Should you use a professional email address?
This is an excellent question and I felt it was necessary to discuss the advantages in a format that is easily shared with future clients.
Let’s start with one of the most impactful situations I can think about. Your potential customer’s first impression of you.
First impressions are everything!!!
Pro's for using a professional email address
- Makes a great first impression
- More control over plan & features
- Better for Branding
- Email Client can have powerful features
- It’s the pro-choice
Con's for using a professional email
- Isn’t free
- Might take more work to set-up
Comes down to cost!
Tth only good thing I can say about a free email account is that it’s “FREE”. You can’t really beat free, can you? Since I believe first impressions are huge in the business world and can mean the difference between a sale or no sale, I put a lot of stock in first impressions. That being said, the cost to have a professional email address is more than justified in my situation as I feel it really could cost me sales in the long run and that isn’t good for business. GoDaddy has Microsoft Office 365 “Online Essentials” plan that costs $5.99 per user /month and comes with Online versions of Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and more 1 TB secure online storage for documents and files Professional email that uses your domain.
