Saturday, December 16, 2006

Home Businesses And Tax Implications

Any business owner running their own business, large or small, from a home or from an office must maintain excellent records for multiple reasons. One reason is your customer and support of warranties and service that you may provide. Another is the need to file an income tax statement at the end of every tax year that meets the standards of the tax agency you are dealing with in your country. Many business owners recognize early on that it is more efficient and profitable to hire an expert to complete the filing and ensure that they are following all of the latest legal changes to the tax act as well as ensure that they receive all of their taxable deductions that they are entitled to. Most people cannot keep up with the changes and the best method is to delegate to an expert.

There is still a lot the business owner must do and can do to make their lives easier and reduce the cost of the accounting and tax preparation that is required. Fundamentally it is being organized, however there are a number of steps that make this job so much easier. For example, every transaction should be covered by some sort of record, either a paper, or an electronic record. It is surprising how many people do not do this. At a minimum the record should show the date, the description of the item, the quantity, the price, any taxes paid and the customer or seller depending on whether you are selling something or buying something. Documentation is key when it comes to the tax agencies.

Next, depending on volume, set aside time on a daily or weekly basis to put your receipts in order. Complete statements, summarize accounts and organize all of your receipts to make it easy for your accountant to develop your statements. The less time they spend on doing this will usually mean less cost to you. Consider hiring a lower paid clerk to complete the organization of all receipts, payroll etc for you, which is then turned over to the accountant at the appropriate time.

Finally meet with your accountant on a regular basis, usually after your year end and well before your tax statements are due to finalize any tax strategies that you want to put in place for the past year as well as the coming year. Stay organized and you will have a much smoother relationship with your tax department.

Internet Millions - by Ryan Orrell Honest Review

REVIEW: "Internet Millions", by Ryan Orrell, is a refreshing new kind of internet marketing e-book. Although I have been quite successful online, I am always looking to find ways to save time and increase revenue. In just the SEO section alone, I learned a new technique which will greatly increase my revenue. People contact me weekly with requests for me to review their online products. I don't normally have the time to read all of them, but fortunately I received and email and phone call from 32-yr old man named Ryan Orrell. His story of success online as a super-affiliate marketer (making upwards of $40-70,000 dollars per month online) is inspirational and a true testimony that it is possible to achieve the dream of online success. People have huge dreams of making money online, but it takes more than just determination, willpower and hard-work. To learn what it takes to make a full-time income online can sometimes takes YEARS. Ryan Orrell created an e-book with more than 150 pages full of detailed information explaining exactly how he created a huge online empire and how you can do the same. It is not full of hype; but contains all of what he has learned over the past 8 years of successfully working online.

Positive: The e-book covers a wide range of topics and includes a chapter for the novice or beginner internet marketer. Chapter 3 was extremely useful for me, as well as the 45 page-chapter on Search Engine Optimization. I already have experience in SEO, but Ryan's e-book opened my eyes up to different methods which have been extremely successful in his SEO campaigns. The SEO section blew me away, and I would have purchased that info for three times the price of the e-book - just that one chapter is worth a lot of money. Ryan has a proven track record of success online, and he even sold a website for over a million dollars (sorry I cannot disclose the details due to privacy reasons related to the company which purchased it). Personally, Ryan is a down-to-earth, friendly guy who cares about the success of his customers (unlike many internet marketers out there today). I believe in his product and I highly recommend it.

Negative: Some of the techniques are a bit complex for the total beginner. The techniques are explained and broken down, but for a total newbie - it could be overwhelming. But, if you are a newbie you need to be willing to step up (not step out) and familiarize yourself with internet marketing lingo and terms.

Friday, December 15, 2006

Online Affiliate Programs - Five Reassuring Things To Remember

Online affiliate programs offer ordinary people the chance to make money online in a relatively simple manner. Being an affiliate for online programs is like being a retailer: you sell other people's products and get paid commission on your sales. The rate of commission paid by an online affiliate program varies but it will mostly fall within the 40%-70% bracket. Don't be put off by the offer of 70% commissions because it seems too high. Commissions at this level are not uncommon.

Quick Start-Up

When you sign up to an online affiliate program, you get immediate access to saleable goods in the form of products or services. You don't have to invent a product or research the potential market for a new service. The owner of the affiliate program has already gone through the time consuming and expensive development and testing phase, you can start promoting the product right away. If you join a good online affiliate program, you will be provided with a free website, advice on marketing and other resources (eg members' forums) which vary between the different affiliate programs. It's only day one and you are in business!

