When deciding what business to do, two considerations should be: 1. the support system and 2. the marketing tools provided by the company. The Your Travel Biz is strong in both arenas. The company offers unlimited support via its multifaceted and supportive infrastructure, and the marketing tools are, without controversy, outstanding.
YTB’s Support System
One of the first things that I noticed after joining YTB in 2006 was the support system that the company has in place. First, the company has a dynamic team of over 300 people working in the corporate offices in Wood River, IL who provide support via phone for about 14 hours a day, 5 or 6 days a week for both the travel and the marketing sides of the business. In addition, there are teams of accountants and legal staff available by phone and support ticket (found in the back office) who readily respond to suggestions, questions and concerns.
But that’s only part of the equation. YTB, as a network marketing company, is structured in TEAMS. Why? Because TEAMWORK makes the DREAM WORK! As someone is sponsored into a TEAM, they are supported by they’re new Power Team leader or by their sponsor or both. In many cases, it’s both.
What does this support look like? Well, in our TEAM, support is provided through our weekly “Keepin’ It Real” conference calls. On these calls we talk about issues that concern team-members, we brainstorm and share strategies, we role play scenarios and we discuss marketing tools, tips and ideas. We also work as a team to ensure that whether we are the sponsor, sponsor’s sponsor or the PowerTeam leader if someone in our TEAM calls, we’re available for advice, three-ways, travel parties or suggestions.
YTB’s Marketing Tools
There is no question that marketing is very critical in any business building enterprise. In the Your Travel Biz, we take business building and marketing very seriously. Immediately after you purchase your YTB online travel store, you receive the first marketing tool needed to promote, market and begin advertising your business, the Your Travel Biz marketing website. This site, one of more than seven that you automatically receive with your business, has a lot of information on it including a YTB company video, information about the YTB Comp Plan and Disclosure Statement, information about the Company Founders, J. Lloyd Tomer, Scott Tomer and J.Kim Sorensen, YTB Events, YTB Conference Calls and YTB International Investor information. On your marketing website you also have the link to book travel and the Deals and Steals form that allows your customers to sign up to receive travel specials in their Email inboxes weekly.
This is only the beginning of the list of information and marketing tools and resources available to you in YTB. In your back office, you will also find a host of tools including the YTB Success From Home magazine program that offers a $6000 guarantee, the Circle of Champions videos that tell the stories of 12 YTB Directors who all earned upwards of $1 million dollars in a 12-month period, Leaders Bulletins, The Coach’s Playbook and many other outstanding marketing tools that can be used to successfully build your YTB Travel business. Finally, visit www.princelydesigns.com if you want to get fliers, postcards, car magnets, business cards for your business. You can order from one of the templates there or you can customize your own unique design.
The Your Travel Biz clearly does not take shortcuts when it comes to the serious business of “business building.” The support system and marketing tools that YTB provides to new business owners are second to none. If you are considering a home-based business, look for one that provides the infrastructure, system and tools you need to build your business at the level you desire.
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Regina Osei is a successful mentor and coach who teaches her YTB Team members and other business owners how to succeed in business and how to market their businesses using diverse strategies and approaches both online and offline. If you are interested in starting your own online travel business and want the benefit of a mentor who is committed to your success, join our team today at http://regina.vacationmedia.net. If you have questions, e-mail me at: reginaosei@gmail.com or call 901-221-1630(1)
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
BUILD YOUR YTB BUSINESS WITH THESE 20 GREAT IDEAS
Are you looking for CREATIVE IDEAS to build your YTB business or any business? Some of these just might take your business over the top. Try them!!! I found these ideas on the WAHM site and revised them a bit, but I think they're great. I'll post more in other blogs as I go along. The list is too long to post all at once. If I can assist you with any additional ideas, contact me.
#1. Take a small zip close baggie (snack sizes work well) and include the following in it:
Your Business Card, Business Opportunity Mini Flyer, a Piece of Candy such as hard candy or a lollipop, mini flyer of current specials, discount coupon (optional) etc.
