How To Register For A Gmail Account

Ane of the things that never ceases to astonish me is that businesses both large and small frequently have a registered Gmail address that owns all of their Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Data Studio, or Optimize accounts. It's often the {companyname}@gmail.com.

Years later, the employee, agency, or contractor that set upwards the account is gone and no 1 has the password. Now no one can access the account. Unfortunately, the analytics business relationship is replaced with a new one, and all the history is lost.

That doesn't demand to happen.

Yous don't take to use a Gmail address to accept a Google Business relationship registered (and you shouldn't!). On the registration page for a Google Account, it's not overly obvious just they do offer you to register a different e-mail address to control your account:

How to Register a Corporate E-mail Address For a Google Account

Here's a short video that walks y'all through it.

My communication to most companies is to set up an email distribution listing for their marketing team and then annals that email address equally a Google Account. That way, every bit employees come and become you lot can simply update your e-mail distribution list. If a countersign is changed, you'll exist notified and and then you lot tin can change the password dorsum.

We even take a phone number for our business that distributes incoming SMS (text letters) and then we tin enable two-gene authentication on the business relationship as well.

If you currently have all of your Google apps registered with a Gmail address, that'south no problem. Register your new Google Account e-mail address so add that email on each of your apps equally someone that can update user admission. Then yous never take to remember that dumb Gmail login e'er again!