Email: How to Use Signature Files to Give Your Email The Personal Touch That SELLS

How to Use Signature Files to Give Your Email The Personal Touch That SELLS

Written by Alvin Apple

If you have a home business, then you're probably constantly concerned with getting your name and your business information out there. You probably send out a lot of e-mails, post on message boards, and submit articles to business e-zines. These are excellent ways to get your name out there, but are you taking full advantage of repparttar

visibility these forums create?

One of repparttar 109695 best ways of creating new business is to include a Signature File with everything you post, send or submit. What exactly is a sig file? It's that little bit of bio information at repparttar 109696 end of an e-mail, article or posting, usually a sentence or two with your url. This is your opportunity to let people know who you are and to direct them to your business. If they liked what you wrote, then they can immediately to your site and find out more about your product or service.

Now you may already include your url at repparttar 109697 end of your correspondence, most business people do. That's great, but is it enough? Not quite. Of course it's great to have your url so that anyone who's interested in what you're saying can immediately check out your business site, but wouldn't they be more likely to click if you included a short description of what you do? The trick to a catchy sig file, is that one sentence that makes you stand out. For example, rather than closing an e- mail or posting with

Administrating Mailing Lists

Written by Jos van Doorn

So you have subscribed to a lot of mailing lists. You want to announce your newsletter. That's why you did it. But what about repparttar

administration?

Let's talk about mailing lists as found in eGroups. What goes for them also goes for repparttar 109694 mailing lists found in other services.

To start with you could save all pages of repparttar 109695 mailing lists that you've found in eGroups. That way you can check whether you're subscribed to them.

After subscribing to a mailing list you'll get a welcome e-mail. In that e-mail you'll find instructions about posting announcements etc.

That's a thing that needs to be saved. It always comes in handy to check whether repparttar 109696 rules of repparttar 109697 mailing lists have been followed.

Read repparttar 109698 welcome e-mail and find repparttar 109699 e-mail address for posting announcements. Copy this e-mail address to a text file.

This is how announcements are made:

1. It's always done by e-mail. Address repparttar 109700 e-mail to yourself.

2. The subject of repparttar 109701 e-mail is repparttar 109702 name of your newsletter

3. Write repparttar 109703 e-mail addresses of repparttar 109704 mailing lists in repparttar 109705 BCC field. The e-mail addresses are separated by semi colons

Here is an example of such an e-mail. It's an example of an e-mail I've send away to announce my own newsletter.

To : josvandoorn@zwallet.com

Subject: ACAD Newsletter

BCC : A2ndIncome-subscribe@listbot.com;AardvarkMarke ting-subscribe@listbot.com;AdvertExpressEzine- subscribe@listbot.com;asti1-subscribe@listbot. com;AWAHS-ubscribe@listbot.com

Body : Subscribe to ACAD Newsletter if you want to learn AutoCAD and AutoLISP. The newsletter has a lot of useful information. Subscribe for FREE. Send an e-mail to:

mailto:acadnewsletter-subscribe@topica.com

Using repparttar 109706 BCC field is very handy. It saves a lot of time in sending out e-mails. You can send out repparttar 109707 whole lot at once.

The recipients of repparttar 109708 e-mail will not see who else received repparttar 109709 e-mail. That's not mentioned on repparttar 109710 e-mail they receive.

In repparttar 109711 example only a few e-mails are specified. In reality send out my announcements to a loot more e- mail addresses.

Use NotePad from Windows for making repparttar 109712 text file for announcing your newsletter. Make three separate text files: week, bi-week, and month.

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