No Stock or Inventory

As a member of an online affiliate program, you won't have to worry about having space to store stock. You don't have to handle stock, so you can be an affiliate selling anything from cd's to wide screen TV's. You don't have to deal with the hassle of packaging and posting goods to customers. Your affiliate website is the door to your warehouse, orders placed there will be filled direct by the online affiliate program owner. The only thing you have to handle is promotion of your affiliate website.

Anywhere In The World 24/7

As an affiliate for an online affiliate program, you are not limited by geographical boundaries and shipping costs are not your concern. You can be an online affiliate from anywhere in the world and your customers can originate from anywhere in the world. With an online affiliate program, your business is always open (even if you are on vacation or fast asleep). The Internet never sleeps, it is always daytime somewhere in the world.

No Accounting Worries

Members of online affiliate programs don't have to handle payments or get involved with receipts or refunds or any other sort of cash transaction with customers. The owner of the affiliate program deals with all those issues (which will mostly be automated), the only financial transaction which involves the affiliate is the receipt of commissions on sales made through the affiliate website.

Be Your Own Boss

Last but definitely not least! As a member of an online affiliate program, you get to be your own boss, working the hours you choose. You have full flexibility to fit your work in around your family commitments. With an automated online affiliate program you can make your own schedule, even working in the middle of the night if you want. Your income potential is unlimited. When you are your own boss, you decide your own level of income, you get to keep everything you earn instead of lining somebody else's pockets through your efforts.

Is Perfection Hurting Your Home-Based Business?

One of the biggest obstacles I had to overcome when building my business was accepting imperfection and moving forward anyway.

There's no doubt perfection is mandatory for some professions like accounting, dentistry or medicine. As one of your clients or patients, I would expect you to settle for nothing less than perfection when calculating my taxes or assessing my health.

But for the majority of business owners, perfection doesn't need to be as rigid, at least in certain areas ... let me explain.

If you have a product or service that could prove potentially harmful or fatal if not perfected prior to release, then by all means it should not be released until it has passed rigorous (or industry standard) testing and received the stamp of approval.

But in other areas of business like sending out regular communications, creating campaigns, or developing products and services that aren't potentially harmful, insisting on perfection can seriously hinder your success.

Look at Microsoft. Almost every year they release a new version of Windows. And the automotive industry ... every year there are new designs, added accessories and discontinued features.

There's no such thing as perfection with certain things -- only innovation. You begin with something then improve upon it.

Your product or service will evolve as your clients and customers offer feedback or request more of one thing, less of another or something different altogether.

In the case of creating promotional pieces, the results they generate will help you measure their level of success so you can go back to the drawing board to improve and expand.

Split testing is a great way to measure performance. Pick the winner of the split test, try to improve on it and test again.

I can't recall how many hours I wasted trying to have every "i" dotted and "t" crossed on my first web site. I spent more time worrying about grammar and sentence structure than whether or not it was making me money.

It was around that time my marketing coach told me, "You don't have to get it perfect. You just have to get it going." Every minute I spent focused on the minor details was time not focused on the big picture.

This may not be the most comforting advice, but it's true -- there will not be another time your product or service will be any worse than the first time you put it out there.

And once it's out and feedback begins to come in, you can begin the process of improving and perfecting.

Sit back and take a few moments to review the projects you're currently working on. If you can honestly say you're swimming in insignificant details, move past the need for perfection and just get it going.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Internet Marketing and Gender Knowing Your Buyer(s) Will Increase your Bottom Line

Before you begin your marketing campaign, you must first understand the audience you’re targeting, beginning with their interests, experience, and expectations. As you may expect, there are many differences among Internet user groups categorized by gender, age, income, and other demographic factors. Internet users vary in areas such as techno-savvy, frequency of use, or purpose for usage.

These differences may be surprising. It’s challenging to first interpret the data, and then modify your marketing strategy to meet the demands of the users in your niche. To simplify this process, take a look at some of the gender-related trends outlined below and the business lessons they teach.

Gender differences and SERPs

Let’s first consider exactly who uses the Internet. *Two-thirds of the American population is now online. On an average day, there are about 68 million people online, who make up approximately 53% of all Internet users. 86% of women aged 18-29 are online, but only 80% of men in that range are. Of those Internet users who are 65 or older, 34% of the men are online - but only 21% of the women.

Gender differences also play a role in Internet and search engine usage. Men seem to show a greater interest in technology over communication online. Some 88% of male users have used search engines: 40% of males use them daily, and 28% several times per day. Only 27% of women online search daily, with just 16% searching multiple times per day.

