How to Create a Free Business Email Address in 5 Minutes (Step by Step)

 

Would you like to make an expert business email address for nothing? A business email address utilizes your organization name rather than the nonexclusive gmail or hurray account. In this article, we will tell you the best way to handily make a free business email address in under 5 minutes.

 

What is a Business Email Address and Why You Need it?

An expert business email address has your organization name rather than the nonexclusive gmail or yippee account, for instance: john@stargardening.com

Most fledglings utilize nonexclusive free business email accounts without an area name which isn't extremely proficient. For instance: john.smith2019@gmail.com or jsmithfromstargardening@yahoo.com.

Since anybody can make these nonexclusive email accounts, it becomes more earnestly for clients and different organizations to believe such email addresses as authentic business email accounts.

The following are the best 4 justifications for why you want an expert email address for your business:

 

·       A custom business email address looks more expert.

 

·       It is likewise short and simple to recollect.

 

·       An expert business email address assists you with acquiring client's trust as an authentic business.

 

·       Sending messages with your own business name permits you to advance your image with each email you send.

Best of all, you can get your own custom business email address free of charge, which implies there is not a good reason for not getting it.

Assuming you need your clients and different organizations to approach you in a serious way, then, at that point, you want to begin utilizing an expert business email address, right away.

 

What Do You Need to Create a Business Email Address?

You should have area name and a site to make a free business email address.

From that point forward, you will require an email specialist co-op to deal with your business messages.

There are one or two arrangements that you can use to make an expert business email address.

We will show both of you various techniques, and you can pick the one that best meets your requirements.

The principal technique is free and genuinely simple to arrangement while the subsequent strategy has a little charge, however it offers much more highlights.

 

Technique 1. Making a Business Email Address for Free

This technique is simple and accessible to nearly each and every individual who has a site. It permits you to make a business email address free of charge.

While making a private venture site, you should purchase a space and information exchange for web facilitating.

What most novices don't know is that numerous WordPress facilitating organizations offer free business email highlights as a feature of the bundle.

Regularly, a space name costs 14.99 each year and site facilitating begins from $7.99 each month. If you somehow happened to utilize a paid email administration, then, at that point, you can add another $5 per email account.

Technique 2. Creating a Business Email Address using Google Workspace (formerly G Suite)

Google offers capable business email address with Google Workspace (beforehand G Suite) which joins Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Calendar for associations.

This methodology isn't free, but it grants you to use Gmail for your master business email with your own business name. 

While there's a little cost, it goes with many advantages:

You will use Gmail's normal interface and applications to send and receive messages.

Google has far dominating advancement which ensures that your messages are passed on quickly, and they don't end up in spam coordinators.

Your site working with association has shared server resources. This infers they needn't bother with you to send such an enormous number of messages. Gmail on the other hand will allow you to send up to 2000 messages every day.

We use G Suite for our business email address here at WPBeginner.

That being said, we ought to research how to course of action a business email address using G Suite.

Stage 1. Seek after a Google Workspace Account

Google Workspace starter plan costs $6 per customer consistently. It gives you permission to Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, and sound/video conferencing with 30 GB of dispersed stockpiling for each customer.

You will moreover require a space name, which you can purchase during the data trade. On the off chance that you at this point have a region name and a site, then, you can use your present space with G Suite.

To get everything going, fundamentally visit the Google Workspace site and snap on the start button.

On the following screen, you will be approached to enter your business name, the quantity of workers, and nation where you are found. You can pick only yourself for 1 client account, or pick the quantity of workers.

Note: You will be charged for every client account, so it is smarter to begin little. You can generally add more clients when required.

Click on the following button to proceed.

On the following stage, you will be approached to enter your own contact data including name and email address.

After that, you will be asked to choose a domain name. If you already have a domain name, then click on ‘Yes I have one I can use’.

If you don’t have a domain, then click on ‘No, I need one’ to register a domain name.

If you need to register a new domain name, then you will be charged separately for registering a new domain name. The cost of a domain name will be displayed on the screen and usually starts from $14.99.

If you are using an existing domain name, then you will need to verify that you own that domain name. We will show you how to do that later in this article.

After choosing your domain name, you will be asked to create your user account by entering a username and password. 

This username will also be your first business email address, so you need to choose a username that you want to use as your business email address.

After that, you will see a success message and a button to continue with the setup.

Step 2. Setting up Business Email with Google Workspace / G Suite

In this step, you will complete the G Suite setup by adding users and connecting it to your website or domain name.

On the setup screen, you will be asked to add more people to your account. If you want to create more accounts for your employees or departments, then you can do that here.

You can also just click on ‘I have added all user email addresses’ and click on the next button.

Remember, you can always add more users to your account and create their email addresses later when needed.

If you are using G Suite with an existing domain name, then you will be asked to verify that you own that domain name. To do that, you will now see a HTML code snippet that you need to add to your website.

