Do you have a business email?
Do you know how to make one?
Well, if you're interested stick around for this video because that's what we're going to cover today.
Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing well.
If you're new here, my name is Greg, and I'd like to talk about online entrepreneurship
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In today's video I'm going to walk you through step by step
how to create a business email.
Now quickly before we get started
the video that I'm about to show you is actually from a course
that I'm working on putting together for you guys
on how to start a service business,
and the video that I'm about to show you is one of the lectures in the course
but I really think it can be a great standalone video here on YouTube.
Once I finish up the entire course, I'll link it down in the description.
but in the meantime, let's get right into how to create a business email.
So the very first thing I recommend you do is go over to Google domains
or domains.google and purchase your website name or your business domain name over there?
This is going to be the tail end of your business email
So whatever you want this to say purchase that domain.
Now most of the domains over there are only $12 a year
which I absolutely love about Google domains
So you're probably only going to pay one dollar a month for this domain name,
you can link it right to your website wherever you're hosting that
and then actually linking it up to create a business email
is completely free to do.
So without further ado, let's get into the video tutorial
on step-by-step creating this business email
Okay, so this is going to be a really important part right here
and this is creating an email address that you can use that ends with
@ whatever domain name you just purchased.
So this is really important for your reputation and looking professional with your service business
and I'm going to show you how to do it for free
So once you have the domain name purchased
and I'm just going to use one that I own for example here
then come down to email
and it's going to offer that you can pay something around $5 per month for Google to do this for you,
but speaking from experience I'm going to show you how to do it for free.
It's just a couple extra steps
so the very first thing we need to do is put in your name right here and
and then @ whatever domain name you have,
and then where you're going to forward that to?
so what this is going to do is create an email forward
and you can create up to a hundred of these.
So we'll put in your name here
and then where it's going to send to
and this is going to be your email address.
Now I recommend if you don't already have a gmail account
then I recommend you google Gmail
and this is Google's email provider
and just go over to Gmail and
create an email address there because then you can download the Gmail app
on your phone and you can easily receive emails and send emails
from the address that we're about to create
and that address being your name @ that domain name.
So once you've entered your name here
and then that Gmail address where it's going to send to
then just click 'Add'
Then there's just one more step
So as far as we are right now we can put this email address
yourname@yourdomainname.com anywhere
This can go on business cards,
this can go on your website and people can email this
and it will forward that address to your email
However, we need to set up the feature where we can send from this email address as well
So right now we can receive them, we just can't send emails from this address.
So once you have this set up then we need to come over to our Gmail account
and we hit the little Settings icon right here
and then we hit accounts, and import, and we click add another email address.
Now go ahead and type in what that email addresses that we just created over here
and then make sure that this is turned on 'treat as an alias'
and this means that it's going to be shown as this address
but behind the scenes it's going to be sent from our Gmail account.
So once you've typed this into here, that's good
Just make sure that the name is how you want it to show up when you send from your business email
Do you want it to be your first and last name?
Do you want it to be your first name and then @ whatever your company is?
However you want to set that there,
I've done that both ways for different businesses,
but that's up to you.
But once you have these two set here and you have this turned on then we hit next step
and this is where a lot of people get confused.
So this is how we want to do it here
So a couple of things,
we're going to change the domain name that it set right here to Gmail
so we have smtp.gmail.com
We'll switch the port over to 465
and then this is going to be the username for the Gmail account
So the actual email it's going to be sending from not this one over here
So make sure that it's actually the Gmail account that we're logged into
in the background here and then the password to that Gmail account
and then keep this set on SSL
and just hit add account.
Easy as that and then all you'll have to do is hit verify address
and it'll send an email to this email
which will forward back to your Gmail
and you'll get an email that pops up right in your Gmail account
or your Gmail app
and that will have the pin that you can verify this account
and that way you can receive emails at this email address,
and you can send them through the Gmail app or through your Gmail dashboard.
Just make sure that when you're sending the email over on Gmail
you're switching who it's being sent from,
from your standard Gmail over to your business Gmail
So that is a very important step
if you need to re-watch this lecture to make sure you get all the steps in order
definitely make sure you do that.
but then you will have a professional email account that you can use to receive emails
and send emails for your service business and all completely for free
Alright guys, that's it for this one.
I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope it was helpful for you
If you have any questions at all,
feel free to leave them down in the comments
and I'll see you guys in the next video