What Fonts Are Best For Email Signatures?

You’ve been working with a design agency and created an awesome new email signature which matches your company brand, but now find that the fonts they use only seem to look good on iOS and OSX devices, Windows, and Andriod, however, look terrible. Why and what can be done? Web Safe Fonts The chances are […]

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Should Your Email Signature Include an Animated GIF?

2018 seemed to be the year when everyone added an animated GIFs in their email signatures. We noticed this trend back in 2016 when our local Google representatives email signature included their new logo moving around. This was an excellent good use of the email signature and executed beautifully, in typical Google fashion. Since then […]

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Don’t Add Images to Your Signature

OK, will you let me have a little moan? Why do so many email clients still embed the email signature images within the body of the email? Don’t know what I’m talking about? Take a look at the email below as seen from my Gmail client. Notice that this email has an attachment, “image001.jpg”. This image is […]

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Add Whatsapp to Your Email Signature

Currently, WhatsApp allows you to create a click to chat link. To create your own click to chat link to use in your signature use https://wa.me/<number> where the <number> is a full phone number in international format. Omit any zeroes, brackets or dashes when adding the phone number in international format. For a detailed explanation […]

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Sorry, The Signature is Too Long. Please Try a Shorter Signature

If you’re seeing the following message. Sorry, the signature for [gmail email address] is too long. Please try a shorter signature. Guess what? Your email signature is too long. But what exactly does that mean, and what can you do to resolve it? Within Gmail, your email signature is limited to 10,000 characters. Now that’s a […]

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The future of the workplace

We believe that remote working and distributed teams are the future for the majority of businesses. Bespin Labs is 100% Cloud and 100% distributed, we have no physical office location. We believe that this business model is the future and most businesses, especially tech, will follow over the next few years. It’s clearly not possible […]

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Mobile-Friendly Email Signatures

56% of emails are now read on a smartphone or tablet device. With the increase of remote and mobile working, consideration must be given to the form factor of these mobile devices when creating the ideal company email signature. Picture perfect Most email signatures will be designed on a PC or Mac where the screen […]

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Cybersecurity – The human element

Having strong security controls in place is critical to every single organisation, however if they are too restrictive you’re likely to find your users attempting to circumvent them. On the other hand, if they are too weak you put them and your business at risk. So here are a handful of tips on how you […]

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Do you really need an office?

Some startups are ditching the idea of an office and creating remotely distributed teams, while others feel that an office is key to their success. Here are Bespin Labs we’ve been running remote teams since the very beginning. Most of us have come from organisations with home working policies, allowing us to work either from […]

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Google Groups still leaking internal data

Last July, we told you how RedLock researchers discovered that many organisations using Google Workspace had unintentionally exposed internal emails via misconfiguring their Google Groups settings. Unfortunately, almost 12 months later, it seems that Google Workspace administrators are still using misconfigured Google Groups exposing personal and confidential information to the public Internet.

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