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3 Tips For Starting A Successful Email Hosting Service (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own email hosting service? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting an email hosting service:

Where to start?

-> Email hosting service plan
-> How to finance an email hosting service?
-> How much does it cost to start an email hosting service?
-> Pros and cons of an email hosting service

Need inspiration?

-> Other email hosting service success stories
-> Marketing ideas for an email hosting service

Other resources

-> Profitability of an email hosting service

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting an email hosting service:

#1: Perry Toone, founder of Thexyz:

We chatted with with Perry, founder of Thexyz ($150K/month). In our interview, Perry says:

I think you have to really be focused on keeping things simple. There are many services out there today offering integrations and apps to make things easier. In my experience, many of these services often create more work than is really required.

Read the full interview ➜

#2: Bron Gondwana, founder of Fastmail:

We chatted with with Bron, founder of Fastmail ($500K/month). In our interview, Bron says:

Over half the users who were paying for Fastmail when I started in 2004 are still with us today.

Additionally:

Identify a need that people have and offer something which provides value to your customers and fills that need. Ideally, a need that you have yourself, and in an area where you have some expertise!