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Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

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Costa Rica — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:26:07 -0000

In my case, after two shameful logins in Yahoo and Gmail, I bought rica.cr and started costa.rica.cr, being my main driver to have an email address like firstname@costa.rica.cr
Something else I did is to buy another domain and set a catch-all rule towards a single account - which I import from my costa.rica.cr account. Why? When I go to a site that needs my email but I do not trust enough to sell it, I make up an address in this domain (something like suspicioussite@mydomain.com) If they ever sell the address I would quickly tell because of the email address.

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Paul — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:28:04 -0000

Its one reason I love LinkedIn. You never lose track of people as long as they keep updating their LinkedIn account email address.

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Tom — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:21:51 -0000

I started rolling all my email accounts onto gmail, where I can easily check them. I love the tagging feature.
I'm trying to get more into 'Cloud Computing' ...
I like the idea of a centralized web-based place to keep all contacts - I've heard Plaxo is good, too?

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Luigi Cappel — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:54:22 -0000

I think it's more about what you do with your database or your network rather than the database itself. Like you are doing, if you add value to someone's life, their business etc, then you matter. Plus the more you give, the more you get, which is not consistent with the traditional economy. I have several email databases and have never aggregated them as such.

The issue to me is then the quality of your touch. If I send you an email saying blah blah blah, I'm good, having fun, it's hot, hope you are hot. I'm not adding any value. If I send messages to a group, it needs to add value to their day, or it just adds to the perseption that email is one of the biggest time wasters ever and if you send me time wasting email, I don't need to hear from you. If you send me value, then I will keep an eye out for your messages and read them first.

I'm in danger of getting on the soap box so thanks for the discussion:D

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Keith Burtis — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:12:47 -0000

As a community manager, I would love to learn more about batchbook! I am heading there now. Hoping they have a 30 day trial. I am incompetent when it comes to organization. Thanks for the lead Chris!

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Grant — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:49:32 -0000

While this is all great advice don't forget about your phone! I always synchronise my phone with Outlook and also make a backup file of the contacts and numbers.

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Christine Gallagher — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:01:17 -0000

I've been using GMail for almost 5 years and couldn't live without it. The forwarding and multiple account capabilities are so useful.

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

steveellwood — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:47:05 -0000

Chris, following your advice in Elements of a Personal Brand and an appeal from @RichardDennison Come out, come out, wherever you are …

... I put my blog in my name, and email in the blog domain, and I can move those as you suggest. Am I pleased my online identity isn't irrevocably tied up with my employer? Yes, for sure. So thanks.

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Mike B. — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:30:52 -0000

This is a problem I have ALOT. I have made some really great contacts over time and I have lost most of them because either myself or them would lose access to the contact info. Backing up is useless if the email address is gone. Great post.
@bookerx3

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Leslie Poston — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:18:37 -0000

In which Chris reminds Leslie that she has been slacking on her contact list backups lately.... ;)

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Shannon Ehlers — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:56:23 -0000

I think this is a great piece of advice. It is something I've been doing since my last "job upheaval" about eight years ago.

I'm always surprised to find out that this is not the norm - that people actually just use their work email as their primary connection point.

I changed that in my own office, I think, when I "infected" the place with LinkedIn. I tried hard to get everyone to use, as you suggest, a 'go-anywhere' address for their primary LI contact.

The reason that this is an advantage became much more clear to everyone as they were filling out their LI profile because, after all, if this thing becomes useful it might be due to a downsizing!

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Rufus Dogg — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:51:48 -0000

@eric Postcards WORK for confirmations wonderfully. http://www.tourneycentral.c... despite what Rick Burnes at HubSpot says about the future of the USPS and direct mail.

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Eric_Hoffman — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:46:36 -0000

Chris,
As a business, we are trying to collect 'secondary' email addresses for our email lists, so that if we do get a bounce on the primary address, we can send a follow up email to the secondary email list. Ideally, I'd even like to have our system set up to send a postcard to the contact's physical address checking in case the secondary email is no longer valid too. Very timely tip!

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Avil Beckford — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:41:43 -0000

I agree with you, though I have never given out my secondary email because I own my own company. Now that you have raised this issue, I should give out my gmail email address because there were times when I had problems with my service provider and my emails bounced. Thanks Chris, I always learn so much from you. I hope that one day I can return the favour. Avil http://www.twitter.com/avil...

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Lorilee Rager — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:18:05 -0000

This is very valuable and helpful. Thank you for always sharing how do to what you suggest. Your links and tips and thoughts will be what keeps my company a float in 2009!

Thank you!

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Tony C — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:56:01 -0000

Yes and it's time many web sites, allow you have two email address's. LInkedin, is one of the few that has a solid system for a office email and secondary email.

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Zach Heller — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:42:13 -0000

This is a good point to touch on, one that I have often thought about but never seen anyone write about. It is so important in this day and age to keep a personal email address for a few reasons. Getting fired or leaving your job is definitely one of them. You are always going to want to keep your contacts, some professional, some personal. Think ahead and plan for that.

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Melanie Thompson — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:28:37 -0000

I use an e-mail through my university for day-to-day contact with people and my personal development strategies (i.e., the e-mail listed on my blog). This is an alumni account that not only shows I graduated from a fantastic university -- Hook'em Horns -- but it is also automatically forwarded to my work account, so I don't have to worry about checking more than one e-mail. Then if I leave my current place of employment, I just have to change the forwarding address. It is nice and simple.

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

John Bradford — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:23:44 -0000

"... a human conversation over a beer..." an oft overlooked social networking principle!

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

williamarruda — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:11:10 -0000

Hello Chris,
Having your own email address is also important for personal branding. Having firstname@firstnamelastname.com is far more professional (expecially if you are looking for a job) than happymama98765@hotmail.com. Your email address sends a little message about your personal brand. Make sure it is on-brand for you - or at least professional.

Best.
William
www.williamarruda.com

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Rufus Dogg — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:03:50 -0000

@Jeremy LeRay hey, thanks! Yes, concurrence on the CSV.. text only files never fail... amazing how in the midst of the greatest technology in the world, the basics are what never fails. A pencil, piece of paper, text-only file, a human conversation over a beer... hmmmm.....

Re: The Importance of Your Own Email Account

Dmitri Eroshenko, Relenta — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:02:21 -0000

Interesting timing. Just today we at Relenta, email-based contact and task manager are starting to test a new feature that allows people in your contact database to keep their own contact details up to date. You send a personalized email to individual contacts, groups or entire database which contains a unique link that each person can follow to update their contact info (and enter alternative/personal email address among other fields).

I've heard many good things about BatchBook and BlueSkyFactory.

Relenta differs from all these great standalone apps because it's a hybrid between a contact manger, email client, task manager, and email marketing application. So instead of using four different apps you can use one.

Here's our elevator pitch at TechCrunch.

Chris, many hanks for validating our approach to email management :)