Mac Mail Compatibility with Recipients who use Outlook

Hi,
I use Mac Mail while the majority of the recipients that my work emails go to use Outlook on a PC. Here are the issues I am encountering:
1. I am aware that font recognition is different on a Mac vs. a PC, so I set my font to Times New Roman which I understand to be standard across all platforms.
2. When I send an email, the Outlook recipient receives my message and the font and my signature is at least 2-3 font sizes larger than the size in which I wrote the email in Mac Mail.
This makes for very unprofessional looking emails. Additionally, I am very surprised that Apple has not figured out a way to easily allow us to create and use signatures that include logos, etc.
Interestingly enough, when I send email from my iPhone and someone views on Outlook, it looks just fine!
I am on Lion.
Any comments are welcome, and thanks.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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