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Nowadays, being well communicated is a non-negotiable need and at a business level, it is even more essential to have a communication tool that allows you and your company to create a reliable, serious and responsible working relationship, being the corporate email address the service that will provide a better institutional link between your potential customers and your employees, For this reason, Google has made available two exceptional email services for companies, Workspace and Gmail, and in this opportunity we bring you in detail the relevant information of each one, so you can learn about their benefits and determine which one best suits your needs according to your business.
What is Gmail for Business?
It is the version of Google’s free corporate email address, which also offers some applications within the same platform, designed for companies that are starting in the business world and do not have the resources to hire a paid service and also have a short number of employees.
Advantages of Gmail for Business
- Its interface has a pleasant design that is very easy to manipulate.
- It can be customized and adjusted according to the user’s requirements.
- It is totally free.
- It has storage up to 15 GB.
- It is compatible with Google applications such as Drive, Meets, Calendar and much more.
What is Workspace for Business?
Formerly known as G-Suit, Workspace is a Google feature that has been specifically designed to revolutionize and improve the way in which your company relates to other companies, creating a platform for collaboration between small and medium-sized businesses, in which in addition to interacting and having Gmail business email, your users will also have access to other applications with very useful exclusive features such as Calendar, Drive, Docs and Meet, each one designed with a different function to access all kinds of information from the same place.
Workspace advantages
To learn a little more about the benefits you will obtain through the Gmail Workspace e-mail account, we will now review its main and most outstanding advantages.
- One of its most appreciated attributes is the presence of the domain in the e-mail address, that is to say that each user will have the name of his company, in addition the accounts are excluded from advertisements.
- Access to various messaging applications, groups, agenda and calendar, forms, spreadsheets, currents, Sites, Drive, Meet, among others.
- At the moment of migrating massive data information, the user has different visualization tools, which will directly favor the resolution and analysis of the results and consequently the decision making, also in case of any doubt, the Google
- Workspace service has technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
It is secure, private and with a high level of credibility. - By having a corporate email, it allows you to strengthen the image of the company with respect to its customers, partners and competitors.
- It is compatible with your previous free Gmail corporate email account, migrating easily to the corporate account without losing your data and the cost of the basic version is 6 USD per month.
Google Workspce or corporate Gmail
When opting for one alternative or another, there are a number of aspects to consider, so we bring you a list of the most important ones.
- By contracting the Gmail Workspace service, your company obtains total control as administrator of all the e-mail addresses subscribed to the company’s domain and change of passwords, which notably favors the privacy and confidentiality of the company’s information and, at the same time, the employee will not be able to take that e-mail account with him/her when he/she no longer needs its services. On the other hand, when operating a Gmail account, the employer will have no control or access to it, much less to the information that the user handles.
- Storage is a determining factor when choosing one of the two options, on the one hand, Gmail offers 15 GB of cloud storage for free, while with Google Workspace its users can have up to 30 GB of storage for the basic version and for the more advanced ones such as Business, less than 5 users 1 TB and in Enterprise it is unlimited.
- The management and administration of the company’s classified information is a fundamental element to take into account, in the case of the free version of Gmail this provides Drive, an application that gives the user the power to save, delete or do whatever he wants with such information, however with Google Workspace, the files are only the property of the company and administrator, therefore, an assigned user will not have that possibility regardless of the authorship of such files, especially if they are Docs, Sheets and Slides.
- In summary, everything will be based on what best suits the needs of your company, taking into account the number of employees and the type of service your company provides, without forgetting that having a professional domain will give you more credibility among your potential customers, and another factor that Google Workspace offers is the 24/7 technical support service, either by email, chat or telephone, a service that users of free Gmail for businesses do not have.
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