Is it possible to change display name of sender for email I receive (in Gmail) - so I can quickly identify who the sender is?

I have a tremendous amount of experience sending emails from new domains - perhaps 2,000,000 emails per year - and the long and short of it is this: email deliverability is tremendously complex. Why? For one thing, because of the constant battle between spammers, ISPs, ESPs and other players, among other things. Also, because email still uses some very old and outdated protocols that make this all more difficult. If your business is going to rely heavily on email, I would encourage to educate yourself now so that you won't be stymied as you grow. Many of the things I learned were through trial and error - which can be excruciatingly frustrating. Just a few of the things you should immediately begin working on: proper SPF, SenderID, DKIM compliance along with solid DNS set up. Additionally, if you will use email heavily, I would start now putting the pieces in place for later white labeling aa nd possible dedicated IP sending. In terms of the actual email content itself, that is another subject you will want to investigate. I'm not saying these things to discourage you - but rather to help you avoid the mistakes we made in the past. If you need a hand getting a little grip on this I probably can steer you in the right direction pretty quickly. Wish you the best in your endeavor! Adam

I use an awesome young internet marketer. I would be happy to connect you with him. He has had access to all of my personal info for over 4 years and I trust him completely. Any reputable person on Odesk, or in the real world should be able to provide multiple strong references.

You could ask Vincent http://clarity.fm/vincentroy if you have anything further to discuss.. but here's the short version. We built custom code for all our trigger emails & notifications, and use www.sendgrid.com for SMTP API. We looked at others, but I'm friends with the founder at SendGrid and like them personally. For free, you can use Google Mail api (if you send less then 500 messages per day I believe). It's simple / and gets great deliverability. Hope that helps. P.S. The emails I write, hence the personal feelings .. it actually comes from me.

My first question is, how did you get these email addresses? If they physically entered them, simply store them in an encrypted spreadsheet or database for importing into a platform. Of course, the best method is utilizing an email service to initially collect those addresses.

I don't think you need to use a Virtual private server at this time unless you are getting so much traffic that GoDaddy is limiting you. Here is info from Wordpress about email forwarding: https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/ Seeing as you probably bought your domain, I really suggest a Google Apps for Business account, because even though it is Gmail, your emails will come to whomever you send to as from your domain. There are a lot of other features with it as well, you can look at it from here: https://apps.google.com/intx/en_us/products/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=na-us-en-apps-bkws-gafw-trial-e&utm_term=google%20apps%20for%20work&KWID=43700007880944900 If you need any help, I can for sure help you with your email, as well as work out how to get Wordpress to do what you want. Even if you don't go with Google Apps, there are lots of other ways to get done what you need. For sure though, if the current emails are being marked as spam for your users, or not even getting delivered that is not good for your reputation.