Why Hotmail isn’t so hot

To clarify, it’s not just Hotmail, but Yahoo, Gmail, and any other free email service out there that we’re talking about. You see, while these email services are fine for your personal email, they present a poor image for a business. To your prospects, it can appear as if you are out of touch with the world of business because you still haven’t invested in your own domain yet, or worse yet, that you don’t take your business seriously enough to invest in your own domain.

You can get a domain for less than $10 and hosting for just a few dollars a month. While this is slowly beginning to sound like one of those old Sally Struthers commercials about feeding some kid for the price of a cup of coffee, you really can’t afford not to have your email coming from your own domain. It’s a small investment considering the image it presents.