Hand these out to the bank tellers, retail cashiers, at your kids sport events, everywhere you go!
#2. When you stay at hotels & motels leave a brochure or DVD, a business card & maybe a travel special for the maid!
Be creative when you leave tips for Hotel Maids, Waitresses, Waiters, Hair Dressers, etc. Don't just hand them your business card, make it memorable!
Ladies, you can also buy cute little beaded change purses at your local dollar discount store!
#3. Print out flyers with your business contact info, your website address & email address along with any current specials YTB may be offering (Last minute Deals are great!).
Then contact local area mobile home park offices, apartment complex rental offices, housing developments etc and ask them if you can leave fliers in their office or hang on their tenants doors. Give the office employees a free gift (like maybe a vacation voucher). Be sure to have your business contact information on everything you give out!
#4. Contact local area bridal supply stores, bridal gown stores, caterers, tux rental centers, wedding dj's etc. and ask them if you can leave your business cards & fliers about your YTB Honeymoon Registry for them to give to their customers.
Offer storeowners a free gift or a small bonus for helping you spread the word about your business.
#5. Daycare Centers! They are excellent to contact and leave business cards and/or fliers!
Attach your business card to some fliers or brochures along with something of a high perceived value! A GREAT place to get awesome FREEBIES to and printable coupons to give away AND earn extra money is here.
Whatever company you represent, find some things (Disney, Six Flags, etc.) that cater to children or to moms and make up a flier about special pricing there!
#6. A lot of churches hold a spring and Fall Fest! Contact them about getting a table or a booth. A lot of times this will cost you under $15.00 for a space!
Make sure you take lots of VISUALS (play a DVD if possible), magazines, brochures, business cards, and some FREEBIES that you can always have on hand. Get the secret to getting tons of high value items free here: www.thefreesecrets.com
Do a contest drawing at these types of events. Make up entry blanks that gather the customers’ info so that you can initiate contact with them again! Use your vacation vouchers or other great Freebies!
#7. Join your local area chamber of commerce! They are always holding local business events that you can participate in.
#8. College Campuses! Dorms & Housing Students are always looking to spend money! A lot of college students are also looking for an extra income so target them with your YTB Business(or other business opportunities) too!
Drop off fliers and business cards to the College Student Center! They usually have bulletin boards, tables and other things where you can leave your information at for FREE!
#9. Contact your local area Welcome Wagon or Welcome to the Neighborhood Group! Ask them about your leaving DVDs, brochures or fliers, business cards, discount coupons, freebie gifts, etc with them.
They are always looking for additional items to place in their Welcome Bags!
#10. Contact your local area hospitals and ask for Human Resources Dept. The Majority of hospitals hand out New Mommy Diaper Bags filled with products, samples and other stuff for New Moms who just had a baby!
It's FREE for you to add in your information! You can get travel party hosts, new customers and new recruits by participating in these types of programs.
#11. Contact your local medical offices, particularly Gynecology and OB Offices and Pediatric Offices and inquire about you leaving information with them. Of course, you can always leave your magazines! Be sure to include contact information OR a sticker with a message like this on the magazine: "This magazine is FREE.for you to take. If you take it, please call (your name and number) so it can be replaced"
This is another way for you to target Parents of Children with the home party opportunity, the business opportunity and new customer sales.
#12. Donate a Product to your local area Radio Station, they have numerous contests and they are always looking for sponsors!
Your donation can be written off as a tax deduction plus you will get FREE Advertising & Business Exposure for your donation! On this site, you can get free travel items as well as other items.
#13. Donate something (vacation voucher would be great!) to your local area Bingo Halls! They are always looking for sponsors of their Bingo Prizes! Bingo is BIG in a lot of areas!
#14. Call your Chamber of Commerce and find out about Local Area Job Fairs. Get a booth and set up info about YTB!
