Email Addresses

Nick Cernis at Modern Nerd has just written a post about the email addresses [^] that hit his inbox:

“…whenever someone new emails me, I take a few seconds to examine their email address, consider their thought process, and judge them as a human being.”

Hopefully I don’t fall into the “cuddlebunny@pass-me-a-bucket.com” category. But I do the same thing, I don’t think that I’m quite as bad as Nick though!

There is one thing that does get to me; that’s when you see a business card or professionally sign-written van with their own website followed by email@isp.com.au. That just screams out we have done half the job really well and completely forgotten the small detail.

If you are using anything other than you name or your business name in your email address you are missing the opportunity to make a good first impression.