Communication
August 5, 2024

What are the best digital communication tools?

By
Letsignit

You are a master at distributing business cards, sending greeting cards to all your colleagues, and displaying your advertisements in the best locations around the city? Congratulations, you’re a pro at traditional communication. Now, there’s just one world left to conquer—the digital one!

Feeling lost in this unknown land full of notifications, platforms, and tools? Don't worry, we’ll be your guide through this new continent!

To help you adopt the right practices, here’s a selection of digital communication tools to integrate into your business processes.

Communication tool: definition

Communication tools encompass all platforms and methods used for internal communication and external communication. Internally, these tools facilitate teamwork, centralization, and information sharing, as well as smooth exchanges. Externally, they increase the visibility of your company, attract prospects, and simplify interactions with your clients, suppliers, and partners.

Among these tools, some are traditional, such as logos, graphic charters, business cards, brochures, posters, and all other forms of classic advertising. Others are specifically designed to support your digital strategies. We can think of social media, content management platforms (CMS), email marketing tools, online advertising, etc.

To better navigate this digital universe, here are the main digital communication platforms to integrate into your processes.

6 examples of professional communication tools

Here are the 6 main digital platforms to improve employee engagement, optimize your communication, and create personalized, effective, and profitable strategies!

1. Social Media and Community Management

Outil de communication exemple réseaux sociaux

Social networks are essential communication tools for businesses, regardless of their size or industry. Spaces for sharing information, engaging with your clientele, and building brand awareness, they are now a must for any company looking to grow online.

As professional communication tools, various social media platforms allow you to:

  • Share quality content tailored to your audiences;
  • Develop your brand image and increase your recognition;
  • Position yourself as an expert in your industry;
  • Reach large audiences without geographical limits;
  • Interact quickly and directly with your customers, colleagues, and partners;
  • Promote your products, services, and current offers;
  • Facilitate engagement and customer loyalty;
  • Increase sales and conversion rates of potential clients.

Main social media platforms:

Facebook : dinosaure du groupe (déjà 20 ans), cette plateforme permet d’atteindre de larges audiences de tout âge (principalement entre 25 et 54 ans), région et intérêt, en plus de créer des publicités ciblées pour élargir votre audience et engager les communautés qui vous suivent.


LinkedIn : réseau professionnel par excellence, c’est un espace de réseautage, de notoriété pour l’entreprise, et de recrutement. Cette plateforme s’adresse principalement aux professionnels et entreprises, aux recruteurs et aux personnes en recherche d’emploi.


X (anciennement Twitter) : plateforme qui fait circuler l’information à grande vitesse, X est le réseau privilégié des journalistes, des politiciens, des influenceurs et de toute personne désirant communiquer sur l’actualité en temps réel.


Instagram : média favori des jeunes adultes et des influenceurs, ce réseau offre une variété de contenus visuels (photos et vidéos) ciblés pour chaque utilisateur. Il permet d’échanger par message et de faire la promotion de produits et services, notamment par l’entremise d’influenceurs et de la publicité, et de maximiser la portée de vos messages par l'utilisation des fameux hastags. (Pour trouver les bons hashtags, des générateurs de hashtags existent d'ailleurs pour vous faciliter la tâche.)


TikTok : média privilégié des jeunes, des influenceurs et des célébrités, son fil d’actualité propose de courtes vidéos, souvent virales, ciblées selon les intérêts des utilisateurs. Il offre aux entreprises la possibilité de publier des vidéos attractives sur leurs produits et activités, en plus de créer des campagnes publicitaires.


YouTube : incontournable des réseaux sociaux, cette plateforme propose des vidéos de courte ou de longue durée qui rejoignent de larges audiences. Elle permet de publier des conférences, des tutoriels, de la musique… diffusés à l’échelle planétaire, et de monétiser certains contenus.

Whether you use Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Instagram, or TikTok, first choose platforms that suit your audience. Then, you can publish creative, original, and quality content that resonates with your clientele and encourages them to comment, like, share, discover, or purchase your products and services. And remember, here, engagement is key!

2. Company Website and Blog

Blog site web communication

Among the key digital communication tools, the website is, of course, essential! A showcase for your business, it provides a comprehensive overview of your products, services, and activities, in addition to communicating your brand identity.

