Why GMAIL is not for business

This business has been around for a couple of years. They called us – we didn’t call them. So, why then do they think a gmail address would be suffice? After commenting on this, they then provided us with an info@ address. Once again, do you think someone is going to take you seriously in a business to business environment providing this email address. Of course, we declined to provide them with a proposal. But this is a great lesson for any business seeking to grow and to be taken as a serious business – do not give out a gmail account or a info@ account. People can tell that you are a backyard business when you do this.

Does anyone else feel the same?

Here are 3 reasons why you should drop handing out a GMAIL address when doing business:
1. GMAIL is for personal use, not business.
2. It shows people that you are a very small business. Always act like a big successful business, even if you haven’t quite made it yet.
3. It highlights that you don’t know your target audience well enough and their expectations.