{"id":9984,"date":"2016-02-25T11:19:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=9984"},"modified":"2016-02-25T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T16:19:19","slug":"make-your-email-signature-work-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2016\/02\/25\/make-your-email-signature-work-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Email Signature Work for You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a client <a href=\"http:\/\/fiualumni.com\/career\" target=\"_blank\">schedules an appointment<\/a>, I send them a confirmation email. I open up MS Word, select all, copy, paste into a new email, edit, and then send.<\/p>\n<p>After doing this 189 times since July, I caught myself staring at my email and said: \u201cHow can I make this easier and faster for myself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It came to me \u2013 <strong>make this entire email one of my signatures<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>It worked! This simple change increased my work effectiveness and speed when communicating with clients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Think about your \u201ctemplate\u201d emails. <\/strong>These\u00a0can include thank you emails, event confirmations, scheduling requests or ones that you consistently send to clients, colleagues, prospects, etc. Make these emails custom signatures.<\/p>\n<p>This small change has already saved me time, stress and motivated me to look at other manual processes to see how I can automate and streamline.<\/p>\n<p>Embrace innovation even in the smallest form, every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a client schedules an appointment, I send them a confirmation email. I open up MS Word, select all, copy, paste into a new email, edit, and then send. After doing this 189 times since July, I caught myself staring at my email and said: \u201cHow can I make this easier and faster for myself?\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[204,206],"class_list":["post-9984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-development","tag-career","tag-career-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}