This irritates me to no end. BAD email signatures.
I’ll keep it short & sweet.
THE BAD
- No phone numbers – What if I WANTED to call you?
- No email addresses - Sometimes you just don’t want to click on “details” and go through the hassle of finding it
- Who they are – Like their title and their full name and position and/or department. Something, Anything!
- No signatures at all
- Lots of Graphics and Logos – I hate downloading that crap
- Background Images – Some look so kiddy and cheesy then you can’t read what they’re saying
- Too many colours
- Juvenile fonts – It may be weird to call a font juvenile, but Comic Sans does that for me and is unprofessional
- Quotes of the Day
- Green messages like “Do you really need to print this?” - I’m green, but that is irritating
THE GOOD
- In plain text, not HTML
- No background – white is fine
- Black font – Times New Roman is inoffensive
- A header logo is fine but only if people don’t have to download any new images
This is what you should have in an email signature:
- Full Name & Title (and/or Department you work in)
- Email Address (just in case you have many)
- Company Name
- Web URL
- Office Number and/or Extension
- Cellphone Number (if used for business)
Any other suggestions or email signature pet peeves?
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