Today I am going to write a very interesting topic which would be very helpful for a small business people who uses their business email only in their office and has limitation. After reading this article they could change the way they manage their email and use it freely from anywhere with great features of Gmail, Google Talk, Hangouts, Contacts, Task, Lookup( Look all the addresses in your company), Google Docs and Google Drive.
I have a domain name registered as Simulato.com where for my business Email I used to Login from a designated computer which has the Microsoft outlook configured or if I Have to login from a different place I had to login to My Web hosting provider and from there I could Login to my Web Mail and that did not have all the great features available as Gmail provides. So I took this decision to Host my Email Services to Google and now I login to my Email ( info@simulato.com ) from Gmail as a Google account and save my documents in Google Drive with all the Gmail Features like Google Talk and Hangouts.And I am always connected because I have also configured my business Email on my Android Phone.
Now I am gonna show you how can host your Business Email account for you and Your employees on Google.
Steps to host your Email on Google.
2. Click Get started and on the next page you will see a Form to fill up as shown in the picture below, so Fill up the Form and Click Next.
4. In the next page you will be asked to create your Google Apps Account Which will be your Admin account that you will use to sign in to Google Apps to see your mail, calendar, and documents. You can add your colleagues later. So Fill in the form as shown in the Picture below and Click Accept and Sign Up.
6. Click on Verify domain and then select the domain Registrar where to got your domain registered in my case it was Namecheap.com so I selected Other in the first list and then click Begin Verification, Then it showed me another larger list of all available famous registrar so select Namecheap here.
7. Now in the next page as shown in the Pic-9(m) if you can find your Domain Registrar select that or just select Other again.Now If your Domain Registrar is available it will show you couple of options to verify your domain either by adding a meta tag to the head tag of the home page or just creating an MX records or by adding a TXT records or a CNAME records, but the option to edit records will only be available when you have hosted your site with your domain Registrar.If you have hosted your website to a different hosting service provider then you have to go to your hosting service provider and probably change the MX( mail exchange) records to host your mailing solution to somewhere else after you have verified your domain to Google.
8. You can also select the Alternate Method by clicking on the alternate method tab to verify the ownership of this domain wherein you have to either put a Meta tag or just upload a file to your website as shown below in the picture- 9(o) and access that file and your are done.
9. So I downloaded the file as shown in the picture-9(o) and then accessed the files in my browser by clicking on the link shown in the line 3. in pic-9(o). And once you have accessed the file click on Verify tab and you will see the message congratulations you have successfully verified the ownership of your Domain.
11. After you have logged in again you will see the option to set up Gmail for you organization at the top as shown in the picture-9(q) below.
12. Click on the button Set Up Gmail and then it will show you the message as shown in the picture-9(R) so make sure you have added all the user with their Email address and then click “Yes, Let’s do it!“.
15. Now select the Domain host from the Drop Down list if it is available in the list otherwise select Other and click next.
17. So I logged into the control panel of my hosting provider and then clicked on Modify MX Record as shown in the Pic-9(w).
18. Now in the next page, paste or type the Mail server of Google as shown in the picture-9(x).
19. Click on update and come back to Google Apps page and click on Next.And you are set.Now go to Gmail.com and login with your business Email Id and Password.The Administrator will give the password for all the other user to login to Gmail from their business email ID.
Alrighty!! So we are good to go now and enjoy the Feature and services of Google and move freely, Manage Nicely and stay connected to you friends on Google+ .
And other good thing is that after you have set up Gmail for your business you can go ahead and make changes in your Email clients like Microsoft Outlook or Mac Mail and use Incoming and Outgoing Mail server of Gmail which are POP.GMAIL.COM and SMTP.GMAIL.COM respectively.
Now before I wrap up here is a quick learning guide from Google that will help you understand Google App a little deeper.
Using Gmail with Google Apps
What’s different about Google Apps Gmail
- Business email address. Google Apps lets you have an email address at your own domain—with the format ‘name@your_domain.com’—rather than ‘name@gmail.com.’
- More than just email. Google Apps is more than just Gmail for your organization. It includes a suite of web-based productivity and collaboration tools that include online documents, calendars, video chat, and much more.
- Different editions. There are different versions of Google Apps, such as for businesses, schools, or government organizations, each of which might have different features and capabilities. Learn more
- Administrative controls. With Google Apps, you can have an administrator manage and control people’s email accounts across your domain, from a central Admin panel.
Using Gmail at work or school
- Gmail Send and receive mail. Watch video
- Google Calendar View and add calendar events. Learn more
- Google Talk Send instant messages.
- Google Docs View and edit docs! Watch video
- Contacts Manage and get in touch with your contacts.
- Tasks Add and check off tasks. Watch video
- Lookup Quickly look up contacts at your domain
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yes, they do have a billing option..but it,s free for the first month
is it free from google or they have a billing option
This will only work for 30 days because google apps for business are no longer free since 2012. And I think this is more expensive than to just upgrade to a premium email on 000webhost.
When you upgrade you get the smtp server which you can configure in a free gmail address to send emails as you@yourdomain.com