In your opinion

[Big Fella]

Guys,

I'm self employed and about to order new business cards.

In your opinion, does a webamil address such as yahoo look professional or much better to register a domain name (I don't need a website for this) and so just keeping costs low?

I appreciate your opinion.

Thanks,
BF

[Fatboy]

Your Own (relevant) domain name looks far more professional than a freebie account.

Drop PHer Jamie Beeston at Register1.net a visit to register it (see ad at the top of the page)

[Big Fella]

Thanks for that.

BF

[Stephanie Plum]

I'm with FB - hotmail/yahoo accounts look amateur.

[Big Fella]

Thanks Stephanie.

I'm a PPO (personal protection officer or bodyguard) and it's mainly used to give to other guys when networking. You do however get approached by potential clients when working and and so it makes sense to use something more professional.

BF

[edc]

Big_fella, I work in your field. On the Operational side few have business cards. If you are set up as a limited company then it does look more professional, otherwise I wouldn't bother. I have CPOs using various freebie email accounts and it makes no difference to me.

[Stephanie Plum]

Ah - now you didn't mention that......

[jon h]

With the cost of a .com domain at less than a tenner, it hardly seems worth not doing.

I certainly think it looks a lot more professional.

Jon H

[Big Fella]

Thanks for your response all.

EDC YHM.

BF

[JamieBeeston]

jon h said:

With the cost of a .com domain at less than a tenner, it hardly seems worth not doing.

I certainly think it looks a lot more professional.

Jon H

£5.48 for your own domain these days

Nothing else comes close to having the final say on your own domain.. you know where you're at and noone can take it away from you or read your mail etc

J

[Ali_D]

JamieBeeston said:

jon h said:

With the cost of a .com domain at less than a tenner, it hardly seems worth not doing.

I certainly think it looks a lot more professional.

Jon H

£5.48 for your own domain these days

Nothing else comes close to having the final say on your own domain.. you know where you're at and noone can take it away from you or read your mail etc

J

Without getting overly techie how's this email from you rown domain work - is it all packaged in or do you need someone to set up some kind of email server type thing??

ta

[fidgits]

yeah, what they said..

hotmail/yahoo addresses scream amateur..

wasnt there a webmail where you could specify your own addresses?

[JamieBeeston]

Ali_D said:

Without getting overly techie how's this email from you rown domain work - is it all packaged in or do you need someone to set up some kind of email server type thing??

ta

The Cheap option (£5.48) simply allows you to redirect [e-mail] ----> [e-mail] (or any other existing account you have)
you can setup as many different redirects as you like.

[e-mail] ---> [e-mail]
[e-mail] ---> [e-mail]
[e-mail] ---> [e-mail]
[e-mail] ---> [e-mail]

The funky option (VDS From £33 per year) gives you your own MailServer/Unlimited Webmail accounts/Your own Website space/ability to send emails FROM yourdomain.com whereever in the world you are..

Hope that helps

J