Here’s how to set up a 3rd party domain email In short, it pays to pay for a separate, 3rd party email service. Here’s an example of a domain email inbox with the web host, Bluehost:Īnd here’s an example of a domain email inbox with the third party email provider, Google Workspace: If you’re used to Gmail, then you should know that Google Workspace is no different! This is in severe contrast to the awesome interface of Google Workspace, which is comparable to Gmail. Web hosting domain email inboxes are usually really clunky. Those third party email providers go to great lengths to ensure emails you send actually hit inboxes instead of bouncing and going to spam. If you set up a third party email service like Google Workspace instead of keeping domain email on your host, your emails are more likely to actually be delivered.
(I also recommend using a password manager to store those passwords - here’s why.) 4. If your email is on your host, it’s likely a hacker only needs your host login to access your domain email inbox! That’s simply because there are more credentials a hacker has to figure out. Keeping web hosting separate from domain email is more secure. If you have a domain email with your host, and you want to switch, it’s quite a pain to try and move over all your old emails to a new host inbox. You don’t have to migrate your email AND your website. Migrating your website from one host to another is much, much easier if you don’t have your domain email tied up with the host. That’s bad news if you regularly use your email to interact with clients, like I do. If the host’s servers go down for any period of time, that also means any emails being sent to your domain email inbox aren’t going to come through. Using your host for domain email is putting all your eggs in one basket. If your host is down, your email is down. Using your web host to house your website AND your domain email isn’t best practice. What’s wrong with that set up? Why not just keep the web host’s domain email inbox? Is there any real benefit to switching over to G Suite or some other domain email provider? Don’t rely on web hosts for domain email You may even have done some fancy magic to forward emails sent to that domain email to your private inbox.
If you’ve already purchased hosting for your website via the likes of Bluehost or Siteground, then you may already have a domain email inbox set up.
So, moving forward, it’s best to use your own domain email to ensure your email list leads are getting your emails! Most web hosting comes packaged with domain email This includes Mailerlite, which is the bulk email marketing service I recommend ( more on why here). In fact, most bulk email services these days require a domain email to even create an account. That means if you set up MailChimp to send bulk email, but you’ve set that account up with a Gmail address, it’s likely your subscribers won’t be getting your MailChimp emails. Most email providers (like Gmail or Yahoo) issue a block whenever any bulk email is sent from their domain. If you want to build an email list, you pretty much have to set up a domain email. You only get one chance to make a first impression - don’t let questions like those hurt your first impression with potential leads! Domain email is required for list building If you don’t have one, potential clients might wonder if you’re trustworthy (or if you’re just too cheap to purchase one, or too lazy!). It shows that you’re serious about your business. Having that email is a credibility booster. Setting up a domain email ( is important for several reasons.
That includes building an email list of interested leads and marketing to that list to convert those leads into paying clients.īut what are all the moving parts to doing that? Do you need a professional email set up to start building a list, or can you simply use your Gmail account? Setting up a custom domain email is important You’re getting set up in your business, and you want to start doing all the online business things. In this post, you’ll learn why you need a custom domain email service, and why keeping that email inbox separate from your hosting account is so important.