A typical business phone line cost a business forty dollars a month. That's four hundred and eighty dollars a year. Many businesses have more than one fax line. Some larger businesses have multiple sites with multiple fax lines. If a business had twenty locations and two fax lines at each location. That would be $1,600 a month or $19,200 a year wasted. That's not even counting the cost of the machinery required or the maintenance, long distance, ink and paper.
Giving an office the ability to send and receive faxes, requires a business phone line, a fax, fax paper, ink and electricity. Once a fax phone number is established it's difficult for a business to do away with it. It's possible that customers or potential customers might attempt to fax to that number and nothing sounds worse to a potential client than the "this number has been disconnected" message from the phone company.
Most individuals would buy a fax machine at Costco or Best Buy and spend less than one hundred and twenty dollars. Businesses, especially larger ones, never do that. Larger businesses buy professional grade office equipment and would typically spend more than five hundred dollars for a new fax machine.
Fax paper and ink cost money. Waste is more likely to happen at a business because employees aren't paying for what they use and management doesn't have the time or desire to monitor every fax sent, and it's impossible to control what faxes you receive. Also, businesses just don't have the time to shop around to save pennies on their office equipment.
Today, even a one hundred dollar printer has scanning capabilities. And it doesn't take any more time to scan a document than it does to fax it.
What do you do with a received fax? You file it in a folder, in a file cabinet, read it and throw it away or scan it and save it electronically. So you create a fire hazard, create waste or add two steps to the process of saving a document electronically.
Electronic fax services offer virtual numbers that you can give out to people that still insist on faxing. Received faxes show up in your email inbox, where you can read, save or delete them.
Faxing has been an issue with Voice over IP circuits. What's the remedy? Scanning and emailing and the use of electronic faxing services.
Stop the madness! Faxing is a waste of money and old fashioned. It's like writing a check at the grocery store or using a typewriter. Do you want that image for your business? Be green, save a tree, toss your fax machine.
Cofounder of CarrierBid Communications
http://www.carrierbid.com
johngelhard@carrierbid.com
215-990-7107
By John C Gelhard
Giving an office the ability to send and receive faxes, requires a business phone line, a fax, fax paper, ink and electricity. Once a fax phone number is established it's difficult for a business to do away with it. It's possible that customers or potential customers might attempt to fax to that number and nothing sounds worse to a potential client than the "this number has been disconnected" message from the phone company.
Most individuals would buy a fax machine at Costco or Best Buy and spend less than one hundred and twenty dollars. Businesses, especially larger ones, never do that. Larger businesses buy professional grade office equipment and would typically spend more than five hundred dollars for a new fax machine.
Fax paper and ink cost money. Waste is more likely to happen at a business because employees aren't paying for what they use and management doesn't have the time or desire to monitor every fax sent, and it's impossible to control what faxes you receive. Also, businesses just don't have the time to shop around to save pennies on their office equipment.
Today, even a one hundred dollar printer has scanning capabilities. And it doesn't take any more time to scan a document than it does to fax it.
What do you do with a received fax? You file it in a folder, in a file cabinet, read it and throw it away or scan it and save it electronically. So you create a fire hazard, create waste or add two steps to the process of saving a document electronically.
Electronic fax services offer virtual numbers that you can give out to people that still insist on faxing. Received faxes show up in your email inbox, where you can read, save or delete them.
Faxing has been an issue with Voice over IP circuits. What's the remedy? Scanning and emailing and the use of electronic faxing services.
Stop the madness! Faxing is a waste of money and old fashioned. It's like writing a check at the grocery store or using a typewriter. Do you want that image for your business? Be green, save a tree, toss your fax machine.
Cofounder of CarrierBid Communications
http://www.carrierbid.com
johngelhard@carrierbid.com
215-990-7107
By John C Gelhard
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