What is your email address saying about you?

I never use the AOL or Yahoo, GMail or others.  I just stick with something that shows that I'm a part of something bigger!

I totally DISAGREE.  I have had the SAME AOL * YAHOO * HOTMAIL * GMAIL addresses for years!  Repeat business can find me.  I do utilize different ones according to priority and my BUSINESS goes to my AOL and lesser notifications go to the others....AOL allows for me to find prior communications AND again, easy to remember!

I would say as long as the e-mail address is not offensive you should be okay.  Although I DO prefer to use my e-mail address with my company name, jwmurphy@longrealty.com  It's just a personal preference.  Best of luck to you Andre.

I also use the free email services in combination with the one from my company.  The nature of what the other party wants to communicate with me about determines which email address they will receive.  It helps me filter formal business communications from those that are industry-related but pertaining to a transaction or client. 

Hi Andre...Don't Agree!  When I was first with RE/MAX I used that as my address but than switched to Gmail. The number of emails I received from potential clients did not diminish at all. I could use my domain name but I have four and have been very happy with Gmail. 

If someone thinks having a Gmail account makes me less than a professional I doubt it would make any difference to me.  I believe most people base their impression on whether they want to work with me on many other factors.

Kate

Hi, Andre...here's why I disagree. When I started in real estate, I was with Century 21. The day I left that company, they shut off my email account. I was not able to access any of the emails and of course, they were no longer forwarded to any other account I had.

After that, I switched to a rocketmail.com account (a derivative of yahoo.com). I have been with 2 other companies since the first and would have had this problem each time. My address is ninarogoff@rocketmail.com I think the only thing better would be what Corrine Guest (#1) suggested, for example: nina@ninarogoff.com

I prefer my email address to be through one of my domains for a couple of reasons: One it is permanent...it doesn't matter if I use yahoo or gmail or whatever as my email server, I can point my permanent email address to any of them and it never changes for consistency and branding purposes. Secondly, it sounds professional. I would have a problem taking seriously "realtorgirl74@yahoo .com" but that's just me.

Andre - Thank you for sharing detailed quality information on what is your email address saying about you.

Andre I too, do not agree and have "Clicked" this post and reblogged it.

If your address was countrytwentytwo@juno.com the buyer, seller that is tech savvy, spent some time on line could think dinosaur. Like you if you think altavista is the big banana and google, bing, you tube are the new kids, upstarts on the block just getting underway. Perception is everything. If you keep changing the email address just like always making changes to your blog post header, etc then the building of an image is set back, confusion can happen. Building a continuous brand so when it does come time to list or buy, your name is tattooed, branded in the frontal lobe of that seller, purchaser as the only one to call, email, text, smoke signal, go visit in person.