Well since the last issue I have been looking at my replacement mobile and I have got to say I think Apple is falling behind. Nothing lasts forever, have they become complacent expecting their loyal followers to wait for the next upgrade?

As we are all aware Apple have recently launched the iPad 3 in doing so, have they concentrated on the tablet market at the expense of their mobile clients?

In my case I think so.

I don’t believe its worthwhile upgrading to the iPhone 4S & no-one is saying when the iPhone 5 will be launched if at all this year pure speculation, so I am seriously considering the HTC One X.

 this is a serious piece of kit and one of the things which appeals is the screen size a huge 4.7” and a gorgeous design and its smaller than the Samsung Note (just too big, have you actually seen one?).

The phone comes with 32GB and if that’s not enough they have negotiated a deal with Dropbox for a further 25GB when you register your phone.

 The One X gives its competitors a good run for their money, the handset is a work of beauty utilizing top quality materials together with ICS OS and an 8 mega pixel camera which enables you to take pictures whilst shooting a video.

I guess the killer will be battery life, like all new smart phones this seems to be the thing that mostly irritates us, but ultimately if we want small hand held devices to surf the web, text and even make phone calls well this is the price we have to pay.

Dropbox

For those of you who don’t know about Dropbox check it out, this is a really useful piece of free software for anyone’s business or just for backing up your PC.

Click here for free Dropbox account

Spam Emails

Time has got to be the most precious asset for all of us, how much of this valuable asset is wasted on spammers who constantly bombard us with emails which we haven’t subscribed for and neither do we want.

Everyday I seem to have more of this trash and it annoys me intensely that even with my filters spammers still seem to get through and I have to manually dump them yet again.

I would just love to be able to return this crap back to those who create it x 1,000,000

My Shopping Genie

If you haven’t heard of My Shopping Genie yet well, this is a free app which will save you time and money guaranteed.

How can anyone not be interested in something which is free and will save anyone time and money?

When you are looking to buy something from the internet traditionally we would type in the appropriate keyword and hit return relying on Google to bring the product up before our eyes. All good and well but as we all know the sites that are displayed are not necessarily the best prices but the best marketers.

Well My Shopping Genie will search the whole of the web and return the best prices at that time for whatever you want.

There is also a business opportunity for those of us who are interested whereby we give away the free apps and earn commission whenever our apps are used to purchase goods.

And just released is the G2Gamers link which is available from the Genie which opens up the whole gaming application industry which as you can appreciate is a huge and ever growing business.

This also creates an opportunity to earn commission want to know more check out the video in the attached link:  www.bestshoppinggenie.com

I get asked quite allot, which is the best product or course for someone who is just getting Started. Is that you?

I don’t that time to review all the courses that are available, and more are getting released all the time, and quite often these are just re-jigs of someone else’s course (especially the cheap ones on the Warrior Forum!)

The best place to start has to be The Challenge, which is a free course that has been going for 6 or 7 years now (used to be called the 30 Day Challenge). This is run by a bunch of well known Internet Marketers Including, Ed Dale, Guru Bob, Dan Raine and many others.

Don’t let the fact it is a free course in anyway make you think it is inferior. It is not. High quality in depth video tuition. The aim is for you to make $1 by the time you finish. Not a great target you might think, but it is your first dollar, you know the basics and you can move on from there.

Don’t feel too sorry for these chaps doing all this for free. You will sign up for various free trials of software which will become paid software if you continue and you will have signed up through their affiliate links!

If you still want a paid course well you can learn the basics and get stuck in straight away, I still think Andrew Hansen & Josh Stanton Unstoppable Affiliate course is the way to go.

There are no discounts or coupons available but if you sign up through our link we will spend some time coaching you, giving you targets and generally chase you along.

What ever you do, remain focused. Ignore the next shiny new tool (especially if it promises untold riches at the press of a button, all for $47!)

God Bless and Good luck.

Paul

Resources

Dropbox

The Challenge

Unstoppable Affiliate This link will give you a $1 dollar trial (send me an email copy of the paypal receipt so I can start the coaching J ) or to read more Barbury Internet Marketing Review.

Finally to read more about My Shopping Genie check out Try My Shopping Genie

Well whatever you have planned for this weekend have a good one, seems like we had the best of the weather last week (at least in the UK) most likely this week end will consist of wind, rain and perhaps even snow for some  – strange weather!

Most of the high streets in the UK are populated with empty premises which attract numerous charity shops (at least the landlords get off their business rates) and various different types of people begging etc.

