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Having an online business will really help you if you have an email address as a means of communication. Apart from email there are many ways that you can communicate but the best means of communication are by email as this will help you keep records of all correspondences that you have had with your partners.  Email can be acquired on paid or free basis depending on your financial stability. Even for some of us that are not able to get the paid email address you can still get the free ones. There are many companies that offer free email accounts. One among these many is hotmail and it has been in existence for a long time now.

Hotmail free email accounts are free for all and can be acquired from anywhere without any special document that you will have to submit. But the question is are they really good for business? I know there are many that will say yes and some will still say no. This is all depending in the experience that you have had with these free email accounts. For someone to be able to tell if the account is good or bad you will have to look at the features that are coming with the package. With hotmail free email account you will have all the below which are the major ones and required for your business.

Storage Space: 5GB this will do the business email if there be any increase in emails that you receive you can always upgrade.

Forwarding: Email forwarding can only be fulfilled to other hotmail email address. For all non hotmail email that will not work.

Account expiration: your account will only expire and be closed after 120days of inactivity. This will not happen as you will be checking you email on daily basis.

Folders: You can have all your email arranged in folders for managing them easily.

Above are some of the major points that will let us accept Hotmail as the better for business.