• March 15, 2018 | by Oliver

Last month McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team reported that Turkish financial institutes were hit with a cyber attack. These type of attacks are becoming more common, but what can we learn from this and other attacks to prevent our businesses from becoming a victim? Phishing The attack started, like most, with a spear-phishing email containing ...

• February 27, 2018 | by Oliver

In case you haven’t noticed we’re massive fans of Google’s Gmail platform, and have design email signatures for many clients running Gmail. Due to this we often get asked other Gmail related questions, so we decided to include some of these hints and tips here within our blog, we hope you enjoy them and find them ...

• February 24, 2018 | by Oliver

In case you haven’t noticed we’re massive fans of Google’s Gmail platform, and have design email signatures for many clients running Gmail. Due to this we often get asked other Gmail related questions, so we decided to include some of these hints and tips here within our blog, we hope you enjoy them and find them ...

• January 24, 2018 | by Oliver

As experts in the field of email, we wanted to share our knowledge and experience on how to secure your Google G Suite (Gmail) service by implementing SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Wow, one sentence in and I’ve already thrown three acronyms at you, so as we go through this tutorial I’ll try to explain what ...

• January 7, 2018 | by Rachel

As a designer, I often get asked to help create email templates for marketing campaigns. And while this would be a great source of revenue for The Guru, we’d rather focus on doing the right thing for our customers. The Guru tells us that people don’t actually like those fancy emails, we’re bombarded by glossy ...

• October 26, 2017 | by Rachel

OK, so it’s not the most interesting subject for an article, but if you live in the EU or North America it’s likely that you are legally required to have a disclaimer within your email signature. What is an email disclaimer? Right, before we go on let’s just explain in layman’s terms exactly what an ...

• October 16, 2017 | by The Guru

Recently we stumbled across an old article on Medium.com stating several reasons why you shouldn’t include images within your email signature. While we would agree that using an image for your entire email signature is crazy and somewhat annoying to the people receiving emails from you, images, logo and profile pictures have become a common ...

• August 11, 2017 | by Oliver

Email signatures are great, we love them. But wouldn’t they be even better if they allowed you to feel the pulse of your customers too? One-click survey Knowing how satisfied your customers are is extremely important to any business, but instead of wasting their time with long annoying surveys why not subscribe to one of ...

• June 12, 2017 | by Rachel

As you’d expect we’re an advocate of using your email signatures to help drive traffic to your website or social media channels through tasteful banners, clickable icons and links. However, if you’re not capturing those clicks, how do you know if your company email signature advertising is successful? Many organisation will use the “spray and ...

• April 13, 2017 | by Rachel

“Should I include my email address in my email signature?”, this is a common question we get on an almost daily basis. Some experts will tell you that having your email address within your email signature is a complete waste of time. Like saying “here is my email address at the bottom of this email, ...