 3rd edition nearly six years ago. I predicted 11 changes would occur in the next 10...

A year back I started a new job as an Outbound marketing specialist in a demand generation team at Hurix . I call it the year of being uncomfortable… Transitioning from a product marketing to an outbound role was challenging but also interesting. A year into the role, I have seen...