If you want to look like a professional podcaster you need your own email address. Here is how to create an email address for your podcast.

How to create an email address for your podcast?

Chances are, you don’t want to have [email protected] and you probably don’t even want to have [email protected]. What you’re going to want to have is [email protected]. So, for me, that’s [email protected]. So in this lesson, I’m going to show you exactly how to do that.

The cost to do this is absolutely nothing. You can do this absolutely free and I’m going to show you the free method in this video. You can also set it up with Google apps, which gives you the ability to access Gmail and you do all of your stuff through Gmail and that’s going to cost you $5 per month per email address. So, I’m going to go through the free one in this video but you can also look into Google apps if you want to get your email hosted with Google.

In this lesson, I’m looking specifically about how you can set up this email address; make it active and how you can access it online. However, I know that a lot of you are going to want to get this on your mobile phone. Have your email come in to some sort of app on your mobile phone. So, if you go to podcastfast.com/email, I have a free tutorial for you on how you can setup email on your phone. So you can actually watch my phone screen as I go through and set it up and I’m going to show you exactly how to do it. So if you want the email on your phone, go to podcastfast.com/email to get that free tutorial.

Okay, we’re about to get started and what we need to do first is login to our hosting account. Now, you may have watched lesson number 5, about how to setup your website. But I always recommend that people go through Arvixe as a web host and you can check them out at podcastfast.com/hosting. I just want to let you know that I’m going to be using Arvixe in this tutorial and I’m going to be going through and explaining to you exactly how you can setup your email using Arvixe. So, if you have a different host, things may be a little bit different.

Okay, so we’re going to setup our email inside Arvixe. So go back to this email that you got from Arvixe with your login details and everything like that. Scroll down to the Control Panel Information, find this Alternate Address and then open that. You can open this address but your website will need to be live in order for it to open. So, I just always find it easier to go through the alternate address ’cause if there’s ever any problems, this one always works. You then log in and we can see up the top that there’s a section called “Mail”. We can see this icon, Email Accounts, we can see Webmail. What we want to do is go to Email Accounts.

This is where we’re going to add our email. We can see up the top that we can just simply add an email. So we just put ryan and then make sure you choose your domain name if you have more than one. You probably just have one so you don’t need to worry about it. But for me, I need to choose podcastfast.com. We then go ahead and set a password. I then always like to choose an Unlimited Quota, which means I don’t have to go through and delete emails because I’ve ran out of space. And then simply click Create Account.

Our email is now created. It is literally that easy. Now, to log in to your email account, once your website’s live, you’ll go to yourdomain.com. So for me, it’s podcastfast.com and then forward slash webmail. That will take you to another login page and you simply enter your full email address. So for me, that’s [email protected]. And then you enter your password and then click Login.

So there are 2 different ways you can read your email.