Recent data also show that 43% of men have heard of the distinction between paid and unpaid search engine results, whereas only 32% of females are aware of this difference. 54% of men report confidence in their search ability, while only 40% of women do so.

It’s important to remember that these last figures are based on self-reporting. Gender differences that emerge from online self-evaluation may reveal more about technological self-confidence, or the types of searches performed, than anything else.

Income, buying, and gender

An interesting relationship exists between income and gender in relation to Internet usage. For men and women with incomes under $30,000, the percentages are almost equal, at 49% and 48%. There is, however, a shift to 66% of men and 76% of women online with incomes between $30,000-$50,000.

In the income range $50,000-$75,000, the numbers level again at 84% men and 87% women. The figures diverge again slightly for those making over $75,000 at 90% men, 95% women.

In households with an income of less than $30,000 per year, only 29% use search engines on a typical day. That number rises to 37% for household incomes between $30,000 and $49,999. It rises again, to 47%, in the $50,000-75,000 range, and to 52% for households earning over $75K per year.

Business Plans For Franchises

A sound business plan is vital to the survival and health of your business. It is your roadmap and guide for growing the company. Without this plan, you are left guessing, and you cannot sift through the tons of tasks that need to done to set your priorities straight.

A business plan articulates where you want to lead your company, what support and programs you need to achieve your vision and goals. The plan lays out your strategies, the potential problems that you foresee and your organizational structure. It also presents the financial resources you need and how you intend to use them.

It is a document that you always go back to and measure your performance and achievements against. A business plan is also used when you have to borrow from a bank. Usually, traditional financial institutions require that you present them with a concrete plan to prove just how serious you are about growing your business. This document also comes in handy when you are attracting investors and partners. Through this document, you can fully describe the nature of your business, your strengths and your areas of growth.

Any business school d prescribes a standard format for presenting a business plan. It has basically three major parts: the business concept, the marketplace section and the financial section. It also has seven key components: executive summary, business description, market strategies, competitive analysis, design and development plan, operations and management plan and the financial factors.

The business concept tackles your business environment- your organizational structure, your flagship products and services and your growth strategy. The marketplace section profiles your target market- identifying them and analyzing their buying routine and what could attract them away from your competitor. The financial section, prepared with your accountant or financial adviser, describes your financial status- income and cash flow. It also presents certain financial scenarios. You may also use a spreadsheet program.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

What is Internet Marketing and How It Can Bring You Money!

Ever since the development of the internet, the internet marketing has continuously grown and it is today one of the most profitable businesses. It has many shapes and sizes, from people who make a small revenue to real giants who make millions and billions of dollars. If you want to get your hands on a piece of the big pie, you have to know that competition is fierce, but with a little bit of luck and a lot of commitment, it can be done.

First of all, what is internet marketing? Moreover, what is marketing itself? Many people when they hear the term “marketing” they think of MLM, and many companies think that marketing means training a few persons and throwing them into the street to sell their products. These are common mistakes, and marketing is much more than that.

In the decades before the internet, there was a product-oriented marketing strategy. Nowadays, the smart business persons have realized that an effective marketing strategy is a client-oriented one. Managing to satisfy your customers, that’s the key to success. If you do that, the word about your products’ high quality will spread around an entire network of potential customers, because of people’s talkative nature.

Virtually anything and everything is being marketed nowadays on the internet, and will be to an ever more extent in the future. If you hear people who say that making money online is not possible, ignore them, because the internet is the way of the future. Millions of people go shopping on the internet, and this market is continuously growing.

I believe that the key of successful online money making is specialization. Given the great number of marketers available out there, the way to go is originality. I mean, let’s say you want to open a bookstore. Now, if done in an offline conventional way, unless you have a very fat budget, you’re lucky if you manage to penetrate your city’s market.

Now, if you were to make an online bookstore, the possibilities are infinite. You have every internet surfer as a potential buyer and it’s your choice how you attract them. Still, if you are from England and the books are delivered from there, maybe a person from Japan feels more comfortable to go a few streets away than to buy from you. That’s where specialization comes in.

Let’s say you like playing the guitar. If you open a bookstore with guitar books, a Japanese person would really consider buying from you and going through all the payment and delivery procedures. Sure, your targeted market narrows a lot, because not every person wants to learn how to play guitar, but it’s still a very, very large one. Moreover, the guitar playing internet surfers will be delighted about having a site with guitar books.

