Make sure your email client is set up to display your name and email address correctly. Use a meaningful name for yourself, e.g. "Patrick O'Conner" or "ABC Windows". Do not use non-specific names or names which won't mean anything to some people, e.g. "Buddy" or "The Girls".
Most people tend to want to go for a .com, but getting the domain name you really want maybe more difficult as many .com's have already been registered. Going for a country specific domain registration will mean you have a better chance of getting what you want and it immediately tells others where you are based.
Firstly one major advantage to hosting your own email is that you get to choose exactly what you want for an email address, provided you have bought the domain you want. There is nothing worse that seeing a business email address like johnscapenters@hotmail.com. With your own domain you can have multiple email addresses such as Info@domain.com, Sales@domain.com and John@domain.com.
Firstly what is Office 365? Office 365 is secure, anywhere access to email, calendars, office web apps, instant messaging, conference and file sharing.
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Lots of hype in the press and in the market seems to indicate that companies should be saving significant amount of money by moving to the cloud. In reality this is not really the case, more often than not a cloud solution maybe even more expensive than the existing solution. However, when comparing apples with apples it maybe that a cloud computing solution offers far more functionality, scalability and availability.