GoFaxer Blog

We understand, change is scary and many times people resist change for that simple reason.  Of course, there are a number of other reasons that faxing is still a widely used form of business-to-business communication worldwide.  It has remained popular for a number of reasons, including the fact that faxing can cut the costs of sending documents via regular mail, isn’t as time consuming, and provides a reliable confirmation that messages have been delivered successfully.

But there’s a change that isn’t scary and is only going to improve the way you do business.  With recent technological advancements, you no longer need a landline or even a costly fax machine to send or receive faxes.  Instead, you can digitally send and receive email faxes through email fax communications services. While there are numerous ways that businesses can benefit when switching from a traditional business fax service to online faxes, these are some of the biggest reasons for switching to email faxes: Faxing via e-mail is more cost-effective, eliminating the need for a fax machine, additional fax lines, maintenance, and supplies such as paper and toner. In addition, online faxing improves productivity because business professionals no longer have to wait around for faxes to transmit through a traditional machine.

You can easily see that email faxing also helps streamline business communications by reducing paper clutter and offering digital storage capabilities for instant access of fax documents. Users can send and receive faxes as e-mail attachments and they can be stored, managed and forwarded just like other documents.  Check out our email fax service today!

Email is an essential part of business communication today. It would be impossible for most companies to operate without it. Whether you’re a small or large company, email is most likely used in everyday business operations. However, the size of your company may determine whether you should host your email internally or externally.

Hosting e-mail internally does have significant costs associated with maintaining the e-mail servers, either with internal technical staff or a support vendor. You need to constantly install patches and maintain backups, as well as plan for disaster recovery. A small business with a limited to non-existent IT department often would have to rely on one internal person–who could get sick, quit or take a vacation–or an offsite consultant. At the same time, hosting internally does allow you to have more control.

However, hosting e-mail or applications externally allows you to transfer many of these costs and maintenance problems to a hosting vendor. Although, you then have to do your homework on that firm. When you use hosted e-mail, you’re dependent on both your vendor and your network connection. You also have to be comfortable having your data stored on someone else’s hardware. Therefore, if you have strict data security requirements, hosting your e-mail externally won’t work for you. Another issued with e-mail and applications hosting companies is that they have many restrictions on attachment sizes and storage space.

However you decide to host your email, you can always receive your faxes via your email using email fax from GoFaxer. Contact GoFaxer today for more information.