In your internet marketing strategies, you can also sell other merchants’ products. If we were to go back to that guitar example, you could make a very cool website about guitars. Then, after you manage to get a big number of visitors to your website, you can make affiliate associations with partners who sell guitar-related products. In other words, if your visitors click on your website’s links to your partners and buy something from them, you get a commission.

10 Secrets and Tips for Writing Better Solo Ads (Part 1)

Here are 10 secrets and tips for writing a better ‘Solo Advertisement'. This is part 1 of 3 articles that should be very helpful with improving all your advertising. This article is just the beginning. In parts 2 and 3 we'll get into more advanced secrets and tips. But to write great ads all of these tips need to be a part of your ad writing process.

1) Have a great subject line – Spend a lot of time writing your subject line. This is the most important part of your ad. It will determine whether or not your ad will be read. Don't make the subject too long. A power word, such as "free" or "save" may help. It has to interesting and believable with no hype. You will be competing with a lot of other subject lines in everyone's email boxes. It's got to be compelling enough to get people to click on it before they will ever see your advertisement.

2) Have a profitable webpage – Make sure your website is making sales before you start spending a lot on ezine ads, This is very important! In fact it would probably be very profitable to hire someone to improve your salespage/website before you send any serious traffic to it. You can write the best advertisement ever but you still won't make any money if your website doesn't convert visitors into paying customers.

3) Target your ezine – This is very important - Make sure the ezine you advertise in is targeted to what you're selling! If you're selling internet marketing products don't advertise in ezines about making toy trains. To search for your related ezines you can use: ‘The Directory of Ezines' at: http://www.directoryofezines.com It's a little expensive at $147 for lifetime or $67 annually. But you should never be afraid to invest in your business.

4) Spam filter check – Make sure you check all your ads against the spam filters! What if you created a killer ad with a great subject line and you spend $700 to send it out in this perfect ezine – and the spam filters trashed it and no one ever got to see your ad? Can it happen? Yes all the time. You have to make sure not to use any words that will get picked up by the spam filters. Here's one you can use: http://www.ezinecheck.com/check.html

5) Spelling check – You'll want all your advertisements to look very professional without any misspelled words. So spell check your ads every time before you send them out.

6) Format your ads – Make sure your ad is formatted correctly. http://www.web-source.net/format_text.htm Lots of ads need to be formatted to 60 or 65 characters per line or else they may look very strange when they are published.

7) Subscribe before you advertise – If you subscribe to the ezine you can learn a lot more about it. And you'll also know for sure when your ad is sent out.

8) Don't sell in your ad – Remember your ad is to get people to visit your website not to sell. Your website will do the selling for you. So you'll want to write your ad to get as many people as possible to visit your website.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Atlanta Family Lawyers

Family law in the United States relates to family issues. It covers a very extensive set of issues ranging from marriage and cohabitation, to divorce and child custody. These days, even a happy occasion like a marriage involves a legal agreement between the parties in order to have a mutually beneficial future. In case of marriage, a premarital agreement has to be entered into, which is more or less a written contract that specifies how the property would be divided between the couple and how the alimony would be planned in case the marriage ends in divorce.

This agreement is based on several laws that protect the interests of the couple. These also include other issues like inheritance and power of attorney to make healthcare decisions. Even in cases of non-marital decisions where a couple decides to live together without getting married, a legal and formal contact may be entered into defining the legal rights of both partners in the relationship.

In any case, it is important to consult a good legal expert, more likely a lawyer who has specialized in the area of family law.

Even divorce cases, the settlement becomes easier if an experienced family lawyer is involved in the mediation process. Since a divorce involves several issues like property, inheritance, child custody, alimony etc, a good family lawyer could make the whole affair less messy and less time consuming.

Family law in Atlanta is determined by rules under the local, state and federal governments. To settle a family dispute smoothly, it is important to consult a good family lawyer who can provide advice as per Atlanta state regulations.

Information about Atlanta family lawyers is available in the yellow pages or through search engines like Google and Yahoo on the Internet. It is also available through advertisements of law firms in magazines and newspapers. The American Bar Association has a referral service that provides information about family lawyers. There are also attorney directories available on the Internet that provide comprehensive information about Atlanta family lawyers. Information can also be found through the county bar association and other professional law associations. Friends, family members or co-workers can also be a good source.

