Do you use email features included in the hosting plan?

Email feature enables to get email - id in your domain name. This will be very useful especially for business websites. Also, look for the unlimited email hosting features offered by many leading hosting providers.

Some of the hosting providers provides special email hosting too for business critical email where one can not afford disturbance

It is useful when you have your own business.

if you have a company, you should not have a free service like gmail. You are a company, you can pay altho is not much

It is a really good idea to at least have one email account attached to your website, although it is just an option. A good example is if your website is a business, you can put yourname@blank.com. That way, when you get your business cards printed out, you can put your business email on your card. Little details that can make you look a little more professional always help.
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If you have online business, it's important to have this feature. It's some kind of "profession"

In a typical business oriented orgnization there the many poeple are working, sot it's always beneficial to have their business related e-mail account with your own domain, which not only provide more security to internal communication but also represent a professional approach to email receiptents.

There are multiple benefits associated with using the email features offered with a hosting package. No matter if you run personal or business where you carry out email correspondence, it usually proves useful if you have your domain name included in the email address.Moreover, it allows users to create mail boxes on their own domains, forward emails, use auto-responder features and much more.

professional - myname@mycompany.com
unprofessional - myname.mybusiness@gmail.com

if you have a business and especially a website then why have a unprofessional looking gmail email address

Of course. As easyhostmedia said, it's a question of professionalism. Would you rather buy something from somename@aol.com or somename@companyname.com? Failing to utilize domain email -- something that most hosts include for free -- properly is a big mistake.

Most people like @companyname.com versus companyname@emailprovider.com
It gives a since of professionalism.

Think all depends on the needs of the web master.

regardless to look professional to buyers you need to email as @companyname.com rather than companyname@gmail.com.

to a buyer companyname@gmail.com would indicate what are they hiding why not use a domain email address are these just scammers so they scam and then just close down their FREE email account.

using companyname@gmail.com is just as bad as hiding your details in the whois listing.

It is better to use email service separately.