- Good day there, Pete Moriarty here
with just one week to go until Google's price rise
for all G Suite customers,
you don't have much time left to take advantage
of the discounts that are available, if you take action now.
Now I'm gonna take you through,
all the discounts available in this episode,
what my recommendations are,
and how you can get access today,
so you beat the price rise.
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Okay, so your first step
is to head along to itgenius.com/priceupdate,
and that's gonna take you to our blog,
which has all of the available promotions
for renewing G Suite before April one,
which will give you access to preferential pricing.
If you scroll down here,
you'll see that we have the Google pricing matrix here,
and this is a representation of all
of the different offers available,
based on the different skew for G Suite.
So if you wanna stick with Basic, upgrade to Business,
or even to Enterprise, these are the different pricing tiers
that are available, so these are the
you can see there's opportunities to lock in
the current pricing here,
which are currently paying for G Suite,
and they have their representative contract lengths
for the commitment that you need to make
for each one of these.
So what does the commitment mean here?
Well, you can see that there are different prices available
and different contract terms,
and what you do is you effectively lock yourself
in for a contract length,
which means that you're committing to staying
as an active customer of G Suite for that period of time,
you're not allowed to downgrade your account,
so you can't reduce the amount of users that you have,
but you can upgrade them, so as your business grows,
you can add more staff and you retain the discounted pricing
for each new person that you add, which is pretty cool,
you just can't go down,
and so what that means is you're promising Google
that you're gonna stick around
for a certain period of time,
and Google are giving you discounted pricing
in return for that promise.
Now, which promos do we recommend?
Here's where it gets complicated.
Depending on what plan you're on right now,
and you're paying,
whether you're paying annually or you're paying monthly,
our advice is gonna differ here.
So I'm gonna take you through each one
and each different situation,
and I'll give you the recommendation
that we put forward for that.
Now the easiest way to find out which plan you're on
is to sign into your admin panel
by visiting admin.google.com,
and that will take you into your administrative panel
where you can change and manage,
all of your settings for G Suite,
you head along to the billing tab,
and once you're in billing,
that's gonna let you know exactly how much you're paying
for your G Suite account.
If you're already in itGenius customer,
you can log into our accounts portal,
click on services
and see all of the available services within your account.
Look for your G Suite user licenses,
and you'll see whether you're paying annually or monthly
for your current plan.
Once you know which contract on feel free to skip ahead
to the time code for the relevant plan,
and my recommendation,
I've posted all those below this video.
So G Suite Basic paid monthly.
If right now you're paying monthly on your Basic plan,
well, this is a great opportunity to upgrade to Business
because you can take advantage of our most popular promo,
which is the 18-month commitment to upgrade to Business.
Now not only do you get to upgrade to Business
and you get all the additional features,
but you're going to effectively lock in the price
for Business not just for 12 months,
but you get six months free added on top of that,
effectively 12-month paid commitment to Business.
So yes, in effect, you end up paying a little bit more than
what you would usually pay for a whole year
of G Suite Basic,
but this is the absolute best time to upgrade to Business,
and if you haven't already, and you're still considering it,
well, you should watch our video below
on why considering upgrading from Basic to Business,
there are a lot of compelling reasons
for any business larger than one employee.
Alternatively, you could decide to switch to annual billing,
so if you're really happy with Basic right now,
you can switch your account to annual billing
and locking your anniversary date to be March
and then from there,
you'll be able to lock in a full year
of the current pricing,
and of course, any upgrades as well will allow you
to retain the cheaper pricing
until the renewal rolls around next year,
and you'll have to see what promos are available there.
Third option is to continue paying
what you're currently paying,
you can lock that in with the C13Basic promo
that will give you the cheaper pricing
and one month free and you still get to pay monthly.
If you're on G Suite Basic right now
and you're paying annually,
again, this is a great time to consider upgrading
to Business, check out our video below
on the reasons why you might wanna upgrade
we recommend it for any businesses
with more than one employee,
you'll be able to lock in amazing pricing
for G Suite Business
which you will never be able to get again
and you get an awesome bonus of six months free.
Now the challenge with anyone on an annual plan right now
for Basic or for Business
is that you may have just recently renewed it,
you may have renewed it late last year,
you may have even renewed it
in January this year before Google announced
the new pricing,
and if that has happened, well unfortunately,
there's no way of getting out of that annual payment
or getting a credit for what you've already paid for.
So you may kind of have tough cookies
and you may have to stick with what you've got,
but if your renewal is sometime between now
and the end of July,
so between now and July 31 2019,
we've done the maths
and you forfeiting the rest of your contract
and recommitting now before April one,
means that you'll actually reset your annual contract
and it actually still effectively saves you money,
so that would be a good idea to consider
if you know your renewal date is before July 31.
As we've said here,
if your contract renewal is after July 31,
unless you're considering upgrading to Business,
your best to just take no action and not make any changes.
If you're already on G Suite Business
and you're currently paying monthly,
well, the best thing for you to do
is switch to an annual billing plan.
Not only is that going to lock in the price,
but you'll also get two months free,
which is a promo that's disappearing,
so this may be the last year
that you'll be able to get access to two months free,
which equals 16% savings over the course of the year.
Now that's a pretty darn good savings,
even if you put it on a credit card,
it would probably cost less than that
for the cost of putting that on a credit card
for a whole year, that's a very, very good deal,
and that's our number one recommendation.
Second, is you can continue paying monthly,
but you can commit to the C13Business promo.
