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As office technology continues to improve, the information we require day to day becomes increasingly accessible. From refined internet search to portable communication devices, the information you use and rely on can be constantly at your fingertips. Combining convenient email fax with the use of a USB drive (also known as a “flash” drive) means you can carry your faxes with you anywhere you go, even when you are no longer connected to the internet.

Email fax allows you to send and receive faxes directly from your computer via a highly convenient fax to email service. Once you have the fax, you can save it to your computer, print it out, or leave it online for easy access later. If you need to use the information in a situation without internet access, that’s no problem. Simply move the fax file onto a USB drive and transport it wherever you go, from computer to computer, even if you’re not connected to the internet.

When you use GoFaxer, you no longer need to carry about stacks and stacks of paper to have important information available to you. If you wanted to, you could bring projects home from work, load them easily onto your family’s laptop, and get work done while watching a movie with your family. With GoFaxer, the convenience of faxing is practically limitless.

One of the greatest benefits of new technology is that so many tools can perform multiple tasks. Prior to many of our current technological developments, an office needed to be filled with bulky equipment, each piece of which performed a single task. These days are no longer. For example, your computer can, as a single piece of equipment, handle nearly every aspect of communication. This includes both written and verbal correspondence via web conferencing, and it even extends to faxing.

Online faxing allows you to send and receive faxes straight from any computer with internet access. This also lends itself quite conveniently to the use of an all-in-one printer. With an all-in-one printer, scanner, and copier, you can print just the faxes you desire to have in hard copy; the rest remain conveniently accessible in your fax inbox. This piece of technology also allows you to scan in documents, such as meeting notes or brochures, for easy faxing to your coworkers or associates.

With GoFaxer, the many advantages of online fax are right at your fingertips. Our internet fax product is so simple to use you’ll wonder why you didn’t start consolidating your office technology sooner. Fax online with GoFaxer to see how easy the modern office can be.

So here was a recent situation. My mother was traveling to Texas to a cousin’s wedding. We’re also in preparation for my wedding. She needed to pay the bill to a family luncheon. They asked her to fax them a contract. She’d be away from the office and away from a fax machine.

She could just go find a copy shop with a fax machine that would allow her to do her business. But I recommended that she go to GoFaxer.com and use their easy service for sending faxes through email. Suddenly being away from the office didn’t stop her from having the services of an office.

You may not have a need for faxing every day, but when the time comes where you need it, and you’re traveling, having a GoFaxer account will come really handy.

You don’t even have to have your personal computer to use the service. There’s no software required to work this. As long as you can get into an Internet café or use a friend’s computer with a browser, you can pull up your account, attach your file and send it to any fax machine as if you yourself had this hardware accessible.

My mom was very glad for this option. You will be too.

I have a lot of experience working with small business owners and I have to confess a little frustration with y’all. Too many of you are thinking too small too. Yes, you have a “small” business but that’s no reason to keep it that way.

Too many companies are still using a fax machine instead of email fax. There are too many small companies that still use dial-up for their Internet connection. There are too many small companies that do zero marketing.

And here’s the worst sin of all: There’s companies out there that actually don’t want to grow. I’ve spoken with business owners who have told me that they are fine with the way things are. They don’t want to grow their business. I was floored.

The web offers almost unlimited opportunity to turn your company into something big time. But too many small business owners have a lot of misperceptions about how the web works.

There’s a great article by Lindsay Holloway at Entrepreneur.com where she interviews Justin Kitch, the creator of Homsestead.com, a company that helps entrepreneurs create a web presence. He outlines 11 myths about the Internet world. He says that too many business owners are “cautious and conservative; they’re afraid of technology and change.”

For the next eleven days I’ll be reviewing each of these myths.

Before fax, the fastest you could send something was in a day, through Fed Ex, or some other high end shipping method. It was overnighted by plane. Then the fax machine became mainstream in the 80’s, allowing you to send something in minutes, over the phone line. Again, a major innovation in the speed of communication.

But in the 90’s, we saw the next giant leap into a faster world. The Internet was born. And with it came email, a form of sending messages and documents through the Internet in seconds. Funnily enough, this didn’t just become popular for sending messages over long distances. It also became enormously popular for sending messages over short distances. Everything is sent through email these days.

Well, not everything. There still are businesses and organizations that have fax machines. And although most everyone has email and the Internet, there may be times when they prefer that a document be sent through fax. If this ever happens, your organization is required to have access to the technology. But who wants to go out and buy a new fax machine when they can send most of their documents through the Internet?

That’s where Internet fax comes into play. You can send documents to fax machines, through an Internet based system. It’s as easy as sending an email, and significantly cheaper than fax technology.