Depends who i’m emailing...sometimes i want people to know they are talking to a founder... other times i want to pretend to be a peon who needs permission to do everything
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.I have been deliberating this for some time now, being the sole founder of a small business (less than 10 staff). I have been putting my designation as 'Business Development' on my email signature. Calling yourself a CEO/Founder to me implies that you are a leader of a large organization. A CEO in the conventional sense refers to someone who operates a vast enterprise with a complex management structure, board of directors and stockholders. This varies from culture to culture, but I personally think that calling myself Founder/Owner/Director/CEO etc at this stage, comes across as arrogant when I am running but a small company.
However, when communicating back and forth via email with important government people and business partners, would this 'Business Development' title play me down in terms of authority or respect?
Would love to hear everyones thoughts!
I just signoff with my name.
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We're building a large enterprise, though we're still a small team. I disagree with the looking down on "CEO" titles. If you're running an amazon store, sure you don't need that bullshit. If you're serving companies with revenues in the hundreds of millions/billions like my company does, CEO is appropriate, and you might as well go ahead and get settled into your role.
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