If you sell online
have your own Email
If your doing business online, you MUST have an Email
address at yourcompany.com. If your web site is abcsales.com then your
Email address should be ralph@abcsales.com.
If you don't have your own domain name,
check
this out.
Do NOT use Hotmail, or any of the other free services.
This makes you appear to be totally lacking in any commitment to being in business
for the long term.
A close second in tackiness, from a business
perspective, are addresses at AOL, MSN, attbi, and any other subscription
services. Why, if you're in business as abcsales.com, would you have an
address at AOL or any of the other services? Are you abcsales.com, or NOT?
By the way, every hosting service I've seen gives you at
least one mailbox as part of the hosting package, so it's not like you
have to go out of your way to have your Email address at your business
address.
Also, if you have a lot of customers or prospects and
they have your address at hotmail or wherever, what happens if and when
you drop the service, for whatever reason.
"That's just my opinion--but I could be wrong,"
Dennis Miller
|
