[Guide] How To Make Money On Sykpe

Think eBay seller and eBay buyer

Buyer wants a visual confirmation of the item they order, so they call he eBay seller. eBay seller shows them the item live the seller pays okay, you can pay now thru Skype. Buyer clicks, and everyone’s paid. No muss, no fuss. This one could be done without Skype Prime, e.g. pay through PayPal, check your email, and get confirmation over the phone of receiving the payment.

As part of a video dating service

If you want to hook up with a potential mate, it’s going to cost you. The trick here is that a third party would have to control the charging, not to mention some changes would have to be made to ensure anonymity of the participants.

Skype becomes a way to pay for shareware software

Call the author, he charges you for the call, he sends you the activation code in Skype and/or file transfer the unlocked version. Now it’d be nice if Skype opened up their API a little more to make it practical to automate this kind of thing. It could become it’s own eCommerce platform for automated software (or license key) delivery. Would fall right into the kinds of things eBay does.

The obvious horoscope/phone sex angles

The top use of 900 numbers. I don’t see the terms of service being a deterrent for anyone setting these kinds of services up. Even if these kinds of services were against the TOS, it would be difficult to enforce them anyway.

The usual technical support scenarios by independent consultants

Charge per-incident or per-minute for support. Add something like Webdialogs Untye to the mix for the “let me look over your shoulder” experience.