E-mail signatures
January 14th, 2007. Published under General. 2 Comments.
For a long time my e-mail signature was like:
Sincerely yours, Dmitry Linkov.
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Dmitry Linkov || Manager, Entrepreneur
Russia, Moscow
mob.: +7-926-753-04-70
mail.: demodisc@gmail.com or dlinkov@gmail.com
blog: www.dmitrylinkov.com
It’s seems ok, but it’s not. You see, when you are writing just one letter to somebody it will work. But if you have a long e-mail convesation, you see that this "Sincerely yours" is just an auto-added signature, and you just stop believing this respect-text-line. Moreover Gmail, for example, starts to hide all automatic text from the messaging leaving just small - Show quoted text - line, so nobody even see that "Sincerely yours" stuff.
Let’s be honest – it’s just simple laziness, but you simply cannot afford this! It will take 3 seconds to write personal respect-text-line to every e-mail, but it’s worth of it.
Tags: e-mail signature, self management
2 Comments
Bayram on January 21st, 2007
Actually, I am facing the same problem when writing/reading emails at work. Some of my colleagues are using standard
“Thank you,
MyName
”
signature for reply emails, and when they want to thank someone they just reply the email, an autosignature is added, and they send it out..ufff. I hate this! What I am doing and recommending my team to do is to add some personal stuff, like:
“Alex, thank you!
Thank you,
Bayram
”
–> yeah, you are right, the automated “thank you” is still there, BUT you have a personal note “Alex, thank you!” which makes your recipient notice that you have spend a couple of seconds adding a personal note! And, furthermore, he sees the difference (a personal and an automated reply below) – I guess this adds more importance to personal note 
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Alexandra on January 15th, 2007
What about phrazes like “looking forward to…”, “best regards”, “mind the gap between the train and the platform”, “do not hesitate to contact me”, “merry christmas and happy new year”, etc.
I think all those cliches lost their initial meaning, they do not mean anything, they are just the words people are waiting for.
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