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 short list of
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 allows you to send and
receive your faxes.
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.
Compatibility
Lastly, in a world that’s constantly changing, having a faxing
system that’s compatible to 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 meet all your present and
future personal and 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.
