VA Directory

VA Directory - Connecting clients with Virtual Assistants

Email: [email protected]

  • Home
  • About
    • Articles
    • Testimonials
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
  • For Clients – Post a Job
  • For VAs – Join Our Network
    • Choose Your Membership Level
    • Member Benefits
    • Membership
    • Become a VA
      • Creating websites for new VAs
      • Great VA Resources
      • VAs – Contractor or Employee?
      • What type of VA are you?
    • Member Renewal
  • Directory
  • VA Trainer – Start Your Own VA Business Today
  • VAD Blog
  • Contact Us
  • Login

Whose service are you using for email?

Have you been missing receiving important email and are using a MS based email service?

Here’s a good argument for having your own domain for sending and receiving email. I shared this with my VA group on Facebook this week.

Are you using a Microsoft owned email address? That is hotmail, live.com or outlook.com? Think very carefully about using these email services. They’ve blocked my domain vadirectory.net and I’ve now heard they’ve done it to others too. It is believed that MS could be using new testing protocols that are blocking real domains from being able to reach you via email. Consequently it means you can’t receive MY emails, or that of Anita’s and if you’re a registered member of our network you stand to miss out on client requests and other emails we may send direct to you. And what if a potential client is trying to reach you and can’t because their email to you bounces, as mine do. They probably won’t pick up a phone but move onto the next VA they can find.

If you haven’t already, please email me direct (I can receive – just can’t send to you) with a different email address so I can update you on our system. But ultimately the best thing is for you to own your own domain – they don’t cost a lot and you can then have an email address of your own. It doesn’t have to be a business name email address, it could be your own name, i.e. janedoe.com or similar. You can also purchase email services for your domain at low cost, or simply channel them through gmail or other services – just not Microsoft owned services.

Failing that use your ISP or gmail created email addresses. But stay away from Microsoft owned emails as clearly they feel they can control what email you should (in their eyes) receive and what you don’t – without your input.
Kathie Thomas

Kathie is the former owner of VA Directory and is former past President of the Australian VA Association. She founded the Virtual Assistant industry in Australia in the mid 90s, having already been operating a home-based secretarial service. Today the VA industry covers a multitude of office-based services for clients worldwide.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Our most recent posts

  • VA Trainer Limited Time Offer
  • Tax Time … Some Useful Tips
  • Finding Clients

Read our other posts

Newsletter

Signup for our news and business information.

Thank you!

You have successfully joined our subscriber list.

.

About

Proudly run and owned by Anita Kilkenny

 

VA Directory was established in March 1994 by Kathie M. Thomas.

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Sign up to our Newsletter

Newsletter

Signup for our news and business information.






Thank you!

You have successfully joined our Newsletter list.


Connect With Us

VA Directory
PO Box 5305
Mordialloc, Vic, 3195, Australia

E: [email protected]

Terms & Conditions

Please note: Anyone scraping contact details from our site for the purposes of spamming, adding to lists, etc, will be reported.

Copyright © 2025 · Enterprise Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in