Seventh Sense is a powerful email optimization tool, but we recognize it's not always been straightforward to use or easy to maintain. Up until now, integrating Seventh Sense with nurture campaigns and multistep workflows has only been possible via webhooks and required a HubSpot Enterprise Subscription.

As a marketing agency, we’re all too familiar with the struggles of email engagement.

Customer interests and behaviors change constantly. But your quarterly goals and product promotion schedules don’t always line up with what your customers care about. Generalized emails and batch-and-blast campaigns often miss the target, resulting in lost revenue opportunities.

Over the past several years, Seventh Sense has primarily focused on helping businesses, organizations and educational institutions, use AI to understand and automate the process of sending emails to their audience at the most optimal time.

It’s vanity...it’s social proof…no, it’s subscriber counts!

First and foremost, I’m all for social proof as it’s one of the most valuable assets any company can have. 

Imagine this: Instead of sitting in a room brainstorming email subject lines or setting up countless A/B tests or spending hours each month pulling metrics, AI tools could handle these tasks and others, with minimal human involvement and at scale.

The origin of email goes back to 1971 when even the smallest computers required a wheelbarrow to transport. In the early days, computers were a tool used for a limited set of tasks, they were part of a job for some, but it was the introduction of the Blackberry, iPhone and Android in the 2000’s that brought our inboxes to our pockets.

I recently read a blog post by Seth Godin Please don't kill the blogs, which is an "open letter" to Google where he expresses his frustration with the way Gmail has been putting his subscribers’ blog notifications in their "Promotions" tab instead of in the Inbox.

The great part about email is that it means we can get work done no matter what time it is. Unfortunately, the not-so- great part about email is that it means we think we should get work done no matter what time it is. If you ask American professionals what their biggest source of stress and worry is at work, they’re likely to say it’s the anxiety they feel when looking at their email inboxes. Because emails pour into our inboxes constantly throughout the workday, we’re always aware that there’s a pile of questions sitting there waiting for us to answer them — some of which may be urgent.

As an entrepreneur with a vested interested in email, not so long ago I’d argue with anyone that email marketing wasn’t a commodity. A recent conversation with an industry colleague changed my perspective. Looking at Merriam-Webster, a commodity is a ‘mass-produced unspecialized product’. By that definition, the sending of old-fashioned email blasts is clearly a commodity. Everybody can (and likely does) do it.