Comments on: Email Address : A Branding Tool That Is Often Ignored

By: Rahul - Web Guru

Rahul - Web Guru — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:13:43 +0000

Certainly the second option of email address is more appealing to me too.

By: Flattery

Flattery — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:47:12 +0000

What limitations would you have to using your own domains email? I don’t see limitation to using your own domain, I see limitation when using Gmail, Hotmail, etc… You can even use your own domain with Gmail if you really like using Gmail. I suppose one limitation could be that your domain name could be longer than Gmail.

By: Pat Zalewski

Pat Zalewski — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:46:49 +0000

Ritu,
I agree 100%. I switched everything except my business to gmail. I maintain the biz name for strictly biz, and other email for family friends, etc. And info at anything.com makes the delete key more inviting.

By: Andy Marshall

Andy Marshall — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:08:58 +0000

yep – and hello at moogaloo.com is a lot more welcoming an email than info at moogaloo.com.

I have wondered tho about how the whole cloud computing thing will change this – I know a few people who’ve moved their email over to google to make it more portable.

By: Shiju Alex

Shiju Alex — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:43:36 +0000

I guess that is a conventional advice given by online marketers. I too have advised many of my clients.
In fact, we could take it a little further.

consult@doctor.com should convey some more meaning than mail@doctor.com
It may not be huge plus, but it sure is a minimal add-on.

By: Ritu B. Pant

Ritu B. Pant — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:55:59 +0000

@Martin : I think many people do forward their emails but for some reason instead of using the client they forward it to, the end up using gmail hah. it’s funny and then they end up sending email from gmail which kind of defeats the purpose.

@Andy : Absolutely!

By: Andy Marshall

Andy Marshall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:48:47 +0000

Yep – I agree with you there!

Its also one of the first things we do with clients is get them off their johndoe103@yahoo.com email addresses and onto something more professional thats comes off thier website address.

By: Martin Sarsini

Martin Sarsini — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:38:50 +0000

When I started reading your post I thought it was all obvious. Although it might seem an obvious thing to do I am sure not that many still don’t understand the potentials.
I wanted to add to your post that it’s not necessarily true that “gain a few things you’ve got to learn to lose a few”.
I used to have many email accounts and I used to check each one of them individually.
If you love using gmail you can set up things to let you send emails from gmail showing as sender whatever email address you want. Just go to your settings page, then go into “accounts and import” and set things in “Send mail as”.
Also you can make sure that you receive any email sent to your other accounts into your gmail. You can set up a forwarder email account. For example the email sent to name@yourdomain.com is forwarded to youraccount@gmail.com. Or you can simply add your email to be checked by gmail using POP. Create labels and add some filters and you will be in possess of a very powerful system to manage your email: all in one place!