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Fax Coupons for November 2011

admin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:07:47 +0000

If you’re looking for Internet Fax coupons you’ve come to the right place. Here is a list of Free Faxing coupons from the top providers in the industry.

RingCentral = NEW for November 2011 RingCentral Fax – 50% Off First Month any plan or try RingCentral Fax Free

MyFax – Special Offer: Buy 2 Months Get the 3rd FREE

Nextiva – Want a great deal on Offic phone and fax combined? Nextiva Office, Phone line, Fax and Toll Free included!

EFax – The largest Internet Fax carrier is offering a Try eFax For 30 Days Free program.

Now Ring Central has 500 included pages for only $7.99. Try RingCentral Fax FREE for 30 days

RingCentral is offer free trials in Canada again. Try RingCentral Mobile Canada FREE for 30 days

Try RapidFax FREE – instant activation

Find out how eFax delivers faxes right to your email inbox. Try it free – instant activation.

Try MyFax FREE for 30 Days

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How do I search My Internet Faxes?

admin — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:13:02 +0000

If you have an Internet fax provider, then you likely send or receive a lot of faxes. Given that most fax services offer an unlimited storage of faxes for an unlimited time, you will end up collecting a lot of faxes over time.

How do I find the Fax I Want?

There are two ways to store your faxes. You can store them online as mentioned above, or you can store them in your email. Since your faxes are coming in to your email you can tag them or put them in specific folders in your email. Easy enough.

Storing and Sorting Faxes Online

If you store all your faxes online for free with your service, you can also search for them there. The only thing you need to do is TAG your faxes so you can find them later. Without tagging you’ll be limited to searching for faxes by date or phone number.

What Types of Tags Should I Use?

Tagging simply means assigning a label to a fax so you can identify it later in a way that makes sense to you. Some examples of tags for received faxes are as follows:

Company name
Project name
Product name
Contact name
Contract association
Category like Invoice, price sheet, PO, shipping report or other

This is only limited by what solves your need. Think through your tagging scheme up front and you’ll have an easier time finding your faxes later.

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MyFax November 2011 Coupon

admin — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:01:25 +0000

MyFax has always been one of our favorites. Now Special Offer: Buy 2 Months Get the 3rd FREE

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Efax News

admin — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:38:51 +0000

September 2011 – Efax just made some major improvements to their offer including price reduction and new features. Though many of these feature have been offered in the past, some have been made better by newer features. For instance; adding unlimited storage means searchable faxes are now more usable because your entire fax history can be online.

No more Setup fee!
Digital Signature
Now up to 300 pages per month included – 150 incoming, 150 outcoming
Unlimited storage that never expires
Free email account
Large File Shareing
Searchable faxes

With the elimination of the setup fee this will put them in line with other providers.

Visit efax

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Do You Use Personalized Fax Cover Sheets

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:27:37 +0000

Give Your Documents the Attention They Deserve

Your vendors and customers could be receiving hundreds of faxes a day. With personalized cover sheets you can be sure that your fax messages stand out. Getting attention on the receiving end could mean more sales, mind share or even getting paid faster.

Branding

By adding your logo, company moto and other timely information to your cover sheets, you can maximize the exposure of your brand and your current marketing message. Make sure your logo is of appropriate size and is preferably a black and white version.

Increase Sales with Customized Offers

Increase sales by using your cover sheet to draw attention to special offers by adding a promotional section about a new or existing producst. We recommend you keep this to a quarter of the page or less so it is not viewed as the main focus of the fax.

If you’re sending Invoices

Squeaky wheels get the oil. Use your custom cover sheet to grab the attention of your customers. With a distinctive look and message, your faxed invoices will be quickly noticed and quickly paid.

Most Internet Fax companies provide the ability to have multiple cover pages, allowing you to customize your cover page to meet the needs of the message. Spending a few minutes learning how to customize and save a custom cover page can be worth your while in increased exposure and even increased income.

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Exclusive Ring Central Fax Coupon

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:23 +0000

We may be the first to place this new excluive coupon from RingCentral for their fax product.

RingCentral Fax – 30% Off First 3 Months any plan

Get 30% off the first 3 months of any plan. Coupon good till 8/31/2011

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Latest Ratings for Internet Fax Services – July 2011

admin — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:21:37 +0000

We taking a look at how the Better Business Bureau grades and ranks the best Internet Fax companies.*

The companies listed below are all reviewed on The Fax Report, as we believe they all offer full featured service with good customer care coverage as well as competitive pricing. Before making a decision please read the how to choose an Internet Fax comments below.

Click on the company name for our review or Visit to go directly to their site.

Fax Company	BBB Grade	Accredited	Billing Compliants	Product Complaints	Outstanding	Visit Site
RingCentral	A+	Yes	21	15	0	Visit
Metrofax	A+	Yes	1	0	0	Visit
Nextiva	A-	Yes	1	12	0	Visit
MyFax	B-	No	21	15	0	Visit
Efax	F	No	6	0	5	Visit

What is the BBB using as criteria to rate these companies?

Before blindly following the BBB’s rankings of these email to fax companies, we need to understand what they are being ranked on.

The BBB uses many criteria to rank the services. What we felt was most important to note were the following. Note that these are important to note, not necessarily most important for this type of business.

Length of time business has been operating.
Complaint volume filed with BBB for business of this size.
Response to 74 complaint(s) filed against business.
Resolution of complaint(s) filed against business.
BBB has sufficient background information on this business.

What The Fax Report Thinks is the Most Important Factors when Considering these Reviews

Resolution of complaints is the most important factor when looking at these reviews. Why? Because once you purchase Internet fax that has the features you are looking for, your most likely to experience any problems in the first 30-90 days when you’re still learning.

