Thursday, November 24, 2011

Voicemail contest for Popfax Customers

Popfax.com, the global provider of professional Internet fax services, is pleased to announce a new contest for its customers. Five Amazon.com gift cards (€100 each) are waiting for the participants who send us the best audio spots about the Popfax service: an audio advertising, a thanking or greeting.

Popfax voice mail contestThe contest begins on November 21st, 2011 and is only open to customers who are legal residents of countries where Popfax provides fax numbers: France, USA, UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Netherland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and who have reached the age of majority at the time of entry.

Five winning voicemails (one in each of the following languages: French, English, Italian, Spanish and German) that promote Popfax will be selected by the Popfax.com marketing team and announced on January 9th, 2012. The selection will be made based on the voicemail that promotes the Popfax service in the most remarkable and enjoyable way. The winners will be notified by email and revealed on Popfax’s different social media accounts (including the Popfax Facebook page). The voicemails might be reused in Popfax communication.

“This voicemail contest invites our customers to use more of the features embedded in our unified messaging solution. Indeed, although we are well-known for our professional fax solutions, our service includes many productivity features like Internet fax, SMS, fax email, call transfer and voicemail... We are using this contest as an opportunity to promote the voicemail option to all our current and future customers, some of whom might have not yet discovered it. This feature allows end-users to set up their Popfax account as an answering machine and receive voice messages on the move, either by e-mail or by calling back their number like a traditional answering machine.” said Vladimir Popesco the CEO and founder of Popfax.com.

In order to take part in the contest, customers have to:

  1. Access their Popfax.com account, go to Account Management -> Voice parameters and enable the Voicemail option.
  2. Activate “Email notification” and “Permanent redirection of voice messages to your email box”, then click on “Modify”.
  3. Call their Popfax.com fax number and leave the voicemail related to Popfax that they think will be the “best” audio spot. As a result, they will receive the recorded voicemail in their email.
  4. Register the recorded voicemail in the contest.

More information on the contest’s rules and requirements can be found on the Popfax Facebook page.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Popfax launches a new mobile application for BlackBerry

Popfax.com, the leading European provider of professional Internet fax services has launched the Mobile PopCompanion for BlackBerry. This is a unified messaging application that allows end-users to send and receive faxes, SMSs and voice messages from their smartphones, even when they are on the move. The application is designed to extend the use of Popfax Internet fax services to BlackBerry devices, popular smartphones among Popfax’s professional customers.

The application is free and can be downloaded from the Popfax website or from Blackberry App World. It includes all Popfax features, allowing end-users to:

  • Manage their communication on the move – send faxes or SMSs to Popfax contacts, phone contacts or new contacts. Customize faxes with a cover page, receive notifications of fax delivery.
  • Benefit from instant access to their faxes from anywhere – preview, copy and forward faxes to an email address or another fax number. Only an Internet connection is required; everything else is managed by the PopCompanion application.
  • Organize personal contacts and faxes – manage personal contacts, set up groups of contacts, organize faxes in folders.
  • Benefit from voice features – listen to or download received voice messages, set up the Popfax account as an answering machine.

“Blackberry was the first mobile operating system that optimized email use from a mobile device. We are achieving the same optimization with faxing and unified messaging by Popfax, following our strategy of expanding online fax services to mobile devices. PopCompanion for BlackBerry is the second application that we have launched, after the one for Android. Our next release will be an iPhone application. By having an application on all the top professional mobile platforms, we will now serve most of our customers’ devices,” declared Vladimir Popesco, the General Manager of Popfax.com.

Professionals can now efficiently manage their business workflow with the Mobile PopCompanion, a pocket fax machine.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Winning picture of Popfax summer contest


Congratulations to Vasco Oliveira – the WINNER of the Summer Contest 2011 and new owner of a Samsung Galaxy Tab & Popfax mug!

He was the photographer of the winning picture, showing his summer office, with Popfax connecting him and his business.

Our marketing team appreciated how, with a noticeable touch of humor, Vasco’s picture demonstrated the ubiquity and mobility of Popfax unified messaging solutions, allowing professionals to stay connected with their businesses, whether on the move or on vacation.

