B
Evidence Grade B
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75%
75% -- share of customers trusting business with professional email for consumers evaluating new businesses (2026)
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Value
75%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
GoDaddy
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Tier C
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GoDaddy
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GoDaddy consumer survey on trust in online small businesses, cited by ClearCompany
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consumers evaluating new businesses: 75% share of customers trusting business with professional email. Source: GoDaddy (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/professional-email-customer-trust
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/professional-email-customer-trust" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>75%</strong> -- share of customers trusting business with professional email for consumers evaluating new businesses<br><small>Source: GoDaddy (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/professional-email-customer-trust" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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