Email signatures can be a useful way of providing information to everyone you send a message to. But crafting one that is just right for you is not always easy. What’s your email signature look like?
Rule number one – ditch the default “Sent from my iPhone/Nexus?Whatever” message.
I’m a fan of keeping it simple with my name, a contact number, twitter handle, website and email address. I don’t like images of corporate logos as they take up screen space and bandwidth – which is an issue when I travel and am bandwidth constrained.
I quite like this statement from Geek Girl Academy, which helps take the pressure off people who feel compelled to respond to email 24/7.
What do you think a perfect email signature looks like? Does your business have specific rules that are good or dumb?
Comments
5 responses to “What’s Your Email Signature?”
Personal: Just my name
Semi-formal: Name with a semi-formal sign-off
Business: Name, qualifications/position, and then after I send it, the company tacks on their “this is private, save the whales and don’t print me” paragraph.
my signature is the following
I dont understand the point of email signatures, write a proper sign off for your email, you dont need a cookie cutter signature
edit: looks like the quote tag adds the ” characters, but my point stands
Why do people put their email address in their signature? Surely anyone receiving your email should be able to work that one out themselves, unless you’re sending on behalf of a shared or noreply account..
I put my email address on as I often receive work messages to my personal account. I reply from the correct account but have my email. Also, there are times when people want my contact details and i just send them an email that has everything in the sig.
Why include the email address in a sig? Because the email might get printed, or the email client may strip the address leaving only a name rendering your sender address inaccessible.
for work, whatever fields out of AD that the exchange guys throw into exclaimer