Did you know you can use your one Gmail account
to create multiple email addresses? Here’s how. <branded logo intro> Hey friends! I’m Tasia and welcome back to my YouTube
Channel where I share tech tips, app reviews, and a somewhat disturbing amount of Gmail
content. Today, I’m showing you how to create multiple
email addresses in one Gmail account. This is important! This is different than mail merge and Gmail
forwarding where you combine email accounts. We’re learning how to create multiple email
addresses from one Gmail account. Let’s go! You can create an unlimited number of email
addresses using your existing Gmail address. There are actually a couple of ways to create
multiple Gmail addresses. The first way is called ‘plus addressing’. I’ve briefly mentioned this tip before in
other videos, but let’s go over it in detail. I’m going to use my tasiacustodetest@gmail.com
as our example for today. In order to understand plus addressing, we
first need to understand the different parts of an email address. Don’t worry, it’s easy and you won’t
be quizzed after. My favorite type of learning. Everything before the @ symbol in your email
address is known as the local part. Everything after the @ symbol is the domain
name. So your local-part is the unique name for
your mailbox. Hence you have one Gmail account, like this
tasiacustodetest account. But we can easily make multiple addresses
out of this one unique Gmail address. Using the Plus addressing technique, all we
have to do is add a plus symbol after the local-part of the email address, then type
in anything we want. So, let’s say you are signing up for email
newsletters from your favorite hockey team, go habs go, but you don’t want to put in
your actual Gmail address. We could type in tasiacustodetest+habs@gmail.com. It’s really that easy. So here’s another example of plus addressing. Say you want to sign up for another free trial
of a service. Instead of creating a whole new Gmail account,
you could just type in your local-part then plus then something like streamingnetflix1
@ gmail dot com. So, do you kind of get the idea here? You can really do this an infinite amount
of times. And by the way this works for any Gmail address,
not just one where the domain is gmail.com. So, as an example, if you created a business
email address using Gmail but your domain is unique - like I’ve got info@tasiacustode.com. That’s a Gmail address but with my own domain. I can use this same plus addressing technique
here. So I could make up info+cookingtutorials@tasiacustode.com. Emails sent to any of these additional email
addresses that you’re creating will show up in your Gmail inbox. Because remember, you’re not creating a
new Gmail account. You’re using your existing Gmail, but creating
multiple email addresses from there. But, and you might know where this is going,
this technique also works with a period instead of a plus symbol in the local-part of the
email address. So have you ever wondered why sometimes people's
emails are like first name period last name at gmail dot com? And other are just first name last name at
gmail dot com, with no period? Well, you want to know the difference? Nothing. That email, whether with a period or not is
going to that same one inbox. Here’s what this looks like. You can add a period anywhere in the local-part
of the email address. So you could have first name dot last name
or you could split up your first name with a period if you wanted to or something. So let’s see this with my actual test email
account for another example. Instead of adding a plus symbol, I could say
tasia dot custode test at gmail.com. Or tasia custode dot test at gmail.com. You get the idea. But there is yet another way to create another
email address from one Gmail account. This is really handy if services are onto
your little plus addressing technique. You can actually change the domain of your
email from gmail.com to googlemail.com. Yes, really. So tasiacustodetest at gmail.com becomes a
new address that reads tasiacustodetest at googlemail.com. And just like plus addressing, all emails
sent to the googlemail email address will land in your normal, original email inbox. Now obviously, when you create multiple email
addresses people will still be able to see what your local-part of your email is. So whether I’m changing the domain or using
plus addressing, people would still know tasiacustodetest is the original local-part. Make sense? Because it’s really that easy. So, here’s the deal. I have links to a metric ton of other Gmail
content in the description below. So if you were more interested in a mail merge
technique, check that description box. So that’s how to create multiple email addresses
in one Gmail account. Now I want to hear from you. Have you created multiple email addresses
in Gmail? If so, what did you use them for and how did
you organize them? Let everyone know in the comments below. If you liked this video, I want to know so
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