Advice
March 28, 2019

How to add a promotional banner to ​my email signature?

By
Amandine Fernandez
Head of Acquisition
Are you constantly looking for efficient ways to generate traffic to your website? Do you need a new less-intrusive channel that is simple to manage? Great news! Adding a promotional banner to your email is a great way to boost traffic and add more visibility to your campaigns.

To begin, what is an email signature banner?

Banners are graphic images that announce a promotion, event, service, product, launch, or holiday wishes. They can be placed below the signature which displays contact details and includes a clickable URL which will lead the recipient to the company’s desired website.

Why add a banner to your email?

Email signature banners are a great way to reach your target without spamming them like with the traditional mass emailing. Recipients are 100% more likely to open a one-to-one email than a mass email which only results in a 20% opening rate. Banners added to the bottom of your email signature are eye-catching, interesting and most of all non-intrusive.

Employees send around 40 emails per day if you multiply that by the number of employees that are in your organization, which equals a huge opportunity to optimize the cheapest and most powerful communication channel- the email!

How to use a banner and make it work for you?

We recommend using a banner that is no bigger than 700 pixels so that it can fit the format size of an email. Import a .JPEG or .PNG image for the best quality.The banner should have a CTA (call to action) that entices your recipient to click on it and be sure to insert a URL that will bring them to the desired page.

With the click data that is collected by Letsignit, you can see which campaigns were successful and who received the most clicks. You can export this information to analyze and perfect your next banner.

Email signature marketing banners

Here are some tips for having an effective banner:

  • Keep it simple and clear: too much information or images may make the banner look cluttered. Make sure to be precise with the information you want to transmit.
  • Personalize your banners: make sure your banners reach the right targets. Assign your banners to different groups or departments so that they can reach the right segment
  • Make sure to change the banner once the event is over. You can add a start and end date to your banners so that, once the event is over, so is the banner.
  • Add a GIF for a more animated, eye-catching banner.
  • Make it automatic. Save time by using solutions such as Letsignit to diffuse the banner to all employees in just one click.

If you need more inspiration on when to add a banner check out our 5 Essential Cases of Use of Marketing Banners and if you want some guidance on adding the banner to your signature, discover our FAQ.

About the author
Amandine is the Head of Acquisition at Letsignit! Initially a content specialist, she now actively contributes to the profitability of acquisition channels: SEO, SEA, SMA, SMO... Amandine is also one of the pillars of Marketing at Letsignit! For more than 5 years, she has been participating in and initiating marketing projects and campaigns that systematically reflect her vision, writing style, and creativity (which can also be seen in all of her colorful outfits that brighten up the day of everyone she meets).
About Letsignit
With Letsignit email signature manager, connect with your audience in a way that's on-brand and personal, while driving quality lead generation.

Frequently
asked questions

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Is it possible to track the number of clicks on email signatures?

Yes, with the 'Campaigns' offer, it is possible to track the number of clicks on the email signatures of all your employees in the 'Statistics' area of the platform.

You can then access a detailed or global view of the number of clicks on the email signatures of each employee. You can use the search option to target a specific signature or a given period. Finally, you have the possibility to export all statistics to an Excel document.

If you launch campaigns with banners inserted in your email signatures, you can also access their performance via this same space.

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Can we add links to social networks, our website, and appointment-setting applications such as Calendly?

With Letsignit, you can easily add social network icons in your collaborators' email signatures and link to your company pages. Also, our "attributes" feature allows you to manage personalized URLs for each of your collaborators such as their individual LinkedIn profile.

And that's not all: you can add links to an appointment-setting application, allow your customers to leave reviews easily, and integrate our 'Chat on Teams' widget to let anyone start a discussion via Microsoft Teams chat.

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Can employees update their signature information themselves (number, function, etc.)?

It’s up to you! As an administrator of the Letsignit platform, you choose whether or not to grant modification rights to your employees. These permissions are managed on an attribute-by-attribute basis, which means that you can decide to allow the employee to change their phone number, but not the address of your premises, for example.

This feature applies to all attributes in your directory, including custom attributes created on Letsignit. When your employees change one or more attributes, your directory is obviously not affected.

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Why it is important to standardize our email signatures on a large scale to ensure our identity and brand image?

It often happens that employees make their email signature their own: custom format, bad fonts, colors inconsistent with the brand standards... all of this has an impact on your brand!

A consistent visual identity is considered authentic and outperforms a perceived weak one by 20%. And, your customers are 2.4 times more likely to buy your products.

With Letsignit, take back control over your brand identity by standardizing all your email signatures. Our tool has many features that allow you to customize your signatures by department, by audience or by subsidiary. Not to mention the possibility of carrying out campaigns within your email signatures thanks to our Campaign offer.

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What is the user experience like for our employees?

What is the user experience like for our employees?

  • If you opt for the Letsignit Add-in for Outlook, they will have a dedicated space in their Outlook account where they will be able to view the signatures and campaigns assigned to them.
  • If you opt for the Letsignit Desktop APP, they will be able to preview all their signatures and campaigns in this space. If they want to change their default signature to another one when sending an email, this will be done in their signature library in Outlook.

In both cases:

  • They preview their signature before sending an email and choose from signatures assigned to them.
  • Based on the permissions granted, they will also be able to modify their personal information such as their name, position, or address in these spaces.

In short, they have autonomy in their email signature, but you keep control on the field, signatures, and banners they can edit or use.

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Can my employees have multiple signatures available to them?

With our "multi-signature" feature, your employees can benefit from multiple email signatures. No technical manipulation is required. Thanks to our Add-in for Outlook or the desktop app, they can change their email signatures as they wish with just a few clicks.

Regarding the creation of email signatures, you can make several variations such as:

Everything has been thought of to go further in the personalization process based on the recipient of your emails.

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Regarding “Green IT,” have you implemented measures to limit the digital footprint of email signatures?

If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.

As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:

  • Optimization of the weight of signatures and campaigns in emails.
  • Green features: lightening of signatures during response/transfer emails, possibility of not embedding images, implementation of lighter signatures for internal exchanges.
  • Integration of a 'Switch to Teams' widget to encourage your employees to continue their exchanges via chat, rather than email.

As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.

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Regarding “Green IT,” have you implemented measures to limit the digital footprint of email signatures?

If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.

As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:

  • Optimization of the weight of signatures and campaigns in emails.
  • Green features: lightening of signatures during response/transfer emails, possibility of not embedding images, implementation of lighter signatures for internal exchanges.
  • Integration of a 'Switch to Teams' widget to encourage your employees to continue their exchanges via chat, rather than email.

As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.

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