“The idea of having a creative contest was hovering in our minds for a long time. The summer holiday period was just the right time to start it. We wanted to demonstrate the efficiency of Popfax unified messaging solutions for professionals out of the office. It was a pleasant experience for all of us, and hopefully for our customers, to be involved in this merry event.” says Vladimir Popesco, the General Manager of Popfax.com.

The Contest was held between July 18th, 2011 and September 2nd, 2011 and was open to all clients with a Popfax number. The winning picture was chosen by the Popfax marketing team, who performed a ranking of all pictures sent in for the contest. The winning picture has also been posted on the Popfax Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Popfax/148396398519818.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Corporate internet fax solutions

Traditional faxing in a large corporation represents a heterogeneous ensemble of telephone lines, fax machines, multifunctional devices, expensive and complex fax servers and the replacement of paper stock and ink cartridges. All this results in intricate systems which are hard to maintain and environmentally unfriendly attitudes that results in unjustified office expense.

A virtual fax solution in a mobile and unified electronic messaging system, like fax to mail, mail to fax, mobile-desktop-web applications helps avoid printing most of your faxes. It would save tons of paper and ink cartridges, remove the need for fax equipment recycling, are wasting annually, conducting to for business owners.

Popfax.com – the leading European provider of Internet fax services, announces its new Corporate offer that provides a complete set of fax solutions that can be tailored to the communication needs of professionals.

The solutions for Corporate customers consists of several aspects of customization and provisioning that Popfax is aiming to face in order to satisfy its clients:
  • Professional services – new Internet fax packages specially designed to fulfill specific companies’ communication needs. These packages are tailored offers for corporations interested in secure faxing, high-volume reception, personalized fax sending and number portability.
  • Global account – a centralized management system, allowing administration and tracking of all fax users within a company.
  • Custom development – the Internet fax service can be tailored and personalized for any communication needs of a company. The Popfax engineering team provides custom IT development on demand, thus expanding Internet fax use to new applications.
  • Premium support – corporate fax solution includes, by default, strong contractual commitments for quality of service, a dedicated project manager and premium hardware and software solutions.
For more information on Popfax corporate offers, please consult the corporate fax solutions page.

“It took years of efforts and improvements to build and offer our professional Internet fax solutions as they are today. Based on our experience providing custom fax solutions to large corporations, we have laid down a methodology and a set of tools in order to speed-up the process of providing our fax solutions to enterprises” says Vladimir Popesco the General Manager of Popfax.com.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

End of Summer Contest!

The Popfax Summer Contest is now over! Thank you for participating and being a part of it! We’ll announce the Winner and owner of the Samsung Galaxy Tab on 10th of September, on our Popfax page on Facebook.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

New Summer Contest for Popfax Customers!

Popfax.com, the leading internet fax service provider, announces the beginning of a summer contest for its customers! The winner will receive a Samsung Galaxy Tab device and a Popfax mug.


The contest begins on July 18, 2011 and is open only to individuals who are legal residents of countries where Popfax provides fax numbers: France, USA, UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Netherland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Georgia, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and are 18 years of age or older.

In order to join the contest, participants have to:
  • Access the http://www.popfax.com page.
  • Subscribe or extend their existing Popfax.com account for a Send & Receive package (1 year Send & receive or PROMO pack) during the contest period, from July 18, 2011 until September 2, 2011.
  • Send an email to contest@popfax.com with their subscription details plus a picture of a strange or funny or unusual situation in relation with Popfax.

When the contest ends on September 2nd, our marketing teams will perform a ranking of the pictures from the customers who have sent a message with the subscription details. The winner will be notified by email and the information will be published on the Popfax Facebook page!

“We are very happy to announce our summer contest along with our new promotional offer. As many business professionals are away from their office this summer, we offer them the chance to win a Samsung Galaxy tab, which will allow them to stay in touch with their businesses: anytime, everywhere. All existing and new customers are welcome to join the contest, the prize is waiting for them!” said Vladimir Popesco, founder and CEO of Popfax.


More information about the Popfax Summer Contest is available on http://www.facebook.com/pages/Popfax/148396398519818 , “Events tab”.