A person's business mail is like part of his major properties, a crucial one when it comes to his business safety and health. Business that has to do with online transactions to the exact!
Let's say I've got a gmail, and am starting up an E-trade, where I will be marketing my commodities online. So I put up an advertisement, let out my gmail into public eyes, in other for everyone to be able to reach me and get my services.
So am like building a means of communication alright and on that basics there's a connection between two individuals, a buyer and a seller!
Now, Someone comes up to me to tell me I shouldn't be giving out my email to random people, that am putting my assets at risk! What?
I know my mail is pretty dear to me, but how will I reach my customers if not through mailing them?
You can tell me to create a sperate mail for that purpose but honestly I see that action to be flawed!
How will your patronizers see you?
People will definitely not trust your actions!
You have a different when dealing with transactions and a different one for service rendering, it's not even like it's a customer care! Having multiple emails would label you suspicious and not trusted by many!
Insecurity is a major killer in this world!
Fear of any such should be eradicated from a business mind.
Building a proper relationship with your audience is very crucial and important for the welfare of a business.
If there's one database I know that isn't easily hacked, that would be a gmail!
The supposing hacker has to go through series of security checks before being able to bridge the system!
If am to state some risks there are for an email being hacked I would just state one!
Which is?
Private informations!
Both in your daily life and of your business life!
I never store any form of Private informations in my gmail, neither do I keep things that has to do with my finance stored in them!
Having such informations in your gmail is risky to your safety and your finance or business health! Every sort of information should never be in your mail!
Let's talk about things like bank details!
After registerations, some banks if not all will forward your details and some crucial informations to your mail. What do you do when this happens?
To me it's best you backup your information in a different source away from your phone entirely! Every information and sensitive mails should be deleted after being read! It's the best decision one can take towards keeping his details totally safe!
And in the aspect of not giving your email to random people, I'd say the only risk in it is having to deal with several mails coming in from different people, including spam and probably missing an important one is what makes it risky!
So if you're a person that have your email rapidly spreaded to numerous number of people then you'd always have to be extra observant to every mail coming in, in other not to miss out on important ones!
Apart from all this risks mentioned above, I don't think there's any other risk in giving out your email to people so that they can reach you.
Never let too much of insecurity rule you!
You should be able to lock up your crucial informations where it's safe, rather than get scared over having people have hands on your email address!
Your email is the best form of communicate with your customers...
Hope that makes sense!