Archive for May, 2010
Your Own Domain Email
One great way to make good use of your web hosting account is to use it to set up your personal email accounts. When you have your own domain name and use it for your web hosting you can also set up a unique email account where you can use any user name that you can think of. Most web hosts offer several email accounts or unlimited email accounts with each web hosting account.
I like to use email accounts that are hosted on my own domains because this is one layer of personalization that I believe will make my email stand out and make them easier to identify as mine. You will want your email address to be easily recognizable so it doesn’t get thrown out with the spam mail.
If you send an email with a unique user name and domain your recipient will be much more likely to remember who you are. It also looks much more professional to send messages on your own domain if you are using your email account to communicate with your clients or business associates.
One other advantage to using an email address hosted on your domain name is that it does not include ads that hurt your creditability like several of the free email services offer. If you use a Yahoo.com or some other free email account it is really hard to come up with a user name without adding text and dashes to make it unique.