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By: Promote Me

Promote Me — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:18:31 +0000

I agree that small businesses and craftsmen need to be doing this more to spread the word about themselves.
Recently launched is a cool new interactive directory which gives everyone the chance to promote themselves. You don’t even have to be a big business to do it.
If you are looking at spreading the word and getting yourself out there, thats the way to go.

By: Michelle Rafter

Michelle Rafter — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:20:46 +0000

Thanks for the comments Kathy, and the emoticon doesn’t bother me. I have no idea how it got there either.

I can see why some people want long sigs, but I agree that they could get tedious if you’re exchanging a lot of messages.

I agree it’s good to change your email sig every once in a while, just for a little variety. It’s kind like an outgoing voice-mail message – if you call someone all the time it’s boring to hear the same old message. Which reminds me, I’d better change my outgoing messages!

Michelle R.

By: Kathy Sena

Kathy Sena — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:15:50 +0000

OK, I have no idea how that smiling emoticon ended up on the end of my e-mail sig when I posted this previous comment. I definitely don’t have that on my sig!

Kathy

By: Kathy Sena

Kathy Sena — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:14:40 +0000

Michelle, I love your idea for having different e-mail sigs for different audiences.

I do tire of seeing overly long sigs, especially when it’s from someone I communicate with frequently. It feels like they’re attaching their resume to every e-mail, and that gets old.

Here’s what I include on mine:

Kathy Sena . Writer/Editor
Specializing in parenting, health, lifestyle and women’s issues
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Phone: 310-XXX-XXXX
Fax: 310-XXX-XXXX
Email: kathysena@earthlink.net
Web: http://www.kathysena.com
Blog: http://www.parenttalktoday.com (Today we’re talking about keeping too many balls in the air…)

By: Michelle Rafter

Michelle Rafter — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:41:36 +0000

Well, if you looked through the comments that came in on this post, you’ll see that length is all over the map. My email sig is pretty minimal and I like it that way, but as you can see from Vera Marie’s example, some sigs are almost entire resumes. Whatever you use, I think it’s a good idea to tweak it every so often to keep it fresh.

Michelle R.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:31:47 +0000

Michelle, I wanted you to know that after reader this post, I decided to update my email signature.

I did want to pose the question… how long do you think is a reasonable length? I think a short signature can be effective, too.

By: Vera Marie Badertscher

Vera Marie Badertscher — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:15:00 +0000

Since I am mostly approaching magazines, I list a variety of recent publications. Here is the whole thing:
Vera Marie Badertscher
P.O. Box XXXX
XX,XX XXXXX
xxx-xxx-xxxx
http://www.pen4hire.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/verambadertscher

Vera Marie Badertscher is winner of 2007 and 2006 National Federation of Press Women’s First Place National Awards for Travel Articles. Complete writer information at http://www.pen4hire.com

A sample of recently published articles:
Your Footprint in the City and Virtuous Vacations, Both articles in Rolls Royce Owner’s Club Desk Diary 2008;
The Piano on the Beach and Surprising Nashville; Both articles in Steinway & Sons Magazine, 12/07;
BICAS, 12/07, Tucson Guide ;
Boys Will Be Boys (essay on Hawk), 10/07; On the Comeback Trail, 9/07, Arizona Highways ;
The Great Unknown, (Le Marche Italy), 7/07; Jamestown’s 400th Anniversary, 3/07, Home & Away Hoosier ;
Atlantic Coast Historic Road Trip, 5/07, AAA Living, ;
Richmond Holocaust Museum, 3/07, Arizona Jewish Post ;
Secrets of Le Marche, 1/07, Rolls Royce Owner’s Desk Diary,
Quincy Tahoma of Santa Fe, 5/06, American Indian Art Magazine .

Web articles include The du Ponts’ Place in the Country, AutomotiveTraveler.com; Acoma Pueblo, Pueblo Cultural Museum, giftedtravel.com; Titan Missile Museum for Arizona Highways.

Member of National Federation of Press Women and Society of SW Authors
Work in progress, with Charnell Havens: Quincy Tahoma: The Final Chapter. See information at http://tahoma.info
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By: 10 Ways to Promote Your Freelance Writing « WordCount/by Michelle Vranizan Rafter

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:16:19 +0000

[...] 1. Use your email signature. In addition to listing basic contact information, an email signature can point people to your Website, blog, newest book and anything else you want them to know about you. Learn more in this post about using an email signature. [...]