You don’t need to spend a mint to outfit your home office with everything you’ll need to run your business. Quite the contrary, actually. As Forbes points out in a recent article, once you have your computer and broadband connection out of the way with, you don’t really have much in the way of expenses to get all your business bells and whistles up and running. For example, the phone:

Even phone calls are becoming free. It almost makes you sorry for what is left of Ma Bell. Skype’s software offers free phone calling and video conferencing, though you need a headset with your PC to take advantage of it. If you buy a MagicJack ($40) or Ooma ($250) products, you can plug in your regular telephone, and get domestic phone service for nearly nothing and make international calls for pennies a minute.

Other free or low-cost business tools listed in the article include email, office suites and printing options. You can read the whole thing here.