#15. Call your Local Area Colleges and find out when their next job/employment fair is. A lot of times you can get a booth or table for less than $35 and you will get a lot of GREAT new leads by participating.
#16. Contact local area car dealerships and seek their permission to hand out a small packet that has lots of FREE info AND your YTB business card to give their customers who come in to take a free test drive! (At this FREEBIE site, they are offering -- at the time of this posting -- $50 to anyone who testdrives a Nissan!)
#17. Target your local area gyms! You can get a table space for $20 or less in most cases! Make sure you have great materials on display including the YTB Success Magazine, business cards and fliers. Adding some of your FREEBIES is also a great idea!
#18. Network with others in your community who are in home businesses. Find out what events and activities that they participate in. They are usually "in the know" and can help you get started networking in your community. You may also be able to do some type of joint venture that will benefit and compliment both businesses making it a WIN-WIN proposition.
#19. Contact Companies in your area to see if you can come in and set up a table in the employee lounge or cafeteria for an employee break! These days alot of companies will allow you to do this if you ask them! If you have some FREE GIFTS to share, so much the better!
#20. Does your local area tv cable company have a local information channel? Inquire about advertising! These ads will reach thousands of potential buyers for you! Another twist might be to contact one of the local television producers and pitch to them having you and/or someone on your YTB Team on the show to share with the public about home business ownership!
I hope these ideas will get your juices to flowing as it has done for me. Remember, it can just take one BIG IDEA to take your business to the next level.
"The Big Idea" is a program on CNBC that I encourage you to watch. It will also help to spark imaginative ideas that can take your business soaring.
"The Big Idea" is your roadmap to the American Dream. Each weeknight, Donny Deutsch, the maverick CEO who built a multi-billion dollar advertising and media business, introduces you to the men and women who have made BILLIONS with their Big Idea.
Their stories. Your Roadmap to the American Dream. The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, weeknights at 10p/1a on CNBC.
Keep your eyes open for more ways to build your YTB Business, get YTB Success or just build your home-based business.
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Regina Osei is a successful mentor and coach who teaches her YTB Team members and other business owners how to succeed in business and how to market their businesses using diverse strategies and approaches both online and offline. If you are interested in starting your own online travel business and want the benefit of a mentor who is committed to your success, join our team today at http://regina.vacationmedia.net. If you have questions, e-mail me at: reginaosei@gmail.com or call 901-221-1630(1)
#1. Take a small zip close baggie (snack sizes work well) and include the following in it:
Your Business Card, Business Opportunity Mini Flyer, a Piece of Candy such as hard candy or a lollipop, mini flyer of current specials, discount coupon (optional) etc.
Hand these out to the bank tellers, retail cashiers, at your kids sport events, everywhere you go!
#2. When you stay at hotels & motels leave a brochure or DVD, a business card & maybe a travel special for the maid!
Be creative when you leave tips for Hotel Maids, Waitresses, Waiters, Hair Dressers, etc. Don't just hand them your business card, make it memorable!
Ladies, you can also buy cute little beaded change purses at your local dollar discount store!
#3. Print out flyers with your business contact info, your website address & email address along with any current specials YTB may be offering (Last minute Deals are great!).
Then contact local area mobile home park offices, apartment complex rental offices, housing developments etc and ask them if you can leave fliers in their office or hang on their tenants doors. Give the office employees a free gift (like maybe a vacation voucher). Be sure to have your business contact information on everything you give out!
#4. Contact local area bridal supply stores, bridal gown stores, caterers, tux rental centers, wedding dj's etc. and ask them if you can leave your business cards & fliers about your YTB Honeymoon Registry for them to give to their customers.
Offer storeowners a free gift or a small bonus for helping you spread the word about your business.
#5. Daycare Centers! They are excellent to contact and leave business cards and/or fliers!
Attach your business card to some fliers or brochures along with something of a high perceived value! A GREAT place to get awesome FREEBIES to and printable coupons to give away AND earn extra money is here.
