How To Use Skype Internet-Telephony As Marketing Tool
Submitted by juergen on 23. August 2007 - 6:34.
Nowadays it is comfortable to introduce your product with Skype IP-telephony definitely worldwide. With Skype IP-telephony it is comfortable to bring your business definitely to the global market. IP-Telephony is no longer the jealously protected secret of computer freaks it was before. Skype actually changed how we communicate. Traditional telecommunications companies like AT+T pressed the panic button and forced to launch their own IP-telephony service.
At the beginning Skype was launched as an IM PC tool with voice as an additional feature. Within a very short time Skype became synonymous with making phone calls over the Internet.
Like other voip providers Skype does not rely on a centralized network to route the calls.
Thus Skype, unlike other voip providers like Vonage and Lingo, can gain larger without paying out anything extra for hardware based on a centralized network, since its network seriously is made of thousands of PCs connected to each other owned by people like you and me.
The fresh acquisition of Skype by the Internet giant Ebay for an unbelievable amount of $2.6 billion uncovers the potential of the power of voip.
What is my advantage when I use Skype?
The calls are excellent in most regions. You only need a headset to call with Skype. Most people are convinced they know all about Skype. They know how to make free calls with a PC or notebook over the Internet. But Skype is not only a PC2PC IP-Telephony technology.
Get a virtual business phone number anywhere with SkypeIn
Offer your software e.g. in France and ask for a local number. With SkypeIn you can get phone calls from a local phone in any country to your Skype number, no matter where you are. Than redirect the call with SkypeOut to your landline phone or your mobile phone. When you answer the call with SkypeOut on your mobile phone no one will know that your are sitting on the porch in your garden in Miami.
The true power of Skype lies in the addons and makes it a vital tool not only for business owners.