The local chavs looking for whatever and then there is the issue of how do you actually get to your local town centre. If you can still afford to buy petrol (again that is if there is still availability) you may choose to drive and then pay extortionate car parking fees – why would any sane person wish to do this?

The question is after all, what do I want?

With all the features that smartphones come with, really what do we use, are they just expensive ‘must have gadgets’?

Probably is what you are most likely saying.

The Samsung is priced at £499.00 unless you opt to sign a contract which will more than likely be pitched at 18-24 months.

The Samsung Note is huge it comes with 5.3 inch screen and I guess you could look pretty silly actually using it in public as a phone. But as its predecessor the Galaxy S II its very light at 178g.

Raspberry Pi

This is a credit card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard which is available now.  It will run Linux and should be able to do pretty much “everyday” computing tasks such as spreadsheets, word processing, games and still run 1080p video for just under £30.00 for the model B.

How cheap for a computer!

The idea behind the Raspberry Pi is to offer a device that will inspire the imagination of aspiring programmers.  This certainly is worth a look for those of you who wish to develop pretty cool programs and interactive devices for an affordable base and it’s British.

Apple iPad 3 Date Released March 7^th

So Apple have finally announced the much anticipated launch date of its next version of its mega successful market leading tablet: the iPad 3 which we have all been anxiously waiting for.

We haven’t seen any dates for Europe yet we can only assume that Apple will release first to the USA market and hopefully distribution to the UK & Europe will follow maybe a month or so later.

Pricing as far as we have seen will be $499 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model which is comparable to the iPad 2 together  with the same 32 and 64GB Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi plus 3G options to be available.

As expected Apple are taking their competitors seriously with this aggressive pricing strategy which has got to be to the benefit of us their customers!

Apparently the resolution is much improved with more pixels which will load videos almost instantaneously due to addition of enhanced graphics.

Further features expected are a form factor 1mm thicker than the iPad 2 with the extra internal space for the new display, an A6 quad-core CPU and improved optics for the rear-mounted camera.
—————————————————————

Apple iPhone 5

Pitch Anything – Oren Klaff

Possibly the book of the decade a must read for all those who sell!

An in depth book on the psychology of how the brain works and how to ensure that you stack the odds in your favour, no matter what you are
pitching!

What Oren does is explain how to present your idea to ensure your prospect is intrigued and ultimately signs up to your offer.

One of his gems is to tell a story as opposed to pitch numbers or logic – have fun!

For our market I can’t recommend Pitch Anything highly enough – if nothing else, Oren will entertain you with his stories.

——————————————————————–

Paul Ponderings.

Just a quick note of a free resource for people wanting to do build content clusters or just need hosting for a simple blog.

Free Hosting, what’s the catch? Well does not appear to be one. You are limited on band width and Web Space to 100mb. There is also a set up fee of £12.95, but the free hosting is for life.

They work on the assumption that you will outgrow the free account at some point and because of there good service you will upgrade to a paid account, so giving you best stuff away for free type scenario.

Check it out and see what you think.

——————————————————————–

 ‘Ability is what you are capable of doing: motivation determines what you do: Attitude determines how well you do it’.

Lou Holtx

‘Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference’.

Sir Winston Churchill.

THE INTERNET MILLIONAIRES CLUB NEWSLETTER.

 Welcome to our very first newsletter which we hope you will find entertaining, interesting and useful to developing your on-line business.

You may wonder why we used the word ‘entertaining’ in the opening sentence of our

Introduction, simply because we believe that if it’s not fun then why would anyone want to do it!

Go get a JOB!

No thanks; we have learnt an extremely simple but all so often overlooked principle:’that if you want change, then you have to take action!

Let me first of all introduce the guys behind ‘The Internet Millionaires Club Newsletter’ we are two regular (pretty average) guys from a small city Preston in Lancashire, UK.

Firstly we have Paul Barber who is the techie partner behind all the wizardry and myself Michael Bury, we are both married to Janet and Joanne respectively and amazingly we both enjoy the joys of three children.

Paul is father to Robin (23), Richard (20) & Alec (12) whilst I am responsible for Grace (17), Jack (15) & Maddie (12).

So as you can see, we both have a huge responsibility to prepare, provide, advise and hopefully guide our children in the opportunities available to them in these exciting times.

We believe that they should be encouraged to think for themselves, question why they should do something, not just because their parents say so – sound familiar!

Guess what?

The worlds changed it is constantly changing. Hence this newsletter we want to share our knowledge, interest and develop our skills, to assist and help others who have the determination and courage to be different – welcome to you all and here’s to the future.

