VoIP brings new businesses
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The boom of VoIP technology drives other activities such as… learning foreign languages. But this is not the only VoIP-related business model, here another possibility: Selling one’s consulting service over the Internet. Sounds great, isn’t it? Keep reading, we covered them for you.
Learning foreign languages
PeerMe, a VoIP service provider based in California with agencies throughout the world, just launched this service mainly targeted. Wannabe language students freely registered their mother tongue and then picked what the language they want to improve. They can also tag their life so that other people know what they like or dislike. Members can even choose the country and the city of their voice pals.After this stage, a match-up list comes up and people start chatting as if they were in a forum or a chat session. Discussions are made on the standard one-to-one basis as it makes sense that individual sessions force participants to speak. Currently, no teacher nor self-teaching resources are available for further language home works.
This may be not a priority for PeerMe which probably prefers lead its members to play some video games instead, as the service provider raised $2.5 millions in 2005 and inked a partnership with Boonty, the Japanese downloadable video game maker,to develop game channels.
“eBay for services”
Why not selling consulting services over the phone? As phone calls are getting free on the Internet, imagine how much benefits you can grab. Ether aims to take a strong market share on this VoIP-related business segment.Its business model is derived from eBay success story: Sellers are invited to set their own price, from free to more than a billion, buyers then choose what people they would meet over the line and pay for that. Ether takes 15% of fees for each transaction. They cover long distance charges and credit card processing fee out of this 15%, said Michael Arrington from TechCrunch.
This kind of service provider should ravish home workers. The business model looks stable. We hope they could last as long as it could, even if eBay itself must prepare quite the same kind of service.
Stay tuned.
Mar 6, 2006 | By Nuno
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