There are lot of email options available, but when it comes to using them in a professional business capacity, old faithful named accounts like Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and Gmail aren’t the best choice.
What is a Business Email Address?
A professional business email address has your company name instead of the generic gmail, hotmail or yahoo account, for example: info@shinedental.co.nz
Why do you need a Business Email Address?
Make a great first impression – Having a professional business email for your business creates credibility and improves your brands appearance. While yahoo and gmail maybe a free option and easy to setup you will realise that they lack that professional feel.
From your email signature to your business cards, a branded email address can make an impression and help solidify your brand wherever it appears.
As your brand grows in the marketplace, last thing you will want to worry about is your employees using generic, off-brand and unprofessional email addresses for business communication.
Having a business email can help you organise and create a standard for email accounts by department and by team member for example department@yourdomain.com, firstname.surname@yourdomain.com. This helps provide organisation and structure to email communications for your business.
Allowing the use of free email accounts for your business can also pose a security risk. It will difficult to control privacy aspects and could also create legal issues. You could also lose information during staff turnover.
On the other hand, using business email address keeps you in control with streamlined and consistent email process.
Emails from free email platforms such as gmail or yahoo can easily be marked as SPAM by your recipients email accounts. This could result in your important emails not reaching the intended recipients in a timely manner. Whereas emails from custom business email addresses are less likely to be marked as SPAM.
What do you need to create a Business Email Address?
You can contact us and we\’ll be able to set this up for you at very reasonable rates. We can look after the entire process for you from registering a domain to hosting and creating and setting up the email accounts as you desire.
You will also have full access to the control panel to ensure that while using our services, you are still in full control .
Alternatively, you could do this yourself. Register your domain with any domain registrar. Most of them also provide web hosting services.
Choose a provider and sign up for a hosting account.
Once your account has been approved, you will be able to log in and create your custom email addresses through the email administration panel.