Trevor's Travels

Your Travel Biz (YTB) is an online travel company that has its own booking engine, is on the NASDAQ, relies only on network marketing for business and has produced many success stories.

Here are the keys to successful network marketing:

1. Don’t go to the people. Let them come to you. How do I do that? Get the word out to hundreds of thousands of people.

2. How do I reach people? Use the internet concept of Web 2.0 Get connected with every public internet site you can like Facebook, Squidoo, YouTube and any of them that allow you to put out your information and why they should join your YTB team. Also, sign up for every free article directory site you can and start telling the world about your business.

3. Locally you can reserve a cheap space in your town like a popular banquet hall. Put an ad in your town paper and place flyers around town inviting people to come hear about your opportunity. The people who want it will come. You might only have 30 people come but, that will turn into new people on your team. And you can do this in as many towns as you like!

4. SELL TRAVEL!!! Keep in touch with your new recruits. Help them get started right. The only way any of you will be successful, no matter how many people you bring in, is to SELL TRAVEL. It will benifit you.

5. Do whatever you can to concentrate on number one on this list. Using your time to go to people at random is a waste. Set out the good word and let them come to you. THAT’S THE SECRET TO GOOD NETWORK MARKETING!!!

mymaptravel.com

That is my site above. You can visit the site if you are interested in finding out more about YTB and starting your own travel business. I have already quit my day job! I would be proud to have you on my team and show you how to start your own team!

easytakeoff.com

This is my travel booking site. Anyone can book travel there. Please do. You can get your own site just like it by joining YTB!

A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that ‘publishes’ or features articles (which are called ‘blog posts’, ‘posts’, or ‘entries’), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:

· Straight texts

· Photographs or images (photoblog)

· Video (videoblog)

· Audio files (audioblog)

· Hyperlinks

Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:

· Online journal or a web diary

· Content managament system

· Online publishing platform

A typical blog has the following components:

· Post date -the date and time of the blog entry

· Category – the category that the blog belongs to

· Title – the title of the blog

· Main body – the main content of the blog

· RSS and trackback – links the blog back from other sites

· Comments – commentaries that are added by readers

· Permalinks – the URL of the full article

· Other optional items – calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins

A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the ’stats’ (the nubmer of comments or trackbacks).

There are numerous types of blogs. Some of them are the following:

1. Political blog – on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).

2. Personal blog – also known as online diary that may include an individual’s day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.

3. Topical blog – with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.

4. Health blog – on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.

5. Literary blog – also known as litblog.

6. Travel blog – with focus on a traveler’s stories on a particular journey.

7. Research blog – on academic issues such as research notes.

8. Legal blog – on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as ‘blawgs’.

9. Media blog – focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.

10. Religious blog – on religious topics

11. Educational blog – on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.

12. Collaborative or collective blog – a specific topic written by a group of people.

13. Directory blog – contains a collection of numerous web sites.

14. Business blog – used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.

15. Personification blog – focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).

16. Spam blogs – used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as ’splogs’.

Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term “blogging” refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term “blogger” refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.

Today, more than 3 million blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:

· Personal bloggers – people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.

· Business bloggers – people who focus on promoting products and services.

· Organizational bloggers – people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.

· Professional bloggers – people who are hired or paid to do blogging.

Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).

Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers:

· Advertising programs

· RSS advertising

· Sponsorship

· Affiliate Programs

· Digital assets

· Blog network writing gigs

· Business blog writing gigs

· Non blogging writing gigs

· Donations

· Flipping blogs

· Merchandising

· Consulting and speaking

The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging:

1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.

2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.

3. Be an ‘expert’. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the “go-to” blogger on that topic.

4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).

5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.

Certainly, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful problogger.

YTB Travel Biz (YTB) brings you the perfect opportunity to transform your life through combining the fun of travel with the speed of the Internet, multiplied by the power of referral marketing to provide YOU with the ultimate home-based business solution.

