| SET UP A PORTABLE WORLDWIDE OFFICE FOR | | | | just double click to view or listen. You can store |
| LESS THAN $50 PER MONTH! | | | | or reroute all your messages via your free email |
| Would you like to learn how to set up a fully | | | | account facilities. And JFAX also enables you to |
| portable office? No matter where you live or if | | | | send faxes at low cost. |
| you are moving, your contact information will | | | | Visit the JFAX site and follow the simple |
| move with you. Whether you are on business in | | | | instructions to activate your new phone/fax |
| France, vacationing in Greece, sizing up property in | | | | number and to download the JFAX software |
| Brazil, or living in Timbuktu, your contact | | | | (free of charge). I have a London number with |
| information will stay the same. No matter how | | | | JFAX, and I have found the service foolproof and |
| often you move around, you can now be | | | | efficient. I have also found the company’s |
| instantly accessible to friends, family, and even | | | | after-sales service to be first-class. |
| your bank manager! Your portable office system | | | | Step 3: A Permanent Postal Address: |
| means your postal address, email addresses, | | | | Finally, you need to set up a postal address |
| telephone and fax numbers need never change | | | | where all your essential mail can be sent to and |
| again regardless of your physical whereabouts. | | | | from where it can be forwarded on to you. One |
| Technology has made your portable office | | | | way to do this is to get a P.O. box address. In |
| possible. You can set one up too! It’s | | | | the United States, this can cost as little as $100 |
| simple and for less than $50 per month! Let me | | | | per year, less than $10 per month. Go to the |
| tell you how! | | | | post office complete with a photo ID and |
| Step 1: Your FREE Email Account: | | | | complete a form. Once you pay three months in |
| Set up unlimited personal email accounts without | | | | advance, plus a deposit for the keys, |
| spending a cent. You don’t need to have | | | | you’re in business. In Europe, I’ve |
| your own computer or to pay monthly rental | | | | found P.O. boxes cost considerably more than the |
| fees. You can set up free email accounts online. | | | | U.S. equivalent. There, using privately operated |
| Connect to the Internet at a Cybercafe or use a | | | | accommodation addresses is a cheaper way to |
| friend’s or employer’s machine. Visit | | | | go. You can find accommodation-address |
| any of the following sites and follow the simple | | | | operators in the Yellow Pages or your local |
| instructions to set up free, personal, fully portable | | | | equivalent under Office Services or |
| email addresses: | | | | Secretarial Services. |
| Once your email address is operational, you can | | | | Once your account is up and running, have all your |
| hand out the address to your contacts. Using a | | | | mail sent to this addressbank statements, |
| computer with Internet connectivity, you can | | | | personal correspondence, subscriptions, |
| access messages sent to your address wherever | | | | deliveriesand have the PO box or |
| you are in the world. Even if you don’t | | | | accommodation address operator forward the |
| own a portable laptop computer, shouldn’t | | | | items (as they arrive or however frequently you |
| prove too difficult to find a public-access machine | | | | desire) to wherever you want them to be. |
| in most places. Try cybercafes, libraries, hotels, | | | | You’ll have to pay postage for forwarding, |
| bookshops, and office-service providers. It takes | | | | which will depend on the volume of mail. |
| less than five minutes phone time to access the | | | | Using a permanent postal address means you |
| Internet, download your new messages, and print | | | | have to inform only the operator when you |
| them. And you can also use your free email | | | | move from one location to anotherpreferable |
| address to send messages. | | | | to having to tell all your correspondents. |
| Step 2: Your Global Telephone and Fax: | | | | Putting It To The Test: |
| Next you need phone and fax numbers that stay | | | | Once you’ve completed these three steps, |
| the same and that enable you to receive phone | | | | you’ll have a fully operational, portable, |
| and fax messagesinstantlywherever you | | | | personal and/or business communications |
| are in the world. | | | | structure for less than $50 per month. I’ve |
| At one time, this would have been impossible. Not | | | | been using and testing this structure for the last |
| anymore. | | | | six months. In the course of my work, |
| Once you’ve set up your free email | | | | I’ve traveled up and down the United |
| account, visit on the Internet. For $12.50 per | | | | Kingdom, into France several times, and recently |
| month, JFAX Personal Telecom gives you a local | | | | to Spain and Portugal. Wherever I’ve been, |
| phone number in your choice of cities in the | | | | my messages have proven instantly retrievable. I |
| United States and around the world. Your | | | | haven’t missed a call. I’ve received |
| contacts can send to this number faxes and voice | | | | all my faxes and email. And my postal |
| messages that JFAX will instantly forward to your | | | | communications have proved easy to manage |
| email account. All you have to do is check your | | | | despite my sometimes-constant changes of |
| email. Faxes and voice messages appear in your | | | | location. |
| email in box as attachments to messages. You | | | | |