Coastal Travel

Coastal Vacations is a home-based business opportunity in the travel club industry. The company has been around for 13 years. It would be important to note what Coastal Vacations is not.

It is NOT a network marketing company. It is NOT a multi level marketing company. It is NOT any type of pyramid scheme whatsoever.

Finally, it also is NOT time-share. What is this company? It is a travel club membership, and a home-based travel business. When you join, you get the membership, and the ability to make money getting Coastal Vacations new clients.

Coastal Vacations does, however, use a two up compensation plan. This means that as a new marketer, you must give up your first two sales to your sponsor. So, you pay the $1,295 to become a member, and give up your first $2,000 in sales.

From your third sale on, you get the $1,000 commission checks. Then you also benefit from getting paid when the new person makes their first two sales. After that, this person is qualified to make their own commissions, and you cannot benefit from their future sales.

If you want to make more money, you can sell bigger vacation packages, up to $11,000. When you join Coastal Vacations, you are buying a vacation package level, in addition to the business opportunity.

The packages are not all that they are cracked up to be. Here, the company isn’t up to par. It can be very difficult to use the membership for your vacation.

You will run into various obstacles. Even though there are many nice destinations to choose from, actually getting the vacation set up, at desirable places and dates, is seemingly impossible.

There are other question marks about this company. There is no such thing as a 24/7 crew of agents to help you with your vacation plans. On the business side, there are a lot of members not accurately using the official compensation plan.

This can, and has, lead to some unethical practices within the program. This means depending on who you join with, things can be different. This is not proper.

The concept of Coastal Vacations is a good one. The problems start to arise with the application of the plan. The business end needs to be properly monitored, and the vacations need to be easier to go on.

Wealthy Maketer

Wealthy Marketer Review

Wealthy Marketer is an online network marketing company. The premise of this company is to build a solid team that will pay you through two levels of down line sales people.

You will spend $1500 to sign up for this program. For that cost you will receive all the tools you will need to sell the program. When you see how the compensation plan works, you see where this $1500 really goes.

When joining Wealthy Marketer, you will be given a website to market your new business. Along with help from your sponsor, you will start to drive traffic to your website. These are the basics of the program.

As people sign up under you, you will become a mentor to them. You will teach them how to be successful in this program. This is how you build your team.

You can make money on 3 levels. When you make a sale, you make $900. When a person you sign up makes a sale, you make $200. When that next person makes a sale, you make $100.

So it’s possible, to create a strong network, especially if you help your downline. The more people you sign up and help become successfully, the more passive income you will make. The key is to support your team.

The system is highly automated. Everyone is connected to a central site. For your website, you choose a domain name, a design, and you are ready to go. It’s very quick, so there are no delays in getting started.

The one key thing that is not automated is closing sales. This is where, as a team leader, you can really help. If your downline doesn’t have good closing skills on the phone, you can assist them.

By helping your down line close deals you are helping yourself also. This can mean that a team can use everyone’s particular skill to help a sale come to fruition. The incentive is there.

This is a high cost network-marketing program. It can yield big profits with a good effort. Many people are seeking programs that have this much potential.

If you want to succeed in this program you will need good phone sales skills. Otherwise, you will need a team leader that helps you do this. If you want to make a lot of money, this is the biggest key.

Roadmap To Riches

Roadmap To Riches Review

Roadmap To Riches is another company using a very similar model. Although you buy a product line when you sign up, people primarily are looking at the business opportunity that goes with the products. For an additional fee you are given the right to sell and promote the program.

The products you receive are personal development orientated. The business model is the, ever popular, 2 up system, but with a twist. Normally, you must pass your first two sales to your sponsor.

In the case of Road Map To Riches, you split the profits for the first two signed up by your downline. This is the qualifying phase. Once these two sales have been closed, this seller gets 100% of the profits.

An example of what you receive when you join Road Map To Riches is (in e-book form) the book “Think And Grow Rich”, by Napolean Hill. Although this company will defend the value of the product line, it is for the business opportunity, not the value of the products, that people pay the $999. People see the chance to make a lot of money with this type of compensation plan.

The synergy of the compensation plan is easy to see. Once a marketer for the company, you build your business by helping the people you sign up get their first two sales. At that point they should be sufficiently trained to be on their own.

Then you move forward to new sign ups, and again, help them make their first two sales. If you are willing to work with new sign ups this goes on and on. Everyone you help complete this process will be positioned to have a successful business, and would have already broken even from their original investment.

The company provides all its sales reps with a back-office training program. This provides you with the tools and training to market the opportunity. They even provide tips on how to write your ads.

Although you will be running an Internet based business, a big sale like this will take a personal touch. People will want to talk with you about this opportunity. You will need to be a salesman, primarily over the phone.

