Seventy-five percent of customers are in agreement that you should move away from utilizing free email services for your business email. You believe it would be handy to utilize your email account for business purposes, whether it be Gmail, AOL, or Yahoo? It’s possible that this is the case, but it might also be making you less appealing to prospective customers and damaging your professional reputation without you even being aware of it. I often get emails from company owners and entrepreneurs that represent their companies via free email services such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and other similar services. If you are one of these individuals, it is time to switch your email addresses to the domain that is associated with your firm. According to the findings of a recent survey that was carried out by Godaddy, seventy-five percent of customers believe that it is of the utmost importance to have a professional domain-based email address that corresponds to the domain of a website in order to earn their trust when making a purchase. “A first impression is something that you will never forget, whether it is in real life or online. The majority of the time, your first direct engagement with a client will take place via email; thus, it is of the utmost importance to maintain a professional demeanor in this setting “Godaddy’s chief product officer, Steven Aldrich, made the following statement. Through the use of free email services, your company generates the impression that it is not trustworthy and that it is not professional. “You should avoid falling into the trap of having a personal email address that anybody could get because the instant a customer sees your email address, whether it be on a business card, on your website, or in their inbox, they are immediately going to form opinions about your company. It undermines the credibility that you are trying to communicate to the audience “aldrich said further. According to the survey, people make purchases from people they trust. Thirty-three percent of respondents have doubts about the legitimacy and trustworthiness of the business owner, and twenty-four percent would be hesitant to provide their contact information to a website that uses a free email service address. The email address “yourbusinessname@gmail.com” does not qualify. If you want to be considered seriously and develop trust among your followers, then you need to take your company branding and email reputation seriously as well. When you use an email address, such as “yourname@yourwebsite.com,” you are demonstrating that you are serious about your business. According to Aldrich, “having a professional email address that ends with your company’s domain allows you the chance to promote your brand every time you connect with a client.” This is in contrast to marketing an online email behemoth such as Gmail, Yahoo, or any of the other similar services. another noteworthy finding that emerged from the poll is that utilizing a professional based email address is 3-times more significant than being active on social media. putting your best professional foot forward is more vital than ever. With today’s day and age of spammers and other malicious individuals attempting to swindle our money away from us, it’s more crucial than ever to display our legal enterprises in as much a professional light as possible. you don’t want to seem like a spammer you don’t want to appear unprofessional you want to develop trust with folks you interact with it may seem immaterial to have a google email address but studies like these confirm what i’ve been saying for years where it can have a really unfavorable impact on the bottom line of your company. do you want to be acknowledged for being a reputable, trustworthy and respectable business? then delete the free email provider and start utilizing your website’s professional email address instead. you can still use the gmail service to send and receive emails this way, you just need to set up the settings as a pop3 account. have you ever met someone who pretends to be in business but is utilizing a personal/free email account to connect with? what was your honest response upon viewing it? did that effect your choice to doing business with them?
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