Free Advertising—How to Create Email Signatures

(c)10-18-09 by Donna Cunningham, MSW

Is your budget for advertising small, and yet you need to build interest in your astrology or metaphysical practice, business, or blog?  Every time you send an email, you can advertise, and it doesn’t cost a dime.  Promote your services and activities by creating email signatures with a brief message,  adding contact information or a link.  You don’t have to be a computer whiz to do this.

Juggling Several Enterprises?  Create Multiple Signatures. 

Many of us who are self-employed have a variety of ways to make a living.  Creative people, in particular, have a multitude of projects and products to offer.

 If you have several enterprises—say classes and a newsletter—or if you want to create a series of inspirational messages, you can easily switch back and forth between signatures. Put your mouse at the beginning of the default signature, right click, and choose from your list of signatures. As you answer emails from people who’d be interested in a specific area, switch to a signature that relates to that interest.  Here are one of the eight I use:

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You can also create a temporary signature to highlight an upcoming event or class.  For instance, if you’re an astrologer, you could create a brief writeup of the significance of an eclipse or of how to handle challenges of the current Mercury retrograde period. If you’re giving a seminar, create a signature with a brief description, including date, location, price, and how to register.

Most of us in the metaphysical fields have a certain shyness or reservations about promoting ourselves, but in today’s economy, we need to work at building our practices.  Email signatures are a painless and free way to do it. To download a file with step by step instructions, including screen shots, click on this link: Creating email signatures for promotion.

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