The YTB companies offer two unique and powerful business opportunities, that of referring travel agent or “RTA” and that of independent marketing representative or “REP”. The travel agent opportunity has an initial fee under $500 and a monthly license fee of $49.95. There is no fee or travel agency purchase required to be a REP. You may choose to participate in one or both opportunities.

1. Visit our marketing site at View YTB Presentation; this is the same personalized marketing site that you receive when you join. Click on the “join today” button, this will bring you to a “verify your sponsor” page. From here you need to click on the “yes, I want Brent Vanderstelt to be my sponsor”, then click on “I agree to the sponsor terms” button.

2. You are now at the Step 1 of the sign up process. Here you will choose 1 of 3 options to choose your business.1. Become a RTA and a REP, this requires the $495.00 set up fee and $49.95 recurring website fee, this allows you to sell travel and travel agencies. AN RTA CANNOT SELL YTB ONLINE TRAVEL AGENCIES (only a REP may sell Online Travel Agencies). 2. Become an RTA only, this requires the $495.00 set up fee and $49.95 recurring website fee. You will not be permitted to sell online travel agencies. 3. Become a REP only, you can sell Online Travel Agencies and sponsor other Reps. A rep can earn commissions and overrides on sales made by Reps in their IMR down line.

3. Step 2, you must read and agree to the term and conditions and click on the “I agree” button.

4. Step 3. Enter your information. If you choose the “personal option” you will be required to enter your social security number, if you choose “business option” you will need your FEIN or Federal Employee Identification Number and complete all boxes on the sign up form.

5. Step 4. Review your order and print off this page. This includes information you will need to log into your back office. This is also the web address to your personalized website.

6. Log into your back office. Enter your website address into your web browser (example www.ytb.com/monaview ) in the upper right hand corner of your website, click on “login”. After clicking on “login” enter your user name and password that you printed off in Step 4.

7. Now you should be in your Back Office. This will display information about “home”, “my account”, “my earnings”, “my team”, “shop YTB”, “downloads”, “reports”, “resources” and a “help” button.

HOME: Here you need to spend some time, in the columns to the, you will see “tool box”, click here. This is where you will get your training material. Spend some time reading all 11 items. You do not need to do it all at once.

Also, if you chose the $6,000.00 income guarantee, you will need to download the form here and fax it to YTB Corporate.

Here you can also download the Memory Jogger to help you remember people that you know.

Archives, here you should spend 30 minutes a day listing to conference calls to really help you understand the YTB business.

At the top of the screen, you will see your sponsor information, if you have any questions, contact him or her from here.

MY ACCOUNT: Spend some time here and make sure that your information is correct, if it is not, you can edit the information here.

MY RARNINGS: Here you can review your earnings when someone joins under you or you’re down line.

MY TEAM: Here you can view how many people are in your team and view various other reports.

SHOP YTB: Here you can order the YTB Magazine if you wish to participate in the $6,000.00 income guarantee. You will need to complete the form here also. You may also order other marketing materials here.

DOWNLOADS: Here you can download various forms and brochures including the IMR terms and conditions for REPS ONLY. RTA’s will need to complete the RTA terms and conditions and the IMR terms and conditions. Download this form, complete all information and fax to corporate.

Here, you will also want to download and complete the YTB Credentials Application, this is your RTA Travel License.

REPORTS: Here you can download your reports

RESOUCES: Here you need to complete your YTB PAY CARD, this is a debit card that is issued to you for your paycheck, and otherwise there is a small fee to have paper checks issued. You should also order your business cards here; you are about $30.00 for 250. You may also get a personal domain name.

We also offer a domain names and websites at our sister company Russell Domains &l Web Hosting

You should spend a little time in your back office to familiarize yourself with your business and resources to help you understand. Remember, you can earn while you learn, with YTB.

Congratulations! You are now a self employed travel professional. Now, just point people to your website and talk about travel.

Remember, you are part of a team at YTB, you can expect calls from your sponsor to answer any questions that you have and help you grow your YTB business.