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Garin Hobbs

VP of Client Success and Strategy

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InboxArmy LLC

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Email Marketing
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Retention Marketing
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Ecommerce
Multi-Channel Marketing

About Author

Garin Hobbs is a seasoned Martech and Marketing professional with over 20 years of successful product marketing, customer success, strategy, and sales experience. With a career spanning across ESPs, agencies, and technology providers, Garin is recognized for his broad experience in growing email impact and revenue, helping launch new programs and products, and developing the strategies and thought leadership to support them.  Understanding how to optimally align people, process, and technology to produce meaningful outcomes, Garin has worked to deliver sustainable improvements in consumer experience and program revenue for such brands as Gap, Starbucks, Macy’s, Foot Locker, Bank of America, United Airlines, and Hilton Hotels.

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Retailers need e-commerce to survive an economy in limbo

The economy is neither fully open, nor fully closed. We call this limbo.  In a close-up view, the world seems to be standing relatively  

Ask an Iterator: Garin Hobbs on Personalization

Personalization. You know you need to do it, but you just need to know how—in a way that’s both effective and efficient. The good

11 Customer experience related predictions for 2021

Last year I wrote that I don’t like prediction pieces. Then, I broke my own rule, and I compiled a series of predictions that had

DIGITAL DISRUPTORS: How Mobile Apps are Reshaping the Financial Sector

The advent of Mobile has created a radical shift in the financial industry. Standing out in the Fintech marketplace is becoming

Marketers Need to Rethink Strategies for Attracting Younger Generations

While younger generations were more digitally equipped to accommodate the demands of the pandemic, financially they’ve

First-Party and Zero-Party Data: The Path Forward

The last few years have imposed a lot of heavy acronyms imposed upon marketers. GDPR, CCPA, and IDFA to name a

How to Engage All Generations this Holiday

The end-of-year shopping season is always an important time for brands, but this year, the season has assumed a particularly

Retailers Embrace Mobile As Pandemic Holiday Shopping Ramps Up

As retailers prepare for the holidays and look for better ways to cater to customers’ new online and offline shopping habits, mobile

The Value of Personalized Marketing for Ecommerce

A well-executed personalized marketing program may resemble person-to-person conversations like those a shopper could

Brands Struggle to Strike the Right Tone This Holiday Season

It’s not even November, but the holiday shopping season has already begun. With nearly two-thirds of consumers saying the

Avoiding the High Costs of Shopping Cart Abandonment

Shopping cart abandonment costs brands billions of dollars each year, and yet much of it can be avoided through better customer

Transformation or Modernization: What Does Your Tech Stack Need?

Upgrades to technology doesn’t always have to mean a full digital transformation, sometimes modernization can get your

5 Steps to Building an Effective Growth Marketing Strategy

Growth Marketing. You may think that it’s one of those ever-present business buzzwords we always hear.  But unlike terms

3 Common Pitfalls of Segmentation and How to Avoid Them

When it comes to user segmentation—the first of the four core pillars of personalization—you can’t have a one-to-one conversation

How to Address Product Scarcity This Holiday Season

The end-of-year shopping season is always an important time for brands, but this year, the season has assumed a particularly

5 Common Mistakes to Avoid While Building a Holistic Customer Experience Strategy

Customer experience matters, in fact, many think it will surpass price and product as the main brand differentiator. Avoid these pitfalls.

Amazon Reports $5.2B in Net Income, Cruises Past Estimates

Amazon’s second-quarter earnings made one thing perfectly clear: If there was a king of retail for the coronavirus era, it would

Does Your Customer Experience Grow With Your Company?

Customer experiences that worked when your company was a small start-up won't necessarily scale as your organization grows.

Should Marketers Give Up On Personalization?

Now, this may seem a somewhat alarmist point of view, but what’s missing is the context, and I think it’s this…It’s a fairly

The Death of Personalization: Inevitable or Exaggerated?

2020: It wouldn’t be a new year without a passel of prophecies and things to come. Each industry has its fair share of oracles and

Nonprofit Email Marketing: Strategies & Tips

Why Is Email Marketing Crucial For Nonprofits? Email marketing gives nonprofits a direct channel to engage supporters, share accomplishments, and improve donations. Our team has watched organizations build donor relationships through email that paid ads and social posts never produced. Email also costs little per send, so small teams can reach thousands of people with […]

Halloween Email Marketing: 15 Real Examples & Campaign Ideas

Why Halloween Email Marketing Matters Halloween email marketing matters because it gives brands a dependable seasonal reason to reach the inbox before holiday shopping begins. Halloween gives brands an audience that is already spending, and email reaches that audience before the money leaves. Shoppers spend heavily: NRF projects $13.5 billion in 2026 spending, which maintains […]

Agentic Commerce: What It Means for Email Marketing?

Shopify’s push into agentic commerce is a real shift in how products get discovered and bought, not just another AI feature announcement. AI agents in ChatGPT, Google AI, and Copilot can now surface Shopify products directly inside a conversation, and in supported environments, complete the purchase without the shopper ever landing on the store’s website. […]

7 Email Marketing Mistakes Costing Ecommerce Brands

The email mistakes that actually cost the most aren’t the obvious ones. They’re not typos in a subject line or a broken discount code. They’re structural, and they’re the kind that let a program keep sending, keep “performing” and keep quietly losing revenue for months before anyone traces it back to the cause. A good ecommerce […]

How to Grow Ecommerce Sales Without Increasing Your Ad Spend

Every ecommerce brand eventually runs into the same math problem: acquisition costs keep climbing, ad platforms keep changing their rules, and revenue growth starts costing more than it did a year ago just to stay flat. Paid ads still have a place, but building your growth plan entirely around them is a fragile strategy, especially […]

How to Build an Email Campaign That’s Fully Optimized for Mobile

As an email marketing agency working across ecommerce, healthcare and B2B accounts, we open a lot of client campaigns on a phone before we open them anywhere else. That’s usually where the problems show up first, and it’s usually where brands notice them last. A button that’s perfectly clickable on a 27-inch monitor turns into a […]

Post-Purchase Email Guide: Types, Timing & 12 Examples

At InboxArmy, we build post-purchase emails for ecommerce brands across nearly every category, and the pattern is always the same. Brands pour their budget into acquisition, land the first sale, then send a confirmation email and go quiet. That silence right after checkout is where retention dies. This guide walks through the post-purchase email flows […]

Mailtrap vs SendGrid vs Mailgun: Best SMTP Services Compared

Roughly 376 billion emails are sent and received globally every day. A meaningful share of those are transactional – password resets, order confirmations, shipping alerts – emails users actually expect and open.  For developers and dev-led teams responsible for sending them, choosing the right SMTP service is one of those quiet infrastructure decisions with an […]

Podcast

Episode 2: Operative vs. Performative AI with Garin Hobbs of InboxArmy

We keep it in-house this episode. Scott Cohen and Garin Hobbs discuss AI in email marketing and how there are differences between “Operative” AI and “Performative” AI. We also discuss the importance of human expertise as well as the limitations of AI in fully understanding and responding to human emotions and motivations.