When you decide and build your own website you have tons of information that you need to place; sometimes you will need some address for people to communicate regarding the information that you already have in the site or in brochures or any other printed information regarding your business.

For some, this means having several web addresses and this is not a smart choice. Business piracy is growing each day and if you are not web savvy is possible in a very high percentage that you will indeed open one or two emails that you must delete without opening; leaving the back door open for any and all information pirates.

The smart choice is to have as few mail addresses as possible, create “department sections” that will take care of the bulk of the emails and then you can sort them out: Consumer Relations will take care of all questions, complaints, suggestions and claims that customers have. General Management will take care of issues regarding customer service or lack of, just to mention two examples.

Now, if you are a small business of course you do not have the budget to own a .com website and therefore your email address will not say “@yourbusiness.com” but there is no need to worry. Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail are three of the most popular free email providers in the market, though there are thousands of them, in each case you can personalize the address: Customer_Relations_YourBusiness@yahoo.com to name just one example.

As with the web site building, you must make yourself take the time, think through what you want and need and then search for it in the internet. Consider, when looking for a email provider that sometimes the providers leave the net and the server is shut down; so even though they are “too common”, traditional email providers might be the best choice