When you're poking your nose around, looking for effective ways to promote your business don’t look too far! What is the most common form of business communication in the world? I hope you didn’t say the telephone because your answer would be wrong. There is no need for allot of research, email is the answer. Do you utilize your signature to your advantage? Did you know you can include banners, rss feeds, and images with your Outlook email signature? Let me help you understand how easy it is to dress up your email sig block.
How Much Mileage from Your E Mail Signature?
Cool signatures are a great marketing and branding instrument for your business. You never really know where your electronic signature will travel. It is not uncommon for your email message to be sent to many other people in business proposal situations. Think about it, how many times have you forwarded messages you receive to others?
Putting a picture of your business card in your digital signature is going to help any recipient (known or unknown to you) understand who you are. Every e-mail you send should bear the brand cross of Email Signature Image design.
Do Outlook Signature Images Work With Other Email Providers?
Yep, any provider such as AOL, Yahoo, Juno, Live or Hotmail that supports image uploading and signature files will allow inserting a custom email signature image.
Learn How to Create Email Signatures with Free Email Hosts
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- Inserting images in Yahoo email signature
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Tips on Signature Design
There are ordinary digital email signatures and there are extraordinary cool email signatures! What’s your favorite? Sending out effective Signature Messages in your Signature Stationary can be used for testing out new design and concepts before you commit to a permanent identity. They are a great way to test the water before sailing. Creating email signatures is a tasteful blend of aesthetics and security settings awareness. For example most people have their email settings set not to download images.Creating Email Signatures Tip 1
Pure HTML- No Images
Keep your signatures short and to the point. Use html colors that match your company identity.
Example above uses 100% html coding without signature images.
Creating Email Signatures Tip 2
Using your Business Card Design
When you use the free signature maker business card designer I used, choose Colors and Backgrounds wisely. Color schemes should be complimentary to your business. Apply special effects to your design using Photoshop or any image editing program your have if you like.
Email Footer Layout Ideas from Business Card Layouts
Business people often ponder the thought of company image and design. Believe it or not the most challenging part of design evolution is simply getting started. If you have a method to input you company information and “fan through” 100’s of different styles wouldn’t that be helpful? So I went out on the net-looking for a free web-based system I could make business card design with. The site I used generated the designs shown below. I use this web-based design system to help me get ideas for the people I sell advertising to. They take about 3 minutes each to make then I can view the data in thousands of other templates. When I see the one I like I email it to myself. Voila…I have a cool email signature image for me or my clients.
Ice Fisherman Design
10 PX Feathered edges
Paper Crafts Design
Roughen the edges up
Artistic Painter Design
Give it dimension by adding a drop shadow
Creating Email Signatures Tip 3
Design with HTML and images in mind
A clever signature design takes the viewing possibilities into account. What if your recipient has image downloading disabled? If you are going to use html in your email be aware of how it will render in text format. Is your message still readable?
64% of key decision makers are viewing your carefully crafted email on their BlackBerrys and other mobile devices, according to new data. - MarketingSherpa, in partnership with SurveySampling (2007) Source
Companies will often use signature graphics, html and text in their email, be sure people can still read your message when viewed in text.
Plain Text View
HTML View
Above you can see the exact same signature rendered in plain text and html. In both cases the important information is perfectly readable.
Here’s is how you can test your sig block in both formats. Tools> Options> Mail Format> Compose in this message format.
Creating Email Signatures Tip 4
Toggling to different signatures in one click
Now that you have many email sigs, how do you access them? You are not going to believe how easy this is! The first thing you do is open a new email. At the bottom of the new email your default signatures appear. Roll the mouse over your signature area and right mouse click.
If you're still having problems finding the perfect email sig, be sure to click on the design above. they link directly to the source files I used to make them. I think you're bound to find just what you're looking for at a price you can afford- FREE. That’s a small price to pay for getting great ideas on how you might want to market yourself online.
My New Shiny Email Picture Sig
