REALTOR® Success Tool: Web Based Faxing

Last month when AAR Past President Mike Wasmann joined John Hall & Associates we had a quick discussion about web based faxing.  He wasn’t looking for the $FREE.99 MongoFax from AAR. He wanted a fax number he could put on his business cards that would forward all faxed documents directly to his email. On the flip-side, the service would allow him to send a fax as an email and have it arrive on his client’s regular fax machine.  I normally refer to this as efaxing, except efax is an actual company.  So in this article we’ll call it web based faxing instead.

Since my conversation with Mike, I had a chance to help teach a real estate technology class (GRI 314).  Web based faxing was one of the topics and the class jump started this list.  Then I touched base with a few more REALTORS® and added their recommendations to the list.

This is a list of no wrong answers.  This whole list was compiled by recommendations from REALTORS® – no googling needed!

I had to add a picture from this scene in Office Space

Each service has it’s own little quirks.  For example, the amount of time varies that they’ll store your fax history.  Some of the services require a special program to be installed on your computer, some don’t.  Some offer toll-free numbers for free, some charge.  I’ve heard efax.com is the only one that will allow you to transfer an existing fax number.  However, the only company I actually spoke with was MyFax.com.  The sales guy was very knowledgeable about their web based faxing technology and why their service dropped less faxes, etc.  He did say a toll-free number was included in their monthly charge.  If I were pulling the trigger today, it would probably be between myfax.com (sales guy I spoke with: 888.733.0000 x313) and the lowest cost option onesuite.com.

If you’re already using an internet faxing service – leave a comment and tell us who and why you like it!  If you have yet to sign-up for one, well then, here’s to adding a great tool to your REALTOR® toolbox!