Free Email Accounts - Pros and Cons
Copyright 2006 Peter Dobler
Free email accounts are great if you want to hide your identity.
They are great to sign up for free stuff. They are also very
popular for SPAM emails and due to this they also filter too
many non-spam emails as well. Ever wondered why you haven't
heard from a friend lately. All a sudden no more emails, not
even the forwarded jokes. Your friend just disappeared and you
scratching your head what you have done to tick him/her off.
Your friend didn't disappear, only his/her emails are
disappearing. No notice, no error message, nothing, the email
simply disappeared. The bad news is, there's not much you can do
about it. On the other hand you can still enjoy the free emails
if you switch to a lesser know email provider. Besides the big 3
Hotmail, Yahoo and Google, here's a list of smaller providers of
free email services. Email Accounts For Business Purpose
Did you know that with every web hosting service you will also
get enough email accounts to last forever? Not only will an
email address that ends in @yourdomain.com show your
professional approach to your online business it also gives you
great control over what messages you want to receive and which
ones you want to filter.
I set up my emails into multiple accounts for business purposes.
These accounts have a very tight SPAM filter. I also have a
couple of accounts for newsletter sign up purposes where I don't
filter at all. Yes I get a lot of SPAM there as well, but these
accounts are set up to receive everything. The nice side effect
of having many email addresses when you running an online
business is that you can test your email campaign beforehand.
Instead of guessing if your response rate to an email campaign
is due to the SPAM filters or your headline simply sucks. You
have piece of mind that your emails will make it to your
prospects, but apparently your headline is more or less a turn
off.
One important factor of advertising your business is the name
recognition. Even people don't remember your web site address
they probably remember your name. Unfortunately the chances to
get your name as a domain name in the .com name space are slim
to none. Most of the other name spaces are filling quickly. The
good news is that there's a new name space just released, .ws,
but you need to hurry up. Although it is fairly new, domain
names are going fast and the longer you wait the less are your
chances to get your personal domain name.
For more information please visit my web sites or send me an
email.