On this podcast, I talk a little about managing email accounts. The inspiration behind this topic started when a friend of mine was trying to help another friend sort through a ton of spam mail on their aol email account. For this reason, I recommend setting up a yahoo email account to use as a junk mail (dummy) account. This will be the email address you use when signing up for free stuff or gaining access into vip areas. The reason for this is that, more often than not, when you sign up for free stuff, and provide your e-mail address, “YOU WILL BE SPAMMED“. As a result, creating a dummy account and giving out that account to spammers will prove to be a priceless move.
I also explain why setting up a gmail account can be very beneficial. The example I give is to never delete important mail again. I have a gmail account, however I never give out the address. The only purpose of this account is to store my email from each of my important acccounts. I forward several other accounts (all important) into my gmail, in doing so I store my email on googles servers and not my own, and because google gives so much storage space, I will never have to delete an email again. If I need to see a piece of mail from six months ago, I can use googles search tool to search through my email and look for keywords I specify. This has been useful to me more times than you could imagine.
Finally, I talk a little about why it is so important to have your business name on the end of your email address, and not another company (i.e. aol, yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc….). Remember, whenever you include another company name within the same context as yours, you take that much attention off of yourself. Keep your company name in the mind of everyone who comes in contact with anything your business represents or is represented by (unless you are being paid for advertising).
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