Whatever company you represent, find some things (Disney, Six Flags, etc.) that cater to children or to moms and make up a flier about special pricing there!
#6. A lot of churches hold a spring and Fall Fest! Contact them about getting a table or a booth. A lot of times this will cost you under $15.00 for a space!
Make sure you take lots of VISUALS (play a DVD if possible), magazines, brochures, business cards, and some FREEBIES that you can always have on hand. Get the secret to getting tons of high value items free here: www.thefreesecrets.com
Do a contest drawing at these types of events. Make up entry blanks that gather the customers’ info so that you can initiate contact with them again! Use your vacation vouchers or other great Freebies!
#7. Join your local area chamber of commerce! They are always holding local business events that you can participate in.
#8. College Campuses! Dorms & Housing Students are always looking to spend money! A lot of college students are also looking for an extra income so target them with your YTB Business(or other business opportunities) too!
Drop off fliers and business cards to the College Student Center! They usually have bulletin boards, tables and other things where you can leave your information at for FREE!
#9. Contact your local area Welcome Wagon or Welcome to the Neighborhood Group! Ask them about your leaving DVDs, brochures or fliers, business cards, discount coupons, freebie gifts, etc with them.
They are always looking for additional items to place in their Welcome Bags!
#10. Contact your local area hospitals and ask for Human Resources Dept. The Majority of hospitals hand out New Mommy Diaper Bags filled with products, samples and other stuff for New Moms who just had a baby!
It's FREE for you to add in your information! You can get travel party hosts, new customers and new recruits by participating in these types of programs.
#11. Contact your local medical offices, particularly Gynecology and OB Offices and Pediatric Offices and inquire about you leaving information with them. Of course, you can always leave your magazines! Be sure to include contact information OR a sticker with a message like this on the magazine: "This magazine is FREE.for you to take. If you take it, please call (your name and number) so it can be replaced"
This is another way for you to target Parents of Children with the home party opportunity, the business opportunity and new customer sales.
#12. Donate a Product to your local area Radio Station, they have numerous contests and they are always looking for sponsors!
Your donation can be written off as a tax deduction plus you will get FREE Advertising & Business Exposure for your donation! On this site, you can get free travel items as well as other items.
#13. Donate something (vacation voucher would be great!) to your local area Bingo Halls! They are always looking for sponsors of their Bingo Prizes! Bingo is BIG in a lot of areas!
#14. Call your Chamber of Commerce and find out about Local Area Job Fairs. Get a booth and set up info about YTB!
#15. Call your Local Area Colleges and find out when their next job/employment fair is. A lot of times you can get a booth or table for less than $35 and you will get a lot of GREAT new leads by participating.
#16. Contact local area car dealerships and seek their permission to hand out a small packet that has lots of FREE info AND your YTB business card to give their customers who come in to take a free test drive! (At this FREEBIE site, they are offering -- at the time of this posting -- $50 to anyone who testdrives a Nissan!)
#17. Target your local area gyms! You can get a table space for $20 or less in most cases! Make sure you have great materials on display including the YTB Success Magazine, business cards and fliers. Adding some of your FREEBIES is also a great idea!
#18. Network with others in your community who are in home businesses. Find out what events and activities that they participate in. They are usually "in the know" and can help you get started networking in your community. You may also be able to do some type of joint venture that will benefit and compliment both businesses making it a WIN-WIN proposition.
#19. Contact Companies in your area to see if you can come in and set up a table in the employee lounge or cafeteria for an employee break! These days alot of companies will allow you to do this if you ask them! If you have some FREE GIFTS to share, so much the better!
#20. Does your local area tv cable company have a local information channel? Inquire about advertising! These ads will reach thousands of potential buyers for you! Another twist might be to contact one of the local television producers and pitch to them having you and/or someone on your YTB Team on the show to share with the public about home business ownership!
