Online Faxing Makes Great Business Sense | The Communication Blog

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Online Faxing Makes Great Business Sense

By Graham McKenzie

The use of online faxing services is quickly growing. More and more businesses and individuals are using the online faxing services to send documents quickly and safely across the world. In the near future, the fax machine will give way to online faxing altogether; however, most people are still using the standard fax machine.

How does the new method of faxing online actually work? How can a person send a fax online?

Sending faxes via the internet is a simple process. It involves signing up with an internet fax provider (there are many available to choose from), they will give you a toll free number that you use to receive and send faxes. The provider acts as a middle man, sending and receiving your documents for you.

These documents are sent via email to either a traditional fax machine or another online fax service. The sender attaches either a TIFF or PDF file to an email, and sends it along. The fax provider then sends the document to the recipient either via email, or via a traditional phone line based fax machine.

All of the online fax providers offer a website where you can view sent documents, save incoming files, and check the progress of recent faxes. Some also work directly with your email accounts, so make sure and check with your online faxing service to see what they offer.

It is also possible that you will select an online faxing website that allows you to download an application that will check your faxes on your computer. Other services will allow you to send and receive faxes readable by Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

The cover letter and multi page fax are still used during online faxing, the only difference is that you are sending the documents via the internet and not the phone lines.

While online faxes are convenient and fast, you may wonder why so many people are switching to online faxing.

Many people are switching over the online faxing since it requires fewer resources. In general, it uses less paper and ink, and if often costs less money than a traditional fax machine. Also, in the era of laptops, you can read and send faxes on the go-- working from home or while traveling is much easier with online faxing.

Online faxing is the new "green" because it saves trees by saving paper and helps the environment by taking away the use of ink. Energy is saved because there is no fax machine that has to be running all the time to enable the receiving of faxes.

Most importantly, online faxes are the way of the future. It enables one machine, your computer, to receive or send all your faxes through the internet. Since the internet never turns off, there is never a worry about a missed fax because of a busy signal and there is no need to wait to send or receive because it can all be done at the same time.

Companies that use fax machines heavily, like those in real estate, sales, or communications can use online faxing to cut costs and gain a competitive edge on others in their field. Some business are using online services in tandem with traditional machines, where others have switched to paperless faxing altogether.

All advantages are accessible with online faxing and it helps beat the competition. You can smile knowing your ahead when you send the next fax.

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