davidmorgan1976 started this topic @ 16:36 on 02/07/2004
Dear all,
I've just started up my own business, a small IT services venture.
My question, is it legal to use my free email address when advertising in paper's, flyer's business cards etc..
I have a yahoo account and freeserve account and would like to use
one of these for advertising.
Many thanks
Dave M
RE: Free email for business use
Clementine | 02/07/2004 04:46 PM
David,
I would recommend you go to www.123reg.co.uk and buy co.uk for 2 years for about £6. You can forward your other emails to this address and will look 100 times better than advertising with either a yahoo or freeserve personal email address.
For a business you have to look professional, and a personal email address will just not do the job in my opinion.
Clem.
RE: Free email for business use
BenYetMore | 02/07/2004 04:48 PM
Hi,
It is legal but personally (and I#m not alone here) I think it looks unprofessional. I would invest in a domain name.
Best wishes
Ben
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RE: Free email for business use
davidmorgan1976 | 02/07/2004 04:59 PM
Thanks for your rapid reply's, I will get a proper email address, I agree, a free one looks tacky and unprofessional. Is http://www.123reg.co.uk one of the cheaper ones?
RE: Free email for business use
Adam | 02/07/2004 05:24 PM
Search the forum for posts on this but 123 is preferred by many on here for price (cheapest) and control over the domain.
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RE: Free email for business use
simplycfhost | 02/07/2004 05:37 PM
123 reg is your best bet for .co.uk domains at the risk of sounding repetitve! [
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RE: Free email for business use
retailworld | 02/07/2004 06:38 PM
As my other post says, Compila www.compila.co.uk are also good.
Regards,
Richard
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RE: Free email for business use
afam | 02/07/2004 07:33 PM
Hi,
Apart from a free email account looking unprofessional, I think the main reason why it shouldn't be used for business is that the terms and conditions of using such services usually states that the service provider reserves the right at any time to delete, suspend, in fact do anything with then account without you having the right to complain.
So, imagine attempting to access your yahoo email one day and you just realised that all the correspondences that you have been having for years have been deleted permanently, what do you do?
I use a yahoo account but not for business for the simple and improtant reason that you can't count on it being there tomorrow.
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