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YOUR GMAIL SIGNATURE IS A POWERFUL WAY TO STAY CONNECTED!

Creating a Gmail Signature is a powerful way to stay connected with your prospects as well as your current clients. You can create a professional email signature for your business OR a personal one that can have a quote or a message you want to share with your email contacts.

I’ve been designing my email professional signature for years and always have a call to action where I promote an event such as a master class, webinar, workshop, or upcoming launch for a group program or a FREE business resource, I even include a scheduling link to make it easy to schedule time with me.

Recently I decided to create a personal email signature to share favorite quotes or link to sites where we could volunteer to help others.

Think of your eSignature as a member of your team who works for you 24/7!

In this video, I walk you through step-by-step how you can create an email signature to add to your Gmail account using free resources and in a few simple steps.

CLICK TO WATCH THE TUTORIAL

REMEMBER: Email signatures are equivalent to your printed business cards - they are small, simple, and essential to your brand and your individual professional personality.Your signature is mighty and powerful, don't underestimate it.

I recently received an email from a friend who had created her signature using my tutorial, to share her favorite quote plus a link to a place you could volunteer to help shop for seniors during this pandemic season...I loved her creativity.

TO CREATE AND DESIGN A CUSTOM EMAIL SIGNATURE TO USE WITH GMAIL OR OTHER EMAIL SOFTWARE:

WHAT YOU NEED:

Photo of you OR Logo
Social media links
Access to Canva (or whatever tool you use to edit & create graphics)
Access to Google Drive (or Word doc)
Brand Colors
The info you want on my signature: name, title, address, cell #, website

TOOLS TO USE

Canva [www.canva.com]
G Drive to access G

STEPS TO PREPARE IMAGES:

Open Canva Account
Create/design image/photo
Social Media Icons:
Download as JPEG or PNG whichever is crisper
Upload from desktop to Google Doc Signature
Test (email to yourself and test size, links, layout)

STEPS TO CREATE SIGNATURE [watch video for step by step demo]

Open NEW Google Doc
Insert Table with two rows and two columns
Top Left is for Image or logo, top right is for signature info and social media icons, bottom (merge the two boxes into one: highlight and right-click to merge)
Add ‘quote or tag line’ under the photo and info section
Get rid of borders: select border width and select 0
Copy your new design
Upload your new signature: Go to Gmail >settings>general> scroll down to signature section and paste your new design
SAVE: don’t forget to scroll all the way down and hit that SAVE button
Test your new signature: email to yourself, test size, links, layout

AT THIS POINT, YOU’RE DONE, BUT BELOW ARE A FEW PRO TIPS TO UP LEVEL YOUR SIGNATURE EVEN MORE.

PRO TIPS TO MAKE YOUR EMAIL SIGNATURE WORK HARDER

DOMAIN SPECIFIC: Have a domain-specific email. For example: info@veronicasagastume.com looks a lot more professional than infoveronica@gmailc.com.

The domain will cost you less than $10 annually and the monthly Gmail comes with your GDrive suite, worth the $12 monthly investment to help you look more professional and like you mean business!
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SCHEDULING LINK: Include your scheduling link in your email. I use Acuity scheduling because it’s budget friendly and incredibly powerful by integrating with my calendar, my Zoom account and I can even integrate my merchant processor with it.

Including this scheduling link makes it easy for anyone to click on it, select a time and day that works for them without the back and forth of exchanging emails. This way, at any point, your prospective client can easily book a time to speak with you when needed⁠.⁠ Worth the $10/monthly fee

Email is a big key to establishing a solid foundation for your business.

RESOURCES YOU’LL NEED TO CREATE YOUR ESIGNATURE

Canva (create your free Canva account to create graphics
Google Doc (if you have a gmail, you have GDrive and can access Google Docs
Photo of you

Let me know how you like the training and if you have any questions leave a comment below and let me know how I can help.

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About Me

I’m a Content Strategist. I help Accounting, Bookkeeping, and Tax Business owners develop a content creation strategy to attract, connect, and convert their audience into clients so that they can grow their business online. I focus on working with Accountants because once upon a time, I was an Accounting professional myself!

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