Endless Solutions Inc – Susan R. Davis

Several years ago, eFaxing might have been a novelty, only for some, but it has caught on more as telephone and fax bills are rising, and businesses are trying to save on hard costs like fax lines.

If you haven’t heard of electronic faxing, or you think it is still a fad, now is the time to pay attention. Unlike the cost of maintaining a separate phone number and physical fax machine to receive faxes, or even an all-in-one printer, you still need that separate line. Businesses who try to have a fax and phone line that share a number are invariably hit with customer complaints as they try to fax and get a busy signal, or faxers who can’t get through because you are on the phone.

With an electronic fax account like you can get with eFax, you pick a number, and have a small monthly fee in most cases that is a fraction of the cost of a telephone line. You also don’t need to maintain a physical fax machine, or if you already have one it can be a backup. Your faxes will come through that line, as many at once as you want, and they will all arrive in your email box in Adobe format for easy reading, printing if necessary, storing on your hard drive in an archive, or deleting.

The great thing about the archive feature is that you save on paper, save on paper storage, and still have a permanent copy safely filed on your hard drive or backup storage device for future reference. It also makes it really easy to forward a copy of the fax to someone else by email for review, reading, or reference.

You simply pay a small fee per page, and you’ve got your fax. You can often get a toll-free number, as well, which is great for order-taking. Another nifty feature is that email is accessible from anywhere. You don’t have to be in the office standing by the fax to receive, read, print, and forward a fax. Imagine being able to receive a contract for review, print it out, sign it, scan it, and fax it back – all from your hotel 500 miles away from the home office.

Basically, the technology is now mature, the price is quite reasonable, and it’s time to act.

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