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We know what a pain it is to load up your work laptop with more and more extra, superfluous software that you don’t know how to use.  Here’s some great news, though, you don’t have to worry, because with GoFaxer’s online fax service, you don’t even need to download any additional software.

Our email fax works on the computers you already have via an internet connection. This also means that your same fax number is accessible even when employees are away from the office. Business conferences and telecommuting don’t complicate faxes at all when you use GoFaxer. As long as your employees have an internet connection, the smooth transition to email fax allows them to send and receive faxes like normal, but easier.

How easy are we talking?  Well, you can still use the same fax number that your clients and business partners have on file. Your telephone company can easily forward that number to your GoFaxer number, allowing your business correspondence to continue smoothly. And since your GoFaxer number is free, online fax doesn’t cost anything extra for the people who are sending faxes to you and your business.  You’ll be glad you decided to look into it more.  Take a closer look today; online faxing could very well change the way you do business tomorrow.

You know how it goes, the ebb and flow of the business day. Sometimes your business will not need to send or receive a fax for weeks or even months, while other times you feel as if you spend most of your workday saying to a client or customer, “I’ll fax that right on over to you.”

Even if you already have a fax set-up for your business, with functioning fax machine, fully prepped with fax paper, ink, and toner cartridges, and of course that dedicated fax line, it simply isn’t the best business solution available.  Because fax lines get crossed with the main office phone line.  Because fax machines seem to spend more time flashing their “out of paper” or “paper jam” signals than actually functioning properly.  Because ink and toner cartridges are messy, unwieldy, difficult to recycle, and expensive.  Because many fax machines are fussy and require you to stand at the machine hand-feeding it a page at a time, and usually for 30-page faxes.

Instead, one absolutely ideal solution is to use an email fax service.   What a lifesaver (and timesaver, and moneysaver) faxing to email is for a great many businesses today.  Convenient, fast, dependable, and very kind to your corporate budget, an email fax service can rescue countless businesses from the neverending troubles, trials, and tribulations of a cranky old school fax machine, while at the same time making your business day a smoother and easier one. You can’t get started with faxing to email soon enough.

When a business looks to improve the efficiency of their workplace, office technology is an excellent place to start. Internet fax is one of the most innovative and beneficial developments in business technology in recent years. Every day, more and more companies, both large and small, continue to make the shift from conventional faxing to internet fax alternatives. With online faxing from GoFaxer, your business will be benefited in a number of ways.
Online fax is first and foremost more effective than conventional fax. Your employees can send and receive faxes from their office computers without needing to walk across the office to a fax machine. GoFaxer also relieves you from the hassle of busy signals and unwanted faxes. We screen for spam and do everything in our power to keep your faxes running as cleanly and hassle-free as possible.  GoFaxer also relieves you of the burdens of extra equipment, maintenance, and phone lines.

Online fax is a must-have for the modern office. With GoFaxer, you’ll have less hassle, no busy signals, and more time and energy spent on the success of your business. Our fax to email product has been a great advantage to our existing customers and we are confident that internet fax can help your business run more smoothly as well.

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.

A new Ezine Article by Phil Anderson pointed out some major frustrations with the traditional fax machine:

“Papers jam, incomplete transmission, unreasonable engage tone, and worst of all, the problem that follows after the breakdown: expensive repair and maintenance cost.”

He then points out some major conveniences with fax to email services:

• Cheaper
• More reliable
• Eliminates major problems, such as paper jams and incomplete transmissions
• Eliminates cost of extra phone line
• Low maintenance cost
• Easy file management

The simple fact of the matter is that in every category, Internet fax beats out traditional fax. It’s a no brainer for any company. GoFaxer is an excellent service for any business, particularly a small business, looking to convert to this wonderful technology.

On the other end of the fax, it looks just like any other fax sent from a fax machine. You can send a cover letter and everything. But the convenience comes on your end. You simply scan the document, log onto your GoFaxer account, enter the fax number, type in the cover letter, and then send the document. Viola! It’s easy.

