Web Hosting: Selecting The Right Host!
By Joelene Orlando
2003-10-16
Email Accounts and Auto Responders
You should know how many email accounts you can have on the same domain name, where you would have one email account that allows customers or visitors to email you, another email account for another department such as billing or accounting, one for each of the number of staff you have on hand. Make sure that they give you enough accounts, and what the additional fees are to add on new ones if you’re staff base grows or you end up creating new departments within your company. This type of email address will reflect your company, www.companyname.com. It is important that you use your own domain name for all your mail. Do not use another source such as hotmail.com or AOL.com for your business emails. (It looks like you’re a very inexperienced website business owner, doing things half-assed!) Pardon my French. Auto responders are emails that are sent back automatically to the user that has a standard response to anyone who queries them. It can be a simple message such as, “We’ve received your email and we are currently looking into your request. You will be notified shortly with assistance.” Sometimes auto responders are used for specific things, such as if you requested a pricing list, documentation, product specifications and photos, you would have a separate email account for each subject, and if a visitor inquired about one of these categories, and the auto responder would immediately send them a spec sheet within 5 minutes or less. The possibilities are endless with auto-responders, and it’s a nice quick feature that meets the customer’s needs right away. Find out how many auto responders are included in your package, and what the additional fees are for more.
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