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Don't let your email get lost! Use a single E-mail address

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty

 Use a single email account.  

If you are working with a client or potential referral resources, they may make an exception for your email address from their spam filter.  If you use several email addresses your clients and their filters may not recognize the email address and dump your email.  It is especially good to use an email with your own website domain.  (i.e. Rich@PremierLAHomes.com )   People know that yahoo and gmail are free... and that anyone that pays monthly fees can have an email from their home cable, phone or dsl company... (aol included)   Having an email with your own domain makes you look more professional and makes another visual impression of your website.   There are some exceptions to the single email address thought...  Some agents use different e-mail addresses to track where their leads come from.  Some websites allow you to create an unlimited number of email addresses that all dump into your main email address.  Example:  On your Los Angeles Times newspaper ad you give the email address LAnewspaper@Premierlahomes.com  so you know where the lead came from.  You would still pick up the email at your primary email address.  Of course then you would reply to the email from your primary address.

Carolyn Nelson
Realty One Carolina, LLC - Burlington, NC
Your Triangle to Triad Real Estate Expert!

If multiple email addresses are used, you can easily setupMS Outlook for that type of purpose. My Outlook account currently runs over 30 emails accounts and when a message comes in under carolyn@onlinerepa.com, carolyn@remaxassistant.com, carolyn@sevag.org, craigslist@onlinerepa.com etc, all of them come into my outlook and is sorted (using rules & folder) likewise. When I reply it goes out under the same account it was received under.

Oh yeah, each account has its own signature line. 

It works for me and the clients I service. 

Sep 04, 2006 04:20 AM
Geri Sonkin
Douglas Elliman Real Estate 516-457-7103 - Merrick, NY
Long Island Real Estate & Staging Expert

Having run into significan email issues over the years, I maintain a number of email addresses and of all of them my favorite is gmail.  It is the quickest to process my mail and I've never had a issue with it.

With the branded email, there was a period of time when I was either not getting my mail or it was delayed by many hours or days. 

Sep 04, 2006 04:29 AM
Kim Sellers
Lake Arrowhead, CA Coldwell Banker - Lake Arrowhead, CA
Lake Arrowhead Realtor - BRE#01412099 - Lake Arrow
Well done Rich.... I am in a nightmare every morning when I am checking my mail, ok, of course some of the mail is from the million other networking websites and uh, nahhhhh, I won't go into this any further.
Feb 28, 2008 07:46 AM