If you’re set to go abroad this year, make sure you’re completely aware of the charges and costs associated with taking your iPhone away with you. The idea of uploading the latest snaps, checking your e-mail and Facebook, and keeping in constant contact with friends and family may seem like a fun, but in reality, you’ll incur some pretty heft charges as a result.
Therefore, before you travel, read through the following tips and advice to ensure you don’t get the shock of your life when you return home and see that phone bill. This way you’ll know the most effective ways of saving money, and avoid those unwelcome charges in the meantime.
Avoid Data Roaming
This is a huge problem when taking any mobile phone abroad. For iPhone users, and in fact other Smartphone users, you can avoid data roaming charges by simply using free Wi-Fi. Make sure you switch off data roaming first, by accessing Settings, General and then Network. If you want to get online and check e-mails or Facebook, make sure you do so when signed into a free Wi-Fi spot. Your hotel should provide this, but also check for other areas for free Wi-Fi spots. You can do this using a variety of different apps available.Â
Check Your Tariff Options
Before you travel, always check what your tariff entitles you to, in terms of using it abroad. Some tariffs will be very basic and not offer any sort of rates abroad. In this sense, when you land, your network will roam onto a network within that country, where you will be charged extortionate amounts to send and receive calls and texts etc. Therefore, if you know you’ll be regularly using your phone, ensure you’re on a tariff that enables mobile usage at a fair rate. For example, all major network providers have options for mobile usage abroad, and all vary in price and what they offer. So be sure to check with your provider before you jet off.
Change Your SIM Card
Another way of making a huge saving is to either change your SIM before you leave, or to use a local one when you arrive at your destination. Changing your SIM to a global one is perfect if you want to use your phone as you would in the UK; for texts, calls and data usage. Alternatively, you could get a domestic one relevant to the visiting country. This will ensure that you only pay local rates. You just need to top the phone up with credit, which can be done online or at specific retailers. For some SIMs, you’ll be able to keep your number, but if you’re getting a local one, then your number will be different. Just be aware of this. Â Â Â
Be Prepared
The more you prepare for your holiday, the less chance you’ll incur extra costs. This is referring to backing up information stored online that will be vital for when you’re out there. For example, if you need a local map to find the location of your hotel, instead of trying to access this via the Internet enabled map feature, simply take a screenshot of the map and store on your hard drive. iPhones have an excellent feature that enables you to capture what’s on your screen. Simply hold down the Home button, and hit Power/Sleep, to capture what’s on your screen.Â
Get Insured
Whilst iPhones are incredibly popular and useful, they’re also particularly expensive. This means that they are quite a sought after product, and whether you’re in the UK or abroad, there will always be someone with a keen eye for it. Not only that, but when on holiday, there is a higher risk of your phone getting broken or lost. Imagine if you didn’t have some sort of insurance to cover the cost of a new iPhone if you needed to replace it. Therefore, it pays to get insured before you leave, safe in the knowledge that if something happens to it, you’ll be protected financially.
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How many e-mail messages do you send everyday? You’re probable missing out on a simple, inexpensive marketing tool. Seize the opportunity to promote your business to a highly targeted market without spending a dime by utilizing your e-mail signature line.
If your email signature line only contains your name and contact information, you’re missing out on advertising to e-mail recipients that have opted for communications from you.
These people are key members of your unofficial marketing network. They are your prospects, clients, press contacts and colleagues and your signature line is the perfect, unobtrusive space for a unique promotional pitch.
Try these tactics to turn your “sign-offs” into sales:
Highlight what your company offers.
Offer an incentive for recipients taken a specified action.
Use the associated web address for the incentive, if it’s also on your site.
Give better visual positioning to the promotion rather than contact info.
Play with eye-catching fonts and colors.
Use less than 64 characters/line so that words don’t wrap to a new line.
Write a “signature” for different categories of recipients.
Change your signature copy frequently.
Never miss a chance to get your product or company noticed.
Another thing that many entrepreneurs don’t think about is the letters they send out. They are merely accepted as solving a problem or answering a need, when you can carry the e-mail idea over into every piece of mail you generate.
On the company letterhead simply add a line at the bottom of page 1. It could be a “tag line” of sorts made up of a slogan that “brands” your services or business. Try to come up with something unique so that every time it’s heard the prospect thinks of you.
Examples of this would be, “Good to the last drop,” which of course is Maxwell House Coffee. “Finger-lickin’ good,” which is KFC chicken, and so on. You get the message of what I’m saying. Play around with this until you come up with a pearl that is uniquely you.
If your business/service does not lend itself to this idea, then focus on increasing your credibility by using a “membership” tag line. For instance a funeral home would be less than tasteful using the line, “Our clients are dying to visit us;” but they COULD use the line “Members of Undertakers Assoc. of America” at the foot of their letterhead. This establishes immediate credibility in the mind of the recipient, even if the letter they received was a direct mail advertising letter.
When you’re an entrepreneur in today’s marketplace you have to be inventive and creative to buck the “big boys” on the block. I suggest that every entrepreneur read about the life of P.T. Barnum to get a better understanding of a truly great entrepreneur.
It isn’t always the almighty dollar that gets the best advertising for our business; it’s the best IDEA that makes you stand out in the crowd.
