question How do you make sure your email's don't end up in spam filters?

Don't spam people.

DomainComplex said:

Don't spam people.

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This is not about spamming, it's about sending a few emails to a selected few companies.

You don't know that is why I contact them by other means as well.

I use gmail only but always make sure the name@ sounds professional and related to your product.

Also when sending emails I always put the name of the person in the subject line "Joe" never the domain.

I have had lots of people over the years send offers to my email but the person put .com in the subject and it got send to my spam/bulk folder so always check.

Don't use third party providers, be your own.
It's not hard, what you need is

• a domain
• hosting

If you control the domain and the hosting, then you have full control over the antispam settings. You can also set up a website to present a more professional image.

I don't understand why domainers don't all use their own domains for sending and receiving E-mail. They are supposed to know this domain stuff.
Often, they send E-mail from disposable addresses à la gmail and you wonder why end users don't take them seriously ?

I mean, you want people to buy your domains, but if you use free services, you don't practice what you preach.

Is it the end users who don't get it or ?

I get you if that is what you want to do. nothing wrong with that.

I still use the free Godaddy instapages before they removed that, which is awesome and free and still use a few as landing pages, very smooth and clean, I just use the masking when forwarding,

People interested in the domain do not care what the email is, it is not a deal breaker. Never has never will.

Unless it is fancyfeet201@, domainsforsale@ way better...or even the domain it self you are trying to sell.

I have never set up a email for the domain and sent anyone messages with that email, too time consuming.

I never try to sell the domain, only let them know it is available.

I never give stats ever

I never explain how it will help their business.

The domain has to be a "no brainer" to have any value.

I agree with @sdsinc.

Setting up an email from the domain you are selling, comes across as being authentic and professional.

It certainly does eliminate the thought of you being a bogus seller to the potential buyer.

Also, remember not to have any active links in the body of the email. Before contacting buyers, test the email you want to send off by sending it to another email account you own.

What ? I've never used any other email but my own email ... Why ? Because I want people to be able to verify who I am ... Just a Whois ... And ok... The guy who's sending me this email is really the guy who's owning this domain ... I've never had any trouble with that...

But it's not because you're sending an email that you're gonna have an answer... People may not interested at all ! They are not all connected and aware of the necessity of having cool, branded, short domains.. Most of them don't care... If the website is working, if people can join us, then it's ok ! And that's it... Period ! It's matter a patience but you must also have good and valuable domains, which is daily task...

Honeslty, the biggest sales I got, happened when the buyer directly contacted me ... I even had a guy directly calling on my phone... 10 minutes later, the domain was transfered... and the transaction finalized ($X,XXX deal).

In my concern, I'm also using Facebook ... and it's works really well ! It gives me the chance to have a live conversation with someone from the company i'm trying to reach out ...

there are few words that can mark your emails as a spam (google for spam words)
Avoid using those words in subject and email
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if possible use your own email ([email protected])

- set up email on the domain name
- i use the domain name in the title without the ext
- no links in email body
- short and professional, more making them aware its available rather than the usual sales pitch
- good end user targeting

Get a domain with Google Apps Standard (free) edition and setup your domain, most of the mails go to inbox.