Office Essentials for Affiliate Marketers
Shawn Collins of blog.affiliatetip.com discusses the products and services he uses in his home office. QI see you run your affiliate business from home. Can you tell me some of the products and services you use to make up your office? A: I’ve been working from home for five or six years now. I learned quickly that I had a need for the various business machines that I had taken for granted when working in offices. For instance, I still have a somewhat frequent need to send and receive faxes. So, I use CallWave, where I am able to get incoming faxes as a PDF via email. When I have to sign a document and fax it to somebody, I’ll just scan the document and email it. No fax machine needed. I have a landline for my phone, but often I want to record a call for an interview to transcribe or other needs. In those instances, I’ll use Skype with a recording program called Pamela. Another phone related service I use is FreedomVOICE, which provides me with a toll-free number that forwards to my regular number. And I use Google Voice for incoming phone calls, because I am able to have it ring to my office phone and two cell phones. Also, they provide a free voicemail transcription service, and those messages are sent via email. When it comes to email, I used Microsoft Outlook in the past, and that was a burden to run with people scattered in different states. There would be times when the PST file got too big and Outlook crashed, as well as other occasional problems. This was fixed by …