Your sponsor will have the incentive to help you make your first two sales. After that, you will need to be able to sell the program on your own. This is an essential part of succeeding in this type of direct sales.

There are a few business opportunities out there these days with similar types of opportunities. One reason to think that Roadmap To Riches is a legitimate offer is to see Brian McCoy, a top earner in a couple of similar ventures, join Brian Grant in this enterprise. He has produced his own exclusive website, designed to help his team make money even faster.

As you can see Roadmap To Riches is a company designed to give Internet marketers a chance to achieve nice incomes. Much of the work is quite automated. However, you still need to sell the opportunity to your prospects if you expect to succeed. A sale of this size will not be sold with a simple online form.

Big Ticket

Big Ticket To Wealth Review

Big Ticket To Wealth is a new online marketing opportunity. When you join this company as a sales rep, you have different ways to make money.

When you become a member of this company (there are three levels which we will cover later) you gain access to a number of Internet marketing products. Your membership gives you the right to, not only use them, but sell them also.

The other ways you profit from this business are involved in the networking aspect of the business. When you find other people interested in this business, you sign them up and you will profit in two different ways. Lets see how it works.

You have the option to become a V.I.P. member at three different levels. The National Product level for $797, the Executive package for $1,197, and the Presidential membership for $1,997. All three memberships also carry a recurring, $75 a month license fee.

The commissions for selling these levels are $300, $500, and $900 respectively. Many plans are like this. The following two major differences make this a very interesting company. When one of your sign ups makes a sale, you both receive a commission! Your commission is called an override.

This part of this plan is where other plans make the new client “qualify” to get commission by giving the first two sales to their sponsor, and receive nothing. This is a very discouraging proposition. This is a very powerful difference.

You also receive commissions on the monthly license fee. These are $15, $25, and $50. This creates a potential residual income stream. These two features create great incentive to help your downline partners.

Another unique feature of the Big Ticket To Wealth is a product they have for you. As a member you have access to a library of state of the art flash videos. These videos pertain to all the different products that a good Internet marketing program would use. From e-books to software programs, you get it all.

As with any other big ticket item, you need to talk to your prospective buyers. You can’t expect someone to join this program just by reading about it online. Maybe someone will, but it is very unlikely. Your skill at selling over the phone will be critical.

If you do have these selling skills, you can do well with this company. Not only will you sign people up for yourself, but you will want to help the people you sponsor as well. You get paid nicely to see them succeed anyway.

In closing, Big Ticket To Wealth is a new and innovative company with an interesting compensation plan. If you can sell things this can be a very lucrative opportunity. Maybe this can be your big ticket to wealth.

Perfect Wealth

Perfect Wealth Review

The Perfect Wealth System (PFW) calls itself an online University. It is designed to teach you how to market on the Internet. With the knowledge provided, you will be able to successfully make money in any online business. Even offline businesses will benefit from this learning program. 

The wealth of training you get from the products provided can make you a marketing maestro. Add a powerful compensation plan, and you have a winning formula. Let’s look at how the compensation plan works.

The compensation plan works in a way that keeps people working together. Many of the similar companies out there are using types of 2 up plans. These plans force new marketers to qualify before earning commissions. They must give their first two sales to their sponsor.

Only then can this marketer start to earn money in the business. Also, right at this critical time, their sponsor has no incentive to help them anymore. They would even view you as a direct competitor. 

With PFW you will have an incentive to help every marketer that you sponsor. You will benefit from every sale they make. However, in this plan you marketer will get paid for every sale they make. This is a much better feeling than the qualifying sales that are passed up in other systems.

Here people are rewarded immediately for their work. Also, if you find a good marketer to sponsor, you don’t lose him to your upline. This would be very frustrating. Instead, both you and your sponsor benefit from this good marketers success.

There are two packages you can buy with PFW. If you sell a bronze package for $697, you make $400, and your sponsor makes $100. The $1,697 silver package (which includes all products in the bronze plus more) will pay you $1,000, and $200 to your sponsor.

This plan seems to create a good environment to work as a team. You benefit every time you help one of your marketers make a sale. There is no reason not to help.

The products you receive give you information on many aspects of Internet marketing. You will learn how to effectively use Pay Per Click, online classifieds, database marketing techniques, and search engine optimization tools. Up to thirty or more e-books and videos, giving you all the details in various aspects of online marketing. 

There is one unavoidable reality in this type of high end selling. People won’t just order from your website without. After your website has created an inquiry, you will need to follow up with a phone call. This is when the sales will be made.

This company offers a great opportunity to sell quality products, and a good business opportunity. In the process you will become very skilled in the online marketing field. This can be invaluable in whatever business you find yourself in.

