Five Solid Reasons to Use an internet Fax Service
by Titus Hoskins
Published on this site: February 15th, 2006 - See
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Online or Internet Fax Services are becoming extremely popular with our
ever increasingly mobile workplace and workforce. As we become more mobile,
we want the ability to receive and send faxes through our email and the
internet. It's as simple as that!
Receive and send your faxes anywhere, anytime.
Plus, you have no more paper jams, no more bulky fax machines,
no more busy signals and no more return trips to the office
to pick up that important fax at 10 o'clock at night!
If you need more convincing about the advantages of using
or switching to an Internet Fax Service, here's a list of
the major reasons:
- Convenience
There's a great deal of convenience to receiving and sending your faxes
through your email. You can access it anywhere and anytime; wherever
and whenever you access your computer and the Internet.
Your faxes are right at your fingertips - just one click
away.
You receive a local or toll-free fax number that you can
give out to all your contacts. You can also store all your
faxes online or on your computer's hard-drive, so you know
exactly where your faxes are. You know exactly where to find
that important fax when you need it. No more scrambling through
files or garbage bends to find your faxes. No more missed
faxes because of busy signals, not to mention the decrease
in all that foul language as there are no more paper jams.
- Mobility
Perhaps, the most important feature or selling point for using an Internet
or email fax service is mobility. Since you receive and send faxes
through your email system and the Internet you can access them anywhere,
anytime.
This is great for mobile professionals, traveling sales people, real
estate agents, onsite builders, etc. Our workplaces and workers are
becoming very mobile at a very fast rate; just in the last five or
ten years we have seen the explosion in the popularity of cell phones,
PDAs, Wi-Fi, Wireless Broadband, and portable laptop computers. All
these new technologies have changed how we do business and how we communicate.
Internet or email fax fits perfectly into this mix and gives us the
means to take our work on the road.
- Easy To Use
Internet fax is as easy as using your email. How hard can that be?
Most, if not all email fax providers have a Web Interface (online site)
where you can log onto and do all your faxing chores. Send and receive
your faxes. Most fax services also allow you to store your faxes online
for easy access.
Most Internet fax services will work with Windows Outlook and Windows
Office. Some have free desktop applications that you can download and
place on your desktop which allow you to send and receive your faxes
from your desktop.
Finally, most services let you send a fax by just sending an email,
i.e. (destination number)@yourfaxservice.com - It doesn't get any easier
than that.
- Inexpensive
Internet fax can be very inexpensive, especially if you only have modest
faxing needs. If you send or receive just a few faxes each month you
can purchase a very inexpensive monthly or yearly plan from many of
the major fax providers. Many of these Internet fax services have various
plans and fees; finding one that matches your faxing needs can save
you a lot of money in the long run.
Really modest fax users can get an Internet fax service for a few dollars
a month. One of the major service providers, eFax, will even let you
have a free account where you can receive up to 20 faxes a month for
free, but be aware that you will have to upgrade to a paid service
to send faxes. Another service, send2fax Prepaid charges you $0.15
for every fax and a $20 deposit along with a very low $1.95 monthly
fee.
For a person starting a home business or office, using an online fax
service will save you the extra cost of purchasing a fax machine and
an extra phone line. Actually, online faxing may save your company
or organization around 85% on up front costs and 34% on monthly costs
of traditional fax servers. This is a great plus.
Most online fax services are business-ready, and are completely flexible
and scalable to meet all your company's faxing requirements. Fax broadcasting
to a large number of recipients can also be more cost-effective with
these online services. There's usually special custom pricing for companies.
5. Compatibility
Lastly, in a world that's constantly changing, having a faxing system
that's compatible with all the latest gadgets and gizmos, is more important
than it may seem at first glance. As our communication and business
tools keep changing with the introduction of new hardware and services,
internet or email fax will work with all of these new inventions: Laptops,
PDAs, Cell Phones, Wi-Fi, VoIP, Wireless Broadband, Satellite Internet,
come what may...
Choosing an Internet fax service will satisfy all your present and
future personal or business faxing needs. It is the right choice at
the right time. Discover the advantages of an email fax service for
yourself. Easy to use, affordable, mobile, accessible and compatible.
Titus Hoskins runs a modest Internet Marketing Resource
based web site dealing with all aspects of running a successful
business on the web. Where you will find helpful online
guides on RSS/Blogging, Laptops, Spyware Removal, Opt-in
List Building and yes, a handy <a href= "http://www.bizwaremagic.com/internet_fax_service_guide.htm">Internet Fax
Service Guide</a>.
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