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Email SignaturesGet website traffic (website visitors) from your email signature.
The last page gave you plenty of work, so you will be relieved that this page will give you only about ten to fifteen minutes work.
Unfortunately, as well as taking up a lot less of your time to do, this task will also make you a lot less money. But it will make you some money, and as it only takes a few minutes, is well worth doing.
Do you have an automatic signature that appends itself to all your emails? If so, add a link to your website in it. And if you don't, set up a signature now, and put a link to your site in it.
If you have no idea how to do this, I'm afraid it varies depending on which email reader you use, and also often between versions of the same program. I'll give you details on Outlook Express 6.0, which most people have, because even if you don't have Outlook Express most are similar to this, but if you have problems take a look in the software manual (or if you don't have it, search Google).
Simply go into the tools menu and select "options". Click on the tab headed "signatures", then click on the button labelled "new". If you don't already have a signature, this should bring "Signature#1 default signature" in the top box. Now simply type a link to your site in the BOTTOM box, and a little about the site. When you are done, click on "apply" then "OK", and whatever you typed in the bottom box will be added to the end of every email you send.
Most POP3 web readers are similar to this, but if you use web mail it could be very different. However if the site is any good it will include full instructions on how to set up a signature, and it is usually even easier to do on a web mail account.
Once you have the signature use it in every mail. You never have any idea who will be interested, the person you least expect to buy something may possibly become your best customer. Also some of your friends or relatives will spread the news as a favour to you.
Use it on your business emails as well as your personal ones. You may be emailing a plumber to complain about his shoddy workmanship, but he may still be interested in your site. And even if he isn't, his secretary, or whoever opens his emails, may be.
Even big businesses may produce customers. If you email your bank about your overdraft, you are probably correct in thinking that the bank has no need of doggie treats (or whatever your website sells), but remember your email will be opened and read by whoever decides who is going to deal with your question, then read again by the person they finally decide to pass it on to, and possibly again if they have to involve another department or forward it up to their supervisor. So up to three people (and on some occasions more) will see your email and read your signature, and they may buy some of your doggie treats (or whatever your website sells).
Just one quick word of warning: Some people edit out their signature when sending to friends or relatives they are certain will not be interested. For example if you run a "banging house music download site" it is unlikely in the extreme that your great aunt Gertrude (97 years old, still has all her own teeth, and never tires of telling people these two facts) will be interested. But if you send the information to second cousin Barry (nineteen years old, well into house music, and just got his first credit card, which he appears to be determined to "max out" by buying rubbish on the Internet) and great aunt Gertrude finds out that she was left off the list she might me offended ("I may be old but that does not mean I do not like modern music, although I did not know that Hugh Laurie sung - by the way I'm ninety seven and I still have all my own teeth you know").
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This column's layout and style was stolen from JW Throat. Well I give him a lot of help on his site, it is about time he returned the favour.
25 September
As you will have noticed I did not manage to get an update in before my holiday. And since I got back I have been too buisy with the backlog of work that built up while I was gone to write anything here. But today, at last, I have uploaded something.
However it is probably not what you hoped for. Read the section numbered "0" and called "Start Here", you probably won't like it, but you need to hear it.
22 August
Four new pages this time, but one is very short. They are on pages 11, 12, 13, and 14 in the index to the left.
Yet again I am away over the weekend - I should actually have left an hour ago, so do not expect the next uopdate until near the end of next week. (Although it is a bank holiday, sadly my trip is work related once more.)
17 August
Two new pages this week one on social networking and one on email signatures. They are on pages 9 and 10 in the index to the left.
Hopefully I'll add another page or two during the week, but I am away again next weekend (once more it is work related) so I may not have the time.
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