What makes an email address look professional?
A professional email address is short, easy to read aloud, and sits on a domain you own. The part before the @ matters less than people think: hello@, hi@ and your first name all read as professional, while nicknames, birth years and strings of numbers read as a personal account. The domain is what carries the credibility. An address like [email protected] tells a client you run a real business; the same name at a free webmail provider tells them you might not answer next year. The simplest route is to pick a name, check the matching .com here, and set up email on it the same day, so your address, your website and your social handles all say the same thing.