• That’s what it’s all about, are we entering the next Industrial Revolution?
• Have we got huge opportunities available to make cash, earn a living when, where and how we like?

Internet Marketing requires a certain amount of character and individuality and is most probably not for everyone, discipline is key when dealing with frustrating and tedious issues but as in all businesses; systems are required to ensure you meet your goals.

The internet develops on a minute-minute basis nothing stands still, if you just consider that the majority of our parents would have started their working careers and the majority would more or less have been in the same employment for life.

Not any more!

It is more than likely we and our children will be on short term contracts or more than likely be encouraged to join the self employed market – not a bad thing!

Our background is the construction industry and in recent times we have moved into the ‘buy to let’ property business as private landlords. No doubt you may very well know someone who has also followed the same path or indeed you may even be a landlord.

Great business however lots of people have got carried away with popular TV programs which have encouraged lots of amateurs to enter the market. Unfortunately it’s sad to report that far too many people have suffered financial losses.

I guess when you compare a traditional start up business to one with an on-line presence the financial risks are mitigated in our favour.

Affiliate sales may be your niche which you want to get involved in and it’s fair to say that their are several people making a decent living out of this. A simple analogy is to draw a comparison that being an affiliate is offering a manufacturer or supplier your services to sell their goods on a ‘no sale no fee basis.’ Previously, traditional businesses would have employed you, paid a basic salary, supplied you with the trademark Vauxhall or Ford car and sent you out into the tough world.

Well hello – no requirement for business owners to invest all this cash, just sign up affiliates and cut them a significant margin of the sale price. That’s got to be a no brainier for most business owners- hasn’t it?

The market is fierce in the tablet wars, Amazon have recently launched The Kindle Fire to attack what most would consider Apples apparent domination of this niche with their iPad2 soon to be replaced with the iPad3 but at a price.

Only available in the US at the present when are they going to release into Europe? According to some of the forums Amazon are ironing out the bugs and tweaking it in readiness for imminent release.

You can purchase one if you don’t want to wait so I did, it arrived last week and first impressions are for the cash $199 it’s great value when up against the iPad2. Negatives I got charged import tax of £42.00 (Great Britain just loves a bite of the pie!).

Quick review of the Fire: it feels good and appears to be a quality manufactured product, strangely enough when it arrived in the post, it arrived on it’s own – no paper manual or instructions! Clever move really from Amazon, very simple to navigate around and as you’d expect within the unit are fully detailed operating instructions.

One of the cool things that you can do is to pre-order books through your Amazon account and when you receive the Kindle Fire they are automatically installed when you first boot the Fire up. As you would expect, Amazon have created the facility to have more than one Kindle on your account so sharing is simplified.

Some of the features which are available are email (it allows you to import your contacts list), browsing the web, photo library, obviously reading but unfortunately not with the e-ink feature which will make it difficult in bright sunshine, but it is a colour screen.

Amazon allegedly are selling the Kindle Fire at a loss, well at least in the US, lets wait and see what price they put on the UK and Europe market but this is the kicker – they are looking to ‘up sell’ to their list!

Sound familiar?

Give your best stuff away for free, capture an email address and ‘up sell’ afterwards once you have gained the respect of your prospect.

They have launched ‘Prime’ which effectively is a subscription of around $79 per year which allows unlimited streaming of TV shows, movies, music and a Kindle book to borrow for free each month from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library – clever move from Amazon I think!

However because I have got one in the UK this feature isn’t supported (yet!), sent email to Amazon and they explained the legal issues etc.

How can they sell something even in the US which is not supported throughout the world when you have to access the internet? I have researched the forums and as you would expect it’s apparent that others have found a way around this – WIP.

The annoying things is when you first register your Kindle Fire, Amazon give you one months free connection – cute move again, the lesson I have learnt is look at the market leaders and simply copy them.

Customers average purchases were around £1,400 and listen to this figure: the internet accounted for approximately 12% of total spending the highest in Europe.

Further stats included Germany 9%, Switzerland 8.7%, Norway 8.1%, Italy 1.3% and Poland 3.1% so we believe that these figures are going one way and one way only – time to get on the bus!

SOURCE LEP 19.01.12

For those of you based in the North West we hold a monthly meeting in Manchester generally the third Friday in the month where we invite like-minded Internet marketers along to network to share and develop their businesses.

While still early days we held a successful meeting Friday 20^thJanuary and had some useful discussions along with a pleasant lunch.

Next meeting booked for Friday 24^th February 2012 see the link below for further in both:

http://www.meetup.com/Manchester-Internet-Entrepreneurs/

 Do not settle for mediocrity-it is your life!