I hope these ideas will get your juices to flowing as it has done for me. Remember, it can just take one BIG IDEA to take your business to the next level.
"The Big Idea" is a program on CNBC that I encourage you to watch. It will also help to spark imaginative ideas that can take your business soaring.
"The Big Idea" is your roadmap to the American Dream. Each weeknight, Donny Deutsch, the maverick CEO who built a multi-billion dollar advertising and media business, introduces you to the men and women who have made BILLIONS with their Big Idea.
Their stories. Your Roadmap to the American Dream. The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, weeknights at 10p/1a on CNBC.
Keep your eyes open for more ways to build your YTB Business, get YTB Success or just build your home-based business.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Regina Osei is a successful mentor and coach who teaches her YTB Team members and other business owners how to succeed in business and how to market their businesses using diverse strategies and approaches both online and offline. If you are interested in starting your own online travel business and want the benefit of a mentor who is committed to your success, join our team today at http://regina.vacationmedia.net. If you have questions, e-mail me at: reginaosei@gmail.com or call 901-221-1630(1)
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
5 Surefire Ways You Can Determine THE RIGHT Home-Based Business Opportunity For You!
Everybody is looking for ways to make money… additional sources of income that can be earned from home. The options abound. Everywhere you look, somebody is pushing a new product or business opportunity. But how do you know which opportunity is the right one for you? What do you use as your criteria for evaluating the best products and business opportunities to get involved in? This article will help you to:
Discover exactly what to look for in a business opportunity
Learn how to test the viability of the business you are researching
Determine the Right business for you
Tip: One thing you always want to do is to look for paradigm shifts. Look at what people are excited about… what’s moving the masses…
TIMING – you have to get involved with an expanding marketplace. – you want to find huge emerging markets and then figure out a way that you can get in front of the growing demand. Figure out where everybody else is going and get there before they do. Also, think about the “timing” today because timing is also about when you get into a company. Many people who have been very successful in business opportunities know nothing about marketing, but because they got in at the right time, they were able to make a lot of money. While you CAN make money even after there are millions of people in the business, it’s easier if you can get in very early or at the time that momentum is building.
PRODUCT – a lot of people find and fall in love with a product before they figure out if it is a good fit for the marketplace…if the marketplace will bear it. Remember, when it comes to marketing a product, it’s not about what you want to sell but it is about what other people what to buy. You have to look at a product – not through your own eyes but through the eyes of the consumer. It’s going to be a lot easier for you to promote a product AFTER you have found out what people desire and then to match up those desires with products out in the marketplace. Choose your product based on what people are PASSIONATE about and what they are willing to spend their money on. Also, the product should be backed by people who are stable and trustworthy. It should also be a product that is properly funded because you don’t want to invest in it, only to have the company go belly up in just a few years. They not only need a product that sounds good, but one that the owners have the money to roll out and promote the “right” way.
MARKETING PLAN - Many Networking companies have you to start by contacting your warm market by making a list, etc. While you will definitely want to turn your friends and family on to a great business opportunity, if that’s your ONLY strategy, you may soon find yourself in the NFL club (No Friends Left). Plus, if you think about it, that’s not a really a complete marketing plan. You need a complete marketing PLAN, a turnkey system that has specific steps that you can just follow and move forward. This is a critical point of failure for most people. Find a business that will allow you to follow a strategically laid out success blueprint … a step-by-step plan that will give you the ultimate head-start in your business so you won’t have to figure everything out yourself.
SUPPORT – You don’t want to get into a company where you either get too much info (analysis paralysis) or too little information. Look for a leader and/or support team that will provide you with laser beam direction that will: 1. Get you in, 2. Get you involved, and 3. Get you started making money, fairly quickly.
