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Domain E-mail Options
Want to look more professional to your prosepcts and customers? Then stop using an aol, hotmail, or yahoo e-mail address. It looks much more professional to use a company e-mail address such as bob@company.com. All you need in order to do that is your own domain name. When you own a domain, you can create any e-mail address you want at that domain. For example, you can use bob, info, or anything else.
There are basically two ways to set up domain e-mails:
Option 1: The e-mail address can forward to another existing non-domain e-mail address. For example, bob@company.com forwards to your personal e-mail address. That would mean that any e-mail sent to bob@company.com would automatically forward to your personal e-mail address. The benefits of setting up the e-mail this way is that you still get the professionalism of having a domain e-mail, and also that you don't have to check two separate e-mail accounts, since all e-mails are going to your personal hotmail, yahoo or aol account.
The negative thing about having your domain e-mail forward is that when you reply to e-mails sent to your domain e-mail, the recipient will see your hotmail e-mail address, not your domain e-mail address. For example - Joe sends you an e-mail to bob@company.com. That e-mail forwards to your personal e-mail address. When you reply to Joe, it will show that the e-mail you sent came from your personal e-mail address, not your domain e-mail address.
Option 2: Set up your domain e-mail address as a separate account in Outlook or your e-mail program. This is by far the more professional option, since any e-mails you send out will show your domain e-mail address. The only down-side is that you need to set up this separate account in Outlook, and check it separately from your personal e-mail account.
Weigh both options and then decide which is best for you.
Amir Watynski owns Watt Media, Inc., which helps businesses promote their services and enhance their image with telephone "on-hold" messages and music, and web design services.
Website: http://www.watt-media.com
Blog: http://blog.watt-media.com
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