Why Should You have a Professional Email Address?

AdPumpkin
4 min readFeb 18, 2023

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There was a time when sending information use to takes days to reach its recipients. In today’s world with its lighting speed technology and connectivity, it only takes a fraction of a secs.

These information transfer are known as Electronic Mail Services and are commonly known by ‘Email’.

These are fast and more efficient way of information transfer, but to avail this facility you first need to have an email address for yourself.

Now there are mainly two type of Email Address in use.

1. Generic Email Address

2. Professional Email Address

What is Generic/Normal Email Address?

In your childhood have you ever created an email address that consisted cool, stud, king, or any other word that you ever felt great about it to boast with your friends.

Like these one.

Kingsmith@gmail.com

Studkingjohn@gmail.com

Lostskullfactory@hotmail.com

I am pretty sure, you may have not created these email addreses but your may have being quite in the same genre.

What is a Professional Mail?

Though there’s no hard and tough rule that you can’t give such email address but it’s really a good practice to use proper professional mail.

It can go like this….

Asleycooper.updates@gmail.com or AsleyCorp@gmail.com or even Getupdates@gmail.com

A professional mail address is such am email address which does not contain any fancy words that are hilarious enough to read.

They are simple addresses that convey your professionalism and don’t mess up your rappo with others.

But Why should you use Professional Email Address?

Now just imagine you are in a reputable position in a good company and you need to receive project updates form your team members. You asked to them to send their updates on your mail. Just imagine them sending their ppts and other stuffs in your lostskullfactory@hotmail.com.

What a scene it would create as you give them your email address. Hahaha …!!!

Now that you have understood the importance of having a Professional Email Address, let’s look out for some good tips to create one.

Always keep these tips in mind so that it’s always relevant.

1. Always make sure it could be read and spelled properly even by a 10th standard kid.

2. Generally people are somewhat addicted to use number while creating mail address, I don’t know why, but you completely avoid using them.

3. Do keep in mind that your career will grow eventually, so don’t create addresses based on what you are currently doing.

If your ever shift job, your your email is a permanent one.

4. Last but not the least, if you have completely messed up, you can always create a new one fresh.

Just keep be mindful while you create, else every time for a new occasion you will end up creating a new email.

Then you gonna get confused using all them simultaneously.

(Believe me I myself am a victim of this, few years back… Lol)

So let’s look at some good examples of professional email addresses.

If You are a student and studying for Exam Purposes.

examdetails@gmail.com

getexam@hotmail.com

If You are into Job Search Purpose

jobsget@gmail.com

focusedcareer@hotmail.com

If You are Already in a Good Company

getinfo@company.com

updates.get@company.com

And if you are a Business Owner, you can just use your own domain.

info@adpumpkin.com

queries@adpumpkin.com

Creating your own email address with Google you will need just two things.

1. First name and last name.

2. Phone number

And you need to create a custom address and set password. And you have a brand new email address.

Go One Step further..!! Create a Professional Email with Your Own Domain.

If you have a business running, it’s the best you can do for your business. People will think that you take your business seriously and it will increase your trust among them.

They won’t think you as any nobody and consider you more genuine. So how to have an Email Address with Your Domain?

1. The first and foremost things that you need is a domain.

If you have it then only you can proceed else first go to GoDaddy or Namecheap any other Good Registrar and get yourself a domain first.

2. You can go to any of these platforms.

  • Google’s G Suite
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • Zoho

Sign up with any of them, choose a plan according to your needs and connect it with your domain and get your business email created.

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