- G'day there, Peter Moriarty here recording a quick video
for you on why you might consider upgrading
from G Suite Basic over to Business,
what are the advantages and how is that gonna fit
into the new pricing updates
that Google have recently announced?
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Okay, let's talk G Suite Business.
Now, previously this was called Google Apps Unlimited,
and then they changed all the names,
but effectively what we started with
was the basic version of G Suite.
It was five bucks a month, and that kind of gave you
all of the basics and then you got 30 gigabytes
of storage per user.
And that was really the main, uh, kind of restriction
on that basic plan, and you could buy additional storage
on a per user basis if you ever needed to upgrade,
but the only other add-on or upgrade
that you could buy for Google, was to buy Vault.
And that was an extra five bucks, um,
and Vault does some cool stuff which I'll talk about
a little bit later.
Now, Google then kind of reshuffled things
and they have G Suite Basic and Business,
and Business has a number of features which may compel you
to consider that upgrade.
And I'm gonna take you through
what some of the best ones are.
Now, it's changed a lot in the last year or so,
and so, listen up if you haven't looked into this
in the last little while, you may be surprised
at some of the reasons why you might wanna make the switch.
Now, while we're talking about Drive,
let's talk about storage.
One of the original perks
of what was called Google Apps Unlimited,
and is now G Suite Business,
is that you get unlimited storage.
So that's unlimited for Drive, Gmail,
all of your Google documents,
which are effectively unlimited anyway,
and everything within the Google ecosystem.
Now, what's great about that,
is it means that you don't have to worry about
the data limit about how much stuff you're uploading.
Now, for many business owners, they say,
"Well, I don't need unlimited storage,
"there's no use for me to have that",
but I would bet you, if you're a business owner,
you probably have a hard drive,
or maybe an old computer or two,
that have some business-critical data sitting around on them
that you just don't wanna get rid of, just in case.
Well, that's where Google Apps Unlimited,
now called G Suite Business,
allows you to take a full archive,
and a full copy of absolutely everything,
drop it into Google Drive and never have to worry about
having to find something
or having to boot up an old computer
to access your archive or records.
Now, for many businesses,
you need to keep all of your business records
for many years, depending on what country you're in,
and it's always a good idea to have them stored in a cloud,
backed up safely and securely, so you don't have to stress
and you can sleep easy at night if you ever need to go
and retrieve them.
Now, my third and probably my favorite perk
for G Suite Business, is called Google Vault.
Now, this is really useful for businesses
that are in the accounting, or legal,
or financial services sector,
but I think this is a good idea
for pretty much any business.
Now, what Google Vault does, is any time a email comes
in or out of your business,
it takes a carbon copy of that email, just imagine,
you know, the old carbon copy receipt books,
takes a copy of that email, and it puts it into the Vault,
automatically, in the background.
Any email in, and any email out of your business.
Now, once that carbon copy is stored in the Vault,
which happens automatically, no one can ever delete it.
And what that means is, that if your staff delete an email
from their inbox, or you know, something disappears
from somewhere else within G Suite,
it's all safe inside of the Vault.
And what that's really great for,
is if you ever have legal issues somewhere down the line,
or a customer comes back to you and says,
"Hey, do you know what, I want the same prices
"you gave me last year",
or three years ago, or five years ago.
Well, you wanna have a copy of pretty much everything
in your business.
There's also the opportunity for a customer
to come back and say, "Hey, we wanna sue you
"because something went wrong",
and you need to make sure you have a copy
of all correspondence between your staff
and anyone at your customer's business.
Well, Google Vault allows you to have one place to search
for absolutely everything in the business,
and that one place to search lets you find
everything in everyone's inboxes,
and it also lets you search for Drive files,
Google Hangout history, as well,
all safe and secure in the Vault.
Now, this is a great feature only available
for G Suite Business, and we use it quite often
when we need to retrieve information from somewhere
in the business and we don't know exactly
who may have sent the email,
or if we just want a full record of an incidence
or a situation, no matter who has sent any communications.
One more quick feature,
and I'm gonna throw in a bonus for you,
and that one is Google Cloud Search.
Now, think of this as a Google Search
for your G Suite Account.
So, anything you might need to access,
whether it's an email, a document, a calendar event,
or something even in your Google sites,
anywhere you need to search for within the G Suite world,
if you run one search inside of Google Cloud Search,
it's gonna find any information that you need.
And what I love about this is,
I don't have to open Gmail to find an email,
I don't have to open Drive individually to open a Drive.
Anytime I need to retrieve information from within G Suite,
I'm going to one place to search,
and it finds everything for me.
Now, if you're interested in making the switch
from Basic up to Business, or if you just wanna have a chat
about your business and see which of these plans
might be the best for you, then have a chat to our team,
head along to itGenius.com,
or you can drop a message to our Facebook page,
we'll be very happy to help you out there.
Now, if you're worried about the price increases
that Google have announced earlier this year
and you're looking to beat the price increase,
we have some very, very attractive pricing plans for you,
if you chat to us before March 29, that's 2019.
And what that means is, that we can help you
to make that switch from Basic up to Business.
There are some very, very attractive plans,
even for some businesses getting up to six months free.
So have a chat to our team,
don't delay because we've got a lot of customers
who wanna have a chat to us about this
and we'd be very happy to help you out
with your situation.
Until next time, take care.
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