Ordering Business cards

There are a number of options, from 250 free to 5,000 for $100.

(a) Create your own under the 250 FREE section of VistaPrint.com. See the next entry for an example and detailed instructions. Select the $6 shipping - they still arive pretty quickly. Note that I have ignored the suggested fields (eg address, city, fax ) which are not meaningful. Instead, create a card that drives the reader to either your Travel site and/or your Business presentation or a Capture page. Also include the 5-min recorded message.

(b) Log in to YourTravelBiz back office. Go to "Resources>Business Cards>VistaPrint" or "Printable business cards" (do it yourself) and use the YTB template.

(c) For a classier, glossy colorful card, go to approved vendor, BELO printing
[ http://407print.com/ytb.html ]. These cards are TWO-sided, the front is all about booking travel and the back-side promotes the business. You can order 5,000 cards for $80 plus $20 s&h.

Vistaprint.com do-it-yourself Travel Business card design

Go to Vistaprint.com and select the 250 cards FREE option
Select the card with the Palm Tree design
Fill-in the information as shown below
Select the $5.99 cheapest shipping option (it will arrive sooner than they say)

Company Name: MyTravelHomeBiz.com [** Use your Godaddy.com domain, forwarded to your presentation site, YTB.com/YourID **]

Message: Turn Vacations into PAY-cations!

Full Name: Philip Hulme

Job Title: 816-728-0623

Address Line 1: Referring Travel Agent Opportunity

Address Line 2: Earn P/T or Serious Income

Address Line 3: Guaranteed $6,000 Minimum

Phone / Other: Cut Your Taxes by $ Thousands

Fax / Other: Company Health & Life Insurance

E-mail / Other: 5-min Briefing: 405-244-4085

Web / Other: www.HowIFiredMyBoss.com


** This card is primarily intended for recruiting. However, your Travel clients can also link to your Travel Booking site via your Business Presentation site.

Get set up on Success from Home magazine $6,000 Guaranteed Income plan.

Log in to your Business back office, review the $6,000 Guarantee and sign up for the Auto-ship program, which is 25 magazines a month for $99 (free shipping). These will charge and ship on the 5th of the next month.

If you just missed the auto-ship date, do not wait. Order 25 today and then you'll be on autoship next month. You'll pay shipping cost of $17 for the special order but it's worth it. You want to kick-start your business and need those magazines ASAP.

Plan ahead. Using MS Word and Avery #5160 labels, make yourself 30 labels to affix to the magazines when they arrive.

Format the label as follows:

First & Last Name
Phone Number
Your GoDaddy BUSINESS domain name
5-min, 24hr briefing: (405) 244-4085

I also suggest including an 81/2 by 11 one-page letter, folded in half and tuucked into the magazine together with a business card. You may cut and paste the wording I use in my letter (refer to the next post) and adapt as you want.

Sample letter to include inside Success from Home magazine

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Header with your domain name , eg. YourBeachLifestyle.com
“Turning Vacations into PAY-cations”

Dear friend,

Do you wish you could save money on travel and take more frequent exotic vacations? Would you invest a few minutes a day to save thousands in income taxes? Could you use a guaranteed $6,000 part-time commission income next year? Can you imagine a “Plan B” that would generate passive residual income to replace or exceed your income from your day-job, funding your dreams for your family or allowing you to take early retirement?

If you answered ‘Yes’ to any of these questions, I have a proposal for you. Join our fast-growing network of Referring Travel Agents with YTB Travel & Cruises.

I chose this industry for my home-based business because (a) travel is the number one high growth global industry and (b) baby boomers will continue to drive this trend. I selected YTB, (YTBL.PK, a publicly traded company), because of their high integrity management, competitive ticket pricing, great compensation plan and their proven systems for success.

I appreciate and respect you, so I’m asking you to keep an open mind and do a couple things:

· Take 5 minutes now and call the 24-hr recorded briefing @ 1-800-201-5241.

· Open the Destination Success package in the middle of the Success from Home magazine. Listen to the CD in your car and watch the DVD side when you get home.

· Read a few sections of Success from Home magazine. (If you are skeptical about network marketing companies or had a previous negative experience, please read the comments of Kent McLaughlin on page 94 and Jerome Hughes on page 69. You’ll understand what I see that makes YTB unique.)

