Plus one of the services I offer is to help people do this! It keeps you looking professional but lets you use all the great Gmail features and labs as well as plug-ins such as Rapportive and Boomerang.

How anyone uses any other system is amazing to me. They’re really missing out.

So what you suggest here will not do any good, since to whomever you send an email, he/she will know that you’re still using an ordinary Gmail, Yahoo account, which will still make you look “unprofessional”.

What you’ll have to do is use Google Apps. That way you just use their reliable email servers, their awesome interface, tons of options and still send emails from your domain. Of course you’ll have to mess with the DNS settings and do some verification, but Google has very good straightforward instructions how to do it.

I personally use Google Apps on all of my domains and it rocks. The other good thing about Google Apps is that when you sign up you can use all of the Google products through that account. So for example for one particular domain (website) you can setup email, analytics, webmaster tools, adwords, adsense, google + page, and pretty much everything else.

You’ll have all services tied up to your domain and all of them accessible with one password, which of course in that case has to be very strong. The other positive thing is if you ever decide to sell that domain/website you can sell it together with all accompanied services in one package, which would be very convenient for both parties.

Knowing absolutely nothing about tech stuff, I say, cut and paste a letter I just wrote on Microsoft word into my gmail mail outgoing. It looks great but when it reaches the destination, its all over the play. Lines and far apart and not orderly.

Any newbie advice?

Thanks

I want to thank you for all the stuff of the last years. I read it all and iam also in your maillist – since 8 months 🙂

Thanks for all the great articles and excuse my poor english!

best wishes
Jonas

One thing worth bearing in mind though, the reply-to: and the sender: addresses will be your domain, but the from: address will still show as being GMail (or Yahoo or whatever).

If you want to avoid this, use Google for domains as mentioned in the comments above. It’s a little bit more hassle, but probably worth it for many. Personally I don’t think it’s worth it as I’m an IT contractor and what I have serves me just fine.

Useful post. though we are also using Gmail for professional purpose but with the help of Google apps we are using our domain names.
Even your method seems to be very easy.

I didn’t read your previous post but i would like to tell you that I still prefer Outlook. I found it very professional and there are so many features in Outlook like the priority setting, mail personalization, organization, i am still a fan of outlook.

A better option would be to use Google Apps for Domains, which is something I have configured for my blogs.

This ensures you have the complete interface and features of Gmail, while using your own domain address.

Of course, it is a bit more work to get it running the first time around.

BTW, I have a domain name that is unused. I closed a blog that the domain name was associated with. Can I do something with that domain? I mean, is there a website to list and sell that domain (if someone shows interest)? (Like Flippa to sell a site). Also, is it possible to cancel the domain name now and get back the money on a pro-rata basis?

Manoj Rawal

Nice tips, I am aware of the email forwarding part but not about setting our own account within gmail (i.e. step 2 onwards).

Having said that, just wonder would this means we are having a higher risk of emails delivery issue as we are now dependent on 2 email servers’ response/up time. Even though I must say that nowadays the free email services’ up time are quite stable. Any take on this?

Thanks.

Great if you have more than one person you need an email address for as well.