Moving your email into the cloud: A better way to stay connected

Many businesses starting out want to keep their costs down, and turn to their Internet provider to set them up with a business email address.  Sometimes business owners will use free email accounts from Hotmail, Yahoo, or Gmail for their business.

Does your current business email end in one of the following addresses:

-hotmail.com

-gmail.com

-Yahoo.com/Yahoo.ca

-Rogers.com

-Sympatico.ca

-Cogeco.ca

These accounts are great for personal use, but don’t belong in the business environment (Unless you work for one of those companies directly, of course!)  I have seen many professional advertisements, primarily from Real Estate agents, who have a beautiful flyer professionally produced in my mailbox, but end up with their hotmail.com address on it.  To me, their professional credibility drops a little bit when I see that.

2 of the biggest companies for providing managed business email online are Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365.  Both offer your own email address with your own domain name (yourname@yourcompany.com) and provide a number of enhanced services over traditional email solutions.

For example, if you currently have a pop3 mail account from your internet provider, chances are all of your important business emails are on your computer.  What happens if your computer was stolen, damaged, or simply crashed to the point of no return?  How would your access all those emails?

Managed email online (also called Cloud based) provides you with the benefit of having your emails stored away from your computer.  If something happens to your computer, your emails are safe.

Contact us to find out how we can help you transition your business email to a professional email address managed online.