SEVENTH SENSE BLOG

7 Ways Seventh Sense is Good for Your Health

 Do you feel stressed? You're not alone.

80% of marketers feel overloaded and understaffed and 1 in 4 say they experience "high stress" on a daily basis. Salespeople are stressed too. According to Hubspot, seven in ten sales managers say “challenging” is the number one way they’d describe their role.

I guess it's not surprising that some of the most common feedback we get from customers is that Seventh Sense makes their lives less stressful. Higher ROI from email is great, but its the "email insurance policy" that comes with sending email out over a longer time drastically reduces the likelihood of those "high stress" moments.

11 Email Marketing Frequency Best Practices for 2018

An insurance company increased revenue by 45% by sending MORE email. An ecommerce store’s revenue drops 30% after adding a weekly email newsletter. These are both examples of the powerful effects changes to email cadence can have on your bottom line. We all know finding the right email cadence is important, but figuring out exactly how often to send marketing emails is not always straightforward. This list of email marketing frequency best practices for 2018 contains the latest research on best practices, and was created to give you the tools to identify the perfect email cadence for your organization.

8 Reasons NOT to Use Send Time Optimization

It’s no secret I’m a big fan of using machine learning to improve the email experience for marketers, salespeople and their customers. But the truth is, send time optimization is NOT for everybody.

Are your emails going directly to spam?

A few weeks ago I decided to conduct a little experiment on email deliverability. I created a new Gmail account and subscribed to the email lists of several dozen ecommerce companies who all use the same well-respected marketing automation platform for email delivery.

The results were shocking, but not entirely unpredictable. While some companies welcome emails made it to my inbox, many went directly to spam, and the majority ended up in my promotions folder.

6 Beautiful Ecommerce Email Examples to Inspire Yours

Every ecommerce entrepreneur knows that the foundation of your online store lies in its marketing efforts — and email is still one of the sector’s top marketing channels.

Email marketing is cheap, efficient, and flexible, and forms the backbone of pretty much every ecommerce strategy.

Update: The Best Time to Send Email Has Been Found

(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,

9 Ecommerce Email Marketing Best Practices You Need to Know

Ecommerce email marketing may not be the sexiest form of advertising but there’s no question its one of the most cost-effective ways to scale an ecommerce business. With an ROI of over 3800%, 56% of marketers say email is their top-performing channel for customer retention.

4 Data-Backed Ways to Use Email for Lead Generation

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.

Email marketing offers simple, cost-effective ways to identify leads and get them into your sales funnel – and research proves it.

Email Verification and Why It’s Important

Collecting email addresses is a routine part of a digital marketer’s job, but how do you know if the 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.

Are you still playing punch the monkey? (and why you're probably still sending too much email)

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.”