Do you want to create a professional branded business email with G Suite?

Setting up a professional business email address is one of the first things you need to do after building a website. A professional email address gives your business a sense of credibility and makes your customers feel that you’re here to stay and serious about your business.

G Suite, also known as Gmail for business, is a product by Google for creating professional business emails. Formerly known as ‘Google Apps for Work’, G Suite provides a host of features and options to brand your website by setting up business emails.

In this article, we will show you how to create professional branded business emails with G Suite in easy steps.

What is a Professional Business Email?

A professional business email displays the domain name of your company after ‘@’ instead of gmail.com, yahoo.com or the domain name of any other email service providers. For example, [email protected] is a professional email while [email protected] is a generic, unprofessional one.

Below are a few reasons why you need to set up a professional business email:

1. Represents Your Brand:

A professional email represents your brand by displaying your domain name in the email address.

2. Building Trust Among Your Customers:

People tend to trust professional email addresses when it comes to business emails. Actually, professional emails are able to offer professional vibe while personal emails are not.

It gives a sense of credibility and trust to your business.

3. Ease of Email Management:

Another benefit is that you can easily set up and manage the email addresses of your team members. When a team member resigns, then you can retire their email address and forward it to another email address.

Why Use G Suite for Professional Branded Emails?

If you have already set up a website, your hosting company may have offered you unlimited professional emails. Yes, most of the hosting companies include business email accounts but they are not reliable.

Web hosting email servers lack the features required in a dedicated email service provider like secure and instant message delivery, storage, anytime tech support, spam filters, ad-free emails, etc. That’s why you need to use G Suite for professional business emails.

G Suite, in other words, is a paid email service from Google or premium Gmail, thus there is absolutely no doubt about its reliability. It includes all the basic Gmail features and more additional Google apps created for business purposes.

Benefits Of Using G Suite For Business Emails

Using G Suite has a host of advantages which are stated below in points:

• Build professional branded business emails with your company/ domain name
• Access your email anytime, anywhere, and on any device without internet connection. Read and draft messages without internet.
• Sign in once and use all the Google apps in a device.
• Use a host of free and premium business apps including Drive, Shared Calendar, Hangouts Chat and Meet, Docs etc. – connect, create and share files and information easily within the team
• Manage all the email accounts used by everyone in the company – secure your company resources and private information even after a team member leaves the company.
• Work with peace of mind because Google manages the security – 99.9% guaranteed uptime, automatic backups, spam filters etc.
• Adequate storage capacity – 30GB storage with the minimal ‘Basic’ plan
• Advertisement-free email service
• Works well with Outlook and other email services – G Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook, and migration tools for importing emails
• Enjoy 24/7 technical support by phone, email, or online

With all these benefits assured, G Suite is a great platform to create professional business emails. Now, let’s see how to set up a professional email address for your business.

Setting Up a Professional Business Email With G Suite in 3 Steps

First, visit G Suite website to start the setup process.

Next, you can simply click on the ‘Get Started’ button to start the process but let’s discuss a little about pricing first.

You can click on the ‘Pricing’ menu to learn about the G Suite Pricing plans. It has three editions named ‘Basic’, ‘Business’, and ‘Enterprise’ with different level of features aimed at different types of users.

The cheapest and most basic plan ‘Basic’ costs $5 per user per month. It provides 30GB storage per user which is double of a free Gmail account. Moreover, it allows video and voice conferencing, secure team messaging, shared calendars, and options to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Most noteworthy, you get 24/7 tech support and security and administrative controls at your hand.

For more details about pricing plans, please visit G Suite Pricing page .

Now, after you have reviewed the pricing options, you can click on ‘Get Started’ button and the step 1 starts.

G Suite setup process has mainly three steps which are described one by one below.

Step 1: Set Up a Business Account

As the business owner, first, you have to set up a business account. With this account, you can create and manage other professional email accounts for your entire team.

G Suite offers 14-day free trial to start with G Suite. This lets you become familiar with the platform and test its features so that you can make purchasing decision well.

Get Started

After you click on ‘Get Started’ button, this is the first page that appears.

