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Guide

How to manage your email signature before the holidays

The practical guide before and during one's absence

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Guide

How to manage your email signature before the holidays

The practical guide before and during one's absence

1. Choose and edit your template

Sigilium offers various email signature templates. They are all dynamic (they integrate powerful logic) and customizable. Choose the one that suits you. Preview the rendering. Apply it to the signatures.

Customize the fields:

  • Define the logo and the colors used

  • Define the sites and networks associated with each entity

  • Allow adding portraits

  • Add direct appointment scheduling



Benefit from our HTML editor

Make the most of your skills and creativity. If you want to modify variables from an existing template or code your own template, it's possible! Sigilium allows you to test and preview your work before applying it to all or part of the users.



Or opt for custom integration

You have built an email signature template internally or with your agency? We can integrate it. Preparing a functional email signature requires validating a certain number of constraints.

Here is an article / a check-list that will help you check that everything is OK for the integration!

1. Choose and edit your template

Sigilium offers various email signature templates. They are all dynamic (they integrate powerful logic) and customizable. Choose the one that suits you. Preview the rendering. Apply it to the signatures.

Customize the fields:

  • Define the logo and the colors used

  • Define the sites and networks associated with each entity

  • Allow adding portraits

  • Add direct appointment scheduling



Benefit from our HTML editor

Make the most of your skills and creativity. If you want to modify variables from an existing template or code your own template, it's possible! Sigilium allows you to test and preview your work before applying it to all or part of the users.



Or opt for custom integration

You have built an email signature template internally or with your agency? We can integrate it. Preparing a functional email signature requires validating a certain number of constraints.

Here is an article / a check-list that will help you check that everything is OK for the integration!

2. Manage the brand image of various entities

You have multiple brands or entities within your company? From the same account, you can manage the brand image of each one.

Define a common template with variations for each brand, or define a template for each brand.

In a few minutes, configure the elements of each brand/entity: logo, website, social networks, contact information...

2. Manage the brand image of various entities

You have multiple brands or entities within your company? From the same account, you can manage the brand image of each one.

Define a common template with variations for each brand, or define a template for each brand.

In a few minutes, configure the elements of each brand/entity: logo, website, social networks, contact information...

3. Deploy a change of identity

Close to 40% of the companies using Sigilium to centralize the management of their email signatures have evolved their identity over the past four years.

The power of centralized management allows you to make a change and deploy it to all concerned users, in less than 3 minutes.

Customer Cases
Changes in identity, email nomenclature, franchise management, acquisitions/mergers of multiple brands:
Discover some customer cases and how they have managed and deployed these changes, very simply.

Discover customer cases

3. Deploy a change of identity

Close to 40% of the companies using Sigilium to centralize the management of their email signatures have evolved their identity over the past four years.

The power of centralized management allows you to make a change and deploy it to all concerned users, in less than 3 minutes.

Customer Cases
Changes in identity, email nomenclature, franchise management, acquisitions/mergers of multiple brands:
Discover some customer cases and how they have managed and deployed these changes, very simply.

Discover customer cases

1. Choose and edit your template

Sigilium offers various email signature templates. They are all dynamic (they integrate powerful logic) and customizable. Choose the one that suits you. Preview the rendering. Apply it to the signatures.

Customize the fields:

  • Define the logo and the colors used

  • Define the sites and networks associated with each entity

  • Allow adding portraits

  • Add direct appointment scheduling



Benefit from our HTML editor

Make the most of your skills and creativity. If you want to modify variables from an existing template or code your own template, it's possible! Sigilium allows you to test and preview your work before applying it to all or part of the users.



Or opt for custom integration

You have built an email signature template internally or with your agency? We can integrate it. Preparing a functional email signature requires validating a certain number of constraints.

Here is an article / a check-list that will help you check that everything is OK for the integration!

2. Manage the brand image of various entities

You have multiple brands or entities within your company? From the same account, you can manage the brand image of each one.

Define a common template with variations for each brand, or define a template for each brand.

In a few minutes, configure the elements of each brand/entity: logo, website, social networks, contact information...

3. Deploy a change of identity

Close to 40% of the companies using Sigilium to centralize the management of their email signatures have evolved their identity over the past four years.

The power of centralized management allows you to make a change and deploy it to all concerned users, in less than 3 minutes.

Customer Cases
Changes in identity, email nomenclature, franchise management, acquisitions/mergers of multiple brands:
Discover some customer cases and how they have managed and deployed these changes, very simply.

