How To Get A Professional E-mail Address For FreeBy
Teddy Hanson of In my joint venture manual I explain in detail about the do's and dont's when sending e-mail. In this update we'll talk about how you get a professional e-mail address if you're not ready to invest in your own domain name. Remember the saying... You Only Have One Chance To Make A First Impression This is true whether you present yourself in person or in an e-mail message. Your potential customers can't check you out in person, so they have to rely on either:
There are a lot of things that are good about FREE, but a free e-mail address is not always one of them. If you use a commonly recognized free e-mail service for your introduction to potential joint venture partners or customers... You Will Flop! A few of the better known and well recognized free e-mail services are:
And a few of the better known free Web hosting sites are:
Now I want you to consider the following: You are contacting endorsers or suppliers (fully explained in my manual) with an e-mail like the following example: *************************************** My name is Stephen Smith, and I've just browsed your Web site and I wanted to make contact with you. I represent a golf
product that is a perfect Please contact me at your earliest convenience. Sincerely, Stephen Smith You can reach me
by e-mail at: P.S. You can find out more about the product at: http://angelfire.lycos.com/stephensmith *************************************** As you can see from the above example, the recipient of your e-mail will immediately recognize your e-mail address as located on a free service as well as your Web site. By this he'll rightly assume that you are not very professional and don't take your business seriously, because you're using a free e-mail service and a free Web hosting service. Also, a lot of people frown on these free services, because you can easily hide behind them and they are used by some people who are up to no good. But not too worry. Even if you're "cash strapped" you need to make a professional impression... and the good news is you can do it... all for free... Here's The Solution If you need to use a free e-mail service, you don't want the recipient to know it's free, so here's how you go about it. You'll simply get an e-mail address that is not recognized as located on a free service. I'll give you three sites here, but I'm sure you can find others if you just do some searching.
And the best part is you don't need to register a domain name to use these e-mail addresses. At these Web sites you can get an e-mail account that describes your business pretty well. For instance, you can choose from thousands of different domain names to use as your e-mail address. Here are just some of the choices at these sites:
So with these "non-recognizable free services, why would you risk using a "highly recognized" free e-mail service when contacting potential profitable prospects? Last, but not least... there are also two very important things I want you to remember... First, if you don't get something going, something terrible happens... Nothing! Second, realize also that... "You
Don't Have To Get It Perfect...
Profit
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