You’ve probably already realized that, as an Internet marketer, you’ll want to keep several email addresses active.  For example, you probably have one email account that you give just your personal friends and family.  You might have another for your primary business contacts – those emails you really don’t want to miss.  These might be your banking partners, your lawyer, your accountant, certain membership sites that are important to you, etc.

Then there’s all the rest of the email you get.  To get a fee eBook that looks interesting, you may have to sign on to someone’s mailing list.  Whenever you purchase something from an online store, you’re usually required to give them an email address, which they’ll then use to market to you for the rest of your natural life!  If you have a mailing list of your own  you’ll want to have one or more email addresses to be your “from” address, so all mail that comes in response to your newsletters will come to one place.

If you use safelists, you’ll really need some smart email space that has adequate space and will help you sort through the hundreds of emails you’ll get every day.  For this purpose I recommend Gmail.

Gmail, or Google Mail, is only one of hundreds of free email services on the Internet.  Why Gmail and not one of the others?  Several reasons:

• Gmail has all the space you’ll need – in fact, they keep adding more.  At this writing, it’s up to about 7 GB per account.  (Funny note, when they hit 1 GB per account, everyone thought it was an April Fool’s joke.  No one gave that much space free, and it just happened to occur on April 1st.)  If you DO need more space, you can buy more at very reasonable prices.  You can also archive older email which will save it in a compressed file.  It is still available for reading and searching functions.
• Many of the other free email services are banned by many of the safelists out there.  Gmail never is.  Yahoo is usually banned, although this may change as Yahoo has recently begun offering “unlimited space,” but this claim has yet to be tested.
• Gmail comes with an excellent spam filter that just keeps getting better.  If you receive spam, report it to Gmail.  They use this information from their client base to make better filters for everyone.
• Email organization within Gmail is second to none.  All responses to your sent emails are grouped together in “conversations,” making it simple to find everything related to your original post.
• You can filter emails based on a variety of criteria, allowing you to find certain emails or groups of emails quickly.  You can even sort them into labels as they come in, which was the subject of a previous blog post.
• You can use Google search within your email, even within your archived email.
• You can get your Gmail on your mobile phone device.

If you already have a Google account for Adwords or Adsense, you’ve already got a Gmail account.  Just log in and set it up.  If not you can apply and get one instantly here.  Note that multiple accounts are allowable.

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