A well-designed website helps you improve your online visibility and strengthen your brand's credibility. Meanwhile, the blog allows you to post engaging and relevant content to attract and retain the attention of your visitors. Moreover, blog articles optimized for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) help improve rankings in search engines and generate consistent organic traffic.

Together, the website and blog create a connection with your target audience, establish your company as an authority in its field, and facilitate interaction with both potential and existing clients.

3. Email Campaigns

Email outil de communication professionnel

Embedded in both our professional and personal lives, emails have become one of the most widely used communication tools in society. Within a company, they are not only an efficient means of communication with your clients, colleagues, and partners but also represent a tremendous marketing opportunity!

Email marketing is a powerful tool for establishing and maintaining direct communication with your clients and prospects. And in addition to being an effective means of communication, it’s cost-effective! On average, the return on investment for email campaigns is 36$ for every 1$ spent.

By following your communication strategy and goals, email campaigns offer you the chance to:

  • Personalize your messages and offer targeted content;
  • Stimulate your sales;
  • Generate leads;
  • Analyze results and better understand your potential clients;
  • Retain your customers.

4. Email Signature

Signature outil de communication email

Speaking of email communication, it would be a crime not to mention the professional email signature! Composed of your company’s logo, your name, job title, and contact details (email, phone number, etc.), it shares your professional information in a snap, like a virtual business card.

But its benefits don’t stop there!

Designed according to your brand’s graphic charter, the email signature strengthens your company’s brand image with each message sent. Additionally, it is automatically integrated into your email software and standardized for each team member, ensuring visual and professional consistency across all communications.

To share other information by email, your professional signature can also be accompanied by email signature campaigns! These personalized banners communicate your offers, events, and ongoing promotions at the end of every message, with a call-to-action button.

Automatically integrated into each message, your email signatures and banners effectively reach your recipients. Message by message, they help spread your brand and serve as an excellent indirect communication tool.

And with Letsignit, you can create your email signatures and banners in just a few clicks, scheduling them for the whole team. Isn't that wonderful?

5. Online Advertising

Publicité communication

Finally, in the ranking of digital communication tools, advertising holds a top spot. Just like a poster strategically placed in a public area, your online ads appear on platforms where your clients and prospects are, grabbing their attention and sharing your offers and promotions.

Also known as SEM (Search Engine Marketing) or SEA (Search Engine Advertising), advertising can be broadcast across various online platforms, including:

  • Google Ads: a tool for creating and managing ads within Google’s ecosystem and its partners;
  • Facebook Ads Manager: a platform to create and schedule ads on Facebook and Instagram;
  • LinkedIn Campaign Manager: a space for running targeted ads on LinkedIn;
  • HubSpot: a centralized platform for scheduling ads and managing client relationships (CRM);
  • AdRoll: a tool for remarketing and display ads.

Each of these communication tools allows you to broadcast messages to potential clients, reach large audiences, measure the effectiveness of your campaigns, and maximize your return on investment (ROI) based on set objectives. A simplified, effective, and cost-effective way to increase your online visibility!

6. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Tools

CRM outil de communication digitale

CRMs, short for Customer Relationship Management, are communication tools that allow you to manage customer relationships. These systems centralize information and automate interactions, making communication with your clients smoother and more efficient.

Also known as "customer relationship management", CRMs offer a variety of features to optimize your communication strategy.

Here are the main features:

  • Centralized data: all client information is gathered on one interface;
  • Process automation: makes it easier to send emails and campaigns automatically;
  • Team coordination: improves internal collaboration by offering shared access to client data;
  • Interaction history: tracks all exchanges with clients to personalize your approach;
  • Analysis tools: provides detailed reports on campaign performance and client behavior to adapt communication strategies.

By using a CRM, you improve not only your communication efforts and customer relationship management but also internal coordination, which enhances your service and maximizes your team’s effectiveness.

Improve your communication techniques with powerful tools

You now master the best communication practices and tools to dive into the digital world! From managing social media to optimizing email campaigns, through a well-designed website and the use of attractive email signatures, each platform plays a crucial role in this ecosystem. You now have the foundations to launch a multichannel communication strategy or—your choice—to focus on the tool that you find most relevant.

