Business Email Address

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A business email address is an essential part of a professional image!

Do you have a business web site? Are you starting a hobby web site or blog that you hope may one day make you some money?

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Professional Presence

Nothing says serious and professional like a business email address with your own domain name on it!

Please don't use free email providers for your business! Although they are great for everyday personal use for a business they send the wrong message for a business.

For your business or serious personal website or blogging site you need to interact with customers and visitors using a mechanism that emphasizes professionalism.

This means you need your own domain name and your own business email address.

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What does your business email address say about you?

An email address that contains your own domain name sends a message!

It says that you are serious enough about your business to invest in it.

And when you think about it, the investment required to own a domain name and host your web site is not huge.

Let's say you spend even $30 per month on hosting with a paid web host. That would work out to only $360 per year.

As business expenses go, $360 per year is not large.

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Included in all web hosting plans

Providing one or more email addresses is part of the services of a web hosting company. One of the things you should think about when choosing a web host is how many you will need, and then see how many the various hosting plans include.

Need more than one email address?

For most businesses just starting out, one is probably all you will need.

Although it may sound exciting to have unlimited email addresses, unless you really need them they can just become a pain to administer.

If you are operating your business alone it can become tedious to remember to check for mail in each address and potentially remember several seperate passwords as well.

But if your business is larger, you will probably need a seperate email address for each staff member, and perhpas even one for each department.

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What does a business email address look like?

Regardless of how many you decide to have for your business, all email addresses will be of the following format:

anyname@yourdomainname

So for example let's say your domain name is incredible-used-cars.com and your name is Jack.

Your own email address could be Jack@incredible-used-cars.com

Or manager@incredible-used-cars.com

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How To Set Them Up

The hosting panel provided by your web host will provide you with information on how to create your business email addresses and configure them so that your mail can be received at your desktop.

If you use Outlook or Outlook Express, below is a good link to Microsoft's instructions on how to set up your mailbox, and what types of information you will need to obtain from your web host to do this.

microsoft outlook instructions

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Or you can access your email anywhere in the world through webmail

Another way to receive email is through a webmail service, which is something also provided by your web host.

With webmail service you can access your business email easily from any computer that is linked up to the internet. From anywhere in the world!

 

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