It replicates your personality and interests and, to a great extent, your business. Several free email providers like Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL provide an easy approach to establishing a simple looking email address. But what counts is the professional look that it should generate. With these free email providers, your email address does not convey professionalism - which is a basic business enhancement ingredient.

Consider these two email addresses - john.home@aol.com and support@yourcompanyname.com. The former gives a general look which millions of people adopt, while the latter provides a professional business look with your company’s name affixed to it. Moreover, the latter allows the customers and the potential clients to get an idea about the professional services that you offer.

Structuring an email address:

a professional email address is easy. The chief advantage is that you can register a good domain name and begin using your professional looking email services, even without running your website. Furthermore, it involves extremely easy steps which are easy to track.

You can start using this unique email facility and launch a new domain for as little as £30 per year (i.e. a mere £2.50 per month). Generally, every hosting company has some sort of minimal package, designed entirely for this purpose. And the good thing about it is that the prices have drastically reduced due to the ever-increasing cut-throat competition between the hosting companies.

Subsequently, it might take some time (about 24-28 hrs Do you mean 24-48 Richard?) for the domain to function accurately, with an email from the new hosting company. This email provides the login details to manage your hosting.

Getting started:

As soon as you obtain the details, create a new email via Cpanel, Vdeck, Plesk, or any other user-face that performs the features offered by your host. In case of any difficulty, you can ask your new host to provide assistance.
Eventually, you will be equipped with an email account name and a password. Your email account name will appear like this - something@yourdomain.com, with a password of your choice. It is to be noted that the password should be secure and, if possible, changed frequently to avoid problems.

Ready for action:

Your professional email address is ready to play its role. In order to start using it, you simply need to set up your email client like Outlook, Thunderbird, or any other trusted program.

Now you possess the power to command the market, with your professional looking email address.

By : Angela Rogers