In the past few lessons, we’ve registered a domain name, and then we acquired web hosting.
Today we’re going to start putting your domain to good use, by setting up an email address on it…
(Watch this video…)
Main points:
1) It looks more professional. This is more important than you may think. You want to invoke TRUST.
2) You have ultimate control of what’s delivered to your inbox. You can avoid having to search through junkmail folders for important messages, or you can add high levels of filtering.
3) It can improve your outgoing email deliverability rate. This is an important concept for list building. An increase of a few percent can make a difference of thousands of dollars of profit.
Action step:
1) Set up an email account or a forwarder on your own domain (if you don’t yet have one).
2) Test it and make sure it works.
Important Note: If you’ve changed your primary email address, be sure to update your subscriptions such as Eric’s Tips. For Eric’s Tips, just click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email from me… but on the following page do NOT unsubscribe. Instead simply change your email address to your new address and save it.
Now that you’re all set up with your email, it’s time to turn our attention to building your website starting in the next lesson.
As always, you are welcome to post your questions and comments below 🙂
Have a great day!
Yeah it kind of depends on where you’re hosted and what version of cpanel is on your server. But the email setup is fundamentally the same.
But I do appreciate the heads up, and when I’m done with the 100 lessons I will probably go back and update some of the videos, so I will keep note of this one!
Thanks for your tips on email issue. It change my mind. I am aware now in the business perspective which I never think about it.
Hi Eric,
I also subscribed to Getresponse. What is the difference between Domain webmail and Getresponse?
Thank.
Bert
Getresponse is a 3rd party autoresponder and email management solution (I use Aweber). That’s what you use for building and communicating with your opt-in list(s). I’ll be covering that in depth later on.
Your domain webmail is just an email account on your domain.
Great lesson, eric. I missed the lesson on CPanel; how can i get it?
Hi Eric,
I hear what you are saying about my email address … and had a laugh! NO! I don’t use this address for any business oriented communications. It’s an old address I use for receiving expert “lessons” such as yours. Your lesson today has confirmed my set up so far!
Sam
Right here: http://www.ericstips.com/tips/lesson25/
Hello Eric… ok, you got me 🙂 But I have quite a few other email addresses, which are not from a freemail account. In a forum or blog, I prefer to use a freemail address…
I’m very interested in the “Crazy Resale Rights – 7 DAYS ONLY!”, but I have a question:
Do I need an Aweber Account for that?
Did you use Adwords to receive so much traffic?
I hope you can answer me, before it’s too late.
Thank you very much.
All the best,
Arne
You don’t need an aweber account, but I do recommend it!
I received traffic from various sources. Affiliates, PPC, and my own lists.
Hello from sunny South Africa Eric,
it is refreshing to deal with someone like you.
No crap and excellent free help to gain our trust.
As a very experienced businessman, but relative newbie on the web, it is clear to me that you set the right example of how to market with dignity and skill.
Well you have me on side and i am recommending you to all of my network.
all the very best to you and thanks for your stirling effort.
Martin
i tryed to use ur host gator and it keeps going to a ” over max people” reading, then i tryed just going directly to the website and it did the same message, is there another hosting u recommend or is there a time limit to when it will be able for others?
Eric,
Great stuff, that’s my email and website, albeit just parked. Need to get on monetization curve ASAP
Tad
Hi Eric,
I recently purchased your Trading Pro systems but have not done much with it yet.
Things still seem very complicated.
But your tips are very handy.
Due to working long hours it is difficult to find time for internet work and I am usually tired when I do, so it can be a slow process for me.
I recently read lesson #26 and created an email at my domain using my real 1st and last name. I am not sure if I should use my last name because it may be too long or difficult for some people to spell..? Also my domain name is the english translation for my Lakota name, as I am Native American, with review added to the end. But I am not sure if it is the best idea as people do not understand where I am coming from or it can sound misleading.
Do you think that I should register another domain name and then use both my first and last name for email or just my first name..?
Also I edited my personal email to my domain for Eric’s tips. Will they all be sent to new address or will I have to transfer the other ones..?
Your time and comments are very much appreciated..!
Thank You
Daniel
Really excellent lessons. You have the gift of teaching and not just letting me know how much you know. Thanks for all of your help. L1
Hi Eric,
well… gmail works soooo much better than my “professional” accounts, especially lately.