Making Money with Articles - Using the Yahoo Search Marketing Tools to Retrieve Free Keywords

When making money with articles, you need to find the perfect keywords to make your niche sites a success. However, many times it is expensive to utilize paid keyword search tools. For this reason, some new marketers may prefer to try and find their keywords for free. One of the best ways to do this is to use the free Yahoo Search Marketing tools that you can find on their website.

First, go to the Yahoo website and choose Search Marketing under Yahoo Advertising Solutions. Scroll down to and click on Sponsored Search. You will see a section that says “How many searches can your business get?” where you will type in the main keyword of your decided niche. This will bring up a list a of words that have your niche subject in them and tell you how many people searched for that particular word the previous month.

To get an idea of what the competition is like, take each word that had a substantial amount of searches and input it into the Yahoo search engine using parenthesis. This will give you a good idea of how many people search for a particular keyword and how many sites you will be in competition with for the top spots on the first two pages.

This will of course take a lot more time than a paid software program and it may not give you all of the great ideas that a program might. On the other hand, it will be free and give you extra funds for other parts of your website.

If you can do this for free on your own, search engine optimize your site on your own, and write your own content, then the only thing you will have to spend money on is a website URL and web hosting. This is a great idea for those who have little to no start up cash, a lot of time on their hands, are quick learners, and can wait for the profits to start coming in (which will pretty much be pure profit).

However, if you prefer to go the easy route and utilize a keyword generating software program, you can find many online. Some are more popular than others and have been a proven way for people to dig up valuable keywords for their niche sites.

Monday, December 11, 2006

My Top Website Traffic Generation Techniques

I recently conducted a 2 1/2 hour teleseminar that I entitled "Website Traffic Generation Techniques That Work." I conducted the teleseminar for two reasons:

1) I was partnering with two esteemed clients/friends in creating an in-demand product. Our combined knowledge and experience guaranteed a website traffic generation product better than any similar product that I'd seen recently!

2. I was tired of seeing so many people with websites getting practically ZERO traffic when it is so easy. I wanted to explain to my subscribers and clients, in a plain-English fashion, some very effective but simple methods of getting visitors to their websites.

My websites currently get so much traffic that, while we could always use more traffic, I no longer worry about getting website traffic. I've reached what my friend Jack Humphrey termed critical mass - that point at which one could actually stop promoting for a while and the traffic would continue.

When you look at website traffic generation - big picture - it's just a matter of identifying where your ideal traffic is, and "standing in front of it!" Here's are just a few ways that I do that. We covered many more in the teleseminar.

These are all fast and easy to implement:

- Article Writing - Write 300 - 1000 word articles on topics that your market cares about. Make sure that the articles address a problem, worry or challenge that your market faces. In the article point them to solutions that they can find on your website. It's that simple.

- Affiliate Programs - With an affiliate program, you have others send you traffic, and you don't spend a penny until that traffic converts into sales.

You can set up a simple affiliate program selling an ebook through Clickbank or PayDotCom.com and have an army of people working hard to send you customers in no time.

If you don't have a product, you can take private label products, and with a little effort, create products that your market will be clamoring for, and that affiliates will be thrilled to market for you. The best duplicable SYSTEM that I've seen for doing this was developed by Louis Burleson. You can learn all about Louis' easy to implement system at: http://NoHypeInternetMarketing.com/TheKey/

- Ebay Sales - With over 100 million registered users, Ebay is simply too big to ignore as a source of traffic. The most important thing about that incredible number of Ebay users is that they are buyers. They visit Ebay with credit card in hand, and all you need to do is be there with the products that they are looking for.

By some estimates that I've seen, Ebay gets MORE searches per day than Google!

There are dozens of ways for you to lure some of those millions of visitors to your website. Ebay even makes it easy for you to sift through their database and see WHAT the most common things are that people are searching for. What could be easier? You sift through their database, determine what lots of their users are searching for and then create simple information product that cater to those concerns. Then you advertise on Ebay, extremely inexpensively, letting people know that you have the solutions over at your website.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Personal Bankruptcy Laws

Individuals can file for personal bankruptcy as a last ditch effort when their credit reaches the limit. This helps them clear out a few debts by selling their assets and starting a whole new life without creditors beating at their door. The gives them an opportunity to start afresh without credit worries since creditors have no more right to press collection charges.

Presently, individuals can file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 or Chapter 13. Chapter 7 involves liquidating all the assets to pay off the creditors. Chapter 13 involves registering a plan to pay of the creditors from the monthly wages of the debtor within a specified amount of time. However, new laws passed by the President in 2005 might make the options for filing the case under Chapter 7 a bit more narrow and might force most individuals to file a bankruptcy case under Chapter 13 instead.