Let’s talk finances. Are you expecting a big raise at work this month? We had a CPA run the numbers which show that the YTB guarantee will put an extra $85 a week after taxes in your pocket. That’s equivalent to a gross $5,525 annual pay raise at your ‘day job’. You will earn this income just for minimal effort sharing this magazine to build your travel business!

Join our team and we’ll see you on the beaches of the world.

First & Last Name
Phone:
Business explained: http://www.YourBiz
Travel bookings: www.YourTravelDomain.com

P.S. If the timing is not right or entrepreneurship is not for you, no problem. Naturally, I would really appreciate your business and referrals when booking travel. YTB is partnered with Travelocity, so I can promise you very competitive rates. We also have a fundraising program for associations and non-profit organizations.

Follow these simple steps to recruiting and teach your team to duplicate:

Our role is simply to:

(a) engage everyone you know/meet in a brief conversation about travel that piques their curiosity.
(b) use the TOOLS to provide them information about YTB and the opportunity
(c) follow-up to determine their level of interest
(d) if they show interest, introduce them to your sponsor via a 3-way call
(e) help them make a decision

This is a SORTING business, not a CONVINCING business. Nevertheless, we do have a responsibility to our friends and family to ensure that they know exactly what they are saying "No" to, so we may need to do some convincing to get them to listen to a recorded briefing, watch a DVD, read a magazine or review our website.

Remember, everyone who says "No" to the opportunity is still a potential Travel Customer and should be added to your Deals & Steals mailing list.

If you follow the 1-4 information system you will have massive results.

Step#1: Three-way them in or have client listen to 405-244-4085 Info line. Give them 10-minutes and then call them back and ask "what did you liek BEST about what you heard?" Note hot buttons - travel savings, tax benefits, part-time income or massive income.

Step # 2: Point them to more information. Send the client to your YTB Business Builder website to see the online presentation.

Step # 3: Reinforce the awesome compensation plan by having them watch http://www.howifiredmyboss.com. Set a follow-up time.

Step #4: Three-way with Sponsor or upline to get questions answered and to close.

Step #5: Stay on the phone and walk them through the signup from your Business Builder site. Make suggestions so they don't get hung up choosing their User ID.

If they are not ready to signup but are interested in learning more, get their postal address and mail them the Success magazine by Priority Post ($4.05 postage) from your Autoship inventory.

Add their names into he Contact & Follow-up system in the back office, allowing 3-days for the mail and for them to have time to look at the magazine.

Duplicate this system with everyone you sponsor. This will explode your business.

Invite your prospects to listen to the DIRECTOR's calls...

Here's an example of the email that I send out to everyone I had spoken to about YTB. Please use it but, naturally, you will need to modify your "story":
________________________________________

Hello there, fellow entrepreneur:

Over the course of the last week, we have exchanged emails, phone messages and conversations about the YTB Travel business opportunity. Hopefully, you have already listened to the 5-minute briefing at 800-201-5241 and seen the web presentations at http://www.yourbeachlifestyle.com/

If you are anything like me when I was sizing up this company, you are excited about the idea of saving money on travel, getting great tax deductions and then making some serious money by telling others about this business.

Nevertheless, I was still on the fence. So what did it take to get me to take action and start changing my situation?

I’m a CPA and a former CFO executive with a large global corporation. I was used to saying “no” to stuff unless I had all the evidence. Before enrolling with YTB, I needed to hear some testimonials from other people across the country who were living this dream, not just the story of a friend who showed me his website. Sound familiar?

Well, here’s your chance… there’s a LIVE conference call with different YTB Directors Sunday through Thursday.
Simply call 641-793-7505 Pin 601340 # a few minutes before the call time and listen to people calling in from across the US:

Sundays, [9:30 ET, 8:30 CT, 7:30 MT, 6:30PT]
Steve Branch, TV Wilson and Keith Hipp

Mondays, [10:30 ET, 9:30 CT, 8:30 MT, 7:30 PT *** (Note: starts one hour later) ]
Peter Jensen, Camaron Corr, and Bill Hoffmann (by the way, these are my upline sponsors)

Tuesday in Spanish [9:30 ET, 8:30 CT, 7:30 MT, 6:30PT ]
Delvy Santiago, Victor Toyens, and Samuel Gomez

Wednesdays, [9:30 ET, 8:30 CT, 7:30 MT, 6:30PT ]
James Prewitt, Denson Taylor, and Rick Ricketts

Thursdays, [10:30 ET, 9:30 CT, 8:30 MT, 7:30 PT *** (starts one hour later) ]
Melissa Boston, Larease Rivers

If you are serious, you will put these on your calendar and try to listen to at least one call. If you miss them, you can find some recorded testimonials at (512) 505-6870.

