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Business Toolbox: How to Standardize Your E-Mail Signature

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E-mail is the workhorse of communication for your business. It's likely to be your first point of personal contact with prospective customers as well as your go-to vehicle for conducting day-to-day conversations with existing clients. As a result, your e-mail signature is an important - but all too often overlooked - extension of your brand. Just as you wouldn't mail a letter or a proposal printed on any old paper stock, you should give equal consideration to creating and implementing a standardized corporate e-mail signature. However, this is where things get a little tricky. While your e-mail signature serves as your electronic business card, it doesn't play by the same rules of branding that govern your stationery, website design or even participation in social media networks. Here are five common misconceptions that can lead you astray when crafting your signature: 1. If I'm going to represent my brand, I must include my logo. According to conventional...

How to Send Your First Email

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How to Send An Email Although email really took off with the boom in internet use in the early 1990s the first email was sent way back in 1971 by Ray Thompson via the ARPANET computer system. Email along with text of SMS messages are now the primary method of sending written communications around the globe. About 294 billion email messages per day are sent this means more than 2.8 million emails are sent every second and some 90 trillion emails are sent per year. This article explains how to send your very first email. The speed of email and the ability to add images, documents and other elements such as clickable links to websites make it a much more flexible method of communication that letters or faxes. In order to send and receive emails you will need an email account. There are a vast number of free email providers including Google's Gmail, Yahoo email and MSN's Hotmail. These emails accounts work via the internet and are called webmail accounts. The advantage ...

How to Build a Website on Google

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how to add hyperlink in gmail , the task can seem overwhelming. You have to find a hosting service, find someone to code or learn to do it yourself, and you have to produce all the content to upload to the Web server. Google has a utility that lets you make your own website using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface, which lessens the need for you to learn HTML or Javascript. You might want to learn these languages to add extra bells and whistles to your site, but Google gives you the basics to start building your homepage. To start, you need a Google account. This is a simple thing to create; just go to the Google homepage, click "Sign Up," and proceed from there. Once you do that, set up your Gmail account to receive email because you'll need to confirm your address and have a way for Google to contact you. Once you're set up, you should go to the Google homepage. Click the red "Create" button at the top left to start. When you do...