{"id":16970,"date":"2022-02-23T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessedge.org\/what-to-include-in-your-professional-email-signature\/"},"modified":"2022-02-23T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T10:00:23","slug":"what-to-include-in-your-professional-email-signature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessedge.org\/what-to-include-in-your-professional-email-signature\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Include in Your Professional Email Signature"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may not spend much time thinking about how to end your email correspondence, other than maybe adding a closing (\u201cThanks!\u201d) with your name. But given how much we rely on email to communicate both personally and professionally, a naked email signature can be a missed opportunity.<\/p>\n

Read on to learn why the bottom of your emails can be valuable space to promote and elevate your personal brand<\/a>, and what information you might want to include in your signature.<\/p>\n

Why your email signature matters<\/h2>\n

Whether you\u2019re communicating for business, school, or social reasons, your email signature is a great place to showcase who you are and share other ways for people to connect with you.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a working professional, you may already have a custom signature for your work email. Most businesses will have employees create a standardized signature with their name, title, phone number, and maybe the company website.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t forget about your personal email account or any other accounts you use regularly. When you\u2019re networking, you\u2019ll want a polished look to your emails and be able to promote your personal brand with new connections.<\/p>\n

Creating your custom signature<\/h2>\n

With most popular email providers, you can create one or more personalized email signatures that generate automatically at the end of your outgoing messages. They make it easy to customize your settings and you can choose when to include or exclude your signature.<\/p>\n

Formatting a basic custom email signature doesn\u2019t require any coding, and you can find step-by-step instructions for customizing your email signature from your email provider:<\/p>\n