Apple Mail: email signatures, vCards, or both
As an entrepreneur and start-up business I watch how others use their Macs in their business.
I recently received an email that had a company’s signature and Apple’s data detectors picked it up, but because of the way this person wrote their email signature the data detectors did not pick it all up and thus caused me time and energy to get things right. Here’s their signature:
John Doe
My Company, LLC – My Consulting
123 Main Street My Town, CA 012345 (Line space here) Tel. (501)-555-1324 Toll-Free (501)-555-5678E-Mail: mycompany@mycompany.com
The problem with this is Mail’s data detectors is that because of the spacing it saw the address and ONLY the “My Consulting” and not the rest of the line “My Company, LLC”. If this person had not added the “My Consulting” tag line for below their address then the data detectors would have picked up the whole business name and address. The correct way for the data detectors to work is to have the address as such:
My Company, LLC 123 Main St My Town, CA 012345This way ALL of the company address data is picked up. Adding other information before and after the address
The previous method left me having to work with many more mouse clicks that I was willing to endure, but a simpler solution is adding a vCard to his email signature which takes up far less of my time, and my perception of their view of my time, and thus improves my view of their business.
Or, do both. This allows one to cut and paste and address into something else such as another email or into a document and drag and drop the vCard onto Address Book with no typing needed.
Your thoughts?
