Green Businesses Using Online Faxing

By R. Michael Richmond

Companies can say they are Green all they want to the public, but the truth is most Green Businesses don't have truthfully Green practices. Authentic Green Businesses do whatever they can to reduce paper, water, air pollution, and energy. The real reason people take such an initiative to have a Green Business is because they save thousands of dollars and they feel good about what they are doing. Big and small businesses need to understand that reducing paper can cut costs instantly.

If you're company starts using efax you can see immediate effects because your Green Business will be more resourceful and dependable. Your company saves money because you don't have to buy ink, fax machines, and paper which are all dangerous to our environment. Internet faxing provides a user-friendly interface that makes efaxing easy to learn and operate. Still, people who have been using traditional fax machines for long period of time will find it difficult to switch to online faxing.

Since online faxing can be integrated with emails, it enables paperless communication. Moreover, the Internet facilitates a speedier communication. The speed and bandwidth of the Internet allows the users to store, send, and receive multiple faxes simultaneously. However, the storage periods differ with service packages. Some Internet fax users are allowed to store the faxes online for 6 months, while some have a storage period of about 8-12 months.

Internet faxing does not need a dedicated telephone line. Communication takes place over the existing Internet connection line. No extra phone line is needed, and online faxing results in a significant decrease in communication costs. Users of efax only have to pay a low fixed Internet connection fee no matter the amount of line usage.

Fax machines are on their way out, as companies like www.efax.com and ww.fax.com take a bigger share of this market. As you might already know, fax machines are costly to buy and operate, not to mention the amount of machines we toss out after to few years. Fax machines and paper makes landfill crisis worse; when, in fact, a simple-to-install email exchange system literally works a hundred times better.

Efax.com is an innovative web service that offers a fax number and free usage of that number to individuals, so they can send and receive private faxes on their own email account. Efax.com is for home office workers, millions of mobile professionals, and small business users who are currently seeking faster, more sustainable, and more reliable ways to overcome the difficulties of trying to receive paper documents remotely.

While many people in the industry predicted the Internet would render fax machines obsolete, fax traffic is growing by 20 percent annually, and is expected to exceed 500 billion pages next year. That's half a trillion pages that will be faxed around the world in the year 2010 as fax continues to be the easiest and most well know form of document communication. Efax.com is the first company to provide free, unlimited Internet service, setting a new standard with its simple-to-use, proprietary fax-to-email delivery technology.

Efax is a good push in the right direction for "Going Green." Almost any company can better themselves on how to have Green practices and be a Green business, but the progress can't all be done at one time because it can become exhausting and costly. That's why it makes sense for companies to be Green one step at a time, because then they will see the results they are searching for. - 29942

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