Like many in the domain industry, I'm a part-time domainer balancing a full-time job. After a day of work, spending time with the kids and getting them to bed, the typical business hours have long past. This is when my domaining time begins. It's either late night, very early in the morning, or both. I love it, so please don't misinterpret this as a complaint. I found something I truly enjoy so it's not work to me at all. But holding these inconsistent hours does present a challenge.
Let's say your a owner of a widget company. You get to work on Thursday morning at 7:00am and check your email. There, you find a message from Mike Sullivan asking if you're interested in acquiring WidgetMaker.com. You glance up at the time the email was sent and it says 1:14am. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but to some, I may lose credibility for not looking like I am a legitimate business. Much of the mail I receive in the wee hours tends to be spam, so I understand the concern. The thought has plagued me until I decided to see what my options are available.
I actually found quite a few free tools that would allow me to create emails and schedule them to send at a later date and time. But most require that I send the email to the service at the assigned email address, and then they would resend at the time and date I specify. Easy enough, but I think receiving an email during regular business hours but with some header is probably worse that the 1:14am email. The result I landed on is a free service called Boomerang from Baydin Software. At this point, I want to take a moment to say that this is not a sponsored post. I will always disclose to you when a post is sponsored.
I'm a Gmail user and Boomerang is specifically for Gmail. It's a browser plug-in for Firefox and Chrome that adds a new "Send Later" button to your Gmail page, as if it belonged there. This allows you to create the email and send it at a later, scheduled date and time or to select from the other available defaults. The beauty of it is that it uses the Gmail server so I'm not going to end up with some suspect header on my outgoing mail.
