Wednesday’s USA Today had an interesting article entitled Email Signatures: Recipients Can Suffer From Info Overload. It began:
- “Increasingly, the email signature is no longer just an inverted letterhead (name, title, company name, address and phone number). It’s a mini resume, complete with website, blog address, IM screen name (or two), Skype account, compendium of company accolades and a bit of borrowed aphorism or ginned up maxim – all stacked up to the extent that the e mail signature often stretches loner than the e mail itself. The result, manners mavens say, demonstrates at best a lack of respect for the reader’s time – and at worst, an inflated sense of the sender’s self worth.”
Cindy Post Senning, of the Emily Post Institute, is not a fan of lengthy email signatures. Either is Joy Weaver, a Dallas based corporate etiquette expert.
On the other hand, Curtis Hougland, owner of New York based PR firm, Attention PR says his 13 line signature is “innocuous, it’s at the bottom – a little nugget if they want it, easily tuned out if they don’t”.
My email signature is 10 lines:
- Bud Bilanich
- The Common Sense Guy
- 303 393 0446 office
- 303 868 2531 mobile
- [email protected]
- www.BudBilanich.com
- www.CommonSenseKeynotes.com
- www.CommonSenseCoach.com
- www.CommonSenseGuy.com (blog)
- www.CareerSuperStar.com (blog)
It never seemed as if it were too long to me. But now, I’m not sure. What do you think? Is a long e mail signature (mine for example) obnoxiously self promoting, or does it provide an appropriate amount of information that makes it easier for people to access what I have to offer? Or, as Mr. Hougland says, something that people can ignore if they want to?
That’s it for today. Thanks for reading. Log on to my website www.BudBilanich.com for more common sense. Check out my other blog: www.CareerSuperStar.com for common sense advice on becoming a success in your life and career.
I’ll see you around the web, and at Alex’s Lemonade Stand.
Bud
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