| It seems that each year in this age of the internet, that | | | | 4. Help you brand your business. |
| every day there is a new technology being introduced. | | | | 5. Run a conference call for your team. |
| If you are like most of us, you are looking for | | | | 6. Conduct a small tele-seminar depending on your |
| technology to work for you not against you? | | | | bandwidth. |
| Have you heard of Skype? You know it's free but | | | | 7. Record audio messages and talk for you when you |
| you are not sure if it is worth your time and energy to | | | | are not available. |
| explore the possible benefits to your business? | | | | 8. Be your instant messaging support tool to show you |
| In this article we will demonstrate that Skype is a very | | | | are customer focused. |
| powerful technology that transcends the usual latest | | | | 9. Be your voice mail system when you can't be |
| greatest technical tool that is being introduced by the | | | | available. |
| tech gurus. As the voice component of IOVC strategy | | | | 10. Open up an international office, all in 5 minutes. |
| and technology, we will list the Voice Skype capabilities | | | | 11. Be your call forwarding service and enable you to |
| that you can use to reduce your business expenses, | | | | go mobile. |
| improve your ability to attract customers and help you | | | | 12. Quickly add office extensions when you need to |
| operate more efficiently. | | | | add on staff. |
| Skype is a well known technology in some areas and | | | | 13. Pay your bills as a convenient way to send money |
| in others it is relatively unknown. However, as one of | | | | to your Paypal contacts. |
| the internet, office, voice and customer management | | | | 14. Integrate with Microsoft Outlook and save time, |
| technologies termed IOVC technology; it is one voice | | | | money and energy. |
| over internet protocol technology that can work | | | | Most people as you can imagine only use Skype as |
| wonders for your business. Skype is mostly known as | | | | phone replacement technology. As you can see from |
| the tool that can reduce your phone bill but not | | | | the list of Skype capabilities above, this voice over |
| necessarily as a tool to help improve, grow and | | | | internet protocol technology has many more beneficial |
| market your business. | | | | capabilities. It is one of the reasons this IOVC |
| You can use Skype in the following ways. | | | | technology is starting to garner more attention in the |
| 1. Eliminate your current traditional phone service. | | | | small business community. Finally, the fact that most of |
| 2. Reduce your phone bill and save some money in | | | | Skype voice over internet protocol comes for free |
| your pocket. | | | | should really excite you. |
| 3. Be a marketing tool for your business. | | | | |