Today I was looking at a person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business card which for the most part seemed ordinary. For example, it had the name of his business, contact number, website address, etc. The funny thing I thought was that his only e-mail contact that was listed was a Hotmail address. I asked him why he simply didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use an e-mail address that was set up through his website instead as I would feel weird if say a fortune 500 company asked me to contact their departments through the use of free e-mail services.<\/p>\n
His reason was pretty common where he says it is more convenient for him as he can access the mail wherever he is as opposed to having to use an e-mail client within his main computer. I then explained that you could easily do that with web domain e-mails as well, but he insisted. Wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it be worth it from an image perspective to not use free e-mail accounts for your business?<\/p>\n
The assumption in terms of a first impression would be that you are some kind of start up or that you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford your own digital mailbox. Especially if you are a web based business the risk of losing business versus what may seem more convenient isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worth the trade I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say. The alternatives solutions are definitely there too.<\/p>\n
If for some odd reason you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t setup your domain to have web based e-mail access then simply setting up an e-mail that redirects to say your free e-mail account like a Yahoo or Hotmail where everything is invisible to the sender is a good solution I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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