February 2nd, 2010

From Kristina Brooke: Use Skype for your business calls

Like many web design­ers and social media addicts, I spend a exu­ber­ant amount of time on my com­puter. I usu­ally tell peo­ple “if you want to get in touch with me– skip the phone and email me instead.” After all, talk­ing on the phone requires that I stop doing what­ever it is that I am doing and focus on the phone. Even if I can put a per­son on speaker, it is some­times too cum­ber­some to use and you often lose sound quality.

Now, unlike most peo­ple, I don’t have a cell-phone. Actu­ally, my hus­band and I share a cell-phone. I work from home so spend­ing a lot of money on a mobile phone seems silly when my home phone is cheap, contract-free, and has the best qual­ity ser­vice around. The thing is that I need a busi­ness line– a way of allow­ing clients to get in touch with me with­out giv­ing out my home num­ber on busi­ness cards or on the net.  {read more}