Discover customer cases

Introduction

This guide aims to help you manage the email signatures of your teams (and yours) during the holidays. The departure and absences of everyone are an opportunity to adjust and optimize communication to your contacts.
Discover how:


  • Anticipate closures

  • Add an out-of-office message for yourself or your team

  • Find your signature in the automatic absence messages


Introduction

This guide aims to help you manage the email signatures of your teams (and yours) during the holidays. The departure and absences of everyone are an opportunity to adjust and optimize communication to your contacts.
Discover how:


  • Anticipate closures

  • Add an out-of-office message for yourself or your team

  • Find your signature in the automatic absence messages


Announcing one's absence before going on vacation.

In each email signature template that you find on Sigilium, an out-of-office message variable is available at the user level.

It allows you to inform all the contacts you exchange with via email that you will be absent for a few days or weeks. By doing this in advance of your vacation, you enable them to address many matters at the right time.

Specifically:

  • Log in to your space on Sigilium.

  • Click on the check mark: out-of-office message.

  • Edit your message and confirm, the result will appear.

  • The sync happens automatically in your preferred messaging app ✌️.



Announcing one's absence before going on vacation.

In each email signature template that you find on Sigilium, an out-of-office message variable is available for users.

It allows you to inform all the contacts you exchange emails with that you will be absent for a few days or weeks. By doing this ahead of your vacation, you enable them to address numerous topics at the right time.

Specifically:

  • Log in to your space on Sigilium.

  • Click on the checkbox: out-of-office message

  • Edit your message and validate, the result appears

  • the sync is done automatically in your preferred messaging service ✌️.


Deploy a closing message in the email signatures of the teams

Deploy a closure message to the teams.

If you have a store, a factory, or offices that close part of the year, you can announce it in advance in the email signatures of the teams.
This facilitates, for example, order placement for all customers who will need your products during the annual closure.

concretely:

At the level of Organizations, in your Sigilium interface, you can complete the absence message. Upon validation, it will be added automatically.



Deploy a closing message in the email signatures of the teams

Deploy a closure message to the teams.

If you have a store, a factory, or offices that close for part of the year, you can announce this in advance in the email signatures of the teams.
This makes it easier, for example, to take orders for all customers who will need your products during the annual closure.

Specifically:

In the Organizations section, in your Sigilium interface, you can complete the out-of-office message. Upon validation, it will be added automatically.

Add your signature to automatic replies on Gmail.

If you go on vacation, you will undoubtedly activate an automatic out-of-office message. Very often, these are brief. You can make a difference and remain professional by displaying your email signature (HTML) even when you are absent.

Add your signature to automatic replies on Gmail.

If you go on vacation, you will likely activate an automatic out-of-office message. Very often, these are brief.

You can make a difference and remain professional by displaying your email signature (HTML) even when you are unavailable.

Here is how to do it on Gmail :

  • Select Settings (gear icon)
    > See all settings.

  • On the General tab, scroll down to Vacation responder.

  • Select the box Vacation responder to activate it.

  • Make sure that above the text box the link (blue) "Plain text" is displayed.


    Important: If you see the (blue) text "Advanced formatting", click on it to change it to "Plain text.

  • Write your message, you can choose the dates you want to send it and the people you want to send it to.

  • Click on Save changes.

    Congratulations, it's done.


Note: the signature is not visible in the frame but will be visible when received by your contacts.

And if communications are sent during your absence, they will update automatically!

Here is how to do it on Gmail :

  • Select Settings (gear icon)
    > See all settings.

  • On the General tab, scroll down to Vacation responder.

  • Select the box Vacation responder to activate it.

  • Make sure that above the text box the link (blue) "Plain text" is displayed.


    Important: If you see the (blue) text "Advanced formatting", click on it to change it to "Plain text.

  • Write your message, you can choose the dates you want to send it and the people you want to send it to.

  • Click on Save changes.

    Congratulations, it's done.


Note: the signature is not visible in the frame but will be visible when received by your contacts.

And if communications are sent during your absence, they will update automatically!

Add your signature in the automatic reply on Outlook.

If you are going on vacation, you will undoubtedly activate an automatic out-of-office message. Very often, these are brief. You can make a difference and remain professional by displaying your email signature (HTML) even in case of absence.

Find out how to do this with this dedicated notice for Outlook.

Add your signature in the automatic reply on Outlook.

If you go on vacation, you will undoubtedly activate an automatic out-of-office message. Very often, these are brief.

You can make a difference and remain professional by displaying your email signature (HTML) even when you are absent.

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