Email for sending cold emails?

Hello Campers

as a freelancer, what should I name my email for sending cold emails?

should it be named by my real name? or named by my website name?

and many thanks in avance.

Generally, I recommend against cold emails. They are often treated like spam.

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@JeremyLT
thanks for your opinion.
so do you recommend anything else?

Hi @optimistic !

Here are some helpful articles from FCC news that will show how to get clients and build your business.

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@jwilkins.oboe
thanks for the helpful links, but also I am just curious
what is normal?
should the email for cold emails be named by my real name? or named by my website name?
and many thanks in advance.

I think that some of the articles address these questions.

I would think really carefully about spamming potential clients with ‘cold emails’ though. How seriously do you take unsolicited emails trying to sell you stuff?

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You should look into getting an email address with your business name instead of a personal address.

I own a small business and get unsolicited emails all of the time.
They always go in the trash can.

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@jwilkins.oboe
thanks for your reply.
and please, what do you mean by personal address? do you mean my website name?
and many thanks in advance

If you purchase a domain name, then you can use yourname@yourdomain.com as your business email. That’s the most professional looking angle I’ve seen.

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This would be a personal email address.
Ex. johndoe@gmail.com

This would would have a business name
Ex. johndoe@developersolutions.com

You want to appear as professional as possible. :grinning:

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@jwilkins.oboe
thanks so much for explaining.

sorry the last question.
I am asking
should it be like
myrealname@gmail.com
or
mywebsitename@gmail.com
?
sorry for my questions and many thanks in advance.

If possible, something like this is best. If you can’t afford to buy a domain (~$20/yr or so), then I’d go for developersolutions@gmail.com

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Hopefully buying a domain name and keeping it updated is a viable option for you.

Think of it as a business investment.

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@JeremyLT
thanks so much for all your suggestions

@jwilkins.oboe
thanks so much for all your suggestions

Also I am open to other suggestions and ideas concerning that

We already answered this exact question some months ago for you:

Nothing changed since then.

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@miku86
thanks for your comment. I just stick to having gmail because I did not get the idea of the $10 domain.

can I have this domain without hosting? since I use free blog.
I think paid hosting only give us email like this not only domain can give us such email.

Purchasing the domain and hosting the contents for the domain are separate. I own a domain, I host my assets for my website on my domain on GitHub, and I use fastmail to manage my email accounts for my domain.

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@JeremyLT
thanks so much for sharing. so fastmail service gives you your businesss email not github?