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With more than 300,000,000 users worldwide, Skype has revolutionized - or is that shook up - the way that we communicate.

Traditional telcos have been hit hard because gone are the days of high cost of making telephone calls - with Skype you either go free via a skype-to-skype call or pay literally pennies for skype-to-landline calls.

And it gets even better…

Skype recently announced that it is offering new subscriptions.

The new subscriptions offers a monthly flat rate for international calling to landline numbers in 34 countries. There are two options:

1) Unlimited World for $5.95 per month where you select one country from the list of 34 - so if you know that you will be calling lets say only to clients in the UK, then this would be the one to go with.

2) Unlimited Worldwide for $12.95 a month which pretty much allows you to call to landlines in any of the 34 countries listed.

A flat rate! No more timed calls. Obviously there are limits: 10,000 minutes per month which account to about 5 hours a day. That seems quite fair.

And it even gets better…

“If you purchase one of the new subscriptions for a 3-month or 12-month period before June 1st 2008, you will receive a further 33% discount.”

Go and take a look for yourself at Skype…

I’ve just purchased a 12-month subscription and I would advise (especially my beta clients over at HomeOfficeMentor.com) to do the same - especially if your business is internet-based and/or you’re bootstrapping it.

It’s All About the Bottom Line

Here’s why I’m so enthusiastic about this offering. Only 5 years ago my monthly telephone bill was on average $120 a month (around $1,400 a year). Today … $12.95 x 12mths plus the 33% special = $103.

Now you don’t have to be a business guru to know that paying around $100 a year rather than $1,400 is a sweet deal.

I think those figures speak for themselves. :-)

All business - big and small - are always looking to cut costs, and this is more so for any start up or home-based business.

Are You Using Skype to its Fullest Potential?

In my own mentoring program and at this site, I get this feeling (a gut instinct, you might say) that we are all not getting the most out of what Skype offers - hint: there’s more than just basic calling … so much more.

And that’s my queue for announcing an upcoming (and ongoing) special on Everything Skype.

It’s one web tool that has literally changed the way we do business … for the better!