All the other ranking issues are important, but we believe less so.

What is a Common Complaint Against Internet Fax companies?

The most common complaints are as follows:

You signed up for a trial, you forgot to cancel and they send you a bill. Most companies will refund you if you had almost no usage and notify them within 30 days of the end of the trial
Delivery not as fast as you expected. Internet fax is very fast and when you consider all the factors in sending a fax manually, it’s a better deal all around. It is not however instantaneous.

How to avoid Problems

If you sign up for a trial, please do write down the date the trial ends and cancel it according to the instructions for the service. Note each service has a different method for cancellation.

Be realistic in times faxes will be sent. In general if you fax in the middle of the day, between noon and 5 pm, faxes might take a bit longer to go through. If you fax first thing in the morning or in the early evening, they will go through faster.

Do the BBB Rankings Matter?

We think they are an excellent guide on how quickly the company will respond to a problem and if they generally fix it to a users satisfaction. However, if you consider a company with a very large base of customers like eFax, what at first appears like customer indifference may simply be an issue of a backlog of issues to deal with.

Choosing an Internet Fax Company

Read our Internet Fax reviews. Decide what factors are important for you, including price and number of pages included in packages. From there most of these providers will do a good job at meeting your needs.

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How to Use QR Codes on your Faxes

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:50:23 +0000

What is a QR Code?

Quick Response (QR) codes were invented in Japan in 1994. According to Wikipedia, a QR code is “a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) that is readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera telephones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded may be text, URL, or event text.” Other types of codes have subsequently come out that use color or slightly different methods, but QR codes are the most common and are widely used.

What do I need to read QR Codes?

Anyone with a smart phone can use a QR code. Because of the growing popularity of smart phones, with 27%+ market penetration, the number of individuals who have mobile access to information behind a QR code is expanding quickly. If you consider business users with Blackberry’s, iPhones and Droids, the percentage with smartphones skyrockets.

How are QR Codes Used?

QR codes are placed on products, displays, documents & almost anywhere you can print them
Anyone with a smartphone can download a free app that reads the QR Code
The app takes a picture of the code and translates it, usually into a URL, to which the user is then redirected.

What Can I Do With QR Codes

Most commonly QR codes are used to send people to a web site address. But you can also send text, Following the capacity limits shown below.

Numeric code – Max. 7,089 characters
Alphanumeric – Max. 4,296 characters

Note: Although you can send a large amount of text, the resulting QR code will be rather large.

Uses of QR Codes on a Fax

Using QR codes on your faxes can help boost your business. As business people and consumers use their smartphones more and more, this can help you connect with additional information without them having to type in a URL. Google even includes QR code image searches in its mobile app on android and iPhone mobile phones

Here are some other benefits:

Directing fax recipients to new product pages on your web site.
Notifying customers of new blog posts.
Explanations of charges, offers, terms or technologies.
Detailed contact information.

The list is only limited by your imagination.

How do I Create them and What do They Cost?

QR Codes are free of licensing fees. There are many sites that will help you create your QR Code for free
QR Code readers are generally free to download on mobile phones, and are readily available for Blackberry, iPhone and Android smartphones

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Marketing with Fax

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:26:56 +0000

In a recent post I talked about the Junk Fax law of 2005 and how it affects your faxing strategy. Today I’d like to take a look at strategies you can implement to increase business through your current customer base, using fax.

Using Fax to Market Your Products & Services

Regardless what type of message you’re faxing, you should use every touch point you can to develop and grow your relationship with your customer base. In today’s oversaturated communications environment folks are getting hit from every angle, this includes your fax, email, and SMS messages. Faxes are unique in that most recipients personally handle them. Don’t miss the opportunity to also communicate your latest offers, new products and services. Here are some tips and creative ways of messaging your customers on your faxes:

Include brief messages with special URL’s to a landing page, dedicated to your goal.
Use QR Codes, which are free to create, and let your customers use their mobile phones to visit information on your site.
Make the offer section stand out by putting it in a border or in bold lettering. Consider putting a small graphic next to the text.
Include your Facebook, Twitter, Blog or other business links.

It’s a hyper-competitive world and every time you reach out to your customers you need to be educating, informing and selling. Faxes are no exception.

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Fax Spam Act Turns 6 Years Old In July 2011

admin — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:17:13 +0000

NO FAX SPAM

No business wants to be considered Fax SPAMer, especially since it has been illegal since 2005. The Junk Fax Prevention Act passed by Congress in 2005, and signed by President Bush in July, 2005, is relatively easy to follow if you understand the rules. The main rule is that you must have an ongoing relationship with the person or business you are faxing too.

Know Who You Are Faxing To – You must have an ERB (Established Business Relationship) with companies you fax to. This means that you:

Obtained the number directly from the recipient, not through a third party.
If you got the number before 2005 you do not need to prove how you acquired the number. But it is still a good idea to confirm their willingness to receive messages from you.
Inform the recipient that you will be sending them offers or advertisements.

Easy Way to Opt Out is Required – On the first page of your fax you must give a clear, conspicuous way to opt-out. On the first page you must:

Let the recipient know that they may request you no longer send them this type of fax message in the future.

Include a phone number, email, web site address, fax number or other no-cost method o f communicating their desire to no longer receive messages. There must be multiple ways to communicate their desire to be left off your list
The opt-out method must be available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day
You must honor an opt-out request within 30 days or face a possible penalty

How to file a Complaint

Companies and consumers can register complaints with the FCC by filling out an online form. When a company violates the rules then the FCC can issue warning citations and impose fines.

You can read the full Fax Spam Act here.

Disclaimer - This is not intended to be legal advice. Please consult your attorney before embarking on a broadcast faxing campaign.

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