Top Ten Things to Do to Make your Signature File Sell
Always include a powerful signature on every email you send out, even to friends. It's even more important when you send out articles to opt-in ezines (no spam) and top web sites in your field--more important than your article's message.
This resource box contains your subtle sales message as well as giving people multiple ways to contact you. This billboard calls for action, so write it accordingly. Entice your reader to subscribe, to go to your site to get your free report. There's more.
The biggest mistake business people make is a too long signature or a too confusing one. Make yours easy to read.
Top Ten Things to Do to Make your Signature File Sell
1. Write your full name in the top line with your title.
Make this the strongest you can. If in business for over 5 years, put that information after your name. For instance, Judy Cullins, 20-year author, speaker and book coach.
2. Write your concept statement, which includes a major benefit on the second line.
Ask associates to give you feedback on your best five. For instance, "Helps entrepreneurs manifest their book and web dreams." Or, "Empowers you to live your ideal work dream."
3. Write in one book title in the third line.
Like me, perhaps you've written several books. Depending on your purpose such as sending a how to article on say, a topic like "Submit Articles to Opt-in Ezines--the #One Way to Promote your Business on the Net." Even though authoring other books on writing, in this signature file, I included "eBk: "Drastically Increase your Targeted Web Traffic and Sales"
4. Follow the 2004 new law. Write your street address, city and zip in the fourth line.
I imagine this is to stop spam. Some people may not be so Internet literate too, and may want to contact you by mail. Always make it easy for your reader to connect.
5. Put your web site address in line five.
Be sure to include the hyperlink such as http//www.-------.com. It will be underlined in blue. If you submit articles to opt-in ezines you will not use hyperlink, but can ask your article reader to use the hyperlink when they put your article up on their web site.
6. Make a free offer in line six.
This may be a free report or your free ezine. Include the title of your free ezine or report and include a hyperlink to get it at your site. Or, if you don't have that set up yet, give directions to put "free report" in subject line of their email back to you.
In just 4-7 times of reading your ezine or reading your special reports (change them periodically in your signature file), you will gain a loyal supporter who shares your reports and ezine with others. Great Internet marketing!
7. Include your email address with a hyperlink.
For example, mailto:cullinsbks@aol.com is better than cullinsbks@aol.com. The hyperlink makes it easier for your reader to take action because all they have to do is click straight through to the goodies.
8. Include your toll-free number for orders.
You never know when someone will see that number and call you immediately after reading your email full of useful information. That's a way to build your practice, clients, and customers.
9. Include your local telephone number.
For people out of country, you need to include a number they can use. Again, you are making it easy for your client to be to reach you.
10. Alter your signature file now and then.
Many coaches and speakers like the paragraph form for their signature file. You can also combine the information in a list and then with a line to separate, a paragraph or bio about you.
Without a powerful sales-oriented signature file you will lose many contacts that can lead to sales. Modify yours today and watch your profits grow.
Judy Cullins, 20-year book and Internet Marketing Coach, Author of 10 eBooks including "Write your eBook Fast," and "How to Market your Business on the Internet," she offers free help through her 2 monthly ezines, The Book Coach Says...and Business Tip of the Month at www.bookcoaching.com/opt-in.shtml">http://www.bookcoaching.com/opt-in.shtml and over 140 free articles. Email her at mailto:Judy@bookcoaching.com
Exclusive: Donald Tusk says it would still be better for both sides if UK stayed in EU
Brexit has been âone of the most spectacular mistakesâ in the history of the EU and followed a campaign marked by âan unprecedented readiness to lieâ, Donald Tusk has said.
In his first interview since standing down as European council president last week, Tusk said Brexit was âthe most painful and saddest experienceâ of his five years in office, a tumultuous period marked by the Greek eurozone crisis, bitter rows over migration and the election of Donald Trump.
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The worldwide surge in deadly measles outbreaks is showing no sign of abating, with nearly 10 million cases and 142,000 deaths last year, according to new estimates, and three times more cases reported so far this year than at the same stage in 2018.
Most of those dying are small children, and thousands more suffer harm including pneumonia and brain damage. New scientific evidence shows survivors are at greater risk soon afterwards because their immune system is impaired.
Quoting from the Declaration of Independence and the founding fathers about the danger of a president one day betraying the countryâs trust to foreign powers, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, announced on Thursday that she was directing the judiciary committee to draft articles of impeachment against Donald Trump.
âThe president leaves us no choice but to act,â Pelosi said. âSadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for America, today I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment.â
Transport workers bring country to standstill amid anger over pension changes
More than 800,000 people have marched in cities across France as railway workers, teachers and hospital staff held one of the biggest public sector strikes in decades against Emmanuel Macronâs plans to overhaul the pension system.
A nationwide transport strike brought much of France to a standstill and was expected to continue for the next few days as unions dug in, saying the presidentâs pension changes would force millions of people to work longer or receive lower payments.
Oversubscribed listing in Riyadh of 1.5% stake in state oil company will value it at $1.7tn
Saudi Aramco is poised to achieve the biggest initial public offering in history next week by raising $25.6bn (ÂŁ19.4bn) for the Saudi state in its market debut.
