If you are thinking of starting up a new law firm in South Africa, you better get the best email addresses that don’t only look professional, but sound professional as well. These are one of those finer things that will either make your law firm to stand out from the crowd, or constantly raise eyebrows.
Based on the world’s standards, what would make a South African law firm’s email to look and sound professional, are the following:
Many South African companies we have dealt with, tend to choose domain names that sound exactly like their company names. I mean word-to-word type of thing. For example, if your law firm name is Ramaphosa and Azwindini Inc, you don’t need to follow that exact name to register a domain. Why? Because it will look horrible, like this: www.ramaphosaandazwindiniinc.co.za. You know what this means to your email structure? It means your emails will look like this:
info@ramaphosaandazwindiniinc.co.za or steven@ramaphosaandazwindiniinc.co.za.
These are examples of unprofessional, bad image, and “hard” to read email addresses for any law firm in South Africa.
Now, can you turn things around and make it look professional?
The first thing would be to shorten your company name and use it as a domain for your law firm. Remember, emails follow the domain structure.
So, a shortened version would be rainc.co.za or ralawfirm.co.za or ralaw.co.za. Don’t they just sound great and easy to remember for any prospective client of your law firm? I guess they do.
The nice part about running a law firm is the variety of services to specialise on. You could make your emails to look more professional by creating service-related email addresses. These are useful when dealing with clients because they are easy to memorise. On the other hand, it would be easy to assign your staff division a particular email address that is shared amongst all members of the same division. Here are the examples:
Also, you may include emails such as hello@, info@, finance@…
Feel free to speak to us regarding your law firm email addresses.