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Email, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways:

1. I can get correspondence from my brother in Colorodo in seconds, rather than having to wait for the mailman.
2. If I have to send a message to someone that they might make them upset, I can test the water by sending it through email.
3. I can speak with a customer in another country in seconds.
4. I’ve never actually received a paper memo and I think I’m better off for it.
5. No need for single’s bars. Now there’s single’s websites.
6. Less paper cuts.
7. No one can think poorly of me for my handwriting.
8. It’s got spell check, which helps those of us who are naturally poor spellers.
9. I can re-read my emails before I send them to make sure that I haven’t said anything stupid. If wish my spoken words worked the same way.

Yet in spite of all of these wonderful things about email, up until a couple of years ago I was still required by circumstance to send a fax with an actual piece of paper. But email just keeps getting better. Now I can send email fax and my love affair with electronic communication has become complete.

Every large business has started small, probably in someone’s living room or garage. But now the new entrepreneurial start-up location of choice is the local coffee shop with free Internet. You can sit, visit, drink your daily dose of caffeine, or have a scone. And you can start your brilliant new business idea. That’s right, now it may be coffee, but some day it will be champagne if your ideas and work ethic are sound.

But is it really possible to start an actual business without some sort of office. I mean, as soon as you get customers, won’t they find out just how small time you are? What if they want to send you a fax?

Fax to email by GoFaxer is the solution for the coffee shop office. All of your faxes can be sent and received via email. On the other end, if they have a traditional fax machine they’ll receive the document just as if you had a fax machine yourself. And you can receive their fax in your email inbox.

Technology has really become the boon to small time business owners dreaming of becoming big time. The American dream is certainly not dead with Internet fax technology and regular cups of coffee to keep you awake.

With the invention of email, fax has gone the way of the ghost. Email fax is now the king. One of the big advantages of Internet fax is that you will have a digital documentation of every fax that you’ve received.

But many of the advantages of using this technology will be useless unless you figure out how to manage that email inbox. Many of us receive a hundred or several hundred emails a day. It can be maddening to use this technology that is supposed to save time. Sometimes we can spend all day working on our email inbox without actually working.

So here’s a few rules of thumb:

1. Don’t permanently delete any email. You never know when that insignificant email is going to come in handy. When your boss comes to you and says, do you have an email you sent to me about a year ago about______, it’s your moment to shine. You find that email and your boss will be extremely impressed. Better yet, find an email that your manager sent you that they can’t find, and he or she will be indebted to you.

For the rest of the list see tomorrow’s continuation.

This morning we got hit with half a foot of snow. When I walked out to my car the snow came up over my ankles. And then I had to clean off my windshield. Driving was a nightmare. I was lucky to even get out of the parking lot in my apartment complex. When I pulled onto the main street my wheels spun out while a car almost hit me.

Frankly, I would have just assumed stay home and work. Years ago, that wouldn’t have been an option for anyone working in a business where their employees needed access to traditional communication tools like business phones and fax machines.

But now, with technology making office work easier and easier and more and more convenient, there are options for businesses that want to allow their employees to work from home. Your typical office worker can work from home, call his or her customers through their inexpensive cell phone. They can contact their business associates through email. And now, thanks to fax to email, they can send their faxes through the Internet.

So if there had been another half foot, I could have avoided the drive and worked from home. And if needed I could send a fax to any of my customers through my home pc.

I prefer email. Most of the documents, messages, and conversations that I have within the work setting are usually done through email. Sometimes I’ll send an email to someone who sits right next to me in the office. It may seem easier to simply say hello and make the request in person, but then they might forget. I find that when I email a request, the person has that document in their inbox as a reminder. Whereas if I simply make the request over the phone or in person, they’re far more likely to forget. Most people seem to manage their to-do lists from their email inboxes.

So I’ve become very email savvy, but also dependent. I was recently working with a client outside of our office that wanted the document sent through fax. Now, I prefer email for everything, but I don’t have the right to tell my clients how to run their offices. If they want a fax, I have a responsibility, as part of doing good business, to provide them with the document they want in the format they want it in. and if they want it as a fax, I need to be able to do that for them.

This is where fax to email services by gofaxer comes in so handy. I can send them a fax, through my email. I get to do it the way I want to do it, and they get to receive the document the way that they want it.

No one likes to work weekends. I certainly don’t. But the fact of the matter is that sometimes it’s necessary to stay competitive with your customers. Some of you may work with customers that are open for business on the weekends and they don’t want to wait to hear from you until Monday.

If you’re going to work on the weekends, you may want to try working from home, assuming that there aren’t too many distractions. Maybe you want to catch the game, while catching email. Maybe you can eat lunch with your family while catching up on that paperwork. It’s not ideal, but if it really means not having to go into the office, spending time with the family, and reaching your goals for your career, maybe it’s worth it.

Of course, faxing can be tricky when you’re lounging on the sofa in your TV room, away from the convenient supplies and machinery of the office. It’s for this reason that email fax is the perfect service for your company. You can send or receive that fax while watching the game through your email.

As I said, no one likes working weekends, but if you must, make it easy with email fax.