Email signatures can be an effective branding tool, building trust amongst recipients. So why wouldn’t you include this valuable piece of branding in your employee branding? Including professionally branded email signatures on internal emails reinforces the brand amongst employees, creating a sense of pride and belonging to the brand.  By using an email signature management tool, emails delivered across the company will be on brand and carry the correct email signature every time.

Email banners provide a platform to highlight the latest campaigns the company is running and to showcase the company’s successes. As an important audience to your company, emails sent internally to your employees should include these banners as much as emails to your customers should. While email banners aid in building the brand it also empowers employees with knowledge about campaigns that the company is running so that they are better equipped to assist customers with queries and can even proactively share information about the latest campaigns with customers.

It is important that your employees trust your brand and are loyal to your brand. As such, while employer branding requires extensive planning and ongoing initiatives to build the brand, email provides a cost-effective tool that can be added to the mix to improve employer branding amongst employees, helping to drive employee retention rates and create brand ambassadors that engage your customers in every interaction. By using an email signature management tool, emails delivered across the company will be on brand and carry the correct email signature, banners, surveys and digital business card every time to enhance your employee experience.

The Southern Hemisphere is enjoying the site of new buds and brightly coloured blossoms as the first signs of spring emerge. This signals the time to spring clean, declutter and reorganise. Use this season to breathe new life into your brand, update your brand elements and discard outdated branded materials. See our tips below to help you through the process of freshening up your brand:

Approximately 333.2 billion emails are sent daily.  These are not all necessarily sent from your company but you wouldn’t want your email to get lost in the crowd. While email signatures carry valuable contact information that recipients may appreciate, they also provide an ideal branding platform to show off your brand. Email signatures also need to be given a fresh new look to continue to grab your recipient’s attention and reinforce your brand in every email correspondence your employees have with your customers. Once you’ve refreshed your company email signature, remember to share it across the organisation and ensure that every staff member is using the same version of the email signature to drive brand consistency.

Spend some time going through the slides and determine what information is important and what information can be deleted without losing valuable insight. Check the font, font colour and font size across all the slides to ensure brand consistency and remove any images that do not align with the brand. Once the deck is up-to-date, give employees access to the latest versions of the slide decks and remove any former versions that are saved in share drives or folders.