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Key quotes:

  • "In case you have just started and have no idea as to how can you create a business email address for free, this article will help you."
  • "For instance, if you are John and run a company named Sterling, your business email address could be something like: John@business.com On the contrary, if you decide to go with the generic email account, it would john@google.com."
  • "One reason why is it advised to switch a business email address is the fact that the generic email account is open for all and anyone or everyone can create the same."
  • "There are two different ways using which you can create a free business email address."
  • "Creating business email addresses along with domain registration is easy and pretty simple."
  • "You can obviously have a business email account without having a website, however, if you opt to do so, you would need to pay a lot more."
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Key quotes:

  • "Recently I went into the rats nest that is GoDaddy’s dashboard to setup a free email forwarding address for a side project."
  • "In the dropdown window, select the domain you’d like a forwarding email address for and click the button to redeem the ‘100 pack.’ 4."
  • "Don’t click on ‘Sign It’ it won’t work if you don’t have another email with GoDaddy."
  • "Enter the email address you want to create for your domain, and enter in the Gmail email address you want to forward that email to."
  • "Once you receive your test email, now it is time to setup Gmail so that you can send outgoing emails as this email address."
  • "Go to the Accounts and Import section and click on: Enter the email address you want to forward, keep ‘Treat As Alias’ checked, and on the next screen fill it out like this: If you are like me, you’ll get this error: 10."
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Transcript: Hey everyone so welcome back to another tutorial and today i will be showing you how to set up your email account on hosting a hosting so if you know i just bought this um one or two weeks ago and i was trying some new features so because um the panels hosting a use is different from the cpanel that normally other shade hosting providers use so um the tutorial is almost same but it's a slightly different and another reason i wanted to show you this is because i'm hosting a very aggressively tries to upsell you products and you may very easily get led into paying them extra so i will show you how it happens so to arrive at this screen first you have to just log in and go to this hosting tab so you will see all the connected domains to your hosting account okay so before i'm starting this i will show you how hosting uh tries to upsell you if you go to the emails tab as um you know if you want to set up email you see this option and you will click on it okay it is showing the... See more →

Key quotes:

  • "If you plan on sending any type of promotions, then you want to avoid the spam filter and create a professional business email address to remember your brand."
  • "So, you will need a custom email address to use email service providers like MailChimp or Constant Contact in order to send out marketing pieces and customer communications."
  • "But that’s not a requirement for creating your professional email account."
  • "If you choose the ‘basic’ plan, you’ll get a domain and 5 business email accounts free."
  • "Once you have your finalized domain name, you’ll need to enter your account information and make the payment."
  • "Then, you can log into your hosting control panel and start creating your free business email addresses."
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Key quotes:

  • "Registering and validating custom email addresses in Route53 and Simple Email Service (SES) doesn’t need to be difficult."
  • "We will use the Simple Email Service (SES) to register the new email: no-reply@example.com."
  • "In the AWS console, navigate to SES > Identity Management > Domains and click on “Verify a New Domain”."
  • "In the next step, we will create and verify an email address: no-reply@example.com."
  • "In the AWS console, navigate to SES > Identity Management > Email Addresses and click on “Verify a New Email Address”."
  • "In the form which appears, just type in the email address you want to create, e.g."
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Key quotes:

  • "Email marketing and cold mailing have always performed far superior for me than Facebook/Google ads when it comes to investment fund raising or B2b business sales or even normal customer acquisition."
  • "To extract emails, I could have gone to google.com and entered the search query like this: site:”http://www.zaubacorp.com” “Fashion” “Delhi” “@gmail.com” As you can see in above image, it populated the search results from zaubacorp.com of companies with fashion in their name, who are present in Delhi and who’s registered email ID includes @gmail.com."
  • "In short, it’s a powerful chrome browser plugin that is able to scrape email addresses from a specific website you provide along with few keywords to target and optimise your email list."
  • "You can create custom url for any website that you want to extract emails from by clicking on Add button."
  • "Then I pasted the custom URL into the email extractor tool: Now, since my target business industry is Fashion."
  • "Build your prospect pipeline with proper research, personal outreach and followups, as it’s not guaranteed that email blast would always bring you the results you aspire to get."
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