Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: November 4, 2002}

{Location:Poland}

While Ning Zimo and his team were busy launching the new version of skrpe, the fully prepared new version upgrade was quickly implemented through three servers, and the impact was quickly delivered to every terminal skrpe user through the global network.

Joanna is a 47-year-old Polish woman who lives in Warsaw, Poland. After her husband died unexpectedly due to alcoholism a few years ago, she thought she still had some sense and took over the business of the chain stores that her husband had run during his lifetime.

As a businessman who started in Poland, Joanna accepted a chain store with 25 stores. Because she had been impacted by German businessmen before, Joanna felt that business was getting harder and harder.

But starting from 2001, this situation has changed.

Last year, Joanna found a good supply channel, which came from various sources of flowers. Joanna saw the products on display at an exhibition in Germany, and those products brought higher sales to her chain stores.

profit.

After that, Joanna realized that she needed more flower-growing products, so she set her sights on large-scale international exhibitions in the Flower-Growing Port Province. Starting from the second half of 2001, she participated in three Flower-Growing Port Exhibitions.

In various exhibitions that lasted for 10 days, we found many cheap and high-quality products to replace the original high-cost supply chain.

The Hong Kong exhibition that planted flowers last month was no exception. She found more suitable suppliers for her chain stores through the Hong Kong exhibition.

These products from flower suppliers can help her increase the profit of similar products by about 20%.

So in the days since she returned to Warsaw, she has been busy dealing with these supplier resources.

Then arrange the order production and distribute the goods to each chain store one by one.

On November 4th, Joanna was busy turning on her computer as usual. She wanted to contact the employees of 25 stores this morning.

It's just that the old contact method that originally required expensive phone calls to get in touch has now been changed to the low-cost skrpe.

Joanna came into contact with skrpe in September. When she was browsing products on the Internet, she accidentally came into contact with this excellent software.

With an attitude of trying, she downloaded skrpe. After trying it once, she was keenly aware that this software, which can contact others through the computer, will be a powerful tool that can save her a lot of money.

So she asked all 25 of her stores to install skrpe, and during the trial period, she purchased a call package of 79 euros/1,000 minutes at a 20% discount.

In this calculation, it only costs 63 yuan, and they can achieve the effect that originally cost 133 yuan.

As a result, Joanna can save more than 3,000 euros in communication costs every month just in terms of phone calls, which also means she has more than 3,000 euros in profit.

The money is not much for her now, but mosquito legs are still meat no matter how small they are.

Thinking of this, Joanna felt much happier typing the skrpe user password.

But after opening skrpe today, Joanna found that there were new changes in this software.

skrpe did not pop up the user interface normally after logging in, but showed that it was being upgraded.

In Joanna's concept, software upgrades often mean bug updates or feature improvements.

This is the first time skrpe has been upgraded like this. I wonder what new features it will have?

Joanna suddenly looked forward to it.

After waiting for a few minutes, the skrpe upgrade was completed. When the user window interface popped up, a notification window also popped up.

It’s actually the interconnection between computers and phones?

I didn't expect it to have such a function!

Reading the notice carefully, there were not many areas where this function was enabled, but Joanna discovered that the list of countries connected to the phone actually included Poland and the Netherlands!

Oh my god, this means that their company can rely on this function of skrpe in the future to contact customers and contact the staff of the Dutch port transit warehouse.

You know, their company also spends a lot of time in contacting customers and Dutch ports. If skrpe activates this function, according to their habits, they can save at least 1/4 of the cost.

Joanna was a little excited. She happened to have a batch of goods arriving at the Dutch port today. She was planning to contact them soon and arrange for the goods to be sent to the transit warehouse in the Netherlands and then distributed to her various stores in Poland.

Joanna hurriedly opened the skrpe interface and found that there was indeed a virtual dial pad on the software interface. There was a contact list on the left side of the dial pad. Although it was empty, this did not affect Joanna's interest.

She put on the headset, tried to find the Dutch port number in the communication at hand, and then dialed it through skrpe.

The familiar long calling tone made her excited and a little uneasy, but within a few seconds, the voice of someone connected came from the other side.

"Hey, this is Swift Logistics Company."

"Hey, this is the Polish Jiajiale chain convenience store."

"Is it Ms. Joanna? Your call came by chance. A batch of your goods happened to be delivered to us today."

"Is it me, are you Martin? Oh my God, I didn't expect it to be possible."

"Huh? Joanna, it's me, I'm Martin. What's wrong with you, what's really okay?"

"Oh, Martin, I am praising skrpe. I am using skrpe to contact you now."

"skrpe? The one that can make calls on the computer?"

"Yes, Martin. I am using skrpe to contact you now. How do you feel about the call quality?"

"Oh, my gosh. Your voice sounds even more beautiful now than when I called you on the phone."

"Oh, Martin, thank you for your compliment..."

"No, Ms. Joanna, I am serious. Your voice has always been beautiful..."

Joanna spent 10 minutes on the phone, not only finishing her work, but also flirting with Martin, who had a magnetic voice on the other end of the phone.

When she hung up the phone, Joanna felt that she was in a very happy mood now, and even the pace of thinking about things in her mind was much faster.

Joanna hurriedly opened the skrpe interface and wanted to find the cost instructions for calling skrpe and telephone interconnection.

But the first thing she noticed was that there was a string of numbers in the contact list on the left side of her dialing window, which was the number she had just broadcast to the Netherlands. When she moved the mouse up, she also found that

Note a contact name for this number.

Moreover, this contact list seems to have a grouping function, which means that she can group the outgoing calls. In this way, she can say goodbye to the paper address book and get access to her contacts on skrpe at any time.

connect.

Gosh, skrpe is so convenient.

While praising skrpe in her heart, Joanna continued to search for the fee description, and finally she found what she wanted under the contact list.

Only then did she realize that the performance description of skrpe was very clear. For cross-border calls like the one she just made, skrpe provided two calculation methods.

One is to directly purchase a cross-border phone call package, which is 0.99 euros/3 minutes, and the other is to directly use the domestic call package of 79 euros/1000 minutes to convert.

Joanna's mind immediately jumped to the cost of phone calls. Local calls in the Eurozone are 0.4 Euro/per 3 minutes, and calls to the other 25 European countries are 1.31 Euro/per 3 minutes. According to skrpe, the charges for calls to the other 25 European countries are

According to this calculation, the phone call she just made can still save 1/3 of the cost.

She personally invests at least nearly 400 yuan in phone calls every month, and the other 25 stores also spend 100-200 yuan.

Calculating this, if she switches to skrpe for calls, she can save more than 800 yuan in phone bills!

OMG skrpe is awesome!