Passport To Wealth Review

The Passport To wealth program is an Internet based network-marketing program. You sell a collection of e-books and software programs that assist anyone in marketing products online.

When you sign up you will own all of these products, there are literally thousands of them. The company is adding more products as they get them. You will have the tools to compete in online marketing with these products.

The compensation plan is one of the 2 up type models. It is called the down under Australian 2up compensation plan. As you will see as it is explained, this plan is a very powerful one.

One of the amazing parts of the “down under” plan is that it has unlimited depth. This will become clear as things are explained. The magic number for everyone is three sales.

The first two sales you make go to your sponsor. At that point you are qualified, and can start a down-line. In fact you can start as many down lines as you wish.

Let’s follow the scenario from your first down line sale. As their sponsor, they are required to give you their first two sales, just as you did with your sponsor. Let’s build an example. You sign up Joe as your third sale.

You will make $997 for that sale, and when he gives you his first two sales, Mark and Frank, you will get $1,944 more. Now, you sponsor Mark and Frank. To qualify, they need to each give you their first two sales, Louis and Clark, and Biff and Buff. They will create $3,988 of income.

This scenario then just repeats itself, expanding exponentially. If Lois, Clark, Biff, and Buff all qualify themselves, you will make $7,969! There is an interesting dynamic created with this program.

With this plan, every time new sales are given to you, when people are qualifying to start their own down-lines, you have an incentive to work with them, to help them become qualified. You will make $1,944 every time you help a new salesperson become qualified.

On the other hand, at this point you have no incentive to continue working with this person, and cannot benefit from their future success. So, you will be constantly helping new people get started. Some network marketers would prefer to work with a few teammates for an extended period of time.

The upside to this system is when you are working with someone, you will be benefiting directly. In other networking systems your efforts with people might never pan out to serious profits. The downside is that you can’t benefit as much when you find a big seller.

EDC Gold or Dust?

EDC Gold Review

EDC gold is an online network marketing company. It is an offshoot of the company Easy Daily Cash. Let’s take a look at this fairly new and controversial company.

The basic premise of any network marketing company is you build a team of marketers that help you make money. In turn you show these new recruits the ropes of the business.

To join EDC Gold you will spend about $1,000 dollars. What you are buying with this money is two things. First you receive a lot of software tools and e-books that teach you how to market on the Internet. They specifically teach you how to succeed in this business.

Secondly, this gives you the right to sell this program to others. So this is what you spend your first $1,000 on. Then you are offered additional products that are designed to enhance your marketing.

The compensation plan that EDC Gold uses is called a 2 up program. It works like this. To make money selling the program, you must first “qualify” by signing up two new customers. The money from these two sign-ups goes to the person who signed you up (thus the name 2up). This qualifies you to start earning yourself.

The next person you sign up, you get that commission. Now you will also get the commission from the first two sign ups of the three that you have signed up. For every new person you bring in, you will receive the commission from them, and their first two “qualifying” sales.

These are the basics of how EDC gold works. It is a young company, about two years old. There is a lot of debate about this company. Let’s look at some pros and cons of this business.

First and foremost, although the marketing is entirely Internet based, you will eventually be trying to close clients over the phone. This is not a passive income. You need to have some salesmanship skills to make this work.

Secondly, and this can be viewed as a pro or a con, you are not building residual income. You must continually bring in new sign ups, and then help them qualify to be able to make money themselves.

The most obvious hurdle to overcome in this business is the qualifying stage. People have to be willing to give up their first two sales completely in this system. This is asking a lot even if the business has a lot of merits otherwise.

This is EDC Gold in a nutshell. Some people despise it, and think it’s a total scam. Others claim it’s a viable way to make big bucks online. They will say you just need to stick with the program.

It’s definitely not a scam, but be prepared to talk on the phone for hours a day if you ever want to make sales.

What’s Out There?

Occasionally, we will take the time to educate you on some of the existing opportunities that cover the United States and the Globe. Most internet opportunities are real and are not scams. The scams will usually fizzle, so if you have found a program that is a year or older, there’s a good chance it has some legitimacy to it.

The problem is choosing the right startup for you. Most internet businesses are NOT automated like the opportunity claims. A real simple test is to look at the price point. If it costs $400 or more, then this is NOT an automated business. The reason is simple. How many people would spend $400 or more buying something on a website without wanting to talk to someone on the phone first?

If you have to talk on the phone to sell your product, then your company is NOT autmoated. A truly automated internet business is one that drives visitors to it, and the visitor in turn buys something on the website without ever having to talk to someone on the phone first. The only way that happens is if your price point is low enough that they feel comfortable on their own to push the “BUY” button.