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.

What would happen if we sent our monthly email newsletter at the worst engagement time vs. using send time optimization over 24-hours?

For Marketo users with email lists spanning multiple time zones, enabling the recipient timezone sending feature on email marketing campaigns is a no-brainer. Without recipient timezone sending enabled, your Marketo mail blast sent out at 9 am EST will reach your west coast readers at 6am.

If your list consists solely of early rising CEO’s, this is perfect, but most data shows open rates peak between 8-10 am.

Wait til 9 am PST?

(Warning, this blogpost may contain sarcasm)

I get asked the question “what's the best time to send email?” on a regular basis. I’m happy to report there is finally a clear-cut answer:

5pm on Tuesday.

Yes. According to Inc. Magazine after analyzing 1.5 billion emails,

How's your lead generation process? If you could use a little help finding more qualified leads, email marketing can provide a variety of solutions.

Collecting email addresses is a routine part of a digital marketer’s job, but how do you know if what you are receiving is quality? Just because you get a new subscriber does not mean the account is real, or that a typo did not happen. That’s where the importance of email verification comes in.

Between revelations about Facebook logging Android data and Mark Zuckerberg set to testify before Congress about Cambridge Analytica, Facebook had a bad month.

“Any social media platform, in time, is going to become MySpace,” said Sabretooth Advisors chief investment officer Scott Freeze in a recent MarketWatch article, “Nobody young uses Facebook.”