Once you’ve listened to one of the calls, please call Philip at 816-728-0623 and we’ll talk about the next steps.

See you on the Beaches of the World,

Philip Hulme
(816) 728-0623
http://www.yourbeachlifestyle.com/

Apply for your RTA card now!

Complete the form included with your YTB Welcome kit.

This is an important benefit of your new business and adds credibility when you are talking to others.

Cold Market Prospecting

The Sorting Process in a nutshell

We are in the SORTING business, not the convincing business. The ideal sponsoring system is High-Tech & High-Touch. This means that you leverage 24/7 technology to find “suspects” and provide them with information about the opportunity. You then allow website visitors to sort themselves into the “interested” or “not interested” pile.

The next step is to follow up by phone to conduct an interview (see script suggestions) to establish their personal goals and level of interest in our opportunity. You will cultivate a telephone relationship with the prospect using your own personality and sharing your own personal reasons for getting into the business.

Once they have expressed a sincere desire to learn more, you will get their postal address and Priority Mail ($4.05) them a copy of Success from Home magazine. Ask them to confirm receipt via email and set an appointment to call again when they have read the magazine.

Get your sponsor on a 3-way call to answer their questions and to close the enrollment.

Setting up your Tools

Open a unique email address at Gmail.com for this task. (Contact your sponsor who will send you a gmail invitation.) An example address would be JobPosting99@gmail.com

Invest $13 (10 euros) and open a virtual local Skype-In phone number and voicemail for three months at Skype-In. You will place this number in your ads as an alternative form of contact.

SkypeOut Skype Out is also a great system for making unlimited US outbound calls (free until 12/31/06, then $15 a year) using your computer and a headset. Bonus - it’s really easy to cut and paste numbers from your contact list into the dialer. You can also use the Instant Messaging feature to chat online with your sponsor while setting up 3-way calls etc.

Record a personal voice mail greeting on your Skype-In number (like my example at 816-925-0207) that will direct callers to your YTB Business Presentation domain and also to the 5-minute, recorded briefing by Scott Tomer at 405-244-4085 or your 800# (see below). Most callers will not leave a message but Skype will capture their caller ID for callback.

Bookmark PhoneNumber.com/. You will run prospect phone numbers through reverse lookup. Even if you don’t get name and address, you will find out the location of the caller.

Get a toll-free 800# and set the “ring-to” number to 405-244-4085. This will provide a record of who actually made the effort to listen to the call. Each 5-min call will cost you about 30 cents, a small price to pay for a strong lead. I use AmericanFone.com/.

Capture Pages and Online Presentations

The company-provided marketing tools are good but, as usual, some third-party entrepreneur has built a better mousetrap.

Consider investing $25 a month in the EFortuneTravel.com marketing system. You can see my site and sign up for one of your own at Yours will be free after five referrals once you build a team who also subscribe to this system,

Your ads will send people to the provided personal “CAPTURE” page (see mine at www.6Kguarantee.info) where they get enough information to whet their appetites and have to fill in their contact info in order to advance to the full presentation. Their contact information is immediately forwarded to you for your follow-up (see script).

The eTravelFortune system will automatically trigger a series of email messages using an auto-responder that that you can customize that will keep reminding them about the YTB opportunity. You can set up different streams of messages for your warm market, your internet generated leads and purchased leads (available from within your eTravelFortune back office).

Posting Free Jobs Ads

Open a free CraigsList account using your new gmail address: go to http://www.craigslist.com> my account > then confirm by clicking on the email that arrives in your new gmail account.

Open a free BackPage account using your new gmail address: go to http://www.BackPage.com> my account > then confirm by clicking on the email that arrives in your new gmail account.

Use your imaginations in creating your own ad. Here are a couple of idea generators.

Posting Example # 1:
Heading: $2.5 million a minute


The travel industry is a $1.3 trillion US market which translates into $2.5 million a minute.

