Your Email Address, Does It Send Another Message?

I am glad I found your post as I have been considering a change this week.  I have been an AOL member for 15 years and had tried making it as professional as possible (JWalkerDerby@aol.com)

My problem is that my name is so long that my email would be:

jennifer@jenniferwalkerderby.com

that's a pretty long email however after reading this I realize I need to make the change.

I like the custom domains with awareness of brand building. After moving into a new market I had to choose a long domain name, but it's still MY brand!

I couldn't agree more.  It is a real pet peeve for me.  I have agents that want to keep their yahoo accounts when they come into my office.  I have to insist otherwise.  Those that don't understand my view point are usually the ones that don't make it in the business.

yep, mine is pretty lame. kdefazio64@msn.com but I do have another one that is kristidefazio@remax.net which is a little less lame!

Your paying for the website.  The email is free, why not use it.

With technology and Internet inquire becoming more and more prevalent its even more important that ever. Laura@lauraslexingtonhomes.com

Interesting point, I guess you're right:

brucebrown@lelandnewhomes.com is pretty specific while brucerbrown@yahoo.com is not

thank you.

Don't think it makes a difference. People keep tell 'us - me' that but I don't think people care less unless it says something nasty.  It's not like your business card, stationary or blog header.  BTW what does your blog header say about you?

Frank and Jodi~So right, your email and marketing material needs to scream "real estate" Best to you both~

I can't agree more, don'y understand why any real estate agent would use a hotmail adress, except technology challanged

Frank and Jodi,

Your so right I am a bit guilty of this however. :( I have an aol email acount and am trying to get everything switched over to my business email. I'm just afraid I'm going to lose some people that have my email saved under the aol account. It's a slow process but I am definately woroking on it. Thanks for factualizing my concerns of a lame aol account! lol

-Lisa

We use both at our plumbing company, simply because of the amount of spam email we receive. Clients and business contacts use our company email address, but we use Yahoo email when we attend conferences and conventions. It is easier to delete the hundreds of emails we receive after each event, and save our 'real' email for business.

Great point thanks for the info.

Frank,

Good post! I never understood why some people setup websites and then continued to use there free hotmail or gmail accounts. Take the next step and setup your own email addy on your domain.

Interesting...I had not thought of that.  I use my broadband carriers email address.