The state-owned oil business will emerge as the worldâs most valuable listed company after valuing its shares at 32 riyals ($8.53) apiece before its float on Riyadhâs stock exchange next week.
Woman left with 70% burns in latest attack as film directorâs tweets on rape cause outcry
An Indian woman has been set on fire on her way to a court hearing to testify against two men who had allegedly raped her.
The 23-year-old is in a critical condition in hospital with 70% burns after she was set upon by five men in the city of Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. They dragged her to a field, doused her with petrol and set her alight.
Boris Johnson has claimed that all-out strikes on public transport will be made illegal under a new Conservative administration following major disruption on UK train routes.
âI do think itâs absurd that critical transport mass-transit systems should be capable of being put out of actions by strikes, and other countries around the world have minimum service requirements for public transport â and thatâs what I want to see,â said Johnson in front of an audience of textile workers near Matlock in Derbyshire.
Regional body describes âmaliciousâ steps to rig October election in report, including use of a hidden computer server
The Organization of American States (OAS) has described âdeliberateâ and âmaliciousâ steps to rig Boliviaâs October election in favor of the then president, Evo Morales, who was forced to resign amid widespread protests in the Andean nation.
A nearly 100-page report by the OAS described several violations, including the use of a hidden computer server designed to tilt the vote toward Morales.
Work by Panmela Castro of woman held in headlock was removed after managers at events space told her police complained
A mural depicting police abuse in a Rio de Janeiro favela has been removed from the walls of a Miami events space after local police reportedly complained.
The work, by the Brazilian artist Panmela Castro, showed a black woman being held in a headlock, with the caption: âWoman who filmed abused [sic] by police officers is beaten and arrested.â
Organisers of competition students travelled to attend demand their return to Nigeria
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Abia Uchenna Alexandro and Eboh Kenneth Chinedu, students at the Federal University of Technology Owerri in Nigeria, arrived in Zagreb on 12 November, on their way to participate in the fifth World InterUniversities Championships, held this year in Pula, Croatia.
Study expands on archive finds revealed in 2011, and suggests that the French state may have abetted the 1960 car crash that killed him
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Italian author Giovanni Catelli first aired his theory in 2011, writing in the newspaper Corriere della Sera that he had discovered remarks in the diary of the celebrated Czech poet and translator Jan ZĂĄbrana that suggested Camusâs death had not been an accident. Now Catelli has expanded on his research in a book titled The Death of Camus.
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The area has no name on current maps of Prague, but it was once known, in popular parlance, as âU Stalinaâ â Stalinâs place. In 1955, two years after the Soviet dictatorâs death, a massive 50-foot high granite monument to him was unveiled on this spot, the largest representation of Stalin in the world. Commissioned in the late 1940s when Czechoslovakia was being turned into a Soviet satellite state, and already under construction as Stalin lay dying, the monstrous memorial remained in place until 1962 when, in the spirit of de-Stalinisation, it was blown to smithereens by the same regime that erected it.
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Mired in poverty, corruption and violent unrest, Haiti faces a fresh problem in the form of paid gunmen out to settle scores
At the barricaded junction next to the international airport in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, protesters burn tyres and block the road with stones and a large truck.
Cars and commercial vehicles that approach turn back or risk being stoned, while pedestrians wade on through the smoke.
It was wrong of PM to rapidly call for tougher sentencing for terrorists, says Labour leader
Jeremy Corbyn has accused the prime minister of politicising the death of London Bridge terror attack victim Jack Merritt by talking too soon about tougher sentencing for terrorists.
The Labour leader, who revealed he spoke to Merrittâs father, Dave, in the days after the student was killed, criticised Johnson for making a glut of statements about strengthening the law in the immediate aftermath of the atrocity.
Audrey Mash developed severe hypothermia while hiking in Catalan Pyrenees in freezing weather
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Audrey Mash said she was surprised at the attention her case had attracted and said it had not put her off hiking. âI feel like a fraud for not being back at work. Iâm hoping to go back before the end of next week,â she said on Thursday.
Companyâs shares are low rated and its legal and regulatory headaches are greater than ever
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Broker Jefferies politely called the SFOâs probe âa new overhang on Glencore sharesâ. The existing overhangs are inquiries by the US Department for Justice and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission into activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Venezuela and Nigeria. Thatâs quite a collection of serious regulatory bodies taking a look.
The former secretary of state under Obama said Bidenâs âdecency and the experiences that he brings to the table are critical to the momentâ
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Congressman Jeff Van Drew, one of two House Democrats who voted against the measure formalizing procedures in the impeachment inquiry, warned that drafting articles of impeachment could backfire on the party.
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The Iowa town hall where Joe Biden shared a fiery exhange with a voter remained contentious after the former vice president concluded his remarks, with one attendee telling the orignal questioner to âget out of here.â
The voter who confronted Biden offered a very colorful response.
"Stick it up your ass, fella."
Voter that challenged @JoeBiden gets into confrontation with another voter that told him to "get out of here."
