GMail™ is a free and excellent web-based email service from Google.   If your web vendors will not send a copy of your leads to a secondary address (your LeadPhone™ email address), you can use a GMail™ account to do the job.  There are several steps to follow, but it is easy to do, and need only be done once.

• Sign up for your free GMail™ account
• Set GMail™ to forward all mail to your regular email address
• Set GMail™ to send a copy of all leads to your LeadPhone™ email address
• Advise your various web vendors to start sending your leads to your new GMail™ address

Step 1 > Sign Up for Your Free GMail™ Account

• Go to Google's GMail™ site and follow their instructions to set up your free GMail™ account.

Step 2 > Set GMail™ to Forward All Mail to Your Regular Email Address

This will cause every piece of mail received at your new GMail™ address to automatically and instantly be forwarded to your real email address -- the one you are using today.  This ensures that you continue to receive all of your emails exactly as you are receiving them now.

• Log into your GMail™ account and click the "Settings" link.  Then, click the tab that says "Forwarding and POP."

• Then click the button that says "Forward a copy of incoming mail to _________ ..." and enter your CURRENT regular email address (not your LeadPhone™ address) into the box.

• Click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the form.

Step 3 > Set GMail™ to send a Copy of All Leads to Your LeadPhone™ Email Address

This will allow you to decide which lead sources you want to forward to your LeadPhone™ address for instant cell phone notification.  You will create "filters" to select the appropriate leads, and instruct GMail to forward lead emails from those sources to your LeadPhone™ email address.

• Log into your GMail account and click the "Settings" link.  Then, click the tab that says "Filters."

• Click "Create a new filter" at the bottom of the box

• In the "Create a Filter" box, enter in sufficient information in one or more of the fields to properly identify an incoming email as being a lead you want to be called on by LeadPhone.  In the example below, if leads from your personal website arrive with a "From" address of "leads@JaneAgent.com" then you could put that address in the "From" field.  You can use any or all of the available filter fields (From, To, Subject, Has the words, Doesn't have the words) to fine tune the filter. 

• Click "Next Step" to continue

• GMail will then ask you to choose an action for all leads that match the filter you just created.

• Check the box which says "Forward it to: _____" and enter your LeadPhone™ email address (usually looks like First.Last@LeadPhone.com).  If you are not sure of your LeadPhone™ email address, you can find it by logging into LeadPhone™ and clicking the "Settings" page.

• Click "Create Filter" to finish the process

• Repeat this process for any other filters you wish to create.  GMail lets you have up to 20 filters.

Step 4 > Notify Your Web Vendors to Send All Leads to Your GMail™ Address

• Contact each of your lead sources (like REALTOR.com, company website, franchise site, etc.), and ask them to start sending all of your leads to your Gmail address, instead of your regular email address.  The leads will automatically be forwarded by GMail to your regular address, and to LeadPhone, if they match one of your filters.

• Whew!  All done!

GMail™ is a Google trademark, and is in no way affiliated with LeadPhone™ or Do Not Call Sentry LLC.
  This information is presented solely as a convenience to LeadPhone™ members, and members should understand that Google could make future modifications to the GMail™ service that may limit the functionality described above.

Tip!

GMail™ is a terrific web-based email service.  It makes a good backup service in case your normal email goes down, and it has very good SPAM filtering capabilities, too. 

And the price is right!