What is skype and how does it work?

How does skype work and what materials do I need?

• I looked up skype.com, but I still don't understand what you need to skype somebody. Do you need a video recorder? How does this whole thing work? I'm intrigued...

• Answer:

  This amazing product I believe has only been released for 6 months. When I accidentally stumbled upon it, I immediately realized the potential, especially for business opportunity seekers and people looking to expand their business. The more I read about it, the more excited I got. The thing i like most is that the creator of the product is always available on Skype, so just add him as a contact and he is your personal guide and assistant if you need help and advice. Basically the plug can only be used on Skype and from the website you can register and get 7 days free trial, from thereon you pay $15 a month. Once registered you can download and install the plug in. It is very easy and self explanatory to install and that's it. You must have Skype running and Skype will ask for install authorisation, nothing very difficult. and there is a step by step guide for installation help if you need it. The actual software is very similar to any type of instant messenger, just a little bigger with more options. The software requires no configuration so you can jump straight in and add your contacts and send once to all your contacts in one hit, there is also a delivery log so you can see who has received your message. Now the interesting bit, and this is what attracted me. You can search for Skype users by country, language, city, age group and gender. So here is an example of what you can do. My online business is selling tennis machines and tennis equipment, this is a niche within the broad term of tennis. So what I did was searched messenger magic for people who were interested in tennis, any age group, any gender and only from USA where my market is from. The search results only show a max of around 90 users at any one time so you keep doing it over and over and get different users. People who authorise you now become your leads. Can you now see how big you can grow your leads list. this will inevitably lead to sales. You can also use message magic purely to increase you friendship list of people that have the same interests as yourself. Now the spam issue here is very serious and Skype take a dim view of spam and you could get your account blocked, so provided you send messages to comply with messenger magic's TOS. There is nothing wrong in requesting to be added to their contact list as you share the same interest, so then you just add your website as a sig file and any other info you like. My personal results from using this software, well from the initial 90 posts sent I had 37 agreeing to me being added to their contact list. I had 74 hits to my site, no sales as yet, but hey who cares at least they know I exist and will probably bookmark me. Best of all I did not receive any complaints. Another bonus is that these people are in my contact list so the spam aspect is removed, and wait for it----- You can also promote message magic by just putting your affiliate link in your sig file. I have never understood commission structures and wont expand on it but the opportunity is there. My rating for this software 9/10, why, because I cannot send to more than 90 at one go. Oh and I nearly forgot, another cool feature is the ability to only search for users with skype me enabled. These people don't care who contacts them. Keep it legal and you will enjoy Skype messenger magic. A really cool piece of software, Skype\'s #1 add on   Click Here