MarTech’s email marketing experts to follow
Here are the email marketing experts to follow to stay on top of all the best practices and latest developments.
Email marketing isn’t easy. There are so many moving parts — personalization, permissions, frequency, readability, mail transfer agents, engagement, sender reputation, segmentation and much, much more. A mistake on any one of these and it doesn’t matter how good the rest are. Worse yet, today’s mistake may have been yesterday’s right thing to do.
To help you, we’ve put together the list of email marketers who always know the best practices and latest developments. This is who you have to follow if you don’t want your email campaigns getting left behind.
In alphabetical order, they are:
Jen Capstraw
With more than 20 years of experience in digital marketing, Jen has done it all. Her understanding of business and email has fueled her desire to help others, most notably as president and co-founder of Women of Email, an association of 8,000+ aimed at promoting leadership and cultivating professional growth among women in the email space. In addition to being founder and fractional evangelist for the Idea Empire consultancy, she is co-host and co-creator of the popular Humans of Email podcast. Catch up with her latest writings, videos, webinars and more here.
- Twitter: @JenCapstraw (3.9K followers)
- LinkedIn: JenCapstraw (4.3K followers)
Justine Jordan
“In a thousand years, I never thought I’d make a career out of email marketing,” Justine writes on her website, “but I can’t imagine it any other way. Dare I say it’s ‘been a blast’?” Her first email marketing job with ExactTarget (now Salesforce Marketing Cloud) got her hooked on the data-centered rationale behind email design. From there she went on to be CMO at Help Scout, the Email Experience Council’s 2015 Email Marketer Thought Leader of the Year, VP of Marketing at Litmus and now head of marketing at Wildbit.
- Company: Postmark
- Website: JustineJ
- Twitter: @meladorri (10.6K followers)
- LinkedIn: JustineJordan (2.6K followers)
Dan Oshinsky
Dan has gone from innovating the news to innovating newsletters and email. He started out in journalism creating a channel for long form news and the Tools For Reporters newsletter. He went from there to director of newsletters for BuzzFeed and The New Yorker magazine. He runs the email consultancy Inbox Collective and publishes the appropriately named Not A Newsletter. It’s “a monthly, semi-comprehensive, Google Doc-based guide to sending better emails” with 9,000+ subscribers.
- Company: Inbox Collective
- Website: DanOshinsky
- Twitter: @danoshinsky (5K followers)
- LinkedIn: DanOshinsky (3.6K followers)
Kath Pay
Hard to say which accomplishment Kath is best known for. It could be because she’s founder and CEO of Holistic Email Marketing? Perhaps. Or because she’s the author of the best-selling “Holistic Email Marketing: A practical philosophy to revolutionize your business and delight your customers.” Very possible. Or because she is a world-renowned speaker and trainer. Or possibly because she was named one of the top 50 email marketers in the world by Vocus. She is certainly well-known for the many popular articles she’s written for MarTech. Read her blog here.
- Company: Holistic Email Marketing
- Website: Holistic Blog
- Twitter: @KathPay (7.8K followers)
- LinkedIn: KathPay (7.4k followers)
Ryan Phelan
Ryan is truly an old-hand at email marketing. The co-founder of and managing partner RPEOrigin, he has more than two decades of global marketing leadership for high-growth SaaS and Fortune 250 companies. He knows email from the big picture to the latest coding trends. That’s why he is Chairman Emeritus of the Email Experience Council Advisory Board. A popular and frequent MarTech writer, you can also read his personal blog here.
- Company: RPEOrigin
- Twitter: @ryanpphelan (6.2K followers)
- LinkedIn: RyanPhelan (2.6K followers)
Dela Quist
Dela is internationally renowned for his innovative use of data analysis to challenge myths and preconceptions in email marketing. He is a true pioneer in the field who began using email as a marketing channel back in the 1990s. Today he is founder and CMO of Alchemy Worx, an audience management agency specializing in email marketing, SMS marketing, and paid social. And one other thing, he was the ANA Email Experience Council’s 2022 Email Marketing Thought Leader of the Year.
- Company: Alchemy Worx
- Twitter: @delaquist (4.2K followers)
- LinkedIn: DelaQuist (7.5K followers)
Elliot Ross
Currently the technology evangelist MessageBird, Elliot loves to help other email marketers. He is managing director/founder Look at Action Rocket, the creative studio for emailers, where he is managing director and founder. He’s also CEO and co-founder of Taxi for Email, an app that helps marketers make better email. He hosts of EmailTalks podcast and is a regular conference speaker on email design. Even with all that he appears to have some spare time, which he spends as member of the Best Practice Hub of the DMA Email Council.
- Company: MessageBird
- Website: Elliot-Ross
- Twitter: @IamElliot (8.4K followers)
- LinkedIn: IamElliott (3.8K followers)
Individuals included on MarTech Experts to Follow lists post currently, frequently and substantively, on the specific topic of the list. The volume of social media followers is also taken into account to validate that list member posts are of interest to a wide audience.
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