Sunday, May 06, 2007

Welcome Aboard! This is going to be an exciting and profitable trip as long as we follow the success formula which involves USING THE SYSTEM.

In the process of enrolling as an RTA & Rep with YTB, you selected your ID login and your password. The company immediately created two separate personal websites for you.

Your RTA site, where you will direct friends and family to book their travel and to sign up for your Deals & Steals Newsletter:

www.YTBtravel.com/yourID

Your Rep site, where you will send people who are interested in learning about the business opportunity:

www.YTBnet.com/yourID

These URL's can be confusing for people and hard to "brand". Most of us prefer to have a personal domain name. My recommendation is that you register TWO personal domains at GoDaddy.com. These cost less than $10/year per domain.

For example, your travel site could be HernandezTravelServices.com or ExcitingTravel4U.com (these are examples - you will have to play around with the options on GoDaddy).

Your business site could be GreatTravelBiz4U.com (you get the idea)

Once you have registered the domains, you will need to go to:
"Domains> My Domains > Domain Forwarding" and forward to the appropriate YTB site. Set the "Masking" feature so that YOUR personal domain will continue to show in the Address bar.

If you want, GoDaddy has a free email feature associated with your domain, so you can have a professional looking address like JaneDoe@ExcitingTravel4U. You can set this up as a POP3 account from Outlook, use the webmail feature or forward to your good old email address.