StartUp Guide
- Launch
- 1. Name Your Business
- 2. Domain Name & Business Website
- 3. Business Email Accounts
- 4. Phone & Fax Number
- 5. Business Mailing Address
- 6. Form an LLC
- 7. Employer ID Number
- 8. Business Bank Account
- Build Your Infrastructure
- 1. Select a Business Credit Card
- 2. Bookkeeping
- 3. Business Computer
- 4. Back Up Your Files
- 5. Payment Processing
- 6. Get Small Business Insurance
- Grow Your Business
- 1. Order Business Cards
- 2. Create Basic Marketing Materials
- 3. Promote With Social Media
- 4. Select an Email Marketing Service
- 5. Build Your Team
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Our Online Fax Review Methodology
General Research
We started by learning as much as we could about the online fax industry. We did this by reading articles, online publications, and information sites such as Wikipedia. Through our research we identified some of the leading companies in the industry, which we used as the starting point for our testing.
We scoured vendors’ websites to get an idea of what they find important; we wanted to understand which features they thought were worth promoting. Going from one vendor to the next we took detailed notes on features we instantly understood and on those that would require further testing.
Testing
Once we became comfortable with online faxing in general, we began obtaining free trials for all of the companies we wanted to review. We used these free trials to not only test the companies’ online fax services but also to learn which features we thought were truly important to the overall success of a product. Using this research we compiled a set of metrics by which all of the companies could be measured.