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Xobni is this great Outlook plug-in that analyzes your e-mal in ways that helps you glean the most information from that never-ending torrent you find there each day.

Here’s the catch:  I hate Outlook (and that’s coming from me, Dave, an unabashed Microsoft fan).  Here’s why: Outlook is an incredibly feature-rich program that practically bogs your computer down in excess code.

But I use it when I have to, and since Xobni integrates SO well, I end up using Outlook JUST FOR Xobni.

Case in point:  I began examining WHEN Voices.com and V123 leads came across with e-mail notices, and found an interesting trend.  (Yes, Xobni tells you that kind of information)

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Here’s Xobni’s graph of time-of-day Voices.com e-mail notices.

Tell me if I’m wrong, but it looks like a pretty good spike at 3am PST (6am EST).

The rest of the day is essentially a plateau with maybe a mini-spike at 11am PST (2pm EST).

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Now here’s Xobni’s graph of time-of-day V123 e-mail notices.

I’d say that’s a peak at roughly 10amPST (1pmEST).

The rest of THEIR day is all over the place.

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What’s my sample?  Since October 10th I got a total of 2,863 e-mails on my CourVO@CourVO.com e-mail account.  As you can see, Voices.com and V123 constitute my 2nd and 3rd most prolific incoming mail source.  I say all this to underscore that this is NOT a small sample.

I haven’t quite figured out why Xobni ranks V123 2nd with 64 incoming per day, and Voices.com 3rd with even more emails per day.  I may be reading that wrong, but I stand by my claim that this is a large sample, and a trend that should not be ignored IF you choose to wait by your computer for the hottest leads.

IF you’re doing that…then your leash from the computer is a short one regardless.  If you want to maximize the greatest possible hit-time to check out Voices.com and V123 leads, then, well…there’s your data.

The argument for and against pay-to-play sites rises to the level of Mac v. PC flame wars.

Then the secondary debate about V123 v. Voices.com rises to the level of mules v. elephants.

That’s another conversation.  I just thought this was a novel set of data no one had published before.

CourVO

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