Our objective is to become the world’s largest internet travel agency. We have a unique business model that allows YOU to share in the fastest growing industry in the world, while benefiting from great travel perks, 60% commission share and generous tax deductions.

Our dedicated professionals are earning strong six-figure incomes while qualifying for company paid health and life insurance. We even guarantee a $6,000 minimum income for part-timers.

Learn more now by calling [your Skype local or 800# ring-to number] and taking our VIP tour at [www.YourCapturePage.com]

Select Full-time and Part-Time
BackPage: post to Sal;es and also select “Managerial” and “Office/Clerical”
Compensation: Six-figure commission potential. P/T $6,000 guaranteed.

Posting Example #2:
Heading: Travel like a VIP, earn like a Rock Star!


The travel industry is experiencing unprecedented growth. Our Referring Travel Agents (RTA) are riding this wave as millions of baby boomers retire and discover the world.

In addition to earning travel commissions, you will learn how to Travel Like a VIP and transform your Vacations into PAY-cations, while saving thousands of dollars in taxes.

Comprehensive TIPS – Training, Inspiration, Paychecks & Support.

Work part-time from home with a guaranteed minimum $6,000 income. Dedicated representatives earn significant six-figure incomes while qualifying for $10k-$25k bonuses and company paid health and life insurance.

Watch the online presentation now and order a free advance copy of January 2007 issue Success from Home magazine featuring our company.

Call [your 800#] and visit [your capture page] to learn more - and to earn more.

Calling your YTB cold market prospects

First Call Script – Leaving a Voicemail (substitute your information).

Hello Wilma, this is Philip Hulme calling from Kansas City with the YTB Travel group. You just visited our website to learn about our work-from-home referring travel agent opportunity. I sent you an email with my contact info and this is just a courtesy call to introduce myself and see if I can help you with any questions. You can reach me anytime on my mobile phone at 816-728-0623. Please do call me back – I’d like meet you personally. Oh yes, in case you lost the bookmark, please make a note of my website address – it’s YourBeachLifeStyle.com. One more thing: you’ll want to listen to a short, 5-minute recorded message from the Founder of YTB Travel, Scott Tomer. That 24-hour message is at (405) 244-4085 [or give your ring-to 800# ] . I know that you’ll enjoy listening to Scott – he’s really down to earth but a true visionary. Okay, please do call me when you get this message. Again, this is Philip Hulme at 816-728-0623. Talk to you soon, Wilma.

First Call Script – Live Contact

Hello Wilma, this is Philip Hulme calling from Kansas City with the YTB Travel group. How are you today? You just visited our website to learn about our work-from-home referring travel agent opportunity. This is just a courtesy call to introduce myself and see if I can help you with any questions.

So, what has you looking at a home-based business? Are you looking to make part-time extra income or serious full-time money?

What do you like best about what you saw on the website?
• Saving on Travel?
• Making part-time income? Making full-time income?
• The $6,000 Income Guarantee?
• Helping others to succeed and make money from home?
• Ability to earn $10k bonuses?
• Being able to qualify as a Director and get health and life insurance?

What kind of work are you doing currently? Are you looking to make some serious changes in your life? On a scale of one to ten, one being “not the least bit interested” and 10 being “sign me up now – I want to start making money yesterday!” how would you rate yourself?

[If they have done their homework and are very interested] My job is just to get you the information you need to make an informed decision. Let me have your postal address and I will Priority Mail you an advance copy of January’s Success from Home magazine which exclusively features YTB Travel.

[Probable outcome] Okay, sounds like you may need some more time to do your homework on our company. Do you have pen and paper? Make a note of my website YourBeachLifeStyle.com and be sure to listen to the audio and watch the video. One more thing: you’ll want to listen to a short, 5-minute recorded message from the Founder of YTB Travel, Scott Tomer. That 24-hour message is at (405) 244-4085 [or give your ring-to 800# ] . I know that you’ll enjoy listening to Scott.

Hey, Wilma, I’ve got a lot of other people to follow up with so please make a note of my name and number - Philip Hulme at 816-728-0623. Do you have a cell phone? What’s that number? When would be a good time to talk again and get your questions answered, Wilma? Okay, let’s talk then. Great meeting you.

YTB Travel Kansas City area Business Briefings
[Call Philip at 816-728-0623 for information]

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