There are many people that frequently have the need to send and receive faxes. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to send and receive faxes without having to deal with the hassles of owning a traditional fax machine?

If you have online access, then there is a remedy to the traditional fax machine issue. There are several Internet faxing services that allow you to send and receive faxes online for a small monthly cost.

Using fax over Internet has some tremendous advantages over a traditional fax machine. Most likely the best advantage is that you do not need to have a dedicated phone line for your fax machine. With an online faxing service, you have a dedicated phone number that is available around the clock to receive faxes, all without the expense of a separate phone line.

Online faxing service also has the advantage of being able to be used from many locations. You can literally be anywhere on the planet and receive a fax, as long as you have Internet service. Faxes can be received attached to an email, or you can go online to your online fax service to view faxes.

You also do not need to be able to use a printer if changes are needed to the faxes you receive online. Many web fax services come with software that lets you make changes to faxes you receive, and even be able to sign documents, without needing to have a hard copy of the fax.

By using a web send faxes online solution, you can save some money and are not tied to a single location to be able to send and receive faxes from. Using a web faxing service is definitely a smart choice if you need to use a fax machine only occasionally.

Whether you are an infrequent fax user, or need a faxing service on a daily basis, there is a web fax service that is right for you. Start saving money today by using an Internet fax solution!

You have set up your online business website. Everything you need for a well functioning website is there: links, signg up page, product description, everything. But why don’t you have a single sale made since? Simple! You have no traffic coming in to your site. Worse, nobody even knows that your website exists.

And, it’s not just any traffic you need. You need targeted traffic to your website. Meaning, you need to invite people who would actually want to buy whatever it is you’re offering. To achieve increased in visitor traffic, you need to advertise your website. And remember that there are more differences in online business and offline business advertisement than there are similarities.

The most popular method to advertise a website is to write articles for article marketing campaign.

For the right person, article marketing can be totally free. If you know how to write articles, you can find free article directories on the Web where you can submit your articles for publishing. This is how you launch your campaign relatively no cost at all.

Article marketing is useful in establishing your authority over your niche. When you gain an authority status, it’s much easier for you to sell your product since people have more trust in you. Authority websites also gain higher search engine ranking – another free way to search engine optimize your website.

By writing articles, you know you get targeted traffic to your website. Only people with particular interest to your niche will read your piece so that you know if you carry them to your business website, they will find what you’re offering interesting. You are sure your efforts will not go to waste.

However, you must remember one important point when you write article and start your article marketing strategy. Remember to cater to your readers’ needs and not to yours. That is to say know what your readers would like to read about your niche. To do this, you must join forums or chat rooms where your target audiences post questions for you to answer. Once you know your readers by heart, you can write a piece purposely dedicated to them.

Realize the power of article marketing for your online business, and before you know it, the profit starts pouring in. If you keep in mind to put service first above profit in your article marketing campaign, your success is near.

In mid-2008, Rasmussen conducted a poll to find out how Americans felt about Internet regulation.  49% said that they thought the government should regulate the Internet in much the same way that it regulates radio and television.

This trend toward government regulation of the Internet is due to fears about children being exposed to online violence or pornography and abuse by social networking predators. 

A Glance at Censorship.

Censorship of Internet content is on the rise, and it is not just limited to communist China anymore.  By way of example, in the UK, a page within Wikipedia (and in some instances, the entire Wikipedia site) was blocked from UK web viewers because someone filed a complaint with the IWF, a quasi-governmental agency.  An album cover was viewed as offensive and inappropriate. Since it was a photo of a physical good, there was the possibility that Amazon’s US auction and shopping content would be blocked from UK viewers.

Also in the censorship arena is the increasing volume of politicians who are complaining about blogs not correctly reporting the facts about their campaigns or other political events.  The regulatory environment may be further impacted by journalists and mainstream media who are seeing online content take a bite out of their readership and sales.  While news and political reporting are not currently regulated in the United States, it would not be surprising if politicians begin to talk about licensing requirements or some form of authority ranking for blog owners and other online reporters.

Nationwide Filtering.

If it becomes law, Australia’s ‘great firewall’ will be the most restrictive mandatory government control of the Internet in the world’s democratic countries.  Ostensibly for filtering out child pornography, the firewall has fueled intense debate, including free speech arguments.  The government reportedly will ban at least 1300 websites, but it has not disclosed exactly what sites are on the banned list.  Although the filter is not completely accurate and its effectiveness is therefore questionable, it slows down Internet speeds by up to 86%. 

Internet Taxes.

On a federal level in the United States, there have been rumors about Internet taxation for many years but nothing has come of it.  Many Americans, including Congressional representatives, are leery of an Internet sales tax.  Budget-challenged state governments, on the other hand, are eyeing the Internet as a source of revenue.  For instance, the state of New York has imposed a tough state sales tax law that would make non-resident vendors responsible for reporting taxes on sales to New York residents.  Amazon, which has affiliates all over the world, has sued, and as of this writing, a decision has not been rendered.  Do not be surprised if Internet taxation becomes an issue in upcoming years.

Licensing and Disclosures.

There has been talk by some legislators about licensing Internet use.  Their reasoning is that is a person has to get a license to drive a car, then he or she needs to get a license to surf the Internet’s information highway.  To get a license, users would have to pass a test on basic Internet and computer knowledge, such as how to use email, how to run an anti-virus program and so on.  While it is unlikely that this idea will gain traction, it is not unreasonable to speculate that content writers will need to follow licensing and disclosure requirements for their web publications.  With copyright violations, politicians griping about the accuracy of news, and regulations concerning what can and cannot be said with respect to medical or health related products online, public accountability is not a far fetched idea.  For instance, the new Internet regulations in Canada (if passed in February 2009) will address Canadian content and copyright issues and might impose a ranking system on websites that is similar to movie ranking systems.  Given the opinion of many Americans that the Internet should be regulated in the same way that radio and television is regulated, the logical conclusion is that Internet publishers will need to register with whatever agency is created to administer online media.

Conclusion.

The above examples provide a glimpse into what the future may hold when it comes to Internet regulation.  Given the increasing public opinion that the Internet should be regulated, it is likely that we Internet publishers will see an increasing amount of regulatory proposals that may affect us.

One thing that web publishers can do, right now, to start to protect themselves is to include a legally sound privacy policy statement on their websites.    You can find out how to write a privacy policy at the NotGuru blog.

From time to time, Internet regulation and trends are reviewed here:  Internet Regulation articles at the NotGuru blog.