Recession-busting Tools to Boost Your Business

In today's brutal economy, it's more important than ever for businesses to make every dollar count.

Digital tools like e-mail, PDAs and accounting software help small-business owners be more productive and cut costs. Unfortunately, your company's postal mail remains a drain on productivity.

As you consider options for managing your postal mail, ask yourself these questions:

1. What does your business address say about you? Basing your business at home lets you avoid office rental costs. But do you really want your customers to know your home address? You can give your business and brand much more clout with a prestigious street address in a major city.

2. How much postal mail do you receive? Will you process customer correspondence, checks, invoices and orders? And who'll sort through it all, file the important items and dispose of the junk?

3. Do you travel for business frequently? It's expensive to have your mail forwarded to you. And who wants to return home to find unpaid bills, undeposited checks or other time-sensitive information piled up in an unsecured mailbox?

Earth Class Mail's Internet-powered postal mail is the solution to your mailing dilemmas. You can sign up to have them receive mail for you at 1 or more of 23 addresses in 20 U.S. cities, including prestige street addresses in Manhattan, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Earth Class Mail then scans the outside of your sealed envelopes and e-mails the images to you. If the mail item is unwanted, they'll recycle or shred it for you.

If you need the contents as paper, they'll forward the envelope to you unopened, and if it contains information you want immediately, security-cleared employees will scan the contents for you and upload a PDF file to your secure online inbox. You can also have them securely store both the PDFs and paper versions of your financial records.

With Earth Class Mail, you can:

* Cut the last tether to a particular place -- now your postal mail can follow you anywhere in the world, just like e-mail.

* Save gas, money, time and the planet by checking your mail online, rather than driving somewhere.

* Eliminate the need to hire a person -- or rely on a family member -- to manage and dispose of your mail. With a few mouse clicks, you can have your mail scanned, recycled, shredded or securely stored.

And you'll have the peace of mind that your important mail is in the care of a service that's trusted by customers in more than 170 countries and will soon be rolled out in Europe by the venerated national post office of Switzerland, Swiss Post.


Save time and money, and boost your productivity and image, with Internet-powered postal mail. Jump-start your business into the digital age. Visit www.earthclassmail.com to get your first month of Earth Class Mail service free, along with a $25 credit towards future ECM services after signup. Plans start as low as $9.95 a month. Copyright ©, ARAnet, Inc.