by ZilkerVentures

Created on: April 28, 2008   Last Updated: April 29, 2008

The day a new fax machine lands at the office is the last day that it's top of line. It's also the last day that it's full of toner and paper until more time is expended to maintain it. It's all downhill from there a paper-jammed, humming, screeching, headache-inducing ride downhill. But thanks to the emergence of web products such as online fax services that can replace costly office machines, the small business employee can confidently take a baseball bat to his fax machine with a clear conscience. As the pertinence of email grows and the business world insists on holding on to fax machines, bridge technologies like internet fax services are becoming more and more ubiquitous a phenomenon that FaxCompare.com attempts to highlight.

There are currently dozens of fax providers in this industry ranging from five-employee shops to Fortune 500 leaders. Some of these fax providers include MyFax, RingCentral and TrustFax. J2 Global Communications is a Fortune 500 company that handles several internet fax service brands, such as Rapid Fax and Fax.com, but their most well known brand is eFax. confronted with a wide range of service providers, fax users may find the process of selecting a service to be an added stress to their business.

Further verifying the desire for helpful information and reviews was the discovery that eFax, the market's most well known vendor, charges 70% more than the Market Standard' and includes fewer pages than their top competitors.

Market Standard' for an online fax service according to FaxCompare.com is $10 per month for 300 pages with no start up fee, a 30 day free trial and overage pages for $0.10 per page or less. At those rates, six months of service fees will cost substantially less than most traditional fax machines.

In addition to its Market Standard,' the website offers comprehensive eFax reviews and other eFax comparison information, including need to know' comparison figures regarding eFax service fees. As almost all of the marketing for these services is done on the web, most of the specifics about online fax services is listed by the providers themselves.

Internet faxing will certainly relieve faxers in the long-run. And by discovering more about this contemporary business tool fax senders can maximize benefits and minimize cost. As founder Leo Welder puts it: "With great options like MyFax and RingCentral, unwitting consumers paying above market service fees is clearly the result of a lack of information.

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