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Check out this site for internet fax options

I’ve been experimenting with this service and actually quite like it. You can sign up with a free trial from different internet fax providers such as efax, myfax, Nextivafax, etc and try out this service. Pretty cool to be honest. They give you a fax number and you are ready to start sending and receiving faxes from your online portal. So definitely convenient if you have a home office with a shared fax and phone line as you no longer need to guess if fax or phone call. The service is fairly cheap as well and although I am still not convinced the technology has any longevity, I’ll keep using it just for the convenience  of having it for the occasionally faxes that I do send or receive. I still try to use email for everything though……scan and email seems to work fine.

Anyway, it is interesting technology for small businesses and definitely worth checking out. Especially if you pay for an extra phone line for your fax.

So what is CRM and why do you need it? Well you don’t REALLY need it but if you want to scale your business you should start looking into at evaluating some options. This is Customer Relationship Management and can help you in multiple areas effectively managing anything from internal sales to external partners. Salesforce.com is one of the most common CRM solutions in the market today but there are a ton of others and it can be overwhelming trying to review them and trial them. The first step should really be in identifying what problem you are trying to solve with your business and then trying to find the simplest solution while keeping it cost effective. These systems can actually be quite cheap, but they can be extremely complex.  To help you out here, I’ll recommend one site that I found to be quite helpful and it is called CRM Review

Starting off with an obvious cost saving and productivity improvement tool. If you don’t have Business VoIP service yet then you are missing out and spending WAY too much on your phone calls. There are some very comprehensive small office services starting in the region of $25 per month per line. WhichVoIP is a pretty neat site that has a ton of listing to help remove some of the confusion around this. Free quote comparisons are a must to get started.

Well finally got this blog going and now it is off to the races. Looking forward to sharing a ton of knowledge on how to help small businesses with a large focus on process optimization via outsourcing and online tools.