Rushan Abbas says countries doing business with China are enabling its mass detention of 3 million people, including her sister
A leading Uighur activist, Rushan Abbas, has urged Australian MPs to take a stronger stance against the Chinese regime, while backing controversial comparisons between the stateâs authoritarianism and Nazi Germany.
Abbas, who met with MPs in Canberra on Thursday and held a roundtable at the US Embassy on the plight of the Uighur Muslim minority in western Chinaâs Xinjiang province, said that âmodern dayâ concentration camps holding as many as 3 million Uighurs were a case of âhistory repeating itselfâ.
The suffering of people wounded in conflict zones is being compounded by what doctors say are âhorrifying levelsâ of antibiotic resistance
When Jihad Nasser arrived at al-Awda trauma clinic in Gaza, he was hoping doctors could finally stop his pain. A gunshot wound in his right leg had not been not healing properly. The news, however, was bad.
The complex bone fracture he had suffered was badly infected with MRSA. Doctors told him it would not respond to treatment and they would need to amputate.
Increase in violent conflict combined with effects of climate crisis make outlook bleak for worldâs poorest people, says report
Attacks on healthcare workers have reached a record high according to a UN report that predicts a âbleak outlookâ for the worldâs poorest people due to intense armed conflict and the climate emergency.
The number of highly violent conflicts has risen to 41, from 36 in 2018, causing deaths, injuries, significant displacement and hunger, the UNâs global humanitarian overview 2020 report found.
Whatever the outcome of this general election, leaders should rise to the ambition of our own and global commitments, write representatives of 49 organisations
The UK has a well-earned reputation for being a key player on the global stage â respected for our record on international development, climate change, and humanitarian aid.
By 2020, this country will have helped vaccinate 76 million children, saving 1.4 million lives from preventable diseases. The UK has already helped 57 million people to cope with the effects of climate change over the last eight years and is on track to reach 60 million people with clean water by 2020. About 32 million people have been supported with humanitarian assistance in the face of conflict and disasters, including at least 10 million women and girls.
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The head of a Japanese aid agency and five other people have been killed in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan
Among the victims was Tetsu Nakamura, 73, the respected physician and head of Peace Japan Medical Services, who had recently been granted honorary Afghan citizenship for his decades of humanitarian work in the country.
Pamela Karlanâs reference to Trumpâs son Barron offered Republicans a chance to claim righteous outrage
Finally, a smoking pun. A simple play on words told us everything about the impeachment inquiry, the current mindset in Congress and the state of the nation.
The witness Pamela Karlan cracked a joke that delighted liberals and infuriated conservatives. Or rather, it delighted conservatives because it gave them a talking point to whip up outrage.
Squabbling, a spreading focus and Trump raise doubts about the effectiveness of the alliance
Seventy years after Nato was founded to protect western Europe from Joseph Stalinâs Soviet Union, the military alliance returned this week to its first home in London to discuss an increasingly sprawling set of goals while bickering leaders competed to see who could offer the most contentious soundbite.
Normally this is an arena that would be dominated by Donald Trump, although this time he was somewhat upstaged by Emmanuel Macron, whose pre-summit declaration that the organisation had become âbrain deadâ obliged Trump to describe his French counterpartâs comments as âvery, very nastyâ.
New Zealandâs political system relies on an untraceable flow of donations from rich individuals with personal agendas. That wonât change
The press release was triumphant. The justice minister, Andrew Little, announced that the government was banning foreign political donations, a move that would âprotect New Zealand from foreign interference in our electionsâ.
This is a good thing. Across the Tasman, Australian politics has been roiled by allegations of Chinese interference. One donor, Huang Xiangmo, who had donated at least A$2.7m to both major parties, had his residency cancelled when his connections to Chinese Communist party-linked organisations were exposed. More recently Bond-esque revelations, including a Chinese defector, a dead businessman and a million-dollar donation, have emerged. Given that Australia is facing such a severe challenge to its democratic integrity, the attention Little is giving to this issue should be welcomed.
Nancy Pelosi lashed out at a reporter for asking if she hated Donald Trump after her statement announcing that the Democrats would move forward with articles of impeachment against the president.
'As a Catholic, I resent your using the word "hate" in a sentence that addresses me,' she said. 'I don't hate anyone ... I pray for the president all the time'
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Republican representative Matt Gaetz fiercely criticised the Stanford law school professor Pamela Karlan for a pun during the second round of the Trump impeachment hearings.
The Democrats' witness and impeachment expert had said: 'While the president can name his son Barron, he canât make him a baron.' She later apologised for her comment, which Melania Trump highlighted in a tweet
Donald Trump has cut short his attendance at the Nato summit in London and accused Justin Trudeau of being 'two-faced' after the Canadian leader was heard apparently mocking the president's predilection for long, impromptu press conferences at a Nato reception at Buckingham Palace. 'He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top,' Trudeau could be heard saying, as other world leaders laughed. Boris Johnson, one of those present, denied they had been joking about Trump
Donald Trump said Justin Truedeau was 'two-faced' after the prime minister of Canada seemed to joke about the US president in a video shared widely on social media.
Trudeau appeared to be joking with Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron about Trump in the video, although the US president is never mentioned by name
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