Chapter 13 requires the individuals to provide proof of income, as the whole law is based on the individual’s steady income. If the debtor fails to pay the monthly credit amount, the case might be dismissed from the court and will require the individual to file for bankruptcy all over again.

When an individual files for bankruptcy, it does provide him with a fresh start, but the credit bureaus keep records of the bankruptcy details and this might affect the debtor's credit rating for the next 10 years. However, some banks currently offer a new kind of credit card that requires some initial security payment that will help build up the credit rating so that things are almost normal by two to three years.

The new law also requires the individual to take up credit counseling at least six months before filing for bankruptcy, which means the individual has to go through a licensed lawyer to file the case.

Performance Management Software

Managers, like everyone else, want their performance positively appraised. They seek approval. Even if individual managers have full freedom to act in accordance with the currently conceived social responsibilities, they might not do so because of standards applied in evaluating their performance. That’s where the performance management software plays a helping hand.

Therefore, if their success is measured by profit, living within a budget, tax collection as a percentage of income, or the volume of blood contributed to a blood bank, managers will tend to strive for excellence in these regards. If success is measured in familiar terms – such as pollution control, the number of reformed convicts returned successfully to society, the dollar support for employees seeking university degrees, the ratio of “disadvantaged” to total number of employees, achievements in raising the productivity of subordinates, or combinations of these and similar goals – then managers will strive to achieve them.

The most appropriate standards to use for appraising managers as managers are the fundamentals of management. It is not enough to appraise a manager broadly, evaluating only performance of the basic functions of the manager; appraisal should go further. The best approach, also been used by the performance management software is to utilize the basic techniques and principles of management as standards.

If they are basic, as they have been found to be in a wide variety of managerial positions and environments, they should serve as reasonably good standards. As crude as they may be, and even though some judgment may be necessary in applying them to practice, they give the evaluator some benchmarks for measuring how well subordinates understand and are following the functions of managing. They are definitely more specific and more applicable than evaluations based on such broad standards as work and dress habits, cooperation, intelligence, judgment or loyalty. They at least focus attention on what may be expected of a manager as a manager.

The Top Benefits Of Using An Internet Fax Service

If you're not presently using an Internet or email fax service you could be losing out on a lot of benefits and advantages. Any company or individual must closely examine the benefits of using Internet fax, you may be pleasantly surprised at what you will discover.

First, as you probably already know, Internet or email faxing uses the Internet and your email system to send and receive faxes. You simply sign up with an Internet fax service provider and receive the use of a Toll free or local fax number for a small monthly fee. You can check and send faxes from your own online login control panel and you can also store your faxes online.

Once you start using an Internet fax service you will realize it has many advantages. Here's a quick run-down at what you will find:

1. Lower Costs

The set-up cost of any Internet fax service is much cheaper. There is no need for a traditional fax machine and NO need for an extra phone line. This will save you or your company money in the short term and over the long haul. If your faxing requirements or needs are very minimal, you can sign up for a lite service with very inexpensive monthly or yearly fees. Some yearly fees are as low as $20 or monthly fees under $5.

2. Convenient And Portable

Internet fax is very convenient and portable, you can access it anywhere, anytime - wherever you find the Internet. And these days that's just about anywhere on the planet.

Because it's web based, you are not tied down to the office fax machine or limited to any physical location. Online fax services are perfect for mobile professionals and business travelers. It is also ideal for those people who work in the field: real estate agents, sales people, medical personnel, engineers and architects. Those workers will find Internet fax is flexible, portable and very convenient to have.

3. Scalable For Any Business

Internet fax is completely scalable to meet any company's faxing needs, big or small. Most Internet fax services will offer special rates for large scale fax broadcasting and other faxing requirements of large businesses. It can be a good alternative faxing service for most companies, one that is easier to manage and run. A viable alternative to the old fax machine whose days may just be numbered.

4. It's Easier and Less Messy!

Internet fax is very easy to do, just attach a TIF, PDF, or JPG file to an email and hit send. It is also a lot cleaner, no more messy inks or paper jams. It truly is faxing simplified.

5. Internet Fax Is Progressive

Not to sound like a technical or business snob but Internet faxing is the modern way to fax. In our increasing technical world, it is probably the right route to take, unless we want our company or business perceived as operating in the dark ages. Granted, this is more a perception than actual fact. Many companies and workers would rather have their work confined to the office and the old fax machine - don't bother me after business hours, thank you please!