DoveCard App: Share Your BizCard Through Your Email Signature

3 min readJan 14, 2022

When you open your email inbox, whether it is your personal or professional email, chances are that at least one of the first few emails contains a signature of some sort.

A signature block, also known as an email signature or forum signature, is a block of text that automatically appears at the bottom of a user’s emails and forum posts. Most often, these will contain a name, position, and contact information. Accompanying these may be a link or brand logo of the company or organization the user represents.

Email is now a staple of daily communication, being used in personal and professional contexts, and even in company-wide branding. That being said, adding a standard and attractive signature will bring that little extra touch of professionalism to your emails.

A Brief History of Email Signatures

The idea of email signatures goes back to the 90s, when they began being added to the end of business emails as a sign of courtesy and professionalism. However, at this time, signatures were extremely limited by formatting options. Realistically, the only option available was the monospaced ASCII formatting, resulting in blocky, uniform fields at the end of an email.

As the 2000s began to expand on web capability, email signatures slowly evolved into how we think of them now, a type of digital business card. With the addition of some simple HTML, these signatures could be customized with colors, formatting, and even photos.

Perhaps chief among those was the hyperlink, which had the potential to link out to any site. This might be your business or institution. It might be your portfolio. However, more and more, signatures also began linking to social media profiles — online profiles that contain an expanded slice of information about you that you would like to share with recipients of your emails.

How Can DoveCard Help in Your Email Signatures?

Because, in essence, an email signature serves as your business card attached to your emails, it’s important to be selective about what information you share there. If you choose to use a signature in your emails, chances are you’ll be including at least one piece of contact information, just as you would in your business card.

So, why not add the option of providing your recipients a link to your own digital business card as well? DoveCard provides you a personal QR code that will link anyone who scans it to your personal BizCard.

This DoveCard QR code is easily inserted or embedded into your email or forum signatures. With this simple scannable code, you are providing your contacts a more efficient and comprehensive way to connect and communicate with you than trading emails could ever be.