Missy Caulk had asked me about my Email Signature block the other day, so I had promised her that I would write up a quick blog about how to make hers look like mine. I add the Feedburner to help promote my blog subscriptions.
Few logistics first. I use Outlook 2003 as my mail client. I have only two email address accounts on it. Bob.Carney(at)LongandFoster.com and Bob(at)gotbob4homes.com. One is my companies Microsoft Exchange server and the other is my email service on my Domain from Godaddy. I have multiple other email addresses associated with my other websites, but they are set up on Bluehost to forward to my main email address.
The next item you will need is a Feedburner subscription. You probably have seen them around. They allow your readers to subscribe to your blog feed. I have added to my signature block a Feed Headliner. This little gizmo rotates through your most recent post in a an attractive block. (this can be used anywhere, not just in your email)
Now that you have both of them, you can proceed to the next step.
On your feedburner account, click on "my feeds" and then click on the blog you want to showcase. On the next screen you will see a series of tabs. Click on the Publicize tab and then click "Headliner Animator"
Create the Headliner that you want. You can adjust size, color and layout.
You will have multiple ways to post this bugger on different blogging and socail platforms. I just picked the "Other Code" and pasted it in the HTML tab of the AR editor.
But that's not why we are here. Under the Headline Animator, I selected the "email signature" choice and followed the direction in the drop down box for Outlook 2003.
You can check out my other post on the email signatures if you need any ideas on what to put in your Outlook signature block.
Sorry for the delay Missy...hope this helps!
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