New Money Making Opportunity Emerges for Struggling Internet Cafes

(PRWEB) October 5, 2010

A new partnership program has been launched by email service provider SMTP2Go, which gives owners of Internet cafes and wireless hotspots across the world an additional means of earning money from their businesses. The new program is also tipped to solve a common problem currently faced by people with laptops when travelling.

?Travellers with laptops who still use Outlook, Thunderbird, or other stand-alone email software, often cannot send emails when they?re away from their home or office?, according to SMTP2Go founder, Charles Abrahamson. ?Many laptop users have little or no idea how to fix their problem. They might resort to using an alternative webmail account (with a different email address), or simply not sending emails while travelling. The reality is that one simple change in their email settings would permanently solve their sending problems ? from any location in the world.?

The partnership program allows Internet cafe customers to use the free SMTP2Go SMTP service, which re-enables them to send emails. The free service lasts 7 days, after which a customer can pay to continue using the service on an annual basis. Internet cafes and wireless hotspots retain 50% of the generated revenue.

?Internet cafes, especially in developed countries, have seen a trend over recent years, where more of their customers bring in their own laptops. These customers simply need a connection to the Internet, rather than the use of a desktop PC,? says Charles. ?The inablity of laptop users to send emails has often lead to frustration, for both the customer, and the Internet cafe owner, who is unable to help them. The reality is that Internet cafes can easily solve this problem, and make money doing so.?

The SMTP2Go SMTP service was designed to work from any location in the world, meaning that travelling laptop users only need to change their email settings one time, and can then send emails from any location. ?Internet cafes only have a few ways in which they can earn income ? this is a brand new revenue stream for them, which requires no ongoing work, and can provide an immediate boost in income for struggling Internet cafes and wireless hotspot owners?, says Charles. ?An Internet cafe with numerous travelling laptop users can earn hundreds of extra dollars each week?.

Since launching the partner program, numerous Internet cafes have joined and are already earning an additional income. The SMTP2Go partner program for Internet cafes and wireless hotspots can be joined for free by visiting the following URL: http://corporate.smtp2go.com/signup-cafe/.

A short video at the URL explains the program in more detail.

SMTP2Go is a popular SMTP server for solving email sending problems, and has nearly 10,000 current paying members, in over 100 countries. The company was founded in New Zealand and currently has server locations across the USA, and staff in Australia and New Zealand.

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The Hidden Cost of Ocean Freight Charges - Free Money for Importers?

London (PRWEB) July 26, 2006

With the ever increasing rate of international trade, it is alarming to learn that as many as 10% of ocean freight invoices may contain significant errors caused by the complexity of calculating the correct shipping costs for goods in transit. A proportion of these mistakes are picked up by the importers? logistics departments, but a significant percentage slip through the accounting and auditing processes and end up as undetected errors in their P&L accounts.

Aside from the bottom line forecasting errors caused by these hidden overheads, companies can obtain significant cash benefits by tracking down these overcharges. By correctly identifying them they can in effect generate ?free? money for themselves as the checks are done post audit, for accounts that have already been filed. Any funds returned are therefore an additional un-budgeted source of income which goes directly to the bottom line.

Take a look at any ocean freight price matrix and you will quickly realise how mistakes can occur so frequently. Rate agreements between freight companies and purchaser are constantly under negotiation and maybe changed as many as ten times per year; each new agreement level maybe subject to a different set of rules; rates change depending on country of origin and shipping routes used; each price modification also has an ?effective from? date when the new rules come into force; by default several ocean carrier offices, in different locations, have to deal with the shipments and to compound the issue importers tend to use several different shipping companies, each with their own charges, paperwork systems and company procedures.

Companies cannot justify the additional staff overheads or time to track down these errors and are left with the choice of either accepting them or employing freight auditors to work through their invoice history. Some auditors will work by applying software algorithms to the companies ERP and accounting packages which can be expensive and often has limited success; others will be general auditors who may have expertise in areas such as air or domestic freight costs but the best option is a specialist company that works solely on international ocean freight transactions.

Steve Ferreira of Ocean Freight Refunds develops bespoke solutions for each of his clients and works with their finance and logistics departments to ensure that the tools he implements during the investigation, remain in place to help improve the clients? future internal audit operations. Ocean Freight Refunds has helped return in excess of ?10 million to customers in the last 3 years alone and they are so confident in their expertise and methodology that they work on a commission only basis. They agree in advance, a fee based on a fixed percentage of the funds returned and if they don?t identify any overcharges, there is no charge for their service.

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