Hi @michellefontaine
You can use your domain with google apps and keep using Gmail functions. Its really helpful and easy to use. Can you tell me more about this Gmail signature? Does it has social sharing buttons? Thanks!

@marlenegavens I will have to check this out as well

@barbaraabu-zahra

Like Barbara said, keep your sig line short. I regularly receive emails from people whose sig lines are 7-14 lines long, with links in every long. Completely overwhelming.

I had been using social icons with embedded links in my sig line, but people told me the links were either displaying weird, or appeared as attachments, or they didn’t come through at all. (I use Outlook). So I just changed my links to text-based ones, and that solved the problem.

I’m interested in hearing about any signature line creation tools that work around the issues I pointed out.

Yes I stumble across WiseStamp recently, it looks so cool. You can also add latest twitter feed or perhaps latest blog article which i think is super cool feature.

@michellefontaineif you on Mac you can sync gmail with your Mail and then use WiseStamp on Mail

WiseStamp is the best I’ve used so far. It really takes e-sigs a step further by allowing you to add your last tweet, subject you posted on LinkedIn and more. Really gives signatures an extra dimension. I’ve used on Gmail but I know you can use it on Yahoo too.

I created an image that says Click to Connect and added that as my signature in Outlook. I linked that image over to my ‘leaf’ at uqr.me which is the QR code generator. Works like a charm! People click on the image and they see all my Internet connections along with another branding image. I sent it out to a list of friends to be sure it renders correctly.

I think this is the solution I was looking for. Something clean and simple that is really only one hyperlink over to my leaf.

UQR.me was introduced to me by Mari Smith. It allows you to change the destination of your QR code without changing the QR code which might be printed all over the place. Truly worth checking out and I use the free level.

If you’d like to see how it works, send me an email at michelle@fbsmarty.com and I’ll shoot a reply email back to you.

Michelle

hi All, i think she is asking about a way to add a social media signature to her work domain email and not gmail. wisestamp only works on gmail and i think also on yahoo and hotmail but not on domain emails.

i use outlook, i used to have problem like the others above with the icon images so i changed it to text and it was fine …

as for trying out a nice signature for a work domain email, i dont think it is invented yet hehe but i can assume that u can make ur gmail email look like it is the domain of ur work email (how this is done look for my question on how to use gmail email versus work email, they asnwer to me how it works), so now once u merge them, u will have ur work email domain but u r actually using gmail and so wisestamp will work in ur signature!

i will try it out and will let u know the outcome!

thanks, hope this helps …

i love ur idea too @michellefontaine but i work between dubai and amman and still QR codes are not very common over here … but we are getting there:)

Thanks for the idea!

signatures are great but creativity is limited.

not for the fact that you are limited technologically, but for the “receiving” side.

in outlook you should have the ability to make nice looking signatures with icons and hyperlinks (html) and also plain boring looking ones (plain text).  unfortunately you cant control how people receive your email, thus signatures.

i would suggest having a modest looking signature with the appropriate social media buttons with a plain text equivalent but with typed addresses instead of icons.

remember, more and more email are getting read from mobile devices and these “cool looking” emails, just wont get through 

@dextereugenio Thanks for the wise advice. I must investigate this plain text equivalent. One of my clients also just requested the simple social media icons one..

@bradgardner  Totally agree about having shortened signature on a reply/forward- makes such a difference