ePOWER TIP: (full story)
How
To Instantly Transfer Your Complete Contact
Information To Online Clients And Prospects ...
E-mail signatures are great, however if that is
all you include in your e-mail messages you are
missing a great opportunity. Here's how you can
make your complete contact information
"one-click" away for your online clients and
prospects ...
A Vcard (pronounced "vee
card") is an Internet standard personal
electronic business card in the form of a
special, small text-based file that is attached
to your outgoing e-mail messages. While it
typically contains all of your contact
information, the real power of a Vcard is in the
way this information is transferred. Recipients
who are using professional-level e-mail software
like Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape
Messenger, etc. simply just open the Vcard
attachment within your message to instantly
transfer all of your contact information into
their database.
A Vcard should be used as a
complement to your signature, but not a
replacement for it. This is primarily because you
can include marketing messages within your
signature that are not allowed as part of the
Vcard standard. Since a Vcard is consists of your
own contact record, you need to create one for
yourself in your own e-mail contact database
before you can start including it with your
signatures for outgoing e-mail.
How to get your e-mail
software to automatically include your Vcard with
your signatures depends upon the e-mail software
you use. If you are currently using Outlook 2000
for your e-mail, just
CLICK HERE to view an animated step-by-step
demonstration on how to include your Vcard with
any new signature you create within Outlook 2000
(this is a very cool demo!)
A final note:
As usual, AOL e-mail does not conform to Internet
industry standards, which means Vcards do not work
for AOL recipients. Therefore it is advised to
delete the Vcard attachment on messages that are
to be sent to any AOL recipients. |
