As we prepared to release our latest update to Boomerang’s read receipts, our team was going back and forth in a debate: Red receipts or reed receipts?
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For a few people at Boomerang, this is the only company they’ve known since graduating college. They lucked out. For most of us, we found our way here by navigating career paths that meandered through various industries, companies, and roles. Our common experience was that at some point we came across Boomerang and saw something special that warranted a move. This is the story of my journey to Boomerang and my experience since joining...
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Your Monday morning alarm might be the worst sound in the world. Weekends fly by, but Mondays drag on forever. As avid Office Space fans, we wondered if having a “case of the Mondays” was an observable phenomenon. Our finding? Monday really is the worst day of the week: it’s when people make the most mistakes in their email subjects (which, as we will show, matters), as well as the day with the most negative email subjects. Subject...
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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night has stayed the United States Postal Service. But has email? We were curious whether email was the cause of USPS’s recent, well-documented woes. Does our love (and extensions) for snoozing in Gmail and scheduling email in Outlook make us complicit in the post office’s struggles? If not email, what’s the real cause for USPS’s mounting losses? We found that while the Internet era has...
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This is a guest post from Boomerang customer and professional photographer, Greg Goodman. Boomerang Beginnings We all know Boomerang is an incredibly useful email tool. What you may not know is how awesome the Boomerang team is! Last December, I had the fortune of photographing Boomerang’s holiday party. As a regular user of the app, I felt like a fanboy while getting to know the kind, down-to-earth, funny and inspirational group of...
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Every Monday morning, the sun is shining, and my apartment is suffused with the smells of freshly-baking croissants and coffee. Monday mornings are a special time, because every week, I have a wonderful treat to get me out of bed. Not the breakfast (though the croissants are delicious) – I’m talking about the hundred or so emails that queued up in my Inbox over the weekend. As CEO of an email productivity company, the...
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