Internet Connection woes - How to cope with change

It is amazing how we always take things for granted when we are used to having
them. Take for example my internet connection back in the UK. I have a 8mb broadband
connection in the UK that is always on.

My use of the internet is around 3GB of transfer per week, and it costs me just
£15 per month for that service.

Now I am here in South Africa on our travels and attempting to continue business
as normal. We shout about the benefits of working online and having our own portable
business, but sometimes the reality does not match up to the promise

One part of my business is that I do video work for other people, and not just an
autopilot business that runs itself. Usually this is not an issue, as I upload videos
of 20 - 150mb with no problem. Then of course, once people check the video and request
any changes, I then finish the video, and then upload once more.

This usually takes minutes to do on my UK connection.

On our travels in South Africa, we are using 3G connection via a wireless connection
and Vodacom’s USB Modem. So imagine my shock and horror today, when I started to upload
a video for a client that is only 22mb in size, and the connection says, uploads of
around 80kb - and a video upload time of around 5 and a half hours.

I have 3 videos for my client, and in 2 formats, a total of around 120MB of data to
upload.. Hmmm, that could mean over 30 hours to upload the files Not good..

Plus, to make it better, the connection keeps dropping, so I have to start over.
As we do not have a fixed ADSL line available, for the meantime, this is what I am
left with, but it really makes you appreciate the “old” connection costs and access.

The best part of all is that for just 5GB of data transfer, I will pay £75 or $150
here in South Africa.. a HUGE increase to my business costs.

As always we will find a work around, but it makes you appreciate the creature comforts
of home when you are used to the fast relativey regular connection speeds.

Have a great day

Martin

In the run up to the Learn4Profit Launch on July 7th, you can continue to read some cool articles that will help you with your business planning, especially if you are new to the net.

I am getting ready for my move to South Africa in a little over one weeks time and things are getting really busy around my office

Looking forward to announcing our Learn and Profit classes for later in the year, but for the meantime, you can go over to the learn for profit news desk to catch up on some great articles.

http://www.learn4profit.com/news/a-little-used-tactic-to-make-money-build-your-online-empire/

See you in the members area from July.

Do you find working from home hard work and almost impossible to break into?

Opening soon is the all new Learn4Profit website. You can read the informative posts in the leadup to the launch, such as Martins, working from home article.

Look out for posts in the coming few days about affiliate marketing, list building, making your own products and making money from Private Label Rights.

The new post today can be found here
http://www.learn4profit.com/news/what-is-it-really-like-working-from-home/

What is set to be a one stop resource, Learn4Profit goes live July 8th 2008

These are going fast.

Project 1 was a success, and project 2 is almost sold out.
I make your entire product for you.

5 Video sets Mini Series, plus sales copy, eReport you can
give away to build your list, full site graphics, download
and thank you pages and even a video squeeze..

All for an insane low price. If you purchased this as a
product from our site eCoverEvolution.com for all of this
you would easily spend $3K… But not as a Warrior.

So, if you are a member of the warrior forum, grab one of
our remaining packages before project 2 is sold out!

Read some of the amazing comments in the thread and the
testimonials from the first project.

This is the easiest way to get a complete limited product
up and running and making you mone.y

See you at the forum?

http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=245974

All the best

Martin Salter
IYC Limited
“Making it Happen”

What would you pay?

It seems that relative Content VS Price is coming up more and
more within our own community and it will still get worse before
it gets any better.

I worked in the Retail / Catering industry for many years before
getting into I.M. In many places I saw price wars become the focus
of most companies. From Contract Caterers to High Street Bar Chains.

The trouble was, that eventually price become so low, that nobody
could compete downwards in price any longer, so chose to start
being more SMART with their bid proposals.

It also happened in high street bars and restaurants. Price became
the dominant factor. Quality had to suffer, and sure enough it did.

Is our own market headed this way?

A good Case of Changing Tides:

At the time of all the high street manic price cuts, a company
called Mitchells & Butlers launched a new brand. It was called
Ember Inns, and they went after high calibre managers to launch
these sites for one reason.

They wanted the best, because price was not going to be the
only focal point of the business.

They went for quality, comfort, great service, friendly atmosphere
(something that was hard to find in some bars lol).

Their prices were higher than all the rest on the high street,
but they offered the consumer choice. An alternative that was not
built on price alone.

We have seen this arguement raised about Aweber pricing only this
week. My first reaction was “Damn those Aweber Guys, who do they
think they are..” But ultimately, if they give you something that
no other ‘generalist AR provider does or can’ in the high street
of the WWW, then it may not be long before they too are winning
the awards once again

Time will tell.

Price increase for increase sake, is no way to build customer
satisfaction. But sometimes, radical shake ups are needed.

Example in our own world of IM>

There is a PLR eBOOK site that delivers only 1 ebook per month
to it’s small membership base, and I believe they also now offer
graphics and a salesletter to go with it. They charge $97 per month
but only allow 150 people in the door.

Other sites will let you grab 3 PLR eBooks per month for less than
$10…. Which do you think delivers the quality for it’s end user?

Each has their place, but which one would you choose?

Creating prize draws for your sites can bring back members time and again,
but it can also create a “buzz” if you make it so that people who refer
others can increase their chances to win

We realised this for ourselves back in 2006 and launched the Prize Draw
Generator script.