So, ready to conquer the digital world with the right tools? It’s your turn to make your communications a powerful lever for your success!

About the author
About Letsignit
Letsignit is an email signature management solution that allows organizations to transform their employees' email signatures into a powerful 1-1 engagement medium for their brands and campaigns.

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Is it possible to track the number of clicks on email signatures?

Yes, with the 'Campaigns' offer, it is possible to track the number of clicks on the email signatures of all your employees in the 'Statistics' area of the platform.

You can then access a detailed or global view of the number of clicks on the email signatures of each employee. You can use the search option to target a specific signature or a given period. Finally, you have the possibility to export all statistics to an Excel document.

If you launch campaigns with banners inserted in your email signatures, you can also access their performance via this same space.

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Can we add links to social networks, our website, and appointment-setting applications such as Calendly?

With Letsignit, you can easily add social network icons in your collaborators' email signatures and link to your company pages. Also, our "attributes" feature allows you to manage personalized URLs for each of your collaborators such as their individual LinkedIn profile.

And that's not all: you can add links to an appointment-setting application, allow your customers to leave reviews easily, and integrate our 'Chat on Teams' widget to let anyone start a discussion via Microsoft Teams chat.

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Can employees update their signature information themselves (number, function, etc.)?

It’s up to you! As an administrator of the Letsignit platform, you choose whether or not to grant modification rights to your employees. These permissions are managed on an attribute-by-attribute basis, which means that you can decide to allow the employee to change their phone number, but not the address of your premises, for example.

This feature applies to all attributes in your directory, including custom attributes created on Letsignit. When your employees change one or more attributes, your directory is obviously not affected.

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Why it is important to standardize our email signatures on a large scale to ensure our identity and brand image?

It often happens that employees make their email signature their own: custom format, bad fonts, colors inconsistent with the brand standards... all of this has an impact on your brand!

A consistent visual identity is considered authentic and outperforms a perceived weak one by 20%. And, your customers are 2.4 times more likely to buy your products.

With Letsignit, take back control over your brand identity by standardizing all your email signatures. Our tool has many features that allow you to customize your signatures by department, by audience or by subsidiary. Not to mention the possibility of carrying out campaigns within your email signatures thanks to our Campaign offer.

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What is the user experience like for our employees?

What is the user experience like for our employees?

  • If you opt for the Letsignit Add-in for Outlook, they will have a dedicated space in their Outlook account where they will be able to view the signatures and campaigns assigned to them.
  • If you opt for the Letsignit Desktop APP, they will be able to preview all their signatures and campaigns in this space. If they want to change their default signature to another one when sending an email, this will be done in their signature library in Outlook.

In both cases:

  • They preview their signature before sending an email and choose from signatures assigned to them.
  • Based on the permissions granted, they will also be able to modify their personal information such as their name, position, or address in these spaces.

In short, they have autonomy in their email signature, but you keep control on the field, signatures, and banners they can edit or use.

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Can my employees have multiple signatures available to them?

With our "multi-signature" feature, your employees can benefit from multiple email signatures. No technical manipulation is required. Thanks to our Add-in for Outlook or the desktop app, they can change their email signatures as they wish with just a few clicks.

Regarding the creation of email signatures, you can make several variations such as:

Everything has been thought of to go further in the personalization process based on the recipient of your emails.

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Regarding “Green IT,” have you implemented measures to limit the digital footprint of email signatures?

If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.

As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:

  • Optimization of the weight of signatures and campaigns in emails.
  • Green features: lightening of signatures during response/transfer emails, possibility of not embedding images, implementation of lighter signatures for internal exchanges.
  • Integration of a 'Switch to Teams' widget to encourage your employees to continue their exchanges via chat, rather than email.

As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.

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Regarding “Green IT,” have you implemented measures to limit the digital footprint of email signatures?

If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.

As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:

  • Optimization of the weight of signatures and campaigns in emails.
  • Green features: lightening of signatures during response/transfer emails, possibility of not embedding images, implementation of lighter signatures for internal exchanges.
  • Integration of a 'Switch to Teams' widget to encourage your employees to continue their exchanges via chat, rather than email.

As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.

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