Comments on: Hint To Startups – Use Your Domain In Your Email Address

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:17:55 +0000

I completely agree with you on this. I work for an insurance company that is about 18 years old, but over the last year has finally stepped forward and given everyone an email address for the company. First I think it is a no brainer and makes things more professional, but even further you are right on branding and associating sales rep or whom ever is contacting you to the name of the domain or company. Simple way to get the name out there on day to day emails.

By: intelligence

intelligence — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:04:29 +0000

Thats great, I never knew before this blog

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:45:05 +0000

I don’t have a great answer for that one since I clearly used feld.com (vs. foundrygroup.com). Part of it is that I’ve been using feld.com for 15 years and I just can’t seem to use something else!

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:43:13 +0000

When the options are company domain name, or gmail, it's clear. But what about when the two options are a personal brand, like feld.com, and a company brand; especially at the beginning, when the personal brand is much stronger.

By: 创之语 - 提醒创业者——用你公司域名的邮箱-Brad Feld

创之语 - 提醒创业者——用你公司域名的邮箱-Brad Feld — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:15:10 +0000

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By: Supra NS Strapped

Supra NS Strapped — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:56:20 +0000

thanks for you share

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:39:47 +0000

There's a thread about this over at answers.onstartups.com: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/4889/does...

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:15:03 +0000

True. Ironically I always get hypocracy and irony confused.

By: Sean Black

Sean Black — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:30:52 +0000

Totally agree, using your branded email is a no brainer. With all due respect though Brad, you not following your own advice is hypocrisy, not irony. Unless of course you are trying to brand Feld.com (you) instead of Foundry Group (your company).

By: Tim Lee

Tim Lee — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:55:43 +0000

Great debate! It’s something we say to every one of our customers – we did an analysis of businesses in Scotland and 12% are still using @ISP or generic consumer webmail addresses. We are a Google Apps Reseller helping businesses take advantage of Google’s tools online to make their business work bigger, better and ‘louder’.

I noticed a few people here stating that spam is an issue when using their company email address. You should really look at using a service like Google Apps, when setup correctly this can avoid being considered as SPAM. Get it done professionally and SPF records etc will be sorted for you.

Giving off the perception of a larger company with the use of info@ or sales@ is also something that we recommend. Aliases are fantastic and mean that it’s easier to setup workflow processes to manage mail rather than being reactive to everything that hits the inbox.

Having multiple domains can mean multiple email addresses and there quite a few accounts to manage or a web of forwards. This can also be managed easily within Google Apps with Domain Aliases.

I understand Steven March’s statement that personal address is sometimes useful. That is why it’s great to have the ability to setup multiple sending addresses – these again are sent through the relevant servers so you won’t have the considered as spam issues.

If we can help with any your queries don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Cheers