An insider’s comparison of the top travel businesses available today.
Who are they, how are they different, what are their similarities, how much investment is required. What is it that ties the top companies together. It is no coincidence that all the top reps have been involved in a few of the top companies. Who are the top travel businesses: Coastal Vacation Club, DFI Decide Freedom International, CWB Coastal Wealth Builders, P1D Platinum 1 Destinations, GRN Global Resorts Network, Reverse Funnel System. You may find that Coastal Pays You extremely well or you may like GRN or even P1D.
Global Resorts Network GRN : 2 year old company. Nearly twenty thousand Google searches occur for this company monthly. Your investment is $1,495 or $2,995. The $2,995 package is a lifetime membership. Allows member the pleasures of lifetime discounts on travel. The $1495 package is temporary while the more expensive package is for a lifetime. Members pay from $299 – $699 weekly for vacations. Profits are $500 or $1000 on memberships sold by the rep and match the profits on all the sales of the reps brought in directly underneath you. Pretty good payplan.
Advantages: Online booking, 2 price points, matching bonuses, good quality, 2 markets – opportunity seekers and people who buy just for the product, good cookie cutter websites/movies, no 2 up sales, paid on first sale
Disadvantages: Vacations non-transferable – they can only be used by the actual member, the most you can earn per sale is $1000, and it is only good for the end user or the opportunity seeker.
Reverse Funnel System: Unique group within Global Resorts using there own marketing. About sixteen thousand people Google search this company every month. You should have a huge marketing budget to keep this method going. There are cheaper yet more effective ways to market. For better alternatives just Google search the one word term WebMarketingAndLeads.
Coastal Vacation Clubhas lasted in excess of twenty years. There are about 60,000 Google searches for this company every month. One can get started for $1,295 or $3,995 or $11,000. All levels of the product are a lifetime membership. Allows members and people they share with the privileges of lifetime deep discounted travel. The $1295 membership enables some cruise and stays, a carnival cruise, unlimited weekend get-aways and week long condo stays. Members pay from $199 – $350 per week per vacation. The $3995 package is a level 1 and level 2 combination pkg– which adds unlimited Cruises, Disney Vacations, and International Travel. Platinum members enjoy all-inclusive resorts and much longer cruises and vacations. Profits on each sale are $1000 or $3200 or $9705 on memberships. Check out http://coastalincome.com/coastal and choose a level to see what I am talking about.
Advantages: three purchase levels, ongoing income and team leverage through 2-up training sales, good quality product, Multiple markets (opportunity seekers, retail users, fundraisers, b-2-b sales, incentive markets) premade sites/movies, Each trip can be given away to anyone, to any associates, two-up sales-paid for helping others get started, Profit margins from $1000 to $9705, many marketing options from no budget to high budget, top-notch, incredible, and free training and resources available through the board of directors and 2 training sites
Negative: New reps make nothing on the first 2 sales
Coastal Wealth Builders CWB: Sub-group within Coastal Vacation Club using their own marketing methods and websites. About 220 people google search this group monthly. You could consider these as part of the number of people that search Coastal since the group markets Coastal. They pretty much follow the official marketing systems in place and do a nice job training their people. Most of them use both the official system and pay extra for additional CWB created websites.
Decide Freedom International DFI: Sub-group working Coastal Vacations using there private group techniques and sites. There are nearly one hundred and fifty Google searches for this company monthly. These also should be included with the Coastal Vacations count since they also market Coastal Vacations. They also use some of the official marketing systems in place. They promote seminars held by Dani Johnson who is an incredible trainer in network marketing (I recommend listening to Dani at least once in your life as well). However, I would advise against sending your possible recruits to a Dani event UNTIL you have signed them up-as I have come into contact with a few directors who have lost their potential team members to other coastal directors at such events.
Platinum 1 Destinations P1D – Coastal Synergy Group: Opened for business Jan 08. As of the end of 2009 there are about five thousand Google searches on this opportunity monthly. Profit margins up to $7500. While searching for more information about this group I dicovered dozens of inactive links to their websites which inhibited my research. I do know that as the synergy group they were another sub group in Coastal Vacations and grew their team greatly. In fact the author here was actually a synergy member in 2005 when they represented Coastal Vacations-but opted to go with the official Board of Director approved sites and training. The leadership of the synergy group decided to create a totally different product in 2008 totally apart from Coastal. Synergy members were grandfathered into this new system, unfortunately, I have come across many of the members who joined the synergy group and had no knowledge of the approved official Coastal Board of Director training and were left hanging and looking for ways to work their businesses or forced to work a new system they didn’t buy into. You should also know that most of the successful P1D synergy group travel agents and P1D testimonials were former members of the Coastal Vacation Synergy Group. In fact, I have even heard them interchange their Coastal Testimonials.
Conclusion:
Coastal Vacations was founded around 1985, have never altered their compensation structure, have the highest available profit margins up to $9705 per sale. They also govern themselves with a board of directors but maintain individual responsibility by staying an association of several hundred thousand memberships. They have a few notable sub-groups within Coastal such as DFI and CWB. Sub-groups have advantages and disadvantages(a disadvantage is like what happened with the synergy group). Obviously more people Google Coastal Vacations than all other travel based opportunities any where on the net. The Coastal Board of Directors also has a cookie cutter set up with complete websites, 800 tele-services, auto responders, movies, lead generating methods, approved lead vendors etc… The board of directors has a beautiful system in place negating any need for extra groups and whatever costs/risks associated with them. If you work this business according to the fully approved systems in place then you will see that CoastalPaysYou extremely well. In fact CoastalPaysYou so well that many people have fired their bosses after getting involved in this company. Want more info from a Coastal veteran who uses the Official Coastal board approved system? Want to partner with six and seven figure earners? Want to learn the secret marketing techniques that most leaders do not share? Contact Ed Przybylski from Ohio.
Global Resorts Network GRN has been around a few years, never changed their pay plan, have profit margins from $500 to $1000 per sale. It is a great company, good product if marketing only to an end user, limited markets (only for end users). It is nice that you make an additional $500 -$1000 commission on every sale that a personally sponsored rep makes but that means that without that pay plan you could be making $1000-$2000 on each sale. If you would like to contact a GRN rep contact me so I can put you in touch with a GRN rep who is a 7 figure earner in the travel industry.
Platinum 1 Destinations P1D is a couple years old and earns decent incomes. It is hard to tell what their future will be though since most of their success stories are from people who were in coastal vacations. Although new company start ups come and go by the dozens every year they have lasted their first year intact. We will see where their future lies.
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