Choose the right Email Account

Choose Your Email Account

Let us start with probably the first thing that you will need to do online if you want to run a business. Choose your email account. It is very important that you choose your email account to be separate from any personal ones that you might have.

It probably sounds very basic, but you would be surprised at how many people do not know this. Then when their personal accounts gets inundated with messages they then want to know what to do. So again it is important to choose your email account so it is only used as your business account email.

Another reason that you should choose your email account to be a business one is that it is now dedicated to only that business. You can keep better track of your messages and if you have a problem with spam then you would be able to handle it quickly. When you choose your email account make sure that it has some good spam guards in place.

When you choose your email account make sure that it is a good professional sounding one, not something like hotbabe@hotmail.com or Bighunk@yahoo.com. You can choose your email account name in many ways, just make sure that you pick a professional sounding one that encourages your email recipient to trust you.

The next thing you need to do after you choose your email account name and have signed up for your email account is to add your signature file to the end of it. It is not just your signature that will be added to every email you send out, but you will also add your business or product when you get one. A good idea is to find out if the email provider attaches any ads to your email. That could make a difference when you choose your email account provider.

This will get your started with advertising in a simple way. Your signature file sticks with your emails, even if they are forwarded along to another. They too will then see your signature file, and soon it will spread throughout the world that way.

A perfect example of this is the web based company of Hotmail. When they first started up and someone joined at the bottom of every email that person sent out was the small sentence that said:

Get your free email account now -http://www.Hotmail.com. The response was astronomical! Soon everyone that got the email signed up for their own account and when they wrote their family, friends and business associates, those people also signed up.

Soon, Hotmail had millions of people using their services worldwide and became the largest web based email service at the time. So can you see how potent this small signature can be?

When you choose your email account it is best to go with ones that have a history and are well known. I have included a few here with some information about each.

Choose your email account provider

1. Gmail - Free Email Service(Google Mail)
Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail’s simple but very smart interface lets you find them precisely and see them in context without effort. POP and powerful IMAP access bring Gmail to any email program or device.Gmail puts contextual advertising next to the emails you read.

2. AIM Mail – Free Email Service
AOL’s free web-based email service, shines with unlimited online storage, very good spam protection and a rich, easy to use interface.Unfortunately, AIM Mail lacks a bit in productivity (no labels, smart folders and message threading), but makes up for some of that with very functional IMAP (as well as POP) access.

3. GMX Mail – Free Email Service
This is a reliable email service filtered well of spam and viruses whose 5 GB of online storage you can use not only through a rich web interface but also via POP or IMAP from a desktop email program.
More and smarter ways to organize mail could be nice.

4. Yahoo! Mail - Free Email Service
Yahoo! Mail is an email program on the web with unlimited storage and RSS news feeds, SMS texting and instant messaging to boot. While Yahoo Mail is nice to use, free-form labelling and smart folders would be nice, and the spam filter could catch junk even more effectively.

5. Zenbe – Free Email Service
Zenbe organizes your emails and attachments (from Zenbe and existing POP accounts) with labels and search — and integrates calendar, to-do list, twitter and Facebook updates, too. With a focus on simplicity, Zenbe provides many sweet shortcuts but also shows quirks and omissions in others. The spam filter is good, but it would be great if IMAP access was possible for all folders (not just the inbox).

6. Gawab.com – Free Email Service
Gawab.com is a speedy, stable and very usable free email service with 10 GB online space, POP and IMAP access as well as many a web-based goodie. The IMAP implementation does not give you access to labels, and full message search is missing from the web interface.

7. Inbox.com - Free Email Service
This not only gives you 5 GB to store your mail online but also a highly polished, fast and functional way to access it via either the web or through POP in your email program.Unfortunately, IMAP access is not supported by Inbox.com, and its tools for organizing mail could be improved with smart or self-teaching folders.

8. FastMail Guest Account – Free Email Service
FastMail is a great free email service with IMAP access, useful features, one of the best web-based email interfaces and few ads.

9. Yahoo! Mail Classic – Free Email Service
This is a comfortable, reliable and secure email service with unlimited storage. A pretty good spam filter keeps the junk out, and you can send rich emails using Yahoo! Mail’s HTML editor.

10. Windows Live Hotmail – Free Email Service
This gives you 5 GB of online storage, fast search, solid security and an interface easy as a desktop email program.
When it comes to organizing mail, it only has folders, its spam filter could be more effective, and POP or IMAP access are missing.

I hope this has been a help to you when you decide to choose your email account provider. It is a very important step.