If you do use an email signature in your emails - great! If you don't use an email signature, please read on.

People will most likely not contact you if:

• Your email address cannot be used in 2 mouse clicks or less.
• Your phone numbers are not available in order to call you at a future date/time.
• Your website URL is not listed to learn more about you/your company.

If a person cannot contact you, most likely they won't, and your email marketing efforts will be a waste of time.

Here are six tips to use for an effective email signature:

1. Your full name and nickname if you regularly use one.
Our CEO's first name is Tjomandena. People have a hard time pronouncing it, so she uses the nickname "Dena."

2. Your company name and job title.

3. Your full phone number and extension, and/or mobile phone number.

4. Your email address.
If you worry about your email address being collected for spam purposes, use a freely hosted email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Google Mail, etc.). The free email hosting services utilize great spam filtering tools.

5. Your website URL (website address).

6. A single sentence tagline - a detailed description of what you or your company does.

Your email signature can be stored in your email settings, eliminating the need to cut and paste it or type it each time you send an email.

Please consider using an email signature, especially if you want people to contact you in the near future.

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