After my post about making sure your real estate email signature is complete and current, there were a few questions about how to create a signature.  Since many people use Outlook, here’s information about how to put a signature in Outlook.

Outlook Signature Overview for 2003, 2007 and 2010

There’s a great page on the Microsoft site that lists links to pages on creating signatures in all three of the latest Outlook releases.

Outlook 2003

For Outlook 2003, I found a text tutorial on the Microsoft site.   If you’re using Outlook 2003, be sure to note the “See Also” links on the right side of the text tutorial page.

Outlook 2007

I found a very clear video on creating a signature in Outlook 2007.   And, there’s a text version if you prefer that approach.

The demo doesn’t address adding an image to the signature, but I think you’ll see it’s easy to do.  The image below is the Signature popup you’ll see in the video.  You’ll notice that it has the Image and Link icons in the toolbar.

To add a social media icon, you would insert the icon of your choice, then highlight it and link it to your page on that site.

Obtaining Social Media Icons

There are tons of free social media icons on the Internet.  Just do a search for free social media icons and you’ll find all the styles and sizes you could want.  I like a set called Social.Me.  The set includes icons for any social media site you’ve ever heard of (or not), neatly organized into folders for four different sizes.

If anyone knows of good Outlook signature tutorials, please leave a comment with a link!   If you use something other than Outlook and you’re stuck on creating an effective signature, I’ll try to find one for you, or another reader may have the answer, so leave a comment.