I got an email today from an old friend that does REALLY WELL both online and offline.
I have met with my friend many times over the years at different conferences we have both spoken at and attended.
He is always well dressed, well polished and has no problem spending his dough to have a good time (he invited my wife Terry and I to see the Cirque du Soleil show Love in Las Vegas the last time we saw him but unfortunately we had to pass).
I really like my friend - if you have been on my list for any length of time then you know when I tell you bout a friend it's really my friend and not a "friend" like the thousands of launch emails you are used to by now.
When he wrote to me tonight I thought he was going to tell me about how well he was doing (as he usually does).
Quite the contrary in fact.
In his email, he lamented about the state of his business right now and how he was scaling back and cutting all expenses due to the economy and some unfortunate business setbacks that occurred this year.
Things were so rough that he was cutting staff and changing business practices drastically. One of the things he is doingis consolidating all his services into more affordable offerings from the best providers.
Now, don't feel so bad for my friend. This guy is one of the sharpest people I know and I have no doubt that he will bounce right back and be on top of the game soon.
But, this does bring up an interesting point. If you are in a situation right now where you are either:
a) unsure of whether your business will succeed
b) unsure of whether to start a business
c) uncertain about the economic climate
Then, by all means, you need to consider scaling back expenses and/or migrating your current expenses to
more affordable and more reliable service providers in order to save money.
Even if your business is doing really well, it's always an EXTREMELY SMART business practice to consolidate your services under one provider especially if that provider delivers a similar or better quality service at a more affordable price.
I really got to thinking about this and decided to do something special for my list members ONLY. Something that would help you do exactly what my friend is doing.
As you should know, Goldbar is aggressively growing our affordable website hosting service HostOne.
We completely revamped this service late last year and relaunched early this year and have been steadily building up a huge following and making some major moves to compete with some well established providers.
But, we aren't new to this by any means. We have been hosting websites since 1998 and quietly building up our staff, our skills and our infrastructure.
As a matter of fact, we own a LARGE chunk of a tier 1 data center located in New Jersey that also houses some major corporate players (which should let you know that the service and infrastructure is top quality).
This year we took a large foray into the Dedicated server marketplace offering what is commonly known as a VPS server.
What is a VPS Server? Well its a dedicated server that is as powerful (even more so) than the dedicated servers being peddled by most large scale hosting companies.
The only difference between a VPS server and a dedicated server is that we can run a small number of VPS servers on one extremely large high powered server.
While the concept is similar to shared hosting the way we plan our VPS servers we can TOTALLY dedicate the resources of the VPS to the owner.
So you get all the benefits of having your own dedicated server: speed, dedicated resources, reliability, privacy, security, etc. without all the negatives: purchasing hardware, the cost of maintaining and replacing faulty equipment and much more.
Now, most dedicated servers cost well over $150.00 and that is for a barebones system that is usually not worth the money you pay. Most reliable and efficient systems cost between $250.00 - $350.00 USD per month.
Because we are working really hard to compete with many of the big players in the Website Hosting game, I have specifically gone against the advice of some of my peers and put together a package that is comparable to the dedicated servers that sell for $250 - $300 per month and we have set an extremely low price of $99.95 per month.
This gives ANYONE more than enough room to host every website they may have (including HIGH Traffic, High bandwidth, database intensive sites) with tons of room to grow and scale.
One of our new clients came to us wanting to know if our VPS could run a software application he had purchased that was not able to perform up to mark at a well known competitor who shall remain nameless.
We set up the app for him and let him put it through it's paces before he purchased and in his words:
"It's 10 times as fast and responsive as those guys over at #@#~!#~!#!#"
So, you can run pretty much anything you like on your own VPS (except services that violate our TOS and AUP).
Got a high powered membership site, bring it over.
Got a few of them? Bring em all.
Got some serious video and audio files to serve? We can handle it.
Got an application that you aren't getting what you expected to from your previous hosting company? As long as it runs on Linux, we can handle it.
Want to get into the affiliate game and have all the room you will ever need to host all your affiliate sites,
landing pages, redirects, scripts and apps?
You know the drill: Our VPS' can handle it.
Now, I told you about a special offer. Here is what I am going to do for my list members and blog readers only:
That's right, we will literally shoot ourselves in the foot and take 1/2 upfront just to let you in so you can see just how powerful our VPS servers are and how responsive and knowledgeable our team of skilled engineers and support techs are.
All you need to do to take advantage of this offer is click here:
and enter one of the coupon codes at the top of the page at checkout time.
This coupon saves you $50.00 off your first months VPS hosting.
Now, if you are really interested but you are a little nervous about shifting sites or full dedicated servers, have no fear. Our talented team will handle all the tech work of the transfer for you.
We will do everything including transferring sites, scripts, databases, changing DNS, keeping you from downtime. Our team lives for this stuff and you will be covered fully.
Ok, so maybe I got you interested with this offer...you may be wondering though - is there a catch?
Just one. I have no interest in overcrowding servers and underdelivering service as many other hosting companies who only care about the bottom line do so I really can only keep this offer open to the first 100 people who respond.
And it really is first come, first served so if we run out of VPS' on one server, we will have to order a new one and get you setup so please know that the turnaround time for the slow movers can be a couple of days.
Of course if you move fast, the setup time is super quick, we have our system so automated that you can be up and running with your own VPS within a few hours at most.
So, what are you waiting for? This is an amazing deal. $49.95 for your first month of PREMIUM dedicated hosting on one of our rocksolid VPS servers and then just $99.95 per month.
Imagine how stable your business could be if you had us taking care of you on your own dedicated server and all your sites, databases, scripts and more were running with my team taking care of you with our trademark White Glove service.
If I were you, I would sign up now:
Happy Hosting,
Marc Goldman
PS Just keep in mind that this special offer is only being made available to the first 100 people and orders will be filled on a first come, first serve basis.
P.S.S Take a lesson from my smart business friend and start consolidating your services with higher quality
and more affordable providers.
Sign up for your own VPS now:
P.S.S.S Did I mention that with each VPS order, you also get your own autoresponder account at GoldbarOne that will let you take advantage of our over 95% delivery ratio and get your mail into the hands of your subscribers and customers?
