Evensteer sets up business email for freelancers, with a mailbox on your own domain and the records that help your quotes land in the inbox. “I look at ‘joesshopofhorrors@gmail.com’ like a fly-by-night operation. It screams ‘side hustle.’” A business owner wrote that on r/smallbusiness, and 101 comments agreed. Clients read your address before they read your proposal. An address on your own domain, with deliverability set up properly, so quotes land in inboxes, not junk.
A pitch from a free address starts the relationship a step behind. Quotes that land in spam share an inbox with newsletters and invoices, where leads sit unread for days. We fix that before you send a single pitch. Full research on the problems page.
AI drafts the repetitive parts. A specialist you’ll know by name reviews every piece. You approve. It ships under your name.
A mailbox on your own domain
Deliverability records set up (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
Signatures that match the brand
Old mail migrated over
No. You need a domain, not a website. The domain is the part after the @ sign, and it can carry your email long before you build a site. When the site comes later, it lives on the same domain. Pick a domain you’d be happy to keep for years, since changing it later means telling every client again.
Buy the domain, pick an email host, and add the records the host gives you to your domain’s settings. Choose a domain that’s short and easy to spell out loud, often your own name. Register it in an account you control, not a friend’s or a web designer’s. Then send test emails to a few different inboxes and check they arrive. Evensteer handles the setup, and the domain and mailbox stay yours.
They’re records on your domain that prove your email really comes from you, and yes, you need them. SPF lists the services allowed to send mail for your domain. DKIM signs each message so inboxes can tell it wasn’t changed. DMARC tells inboxes what to do with mail that fails those checks. Without them, a quote from a new domain is more likely to land in spam. Evensteer sets up these records before you send a single pitch.
Yes. Your old mail can be copied into the new mailbox, so past threads with clients stay searchable in one place. Keep the old address open for a while and forward it to the new one, so no client message gets lost in the switch. Update your signature, invoices and profiles on the same day, and tell your regular clients. Evensteer moves your old mail over as part of the setup.
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The price is a written scope with a fixed number, not a retainer. See our other services for freelancers, or the problems they fix.