Hotmail Type free account

[Aimeebersham]

Hello All.

I believe that I am correct in thinking that no business should ever be using a free "hotmail" type e-mail address, which is why we set up to offer low cost entry into getting your own domain name e-mail.

My question is...does low cost, put people off buying a product?? How do I balance looking cheap against looking very affordable.

Would it be best to have a price list that starts expensive then goes down to cheap (as per a good menu) or vice versa

Kind regards
Aimee

 

[Quest Cloud Solutions Ltd]

When it comes to hosted mailboxes, the market is generally low-cost anyway, so I don't think you'll put people off. Of course you'll see some companies offering mailboxes for £15 per mailbox a month, but generally you're looking at the £4 mark, and that's the kind of figure we've found most users expect.

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

Register a free domain at gbbo.co.uk.

Set up google Apps (free edition).

Proper domain name - quality service!

Do not use a generic name!!

 

[Quest Cloud Solutions Ltd]

Google Apps is a nice free choice... though formatting is often lost when sending emails to Microsoft Outlook (which most businesses still use), so it's worth considering that your business emails may not look so good when received.

Google also owns your email data and it's subject to scrutiny by the US Government thanks to the US Patriot Act...

 

[Optegris]

Google also owns your email data and it's subject to scrutiny by the US Government thanks to the US Patriot Act...

So don't send anything that might annoy the yanks, like saying Barrack smells or along those lines

 

[Websitehandyman]

You might want to take your lead from fastmail.fm

This was bought by Opera a few years back and the survive not on price but by features offered. I've used them for about ten years.

 

[astutiumRob]

I believe that I am correct in thinking that no business should ever be using a free "hotmail" type e-mail address

No business that expects people to take them seriously since the turn of the century.

I'm still amazed at how many business have a domain, website, liveried up van etc, and then stick an @btinternet address on their business cards !

which is why we set up to offer low cost entry into getting your own domain name e-mail.

You and 879,312 other domain resellers

How do I balance looking cheap against looking very affordable.

Depends on what you're offering and what value you're adding to the offering.
An exchange mailbox with OWA and Outlook is more valuable than a pop3 mailbox on a smartermail server to the end user, and so sells for more (and costs you more)

A better question than what price is too cheap, is what features & benefits are your clients actually looking for ?

 

[Subbynet]

Yes its nice to have your own domain name for your email address, but the biggest issue is bringing in money - that should be the foremost priority, cashflow is king to a new business.

So if you need to use a free email account for the time being, do it. Don't listen to the web designers who say it should never be done - they're wrong, plenty are doing it, and are making money.

That's not to say you shouldn't have your own domain name, ideally you should, but a free email address is better than no email address.

 

[RemoteTechs]

This was also discussed in this thread not to long ago, worth having a look at:
http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=267227

 

[Tom McClelland]

So don't send anything that might annoy the yanks, like saying Barrack smells or along those lines

Saying that would only annoy about 50% of the Yanks. You'd be more likely to annoy most Europeans or South Americans with that particular line.

 

[brendan70]

I used GBBO in my website and its turned out Brilliant.