Webmail is pretty clumsy (and I refuse to use Outlook), and as of late, impossibly overrun with spam. I love my gmail spam filters. They rarely err anymore, and it’s not too hard to take a peek into the spam area every now and then to make sure nothing has gotten trapped in there..
I do use the professional emails occasionally and for specific purposes, but I’m trying to move everything to gmail…
Backwards?
Then again, maybe I should split test it…
Elisabeth
As far as the email address, simpler is usually better if you’re using it for business purposes.
For the domain, it just depends on what you’re using it for. If you’re using it to sell the Trading Pro System, I’d recommend registering a domain specifically for it.
You can edit the email address of your subscription by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email from me. But then don’t unsubscribe… just update your email address.
Thanks
Hmmm, that is strange, it looks OK to me. Please try again at:
http://www.getgator.com
thanks!
Thanks, Slurp95@gmail is not professional! I have my own domain name and set up my email.My site is up (template), I’m still working on using my ftp account. I have to learn how to edit my template. My first site is actually under construction. Districtelectricalservices.com I’m working on for my boss. Working on 2 sites
Hi Eric,
Very informative video. I have a question. If we use the email forwarder then how do we reply to the sender. In your example, if I send email to info@ericxxx.com, it is forwarded to let’s say eric@hotmail.com. Now if you want to reply me back, how would you do that.
Thanks
Rajesh
Generally speaking, your reply would come from whatever email address the email is being forwarded to. So forwarding works in situations where that is acceptable.
For example, suppose you have email addresses like:
affiliates@example.com
eric@example.com
sales@example.com
You could have all of them forwarded to a general mailbox such as info@example.com and it would be socially acceptable to receive a reply from such an address.
Technically it is also possible to forge the header to make the reply appear that it is coming from a different email address (ie. the one they originally mailed to), but I don’t recommend it, as it may be viewed as spam.
hey I like your domain name 😉
Hi Eric
Good lesson and make sense, to answer your question I do have another email. I signed up for yahoo for the evryday use and it works for what I am doing with it, once I have my site starting to go I am ready fur bus I am following your advice because a professionel look make things better, once I am there I send you my link and if you have the time give me an email with your rating of my site, I am interested in any thing you say I am interesting in improvement so please don’t hold anything back until then best wishes and God bless Juergen
Hi Eric ~ Thanks for the videos! I’m learning alot and slowly working through them. I set up my email account with hostgator and then forwarded the email to a gmail account set up just for this domain. The test emails that I send go thru to the gmail account but do not show in the domain email account. According to the instructions in cpanel, they should still be there also. Does it matter as long as they go to the gmail account? I can’t find anything that I did wrong or that I can change.
Carol
Thank you support and effort
Usually there is an option to leave the emails on the server in addition to the forwarding. But I would not worry about it, unless you need a backup copy of your emails on the server.
Thanks Eric for the valuable free information you sure, your tips are really helpful.
Thanks Eric for the great informations you share, your lessons are really helpful.
Just keep up the good things for newbies.
Ram
http://www.farmvilleguide.webeden.co.uk
Getting things done right without some expert advice is really hard to do when you don’t have a clue.
Your advice is really gold. Thank you
So, now what? Should I start checking my email @mydomain.com for Eric’s Tips? Your lessons give me one GOOD reason to check my free account. Just kidding. I actually have two free accounts. Its my way of careful selection. My first gets stuff I want to check out, if I like it, I send my better address. But, you already knew that, you quit sending email to my other address around lesson, oh, say, 10.
Yes Coy is my first name. I do sometimes get emails indicating that they think I’m a guy but I’m not. Ann is my middle name. I haven’t really decided on a business yet so I’m not too worried about a professional name yet. I do keep it in the back of my mind. I have several websites that were pre-made and I haven’t done anything about them because I wasn’t real thrilled with them. Needless to say money spent and lost for the learning curve. I did purchase PBM which I hope to use in a profitable way. Thanks to your lessons I am learning even more. Thanks again Coy Ann
Eric, awesome tips!
Ive been looking for some time for the infomation on emails, DNS, hosting and Domains. Most of what I found (until I found your site) just told me that these things needed to be done, not how to do it. Your last few lessons have hugely helped. Thank you for putting this series together.
