Electronic mail is fast replacing the Conventional Snail Mail & fax communication. The primary reason being the cost of communication is cut down drastically. The second reason is this is a very fast media of communication. You as architects must be anyways using E-Mail media of communication. E-mail could work wonders if you have a web site.
Your could have your email address of your own choice. yourname@companyname.com This clearly indicates that this company has a web site also & the web site address is http://www. companyname.com You could create email addresses for your key employees also for better communication methods.
The email addresses would have the Identity of the architectural firm because it carries the domain name of your web site.
1) Web based email addresses. Like yourname@yahoo.com these email addresses have to be accessed while you are connected only. You will need to answer back to the e-mail while you are still connected only.
2) The second type is a POP E-mail address which could be used in a very peculiar way. The email software on your computer (Like Outlook Express) could be configured to access this pop email address. When you log in to internet, with a click of a button, your emails are down loaded to your computer which you can read at leisure (Offline) and even reply to these emails (while offline) the email reply would be stored in the out box of your email software & when you connect again are sent to the desired email address.
Defining signatures of your email. Your web site links could be the headers or footers of your email formats. This ensures that every one receiving an email from you could just click on the active links in the email header to visit your web site.
Small interactive presentations or Microsoft power point presentations could be sent as attachments to the e-mails. These presentations could be images, sketch plans, of current projects or scanned photographs of past projects. |
