A lot of times we have customers who already have a Gmail account and wish to forward it to a different e-mail address.
It’s super easy just click on the cog at the top right of the screen.
Then click on Forwarding & Pop E-mail
Then click the Add Forwarding Address
Enter in your e-mail address you’d like to forward to.
Login to your old e-mail e-mail address. You’ll see a confirmation e-mail from Google verifying that the forward is legitimate.
Then you’re good to go!
The contact information we have on file is different from the actual whois records of your domain names, just in case you’d like to have multiple domains with different owners.
To Update the domain WHOIS info, simply click My Domains > View Details > Update Contact Information.
Enter the beginning part of your e-mail address and the password provided by your system administrator. If the password doesn’t work then you will need to have someone with admin rights for your domain(yourname.com) to reset it for you.
Once they login, they should just click Settings in the top corner and then Accounts.
Then click
Google Account settings
Change your password and security options, and access other Google services.
This will take you to your Google password page.
I had a customer today lose 2 days worth of e-mail because of a RAID 5 system failing on a Exchange server the night before the office lost power(and phone because they utilize VOIP).
We in the industry like to call this “the perfect storm” where multiple services/systems meet in private and decided to all go down at once. It happens and no matter how many steps you take to make sure you are covered Murphy’s law will kick in and really give you a good dose of humbleness.
The main IT contractor for the organization said again “this is why we need to go to Google apps for our email” and now they are starting to look into it. They called me because i know a little about Google apps(cough) and asked is this really a good route and also approached it as “he is a Google apps reseller so he is jaded in wanting to sell us Google apps”.
I thought about it later and decided the best analogy for it. Doctors get approached to promote a certain drug for certain symptoms. E-mail is a symptom and Google Apps is the the drug. Just because the doctor has been given a pen, notepad, steak dinner from a chemotherapy drug rep does not mean chemotherapy does not work.
The other concern i hear sometimes is the fear of storing business critical data in a cloud type setting. I have heard pretty much every concern regarding Google Apps for a business and I’m going to try to address them here.
I don’t own my data anymore
You always own your data, this is specified in the terms of service in black in white. Just as you would have with a e-mail hosting company who has a server in his garage. Don’t believe us? I understand that. All Google Apps information is extremely easy to download to a local network/storage situation so that if Google couldn’t pay their bills next month and went out of business, your organization is okay. There is a little bit of snark in that but honestly, Google is going to be the last ISP/web host/email host/search engine/whatevertheydonext company and they are going to be around for a while.
The government can get my info/data easier since it’s with google
This is a two part answer. One, if the government wants your data they already have it and you don’t even know about it. After 9/11 the doors pretty much gone blown off on privacy and those doors are not going back anytime soon. You might think you are hiding from the government with your exchange server in a server room but trust me, if they were even remotely curious about what’s on your email/document/calendar storage system, you would hear the pitter patter of steel toed boots on your doorstep literally the second they were curious.
What if Google crashes/hacked/exploited?
This is what i call a dooms day type situation. If the internet giant gets taken down, if all of the safeguards on the datacenters globally fail then your e-mail or your web site will be one of the few things that is worrying you. This is the shotgun shells/canned goods stage of your business where people e-mailing you asking for statuses on action item lists is secondary to your family’s well being.
Is it worth the price?
If you are going to seriously think about switching from Mirosoft’s Exchange system to google apps you need to know the price Google Apps Premier is $50 a year per person. So for a organization of 100 users you are looking at $5k a year for your e-mail solution. I really hate the word solution but that’s what it is. The $5k a year for your 100 email users pales to the money and time you will spend supporting the numerous versions of Outlook that exist out there which always seem to fail at the exact time it’s inconvenient.
In conclusion
It’s a investment in the future of the business moving away from Microsoft Exchange. There is going to be a reoccurring cost but it’s worth it the short term to prevent future IT hassles that come from the Exchange/Outlook system. Don’t get me wrong, Exchange is what has been the standard for a long time for business e-mail, just as the horse and buggy was the standard way of getting to meetings before we had Porsche’s.
You can delegate access to your Gmail to another person so they can read, send, and delete messages on your behalf. For example, you can delegate e-mail rights to an admin in your organization, or you could delegate your personal email access to your spouse. The delegate can also access the other person’s contacts by clicking the Contacts link. Clicking the To, Cc, or Bcc links in the mail compose window will also bring up your contacts.
I”m really happy to announce we’re offering GoMobi to all current and new customers.
What is GoMobi?
oMobi™ makes it easy to:
It’s pretty awesome. I always find it really frustrating to try to view a web site on a phone that was obviously designed to be seen on a 20″ widescreen monitor.
My favorite part is that it will auto detect if you’re coming from a mobile device and automatically forward you to the mobile version.
It’s a hosted solution which means there is a $300 a year but we waive the setup and give you a month trial free of charge.
We give you a month to see how you like it, how much traffic you’re getting to see if it’s justified but i’m already sold on it for the point2point sites.
You can check it out http://mobile.point2pointcentral.com or just go to http://www.point2pointCentral.com on your mobile device.
Once you have selected the page or post you wish to add an image to, add an image by doing the following:
Figure 6: Add an Image Screen
Figure 7: Uploaded Image Screen
On this screen, you can change the title of the image and add a caption, if desired. You can also enter a description of the image and link it to a Web page.
Note: Larger images take longer to load.
To edit existing pages, adding or editing text, adding new images, simply do the following:
Figure 2: Edit/Add New Pages Area
The Edit Pages page will display. All pages contained within your site will be listed.
Figure 3: Page List
The selected page will display in edit mode.
Figure 11: New Password Area – Profile Page