How Can You Tell That!!!!! I Have 150 Professional E-Mail Accounts!!! Me@mydomain.com!!!! Please Don’t Send Using Autoresponders!!!!
Hi Erik,
Your tips are great. I agree about the gmail. I treat those emails with disdain as well. I have emails on two of my domains. I only use the music one for general stuff and opt ins.
Regards
as I teach in lesson #68, autoresponders are one of the most powerful online marketing tools.
Cool name!
Your lessons have become my go to spots for most of what I am going through now. I wish I could collect them all in one folder for future reference. Great Stuff!! I keep going back to them to stay on the right path!
Hi, I have set up an email account with my domain as you’ve explained. When I try to access my email, using ”SquirrelMail”, it gives me an error message: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
What should I do?
Best Regards!
Hi Eric,
Thanks a lot for uor hard work & charity towards needy.Really i appriciate you. Now the time has come to create my proffesional web & as well as email a/c.
pls eric do the best for me.
Thanks,
paul Roin.
That is an unusual one. You may need to contact your web host, as they may need to restart the mail server. Have you tried connecting via:
http://example.com:2095 ?
Use your email address and password that you set up.
Thanks so much for your lesson that has helped me finally setup my Microsoft Outlook account in my desktop.
According to Hostgator’s Configure Mail Client, “IMAP email access coordinates between the server and you mail application. Messages that have been read/deleted/replied-to will show as read/deleted/replied-to both on the server and in the mail application. POP3 does not coordinate with the server. Messages marked as read/deleted/replied-to in the mail application will not show as read/deleted/replied-to on the server. This means that future downloads of your inbox or other mailboxes with POP3 will show all messages as unread.”
Other than that, do you know anything else difference between POP3 and IMAP?
I do pretty much all my email thru Outlook using Pop3, and it retrieves the email off of the server (not leaving a copy of it there). But I can still login and use webmail via Cpanel (I like squirrilmail) if I’m away from my own computers. There are advantages of each protocol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol
Thanks a lot for your quick reply and the link!
I already picked IMAP and will test it out to see it is good or not.
By the way what do you mean “not leaving a copy of it here”? Do you mean that after POP3 retrieves the email off of your server, your webmail account will erase that email?
Ok cool 🙂
Correct, when Pop3 retrieves an email off the server, it will no longer appear in webmail. I believe there is an option to leave a copy of it on the server though. But in that case, things can get confusing because it’s hard to keep track of which emails you’ve already read. But supposedly IMAP prevents that problem.
my friend Eric. hop is okay to call you us a friend of my, sincerely I do had trouble to create
my links because really I had very poor complication over understanding the Internet money make system everyone bring to me. I set in front of my lop top. willing very much to start making few dollars, but everything I do seem to be truthful wrong, not one of my business over the net work for me. at all. but never stop my courage to earn at lite bit of money back to keep my Good hop’s up because I really getting truthful upset to my Situation of not getting any were. seem every one make lots of Cash but my account’s turning upside down, please must be better of blind , i ‘m tire of spending my hard Earning dollars’
I am having trouble with my reseller account. I have not yet learned how to set up the websites for all of the domains I want to host myself. I do plan to have email accounts for each site as you suggest, but I need help setting everything up. I just cannot get enough detailed help from the Hostgator techs. I have not found what I need in your “How to be a Reseller” report yet. Please advise, if you will.
Hi George, I would suggest checking out Hostgator’s video tutorials. Scroll down to where it says “WebHostManager [WHM] (Reseller)”
If you have more specific information about what trouble you’re having, perhaps I can give more direction.
sir,thanks for ur
lesson ,please teach me
how to creat my own
marketing e mail adress
that only me can have
access to it ,thanks for ur
concern.
Great lessons, I’m learning every day. Thanks, your are a great help for us newbees.
No my email address is a personal one. I have a gmail account that I use for business purposes. Thanks again for the always excellent lesson!
Pardon me ….
I NEVER use any of my professional email addresses to sign up for anything online. There is just too much spam generated to those addresses used. At least that is what my testing has proven. For that reason I even quit using addresses with domain name and only use gmail.
Business, however, is done with professional email. And, I might say, rarely gets any spam.
So, it’s understandable why your subscriber list has non-business addresses.