Hey guysss!!

As you know, one of the many reasons I started this blog is to share resources for small businesses. Look, it’s hard out here in these streets!! So I’m your Ride or Die here to drop gems and make your life easier.

Today’s resource is:

“How to Create an Alternate Gmail Alias”

Now the purpose of this, is to create different “alias’ ” or recipient facing email addresses, that all deliver and send from one official email account.

In this video I used my main email account – we will call that account “A” – to create 2 additional email “addresses” acting as different versions of account “A.” The additional emails account “B” & “C” have a unique user name but the same domain name. This usually looks like “user_name@domain.name.com.”

Click the video above to get the step by step tutorial!

Why do I care tho?

That’s an excellent question, this is excellent for two kinds of small businesses,

1. New small businesses who still have a generic domain name like @gmail.com, but want to use multiple different “accounts” for things like client onboarding, automations, and newsletters.
2. Established small businesses that want to make their business appear more professional and polished, and don’t want all emails to seem like they are coming from them DIRECTLY.

Think about invoices, specifically that one client who never pays on time and things they can get over on you and always has long excuses about when they’ll officially pay. I recommend updating your contract and using automated reminders to avoid these issues, however, having a separate “admin@domain.com” or “invoicing@domain.com” will send the signal to your clients that you run a BUSINESS, and it creates a buffer between you and your clients having direct communication about sticky subjects.

While you will of course receive the emails in your main inbox from all alias addresses, there will be less urgency to respond to clients regarding sticky matters. You can say “Oh I didn’t see that email, my assistant will follow up :)”

You can also create up to 30 unique email alias’ for each account that you have, so you can break out every section of operations in your business, if that your thing, and send emails from those addresses accordingly.

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Alias emails are good, get you one!

– Sheri

Your Ride or Die