LEVERAGE – Technically you shouldn’t get involved in anything that doesn’t enable you to create leverage. Leverage is: Positioning yourself to profit beyond your own limits. What are those limits? Basically, there are three primary limiting factors: Time, Money and Knowledge. Find ways to leverage these three limiting factors, and I guarantee you, you’ve also found the KEY to getting rich. Here’s what you’ve got to know: You don’t get rich by yourself. You get rich by tapping into the resources (information, money and time) of other people. In other words, find people who have specialized knowledge, find ways to plug other people in so that other people’s money can work for you and find ways to duplicate yourself so that it’s not just your time that’s building your wealth. If you look at some of the wealthiest people in the world like Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey, etc. You’ll realize that these folks are leveraging their names and their resources and making billions of dollars well beyond their own efforts. As you learn how to harness the power of thousands of other people, you will also be able to build wealth beyond your wildest dreams.
See you at the TOP!
Discover exactly what to look for in a business opportunity
Learn how to test the viability of the business you are researching
Determine the Right business for you
Tip: One thing you always want to do is to look for paradigm shifts. Look at what people are excited about… what’s moving the masses…
TIMING – you have to get involved with an expanding marketplace. – you want to find huge emerging markets and then figure out a way that you can get in front of the growing demand. Figure out where everybody else is going and get there before they do. Also, think about the “timing” today because timing is also about when you get into a company. Many people who have been very successful in business opportunities know nothing about marketing, but because they got in at the right time, they were able to make a lot of money. While you CAN make money even after there are millions of people in the business, it’s easier if you can get in very early or at the time that momentum is building.
PRODUCT – a lot of people find and fall in love with a product before they figure out if it is a good fit for the marketplace…if the marketplace will bear it. Remember, when it comes to marketing a product, it’s not about what you want to sell but it is about what other people what to buy. You have to look at a product – not through your own eyes but through the eyes of the consumer. It’s going to be a lot easier for you to promote a product AFTER you have found out what people desire and then to match up those desires with products out in the marketplace. Choose your product based on what people are PASSIONATE about and what they are willing to spend their money on. Also, the product should be backed by people who are stable and trustworthy. It should also be a product that is properly funded because you don’t want to invest in it, only to have the company go belly up in just a few years. They not only need a product that sounds good, but one that the owners have the money to roll out and promote the “right” way.
MARKETING PLAN - Many Networking companies have you to start by contacting your warm market by making a list, etc. While you will definitely want to turn your friends and family on to a great business opportunity, if that’s your ONLY strategy, you may soon find yourself in the NFL club (No Friends Left). Plus, if you think about it, that’s not a really a complete marketing plan. You need a complete marketing PLAN, a turnkey system that has specific steps that you can just follow and move forward. This is a critical point of failure for most people. Find a business that will allow you to follow a strategically laid out success blueprint … a step-by-step plan that will give you the ultimate head-start in your business so you won’t have to figure everything out yourself.
SUPPORT – You don’t want to get into a company where you either get too much info (analysis paralysis) or too little information. Look for a leader and/or support team that will provide you with laser beam direction that will: 1. Get you in, 2. Get you involved, and 3. Get you started making money, fairly quickly.
LEVERAGE – Technically you shouldn’t get involved in anything that doesn’t enable you to create leverage. Leverage is: Positioning yourself to profit beyond your own limits. What are those limits? Basically, there are three primary limiting factors: Time, Money and Knowledge. Find ways to leverage these three limiting factors, and I guarantee you, you’ve also found the KEY to getting rich. Here’s what you’ve got to know: You don’t get rich by yourself. You get rich by tapping into the resources (information, money and time) of other people. In other words, find people who have specialized knowledge, find ways to plug other people in so that other people’s money can work for you and find ways to duplicate yourself so that it’s not just your time that’s building your wealth. If you look at some of the wealthiest people in the world like Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey, etc. You’ll realize that these folks are leveraging their names and their resources and making billions of dollars well beyond their own efforts. As you learn how to harness the power of thousands of other people, you will also be able to build wealth beyond your wildest dreams.
See you at the TOP!
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