Now what that means is you lock in cheaper pricing,
it's locked in even for upgrades as well,
but you get to continue paying monthly,
you only get one month free,
which is still a pretty good deal, I guess,
but you get the flexibility of paying monthly
instead of having to pay annually,
which is a bit harder on cash flow.
Our third recommendation is consider an upgrade
to Enterprise, have a chat to our team
about some of the features of Enterprise
and why you might wanna make the switch
up to the higher plan,
there's a pretty cool promo going at the moment
the C12Enterprise plan,
which means that you get four months free
for committing to an upgrade to an Enterprise plan.
If you're a Business customer paying annually,
again, unfortunately, the only real road for you
is to upgrade to Enterprise
and to look at getting locked in pricing
and you get the amazing deal of four months free there,
but if you wanna stick with G Suite Business,
and you're happy with that,
you've got to look at your renewal date to work out
whether or not it's a good deal
to actually reset your contract.
We've done the maths and if your renewal is billed
for July 31st, so anytime between now and July 31st,
it actually makes sense to forfeit that contract,
forfeit the remaining months on the contract,
you don't get a credit for it or anything,
but what you will get is the ability to re-contract
at the current rates before those rates increase,
and even with the discount for the next 12 months,
the rates that they're going up to are about a 50% increase,
so anytime but before July 31, have a chat to our team,
and we can help reset your contract, you pay for a year now,
and you get to lock in the pre-April pricing,
which is pretty cool.
If your annual contract is after July 31,
unfortunately, there's no advantage of making any changes
or maybe it's fortunately
just to kind of leave things how they are,
you don't need to take any action there.
For Enterprise customers,
all payment plans are staying the same,
so what that means is
the Enterprise pricing hasn't changed itself,
so any of the Enterprise promos,
you'll see there's two promos here the 12-month
and the 24-month,
those are only for those that are upgrading
from either a Basic or a Business skew of G Suite.
So you've got to be doing an upgrade
to take advantage of either of those options.
Now, if you're a new client,
it's easy enough just to click on the codes,
follow the instructions,
which I'm gonna show you in a second.
If you're an existing client, it's a little bit easier
if you head along to our website first
and sign into your billing account
before you click on the promo codes,
and to do that you just headlong to itgenius.com,
click on the account button here,
log in, and once you've signed into your account,
then you're ready to go.
If you're unsure of which plan might be right for you,
then you can get in touch with our team
by clicking on to the Google Form below the blog post,
and that will take you through
to an expression of interest form
where you can let our team know
what plan you're interested in,
and give us some details on your business,
and we will be in touch to help out.
Now just to let you know,
we have a high number of inquiries at the moment,
we're doing our best to get through to everyone,
so your best to make a decision
and put through the order on our website,
and we can always go and fix it up
if you accidentally click on to the wrong offer,
and we can give you a refund
or correct the order as needed before we go live.
So let's say for an example,
you are currently on a G Suite monthly billing plan,
and you're interested in the C12 Basic
which is switching to an annual payment plan
to take advantage of the pricing being locked in
for 12 months,
so we're gonna use this C12 Basic coupon,
we go ahead and click on that,
and that's gonna open up our shopping cart,
and let us get started with going through the pricing,
let me zoom in here.
Now the billing cycle will stay zero dollars annually there
because it's actually based on the number of seats.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna enter our seats here,
so this is the current number of users
that you have in your G Suite account,
not how many of you would like to have,
but this is the actual number of customers
in your sorry, staff in your G Suite account right now.
So let's say for example, I have 10 employees,
I'm gonna put a 10 there.
Now notice that this pricing here 100 AUD
is actually the new pricing,
which is the the Google's full price from April 2020,
and that price is gonna show up here,
but the discount code has been added in the background,
and when we get to the checkout page,
it's going to be applied.
Now what we need to do because we are committing
to a 12-month agreement,
we're just gonna put 12 months
in the contract length here,
and we're gonna enter our G Suite domain.
Now you don't need to put in www or anything else,
if I'm buying this for itgenius.com,
I'll just enter itgenius.com there.
We'll go through to the next page here,
and it's gonna give me all of the information
on what I'm committing to.
So you can see the total there,
we also have the discount which has been applied,
you can see the Google C12Basic promo
has already been applied here, just make sure that's there,
and you can see the total due today
is gonna be what's due today,
which is my yearly payment for all of my licenses,
and this is
as you can see locking in the price of $50 per license.
It's plus tax, but that's the price for the license
that we are locking in for this year,
and you can see there,
there is a total annual recurring there as well.
Now it's very likely that next year
when your renewal comes around in March,
you will have other discounts available
and we will let you know what they are,
but the full price for Google after April 2020
will be the the additional price for each mailbox
which is gonna be around 100 Australian dollars.
Next you go through to check out
and you know what to do from there
you put in your credit card details and then all is good.
You will receive a confirmation from our team
to let you know that all has been set up correctly,
and then you're good to go,
you're locked in and you've saved a bunch of money,
committing to a new G Suite plan
and any changes that you need to make
our team will be on hand to help.
Now just to remind that if you need any help at all
with this process, head along to itgenius.com,
you can live chat to us straight on Facebook,
let us know what your challenges are,
and if you need any help at all,
our team will be in touch
to help you out processing your G Suite upgrade.
A reminder that the deadline is March 29
to get these orders in
and that's midday, Sydney time
to be able to take advantage of these exclusive promotions.
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