Don’t Use Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail for Business Emails
Posted: September 17, 2012
© peterjunaidy - Fotolia.com[/caption]When contacting someone about potental business, your email address may or may not have an effect on their decision to do business or not.
© peterjunaidy - Fotolia.com[/caption]When contacting someone about potental business, your email address may or may not have an effect on their decision to do business or not.
I receive a dozen of emails like this one every week (I substituted the real name with “John Doe” for privacy reasons):
Hi There,
My name is John Doe, and I am the owner of a web design and development agency. We would like to promote our client’s services on your blog by purchasing a banner.
Please get back to me with rates and availability and we’ll discuss.
The fact that the person didn’t perform 5 minutes of research to find out my name and use it in the email doesn’t help, but it doesn’t close the deal right there. The rest of the email looks fine. But there was one thing that made me trash the email on the spot: the sender address. It was something like johnny772@hotmail.com.
I mean, the guy owns a web design and development agency and is using a Hotmail account? Nothing against Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo and the like, as I have email accounts on all those services, but on a business communication like the one above using such services sounds fishy.
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