Well today, I am pleased to accounce the site has a little make over and
has had a dramatic price slashing…

What used to cost $147 is now only $27, who knows for how long? I may
get my senses back and put the price back up.

Where else can you get a membership script that also has a built in
prize draw feature I wonder?

It made sites like Listlotto build at a rapid pace, and even some major
product launches have had the Prize Draw Plugin to assist them in their
sticky appeal.

Any comment?

Martin

To find out about the Big Bang, some bonuses, a few cool videos and a FREE ebook
worth $97, then head on over to our Big Bang Tribute Page.

See you over there.
Turbo Big Bang from John Delvera

Martin

IYC is going through a shake up right now. Our company has been
established since 2006 and released products, services, books,
scripts and membership sites as well as offering consultation
to individuals and small companies around the globe.

Over the coming few months you will see changes in our websites.
This blog will be changing too, and will have mostly news content,
reviews and will hold our upcoming Newsletter series from learn4profit.

Learn4profit is also being overhauled to bring free and paid content
to our subscribers and visitors.

One special item that will be inside learn4profit is our video
vault. Hours upon hours of actual information marketing and
web how to training.

Look out for more information on this very blog really soon, and
we look forward to giving you more variety, more useful information
and packed content.

To your success

Martin and Lizel Salter
IYC Limited UK

BETA Launch

I have been looking for a way to seriously help others
to build a list and make money online.

At first I created a course called Profit from Affiliate
Marketing that included a script site. We had made the
site in-house and as a bonus to the Affiliate course
you got a full site that you simply edited some text
files to and uploaded it to your site.

People loved it as it helped those that had not been
able to make their own sites to get started with relative
ease.

The only issue is Clickbank did not want us giving away
scripts (????) still not sure why, but we had to remove
that offer bonus to comply.

So I moved on to another project, again looking for ways
to help people to get started with their own site.

I set up Build My Free Website, which meant our in-house
team set up the first site on others behalf just for
grabbing hosting with us.

In this instance too many people too advantage of our help
and expected full 24/7 support and assistance for free.

Now whilst I want to show others how to build an online
business and make money online, I cannot afford to have
me and other people in my team working free of charge.

Doing that would put me out of business.

Now we have finally stumbled on to a site that really can
help anyone to make money online and work from home with
relative ease.

The site has a PLR product on sale for $17 rather than
paying the full $147 elsewhere. But that is not the real
gem to the site at all.

Once you pay for the product, you then get a report that
explains how the site is then designed to make you money
ongoing.

Not just in the beginning from one initial sale but to
continue to bring in sales for you via the sites newsletter.

For the first couple of days you get an email to ensure
you are settled in OK. If you have questions after reading
the site report, then there is a helpdesk you can contact.

Once in, you then get the main newsletter service, which
not only has some awesome offers and discounts over time,
but some cool free training, advice, scripts and ways
you can build your business ongoing.

So in essence it becomes a business in a box for only
the initial $17. Of course there are more products on
offer through the site newsletter and in sites you will
gain access to over time, but the real beauty is in the
main site itself.

How would you like to have a site build sales and ongoing
income for you??? Well now you may finally be in the position
to access a site and product that will do exactly that
for you.

Best Ever Bonus - Currently in Beta, but AWESOME!

I have seen many interesting ways that people have built their
lists and made money working from home on the Internet, but the
news I am going to release to you in a few days or so from now will
BLOW your mind

I have been online full time working from my home office since
2006. I have been fortunate to fall into this business really
after damaging my right knee in an accident at work.

Having that time off to recover allowed me to make all the
mistakes that seem obligatory in this field so I was ready to
take on the challenge once I was back to full fitness.

It still took me a while to really grasp the concepts and put
into place ways and means to get cash rolling into our business
and keeping my accountant happy

I had many failures before finally launching a product in 2006
that made a good return first of all and became the benchmark
for sites that followed.

It was called PrizeDrawGenerator and it still runs today. It
was also part of the root program to the Big Launch I had in
late 2006, ListLotto.com

The question I am asked most of all from people is:

How do I get Started on the Internet?

The fast answer is - Do Something

So many people ‘Dream’ of success and making a second income
or replacing their main income source, that they never actually
action anything and just Do it!

The fair answer is to find a market, and fulfill their needs,
wants and desires.

Provided that you actually make sure a market exists in the
first place, you can then make money.

But here is the BIGGEST stumbling block of all: TRAFFIC.

Have you noticed how virtually every Guru, bypasses this one
little issue as if it was never there?

The popular answers you get if you really push them are:

hmmmmm… Use Sig Files in forums. Write Articles, Post to a
Blog, set up a Squidoo Lens, and a HubPage, oh and get 81,342
friends on MySpace and Facebook whilst posting daily to
Craigs List and maybe buying $10,000 worth of PPC with Google.

Now let me cover one important point. These ACTUALLY do work,
and it is only those that put in place step 1 (Taking action)
that ever learn this.

But what if there was an easier way? What if you could do what
all the big corporations do to fill their wallets with cash,
without a Massive Expense to begin with?

Well there is, and you will go Crazy when you discover this!

I promise to let you know BEFORE anyone else when it goes live
and you can soon be banking the big bucks and building the lists
for your own niche markets with relative ease!

Be happy!

All the best

Martin Salter
IYC Limited
“Making it Happen”