Email Setup Guides for Small Businesses

Good email starts with a sound setup. These guides walk you through each piece, in plain language and in the order most businesses need them.

Start with a mailbox you control. A free Gmail account is fine for reading and replying to customers, and the guides below show you how to create one on any device.

Next, decide which address your customers see. Marketing emails reach the inbox far more often when they come from your own business domain, such as hello@yourbusiness.com, instead of a free Gmail or Yahoo address. Your Gmail can still receive every reply.

Finally, connect your domain to the service that sends your emails. That step proves to Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook that your emails really come from you, which protects your customers and your reputation.

Each guide below covers one step. Read them in order, or jump to the one you need.