eFax.com Signs Up Over 100,000 Users in Less Than One Month
Breakthrough Free Fax-to-Email Service Receives
Rave Reviews from Road Warriors, Home Office
Workers and Small Business Owners
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1999--eFax.com (NASDAQ: EFAX - news), a leading Internet document communication provider, announced today that its free consumer service called, ''eFax.com,'' has signed up over 100,000 users in less than one month of operation.
eFax.com offers a fax number to individuals so they can receive private faxes to their own email account. eFax.com has quickly caught on with thousands of mobile professionals, small business owners, and home office workers who are seeking faster, more efficient, and more reliable ways to overcome the frustrations and hassles of trying to receive paper documents remotely. As the first company to provide such a free, unlimited Internet service, eFax.com is setting a new standard with its easy-to-use, proprietary fax-to-email delivery technology.
''eFax.com has become an indispensable tool, especially when I am on the road and require fast, reliable, and secure transmission of documents,'' said Tom Kippola, managing partner of the Chasm Group, a high-tech, market strategy consulting firm located in San Mateo, Calif. ''With my eFax.com account, I can receive faxed documents anywhere, at anytime, all from the convenience of my laptop.''
This free service unites the 500 million global fax users with 100 million email users. In effect, eFax.com turns every standard fax machine into an Internet on-ramp. For millions of on-the-go professionals, this is a revolution in their document communication -- reducing paper clutter and making faxing accessible -- anywhere at anytime.
''eFax.com has quickly gained the leadership position in fax-to-email,'' said FaxWire Editor Peter Davidson. ''The eFax.com service is simple enough to actually change communication habits of both individual users and corporations. People are able to manage paper faxes in an integrated fashion with their email accounts. It's a market with millions of potential users over the next few years.''
''We are very pleased to have reached the 100,000 user mark in less than a month, ahead of our expectations,'' said Rudy Prince, president and CEO of eFax.com. ''We're also seeing strong usage, with about a quarter of a million pages processed in the first month. More importantly, the customer feedback has been exceptional, indicating strong interest in our future revenue-generating premium services and corporate programs. While the initial first-to-market press did a great job kicking off sign-ups in the first week, our recent advertising programs -- including banners, coupled with some ads in newspapers and radio -- are creating new market reach and are building additional momentum.''
eFax.com is easy to get and simple to use. Users go to www.efax.com to sign up for their personal eFax number and with minimal registration information they are quickly provided their free, individual fax-to-email number. The number is like any other fax number with an area code and seven digits. Paper faxes are sent to an eFax.com number from any standard fax machine and automatically
routed via the eFax.com Service Center. There, eFaxes are converted to digital form, compressed and password protected (if requested), then forwarded to the users' email accounts for fast downloads.
For more information, visit www.efax.com, or call eFax.com at 1-877-EFAXCOM, 650/324-0600,
or fax 650/326-6003.
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