There are other ways to verify your ownership as well. You can upload a HTML file to your website using an FTP client or file manager app in your hosting account dashboard.

If you don’t have a website, then you can use the MX Record method to verify your ownership of the domain name. You will see step by step instructions to do that once you choose this method.

For the sake of this article, we are assuming that you already have a WordPress website, and we will show you how to add the verification HTML code snippet in WordPress.

First, go to the admin area of your WordPress website to install and activate the Insert Headers and Footer plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, go to Settings » Insert Headers and Footer page and paste the HTML code you copied from G Suite under the ‘Scripts in Header’ section.

 

Don’t forget to click on the ‘Save’ button to store your settings.

Now switch back to your G Suite setup screen and click on the checkbox that says ‘I added the meta tag to my homepage’.

After that, you will be asked to enter MX record entries for your domain name. We will show you how to do that in the next step.


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Step 3. Adding Domain MX Records

Note: This section is for users with existing domain names and websites. If you registered a new domain name via Google, then you don’t need to read this.

Domain names tell internet servers where to look for information. Since your domain name is not registered with Google, your emails will reach your domain name, but not to the Google servers.

You will need to setup the right MX records on your domain name settings, so Google’s servers can send and receive emails for your business.

To do that, you will need to login to your web hosting account, or your domain registrar account.

We have created a detailed guide that covers how to change MX records for your website that covers all registrars.

For this tutorial, we will show you how to add MX records in Bluehost, but the basic settings are the same on all hosts and domain registrars. Basically, you will be looking for DNS settings under your domain name.

Login to your Bluehost hosting dashboard and click on ‘Domains’. On the next page, select your domain name and then click on the ‘Manage’ link next to DNS Zone Editor option.

 

Bluehost will now open your DNS zone editor. You need to switch back to your G Suite setup screen and check the box that says ‘I have opened the control panel of my domain name’.

 

It will now show you the MX records that you need to enter. You will also see a link to the documentation which shows you how to add these records to dozens of hosting and domain services provider.

Here is how you will add this information to your Bluehost DNS settings:

 

Click on ‘Add Record’ button to save it. After that, repeat the process to add all five lines as MX records.

Once you are finished, switch back to G Suite setup and check the box next to ‘I created the new MX records’.

You will be asked to delete any existing MX records still pointing to your website hosting or domain name registrar.

To do this, you need to switch back to your DNS zone editor and scroll down to the MX records section. You will see the MX records you created earlier along with an older MX record still pointing to your website.

 

Click on the delete button next to the old MX record to delete it.

After that, switch back to the G Suite setup screen and check the box that says ‘I deleted existing MX records’.

 

You will now be asked to save your MX records. For some providers, once you add MX records they are already saved, for others you may need to manually save MX records.

Once you have saved MX records, check the box that says ‘I have saved MX records’ in G Suite setup.

 

After that you need to click on ‘Verify domain and setup email’ button to exit the setup wizard.

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Step 4. Managing email in G Suite

G Suite makes it super easy to manage your email account. You can simply visit the Gmail website to check your email or use the official Gmail apps on your phone to send and receive emails.

You will need to sign in using your business email address as your username.

To create more business email addresses simply go to the G Suite Admin console. From here you can add new users, make payments, and adjust your G Suite account settings.

 

Business Email Address FAQs

Following are some of the most commonly asked questions by our users regarding business email addresses and how to use them.

1. Can I create more custom email addresses for my business for free?

If you are using Bluehost, then yes you can go ahead and create more email accounts for free (You get 5 email accounts with basic and unlimited accounts with plus and choice plus plans).

If you are using G Suite, then you can create email aliases which are separate addresses for the same email account. However, if you want to add a different email account or a new employee, then you will be charged based on your plan.

2. Can I create free business email without domain?

No, you cannot create a free business email account without an email domain. You can create a free email account with Gmail or Hotmail, but it will not use your business name, so it will not be considered a business email address by customers and other businesses.

3. Can I use desktop and mobile email apps with my custom branded email address?

Yes, you can use your business email address with any desktop or mobile email apps. Most of these apps can automatically figure out mail settings. You can also get these settings from Bluehost or G Suite documentation.

4. Can I switch my free business email account to another provider if needed?

Yes, you can switch to any other email service, website hosting, or domain registrar and take your business email address with you. Aside from Google Workspace, there are also other professional email address providers like Microsoft Office 365.


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5. What are some business email address examples that I should use?

It depends on your business needs. For example:

·         You can create a custom branded email for yourself or individual employees like: john@stargardening.com

·         You can set up a business email account for departments like sales, support, HR, etc. sales@stargardening.com

6. Can I create a free business email address without making a website?

Yes, you can. However, you’ll still need to pay for website hosting because you get the email service and domain name for free with your hosting package.

Once you have signed up, you can choose a domain and then just create your email address.

That’s all, we hope this article helped you learn how to create a free business email address or create a professional business address with G Suite. You may also want to see our guide on how to get a free business phone number for your online business.

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