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Tips on how to get someone to respond to your email

If you’re anything like me you’ll have busy days where you actually have real stuff that needs doing, and by real stuff, I mean physical world stuff away from a screen and keyboard. I actually love these days, as they generally mean working closely with a customer or taking time out to plan and be ...

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Not sure you saw my last email!!!

Well, it’s official, “Not sure you saw my last email” is the most annoying email phrase in 2018. In a recent survey, Adobe contacted over 1,000 “white-collar” workers to find out more about their email usage and trends. It seems that our co-works are can’t help but follow-up on those emails, with a massive 91% of the ...

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Sorry, the signature is too long. Please try a shorter signature.

If you’re seeing the following message. Guess what? Your email signature is too long. But what exactly does that mean, and what can you do to resolve it? Within Gmail, your email signature is limited to 10,000 characters. Now that’s a lot of characters, however, if you’re using a 3rd party application to create an ...

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Strategies for Zero Inbox

When computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sent himself the first electronic mail message back in 1971 I doubt he realised exactly just how important his invention would be to the modern world. And yet, while every business needs email to function, it is seen by many to be the single cause of lost productivity amongst office ...

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Mobile-friendly email signatures

56% of emails are now read on a smartphone or tablet device. With the increase of remote and mobile working, consideration must be given to the form factor of these mobile devices when creating the ideal company email signature. Picture perfect Most… Read More...

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Gmail and Dash dash space “– “

Have you ever wondered what the “–” line is before your email signature? Well, it dates back to the days of Usenet News and early Internet mail clients. Documented in RFC 3676, the dash dash space or DASH DASH SP is a long-standing convention in Usenet newsgroups and email clients as a separator line between the message body and ...

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Stop using bloated email templates!!

OK, we’re passionate about creating great looking email signatures which is probably why so many organisations ask us to create them a set of email templates for their email marketing tools. But wait, before you go down the route of picking just the right fonts, colour schemes, templates and of course making sure they look great ...

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Using your email signature as a marketing channel

Every day the average office worker sends around 40 email messages, to potential and existing customers, vendors, and partners. That’s around 200 a week, and over 10,000 a year!!! And these emails, unlike many marketing emails, are actually being read. So why aren’t your optimizing these interactions and turning them into a new channel for ...

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Setting up canned responses in Gmail

Canned responses are awesome, we love them for when you have to reply to the same question time and time again. However, we’ve discovered that not many of you are using them or know how to set them up, so here is our quick guide on how to set up canned responses within Gmail. Super ...

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Using dots don’t matter for Evil

This week, a smart developer called James Fisher discovered how to use Gmail to attack Netflix customers in order to get free movies. The full article is available here. Now I know this has nothing really to do with email signatures, but I found it incredibly interesting none the less and wanted to share it ...

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