In business, when replying to emails, have your phone number in the reply

When setting up your email signature I recommend that your "Replies/forwards" have some type of contact info. While it is important to add contacts to your database whenever you can, you cannot rely on your customers doing this. Often customers will call you using the phone number you have in your email signature. But if you are brought into an email chain your signature could have - at best - only your name, and at worst, no information at all.

My suggestion: Your phone number should always be under your email signature. I recommend a "Replies/forwards" that is as succinct as possible; Your name, your company, your phone number.

Remember that when you are replying to partners and customers in the middle of an email chain, and if you are interacting with those people for the first time, you should always add your original signature to the chain.