What is the proper etiquette for signing your name to an email when your name is already in your signature?

Question

I'm asking in the business context...for example, should you write your first name if it's someone you deal with daily, or is your signature enough? (My signature includes my name, title, company, phone number and website.) Or should you rewrite your name if it's a new contact? What is considered appropriate?

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem when I first started this office job. I just looked at how my coworkers did it and others. My coworkers are a little less considerate when it comes to how they treat customers..for example they just use their signature and dont even write a closing...and I don't like that so I wanted to personalize it a bit more. What I do now is after I've completed an email, I always make sure to write something along the lines of I wish them a good day and look forward to hearing from them soon, etc. and always always have a sincerely or some sort of closing like that. So it usually goes like this:



Dear so & so,



{insert email}



I look forward to hearing from you soon & hope you have a great {day/week/weekend}!



Sincerely,



--(this is where my automatic signature comes in)

My name

Company

title

address

phone/fax

etc





I hope I made sense and that this helps!! :)

Answer 2

I type my name at the end of all my emails, even though I have a "signature line".

It would be like sending a letter to someone and not signing because your name is printed at the bottom of the page.

The worst - and I find it totally inappropriate - is when people use their signature line because they're too lazy to type. So you always get the same "Thanks! Beth" in every email. Annoying.....

Answer 3

You make no sense. A proper signature is writing your name. What on earth are you talking about.

Answer 4

"From,



(See Below)"







ha ha just kidding. I would just sign it as if there were no signature and then leave a lot of space between the closing and the signature.

Answer 5

Avoid redundancy.

Simply add a closing such as "Sincerely" or "Regards" above where your signature line will appear.