Tuesday Tip November 13, 2012

USE A STANDARD LETTERHEAD

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No need for anything fancy, paid for, or hard.  Just a consistent banner and footer (or signature) is enough to add to your personal brand.  Just as your statements, written and verbal, should build your personal brand - so should your correspondence!

The easiest approach is to echo your resume header and use that for your letterhead banner.  You can copy and paste this to a word document and save it as letterhead.  Use this document for any and all correspondence.

By having a consistent letterhead, a reader will immediately recognize your attention to detail and thoughtfulness about your correspondence.  Depending upon your profession, you may want to fashion your letterhead to reflect certain qualities:  Artistic, Scientific, Realistic, and or Basic, for example.

A letterhead or heading usually...

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