In today's presentation we continue our series on how to start a successful business, with a look at how to get and setup a free business email account, as well as how to get your business email on your mobile phone and through gmail.
2. How to Get a Free
Business Email Address
Godaddy, who is our recommended
web hosting provider, provides 100
free business email addresses when
you purchase a basic hosting plan
from them. That costs $3.99 per
month, and also comes
with a free domain name
(ie www.yourbusiness.com)
for 1 year.
3. Unfortunately if you do not already
have a domain name and hosting
There is no way to get a free business
email address that includes your domain
(ie you@yourbusiness.com).
The rest of this guide assumes
you have purchased a domain
and hosting from Godaddy,
however the steps we outline
should be similar if you
purchased your domain and
hosting elsewhere.
4. How to setup your free
business email with Godaddy
5. Login to your Godaddy.com account and click the my accounts button. This
will bring up a page with several options you can select, one of which says
“email”. On the page that comes up after clicking the launch button, you
will see a “create button” at the top.
Locate your free email
6. Set up your email address
After clicking create, a
window will appear
where you can choose
your free business email
address and select a
password to login.
After clicking create on this
page it will take about an
hour for the email to be
setup and ready to use.
7. How to manage your business
email account using Gmail
8. Login to your gmail
account (if you don’t
already have a free gmail
account register here). In
the upper right hand
corner you will see a small
box with a picture of a
gear. Click that and then
select “settings”.
Go to your Gmail Settings
9. On the page that comes up next click the accounts tab and
then “add a pop3 mail account you own”.
Set up your pop3 mail account
10. In the window that comes up next enter the email address you just setup
with Godaddy as the username, the password that you chose when you
setup your email with Godaddy, and pop.secureserver.net in the “pop
server” field.
Set up your pop3 mail account
11. After clicking “Add Account” you will be asked if you want to be able
to send email as your new email. Select yes.
Set up your pop3 mail account
12. In the next window that comes up uncheck
“treat as alias”.
Set up your pop3 mail account
13. Set up your pop3 mail account
In the window that comes up next enter
smtpout.secureserver.net for the SMTP server,
change the port to 25 and then enter the same username
and password again for the email you setup with Godaddy.
14. How to manage your business
email account using Gmail
15. By logging into your email account and clicking “settings”,
then “personal Settings”. Then just select the signature tab
and enter the email signature that you would like to show.
You can setup your email signature
16. Then you can also setup a signature which will only be used when your
business email is selected. To do this click the settings gear in the upper
right hand corner. On the general tab at the bottom, there is a section that
says signature. Choose your business email address from the drop down
and enter in the email signature that you would like to show on your emails.
If you are using gmail
17. How to get your business
emails on your mobile phone.
18. Then the easiest way to get them on
your mobile phone is by
downloading the Godday mobile
app, which is available free in all the
app stores for the major types of
phones. Just login using the same
login as you use on your desktop
with no additional work required.
If you are using Godaddy
to manage your emails
19. Then the easiest way is to use the
Gmail app which is also available for
download in all the major app
stores. Just login with no additional
setup required.
If you are using Gmail
20. I have included links with instructions on
how to set that up for the major
operating systems below:
How to setup email using the iPhone’s
email application
How to setup email using Android’s
email application.
How to setup email using Window’s
phone email application.
If you would like to use the
native email app on your phone
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