I attended a program on business visibility last Saturday and learnt a thing or two about being credible via positive visibility.
An item that came up was something I had been yelling out for years: Domain names for business.
I can't imagine for the life in me how can certain people claim to be the boss, Managing Director, or a big-shot of a kind and then have an e-mail address that says rubbish like: yahoo, hotmail, gmail.
Well, you cannot expect to be taken seriously if indeed you cannot register and successfully use your own domain name for your business e-mails.
It is a sign of amateurity. A sign of incompetency and even an indication of no-long term existence if indeed your e-mail address was a generic one.
I expect students in schools or colleges use such type of e-mail addresses. Not business people.
Imagine the horror if you exchanged a business card with say, Bill Gates, and it said: billgatesmicrosoft22@yahoo.com
Get the point?
I throw away business cards I receive where the e-mail listed is a generic one. No kidding. I do not take you seriously. Not at all. Nope. No way. No compromise.
So, here's a new formula: Hotmail, yahoo and gmail equals to fmail! And you well know what the letter f stands for!
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