Not using a business email address that contains your domain name and then checking the email account is not a good practice. Also, don’t have your email forwarded to an ISP or other provider such as Yahoo, MSN or Yahoo. It doesn’t take anymore time to login into your web mail for your domain. Besides it looks unprofessional not to use an email address with your domain name in it.

If your domain or a client’s has been blacklisted by one of the big boys you’re not going to receive messages from some of your clients (existing or new). That is not good for business.

Another thing I’m starting to advise against is having an email link on websites, using standard info@, support@, webmaster@, sales@ as they are such spam magnets. Use a form that prevents spam bots and mail injection instead.

Quite often when a business owner is interviewed and the article published an email address will be in the news article but not the URL of the business.