This is one of those things where I always wonder why people would use a free e-mail service such as gmail or hotmail as their primary business e-mail when they already have their own website and could literally create any e-mail account using their own brand\/identity. It seems like you are wasting a bit of free advertising as well by not using your own e-mail brand such as when you pass off business cards.<\/p>\n
I think the most common reason I have heard is that most free e-mail addresses are web based and so you can access it anywhere at anytime without the need of say a desktop that has an e-mail client like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. There are a lot of options though if that is the only reason that you are using a web based e-mail. For example, I know of companies simply install open source web based e-mail programs on their site such as a program called Squirrel mail at http:\/\/squirrelmail.org\/<\/a>. With that people can access their mail on the road with a desktop based e-mail client and when they get home or at the office they can do things like usual.<\/p>\n I personally just find that you have more to gain by trying to use your own e-mail a much as possible if this is for business purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is one of those things where I always wonder why people would use a free e-mail service such as gmail or hotmail as their primary business e-mail when they already have their own website and could literally create any e-mail account using their own brand\/identity. It seems like you are wasting a bit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[3944,3946,3333,874,3945],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-email","tag-desktop-email","tag-email","tag-identity","tag-web-based-mail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/above-vancouver-eye-of-wind.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-15H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4201,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/4201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}