How much do you use email? I'll bet it is a lot and #33; Email is part of our world, whether we like it or not and a great deal of the communications that take part online are through electronic mail. So your email address it important. It tells people who you are or what you are about or what is important to you. Having an email address like cutesinglechick@yourhost.com is not usually a good idea, especially if you do any sort of business with that email address.
Instead, you should choose a personalized email address that serves a specific purpose. Are you mostly emailing with friends and family? Then choose an email address that has some form of your name in it. You might not want to have your full name in it but you could use your first initial and your last name or even just your initials. Make it something that will be easy for your friends and family to remember.
Many people are doing business online and having a personalized email address will help people to find you easier. If you use your first and last name, it will be easier for past clients to find you when they need to work with you again. This will also make it easier for people to refer you to others if they can remember that you email has your first and last name in it.
Other options for a personalized email address that is easy to remember is to use your business name. Using your business name in your email address will still be easy to remember but it might make you feel a little bit safer because your name won't be all over the Internet. If you are a private person this might make you more comfortable.
Ask yourself how many email addresses you remember off the top of your head. Three? Four? Maybe five? It likely isn't many. If you email address isn't memorable it might not get used that often. So use a custom email address so that the people who are important to you can remember it easily and use it all the time.
Let's face it - we have enough things to remember as it is. We have phone numbers and pin numbers and passwords. We've got so many numbers and digits in our head that most of them are near impossible to remember without writing them down.
But if you have a custom email address for your friends and family, they will easily remember it and will include you on their important emails and will take the time to write to you when something exciting happens.