Fill in your business name, choose the number of employees and country you are located in. Then, click ‘Next’.

Now you will be asked to fill up your contact info in this step. Fill up your first name, last name and current email, and click ‘Next’.

Now, it will show a page like below.

Here, you have to choose ‘Yes, I have one I can use’ if you already a domain name. If you don’t have one, you can select ‘No, I need one’ and this takes you to domain purchasing interface. We have chosen the first option for this tutorial.

Enter Your Business Domain Name

Now, you will see a page as below where you are required to enter your business’s domain name.

Please fill up this form carefully with your domain name because this will be used in your business email. For example, we filled ‘yoursitename.com’ here. Now, the emails will be like ‘[email protected]’. After you fill up, click next.

Then, you will be asked to confirm your domain name. Check it and click ‘Next’.

Now, you can Google asking if you want occasional emails with tips, offers etc. from Google. You can choose either ‘Ok’ or ‘No, thanks’.

Set Up G Suite Sign In Details

Now, you can see the final sign in page on the window as shown below.

You can see how you will sign in. Your custom domain name is now prepared for email domain. Enter your username, create a password, check reCAPTCHA and click on ‘Agree and Create Account’.

Now, you will see a message ‘Your G Suite account has been created’ on the screen. Click on ‘Go to Setup’ for the next step.

Step 2: Adding Email Accounts for Your Team Members

In this step, you will add email accounts for your team members. Click on ‘Start’.

Then, you can see a page like below where you can create email accounts for your team.

Enter first name, last name, and username for each of your team members and add them. After you add emails for everyone in the team, check the box for confirmation and click on ‘Next’.

And, you are done with the second step.

Step 3: Verify Your Domain

Now, you need to verify your domain as you possess it. This is important because this ensures that only the actual domain owner can create a professional business email with that domain name.
Domain verification further takes 5 steps as explained below.

1. Add Meta Tag

The first step of domain verification is adding a meta tag to your domain. You need to add Google verification meta tag in the header section of your homepage.

In order to add this easily, you can use Insert Headers and Footers plugin.

Log in to your WordPress dashboard and install the plugin. After activating the plugin, go to ‘Settings’ and find ‘Insert Headers and Footers’ option.

Now, you can copy the meta tag and paste it into the header section and save it.

Return to the G Suite setup page and check the box ‘I added the meta tag to my homepage’.

2. Open Control Panel for Your Domain

Then, you are asked to open the control panel for your domain.

So, log in to your hosting account (cPanel dashboard) and check the box ‘I have opened the control panel for my domain.’

3. Delete Existing MX records

Next, you will see a box like below.

So, go to the emails section in your cPanel and select MX entry icon. Next, choose your domain name. Then, you can see a list of options including 5 MX records. Delete those MX records one by one.

After you delete them, return back to G Suite setup page and check the box ‘I have deleted existing MX records.’

4. Create New MX Records

Now, you will see a new box as in the image below.

In order to create new MX records, go to the ‘MX Entry’ icon in email section in your cPanel dashboard. Now, add the new MX records given by Google one by one.

After you have added them all, return back to G Suite page and check the box ‘I created the new MX records’.

5. Save the MX Records

After adding your MX records, make sure that you save them. Then, check ‘I saved the MX records’.

And, this is the final step of verification. After you have all 5 steps checked, you can click on “Verify Domain and Set Up Email’.

Now, G Suite setup wizard starts verifying your domain and setting up email. It may take some minutes.

After the verification is complete, you can see a message stating that domain verification and email setup is complete.

Click the ‘Next’ button to open your new business email created with G Suite. You may need to re-confirm your current email address to open this new business email, so do that.

Then G Suite admin console sign-in page appears.

Admin console is where will manage the G Suite account, email addresses, G Suite apps and more.

Using Your Professional G Suite Email

You can use your G Suite professional email simply just as you use a free personal Gmail account. You go to Gmail, sign in and start using it.

Well, you need a website first before creating a professional business email. If you have not yet built a website for your business, here is how to make a website (step-by-step).

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