When I started out with Purple Star Consulting, I knew I wanted (or needed really) to have a fax number. I looked at some fax machines, all pretty expensive and not within the budget of a new company getting started. Also, I didn’t want to be tied down to having a physical fax machine that I have to use to send and receive faxes. As a consultant working on my laptop, I love that I can do my job from any coffee shop, beach or vacation home in the world! So, I wanted to keep my faxes the same way.

I did some searching online and found e-Fax. I found out that I could get a fax number that sends and receives faxes using my current email address. Click here to check out their site (they have a 30 day FREE trial too!). I need to be able to receive signed service agreements and this service is great. Using a fax number assigned to me, the sender can use their own fax machine and send the sheets of paper through in the usual way. When receiving the fax, it comes through as a PDF attachment to my e-mail address.

The cost for the service is a monthly fee. You get a certain number of free sends and receives, then after that you pay per page. Below is their current costs for their eFax Plus service.

No more buying expensive toner, no more faxes that are difficult to read due to black smudges all over the paper, and no more missing important faxes because you aren’t right by your fax machine! You don’t really have much to lose with trying out the FREE 30 Day trial. If you don’t like it after that, just cancel. Pretty simple!