re: Let’s talk email signatures.....

Our company went to standard signatures a few years ago and I am forever grateful for it. No more quotes of the day or cutsie pictures. Just name, title, office location and contact #s.

hot pink, comic sans, no less than 3 inspirational quotes



not even sure I put my name in there

I don't use one at all. When my correspondent needs a phone number or physical address, I add it.

we had a new corporate marketing lady that bitched and moaned that my email signature wasn't up to "code". I have my name, title, office, cell and fax along with the company logo. She wanted inspirational quotes some link to a customer satisfaction survey. I never did it and now she is fired and no one cares about email signatures now. I am a safety manager so I am typically dealing with corporate purchasing and safety people and not customer relations so why do I need to have all that shite in an email signature.

Mine is subjective.

The most formal is

>Name
>Firm Name
>email address
>Mobile number

The less formal is less than those

No logos or formats,etc.

I’ve been here almost 32 years, most folks know me.

My pet peeve is the stationery format for emails that gets picked up upon reply.

I delete the format and have forbidden it’s employ here-

Here’s an extreme version:

Name, relevant professional certs
Title
Office number / ext.

Top 5 Service Lines

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Standard company template. I never really considered whether we should have company name in the sig. Our domain is our company, so I guess it's a bit superfluous.

Mine is pretty simple

Thank you,
Cody

Name
Operations Manager
Company Name
Phone #
Cell #

I cut mine back a lot. Now it looks like this:

IonaTiger, Esq, Lawyer, Attorney & Counsellor at Law and at Large, BA, JD, LMNOP. PIIHB, LSMFT, ESPN, HNWIC.
THE IONATIGER LAW FIRM (we have friends on the Supreme Court)
A picture of me looking seriously at a fake brief in front of the USSC building and a well done photo-shopped picture of me with a former Chief Justice.
A picture of me being carried out of a courthouse on the shoulders of the family of a client with me waving at the crowd.
Phone #
Cell#
Fax#
Beeper#
Pager#
My Parents' home phone#
The phone# of The Palm nearby
Back Up Email Address
My 99.9 percentile ranking in my Law School class (one guy died right before graduation or I'd be the "anchor man". Drat!)

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: Hey , this is for a client. If I screwed up and sent this to someone who is not a client, destroy this gotdamn email right now or I'll have my associate, Benny The Torch, come over and break your friggin' knee caps. Got that! Don't screw with me.



ETA: Hi, Slag

I don't use them or believe they serve any good purpose.

99.9999999999% of all email messages are garbage.

I'd prefer the precious few exceptions to be as data rich as possible. Extra headers and signatures don't help.