And did I mention that you don’t even have to download any software onto your computer to use this service? All you need is an Internet browser and your good to go.

The facts are simple. Fax to email avoids the hassles once associated with a great technology. Internet technology has made faxing easier.

So you just bought a fancy new laser fax machine. And now you’ve heard about fax to email services that allow you to send and receive faxes, all through the internet. What do you do? Do you go with the new technology or do you stick with the old in the hopes of getting something out of your investment?

I recently read a great article by Liz Pulliam Weston about personal finance that inadvertently answered that question:

“Sunk costs” are expenses that have already been incurred and can’t be recovered to any appreciable extent. “Sunk cost fallacy” means an irrational belief that a further investment of time, money or effort will somehow resurrect the value that’s already disappeared.”

I hate to break it to you, but the money you spent on that new fax machine is a sunk cost. And if you continue to invest in the technology through paper, toner, and repairs, not to mention the time cost through using a less efficient technology, you’ll be feeding into the sunk cost fallacy.

I know that this breaks your heart to give up your fax machine, but I promise you that when you start using your Internet fax service all thoughts of your fax machine will disappear from your mind, You’ll start investing that hard earned revenue into services and initiatives where you’ll see a return on your investment.

I recently found an article online by Elizabeth Morgan that seemed totally out of date given the popularity of fax to email services.

She answers the question: What is a fax machine? Her answer:

“A fax machine, short for facsimile machine, basically sends and receives reproductions of a document through a telephone line.”

Of course, when this technology first came into use some 30 years ago, it was seen as an amazing new convenience. You could send someone a document across the world in minutes. But now, with the overwhelming dominance of email, fax technology can seem a bit quaint. But as Morgan suggests, “the fax machine is still essential in any office for instantaneous sharing of documents such as proofs, contracts and other documents.”

Consequently, innovative new businesses will want the convenience of their email while also being able to have a fax service. This is why fax to email services like GoFaxer are so popular. They allow you to be an internet based business, while being able to employ older technologies like fax.

Modern companies don’t even need to ask, “What’s a fax machine?” They don’t have to ask themselves whether to buy an inkjet fax machine or invest in a laser fax. The issue becomes mute with Internet fax.

It’s scary to consider, but we may be looking at a recession in the coming months. A recent article in Newsweek by Daniel Gross says:

Just two years ago, Wall Street economists spoke of a Goldilocks economy, in which everything was just right. These days, it’s the three bears. As of this week, the economists at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are all predicting a recession for 2008.

The last recession came in 2001 after the tech bubble burst, causing businesses to stop investing. Prior to that was in 1990 as a response to the commercial real estate/savings-and-loan implosion.

Home prices declined 6.1 percent in 2007, which makes economist and business people think that we’re facing our next big slowdown here shortly.

In this time of potential recession, companies need to be aggressive at cutting business costs. If your business hasn’t converted to fax to email, now is the time. It’s less expensive than using a fax machine and it will save you time. It’s also wonderfully convenient. You can send and receive a fax from anywhere that you have an Internet connection.

We hate to spread doom and gloom about the economy. One hopes that the slow-down will be short and minimal in scope. But regardless of the extent of the damage, now is the time to prepare with smart business decisions.

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.

With the use of fax to email, it’s easy to forget that the old rules of fax etiquette still apply. For example, it’s easy to forget that one still needs to send a cover sheet. So in that effort, let me remind you of these simple rules to remember the next time you send something out through fax.

Cover sheets should preferably be type written, but handwritten cover sheets are totally acceptable. Clearly delineate your name as the sender. Indicate the name of the person that you are sending the fax to. Your address, phone number, and email address are all very important to include.

This may seem fairly common sense, but make sure that you proofread the cover sheet and the document for typos, misspellings, or anything else that could be inappropriate.

In business, remember to use:

• Official letterhead
• Company stamped fax coversheets
• Well organized and formal email formats
• Well printed business cards with your logo and title

All of these small things communicate the quality of business that you run. God is in the details, and a professionally detailed faxed document can look divine.