The golden rules of email signatures: no 1

When creating your email signatures, remember that there are certain rules to be followed if you want to make them working and looking fine.

 

First of all, include in your signature the basic information: your name, company, title or position and how to get in touch with you. The first three elements are quite obvious. The thing complicates a bit when it comes to the contact details. 

 

Rule no1:
You don't have to present in your email signature all ways of contacting you, but the one, which is preferred by you.

You need to decide if you want to give your land phone number, your mobile or e-mail. It's quite popular now to include Twitter, Facebook or Skype details, but be careful with them to not overload your signature. If you find it necessary to include these details, it's probably worth to insert nice icons (many of them is available for free on the Internet), linking to your social network accounts.

It's quite essential to make your company name a hyper-link, directing to the official website. Other details, like company number, address of registration or VAT number may be required by the law and fined in case of not including them in your electronic signature. So be sure of doing some research in that matter to know exactly what regulations apply to your country.