Any business owner will attest to the fact that online faxing is the perfect communication channel for their needs; it combines the convenience of a browser email client with the security of the technology that faxing is based on. But even if fax transmissions are less prone to being intercepted than email, sending documents through fax lines doesn’t automatically guarantee the perfect security that you are looking for, especially if the online faxing account isn’t well protected. However, with just a little extra attention a faxing account can be turned into an impenetrable fortress where unauthenticated people cannot enter and faxes can be transmitted in the safest possible way. Read More…
Online Fax Services Articles
Why PDF Is Better to Be Sent as Fax
PDF is inarguably one of the most secure file formats for documents due to the reason that, in most cases, the content of such files simply cannot be modified. But even if the file itself is immune to tampering, it’s still legible – an issue that in some circumstances could become a full-fledged catastrophe if the email containing the PDF is intercepted and the file isn’t protected by a password.
Thankfully, online faxing provides the same speed and reliability as email with one major advantage. Transmissions between sender and receiver are always secure, meaning that PDFs can travel through phone cables without ever being seen by unwanted eyes. Read More…
Fax Broadcasting 2.0 With Online Faxing Services
Whatever your thoughts on faxing are there’s no denying that it’s a safe and reliable way of sending and receiving documents, which is why it’s considered to be pretty useful in a world that heavily relies on more common communication methods like email. In fact, one of its features, fax broadcasting, is one of the main reasons why many businesses rely on faxing.
For many years fax broadcasting – or fax blasting – has been an exclusive feature of the most advanced fax machines or services that are specialized in sending out faxes en masse. Granted, this option is still available to this day but thanks to cloud faxing anyone, even less tech-savvy users, can broadcast a fax campaign with ease. Read More…
How to Broadcast Fax Complying With Fax Marketing Laws
Fax marketing is a cheap way of reaching out to customers and if it’s done right, then it can even be more effective than targeted internet ads or other forms of direct marketing. However, just like any marketing campaigns, fax broadcasting should also be carried out carefully otherwise you may end up with a detrimental reputation a fax spammer. And that’s actually something that can stigmatize a business and as a result drive it into the ground thanks to various penalties and the negative effects from a poor image of the company.
This is why it’s of utmost importance to get familiar with fax marketing laws that regulate the world of fax broadcasting in a rather strict manner. Despite that strictness, however, these laws are for the benefit of both parties of the transmission, since customers won’t feel like they’re being spammed and you can continue promoting your business via fax. Read More…
The Best Fax Blast Ideas for Professional Fax Marketing
Every business should know that aside from providing quality products and services their only chance to stay afloat is if they are able to sell themselves via promotions. However, advertising can be a challenge in a world where web ads are usually blocked, direct calling is considered to be a bother, and fliers and emails are automatically thrown into the trash. This is why businesses often ask the question: ‘Is there any way to attract the clientele without alienating them?’
Actually, there is, with fax blasting – or fax broadcasting – that can not only draw customers’ attention to what the business is doing but is also capable of encouraging them to contact the company and, if the right buttons are pushed, even lead to them purchasing something. Still, fax blasting is a delicate process and it needs careful preparation and execution to make sure it has the desired effect. Read More…
Eliminating Junk Fax Messages
Everyone in the world understands the frustration of being spammed. It’s annoying, it blocks the traffic of valid messages and though it doesn’t take a great deal of time to get rid of the spammer, it all adds up – especially when you’re just spammed again from another source. Most of the time people associate this phenomenon with email, but faxing can also fall victim to junk messaging. However, whereas junk emails could be infected with malware, spam received via fax could result in actual monetary damages due to a waste of ink, toner, paper, and electricity.
Thankfully, though, there are many ways to put an end to the flood of spam fax messages once and for all – and it’s just as easy as creating a spam filter in an email client. Read More…
How to Forward Faxes From Fax Machines to Email
In the new era of digital communication, fax machines may seem like a relic of the past. However, faxing is still around and used by thousands of people daily to send and receive documents in a fast, reliable, and safe way.
However, there is one problem that all fax machines suffer from. Unlike email, which can be accessed from any computer and smart device, faxes have to be physically picked up from the machine itself, requiring you to be near it almost 24/7 for it to be effective, which is extremely unrealistic.
So, what if you could combine email convenience with a fax machine's reliability? That’s where forwarding faxes to email comes into play. Read More…
MyFax vs MetroFax Comparison
Nowadays there are many good online faxing services, so selecting the right one is quite the challenge. But when two services are perfectly identical to one another, that choice may even become downright impossible. However, there are a few instances where one of the services has the upper hand from the very beginning – and this is exactly the case with MyFax and MetroFax, two online faxing solutions by j2 Global.
On the surface both services are exactly the same, but there are certain elements that make one of them an undeniable winner. The question is, which of the two siblings is the best? Read More…
The Art of Making a Confidential Fax Cover Sheet
Considering the potential openness of faxing – the office fax machine may be located where anyone could grab the printed copy – it’s surprising that fax lines are often used for transmitting confidential information, whether that be medical records, legal documents and such.
The problem is that despite being safer than email, confidential facsimiles still need an extra layer of protection in order to prevent unwanted eyes from seeing any information that they shouldn’t. One method of such extra protection is to send the fax with a confidential cover sheet. Read More…
RingCentral Fax vs eFax Comparison
Thanks to the advancement of cloud-based technology there are plenty of online fax services, all of which provide many useful features, whether that be a fax manager that is designed to be simple and easy to use or the ability to schedule the sending of faxes. These are all things that RingCentral Fax and eFax, two leaders of the online faxing market are both capable of.
And so the real question is just how do these two compare – and, more importantly, differ – from one another? Does eFax, the self-proclaimed number one online fax service in the world, stand a chance against RingCentral, the VoIP and online faxing giant? Read More…