Skype for business

For several years, I have been working with a client strictly over the phone doing design work. In the first year, it was me just sending him .jpgs through email back and forth and him calling and asking for changes. This took up so much time and it would get frustrating trying to understand what he wanted and I kept having to send him a bunch of new versions. He kept asking me to come up with a way that he could see my screen and work over the phone.

I had been using Skype previously because a friend told me about it. I realized that they had a way that you could share your screen through the messaging feature. It calls from one username to another, so it's not charging you for a phone call. Skype only charges you for a phone call if you are calling a phone line, not when you are calling another skype username within your country.

Skype has made it so much easier to communicate with my client who is now several states away from me. He can see my screen and tell me to move around text and pictures the way he wants them while I am on the computer doing it at the same time so he can see it. It has become a normal everyday type of thing to use Skype for work. He doesn't have a microphone on his computer, so we still have to use the regular phone to speak to each other, although if you both have speakers, you don't even need a phone. If you have a business where you need to show someone a design or information on your screen without being right next to them, I would suggest using Skype.