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To whom it may concern:
This is written to be fast to read, fast to skim, save you time, and teach you some actionable tips.
Summary, which will help you determine whether you want to
read the rest of the email:
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- Upcoming public speeches
- Shameless self promotion
- Need help with social media to get more business?
- Need help with Google ranking?
- Need speaking, training, or consulting?
- Call (617)-PATRICK, i.e. (617)-728-7425
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"I ran a half marathon" sounds so much better than "I quit halfway through a marathon".
RT @RickAaron
Thanks,
(617)-PATRICK
1st place winner, National Speaker's Association "Rising Star" speaking competition, 2012
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 1) migrate off a free email address to your own domain email |
Summary:
People often keep a free email address for years without knowing that they could have an email address with their own domain name for only $11 a year, and it's not that hard to do. So do it.
Details:
Did you know that you could change your personal email address to [email protected] for just $11 a year? And it will give you a lot of benefits.
For example, Greg Sarno's current email address is [email protected], and there are a lot of disadvantages to that. For example:
- If he leaves Comcast, he can't use that email address anymore, so
- He'd have to inform all his friends and contacts
- He'd have to hope his friends change it, or he may miss emails from them
- Comcast will only forward his email for a limited time
- He would lose all emails that would go to his Comcast address, which might include emails from banks, schools, or any other sites
- He'd have to change usernames at any sites that use his email for a username
- It's not memorable for friends of his
- It's unprofessional if he were looking for a job
Instead, he could create a new email address, [email protected], and give that out to everyone, including internet sites.
He could then have the emails sent to [email protected] forwarded to his Comcast address at [email protected].
He could avoid most of the problems above if he always used the new address instead of the old one, and eventually migrated all old usernames to the new email address.
Not only that, he can read and send email from his same Comcast address, like he always did, because his emails would be forwarded there. He should set up his "Reply to:" address at Comcast to go to [email protected] so that when he sends an email, and someone replies, it would go to his [email protected] address before going to the Comcast address. This would make recipients think all communication was going through the new address.
Here are the steps to set it up:
- Go to name.com or a similar site
- Put gregsarno in the search box to search for a domain name, then click "Search" on the right
- Get gregsarno.com if it is available (if not, this is much more complicated)
- Click "Add to cart" on the right
- Click "Checkout", or "Cart" in the upper right
- Go to the cart, create an account, set up payment, etc
- Remove the $4.99 charge for "Whois privacy" by clicking the trash can to the right
Then:
- click "Domains" in the upper left
- in the middle, under "Managing domains", click "Forwarding tools"
- click "Get started now"
- select the domain you just created
- click the "Email forwarding" option on the right
- on the left, type in greg (it shows the @gregsarno.com) and have it forward to [email protected]
Now test by sending an email to [email protected]
I can almost guarantee that you WILL change providers or change your email address at some point, and your old provider may not forward your email for long, so you should consider doing this at some point soon. That way, you can migrate at your leisure:
- informing friends and contacts about your new address
- informing internet sites about your new address
Another great benefit is that if Greg migrates to another site like Gmail, for instance, and he had used [email protected] at all sites and with all his friends and contacts, he would only have to change the forwarding address from [email protected] to [email protected], and no one else would have to know.
There's more to this, but I wanted to limit the size of the email. I will show how to use the domain name in the future, but if you don't have a web page, you can always point to your LinkedIn profile.
A few things that are beyond the scope of this newsletter, like:
- What if your domain name isn't available?
- What if you want to change your domain later, or have multiple domain names?
- What if you want to have multiple email addresses, like [email protected] for sites that you know will send you spam?
and I'll discuss those at some point in the future.
Go Patriots!
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| And thank you for reading this far down. Great tip coming next month, too...
Sincerely,
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617-PATRICK
1st place winner, National Speaker's Association "Rising Star" speaking competition, 2012
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