My partner and I have been serial entrepreneurs most of our lives! Being fascinated with the way the world was changing via the Internet, we got into personal publishing and started a few blogs and an Internet Marketing business. Our most popular blogs are www.businessbloggingtips.com and www.officiallifebydesign.com LIFE BY DESIGN is about inspiration and motivation and designing a life you really want - not accepting a life as it is and going through the motions like a hamster stuck on his wheel.

There are so many ways to create and design a life that brings you happiness and success, I strive to share ideas with readers to inspire them.

At a conference here in Chicago, for online publishing, we met a young man named Tim Draayer who has a motivational blog and he told us how he had gotten involved with YTB Travel and it was changing his life! After just a few short months he was recieving his first $1,000 bonus check! We were intrigued!

We did our due diligence, checked out the company and decided we wanted a piece of that $7 trillion travel pie! We had heard of other MLM ventures but we decided to join YTB because the product was travel! We love to travel, my family loves to travel, my friends like to travel, and I'm willing to bet that YOU probably like to travel too!

So, owning our own online travel site was an obvious match. It's easy AND it's passive revenue! All you do is refer people to your YTB Travel website. If they want their own Travel Business you just refer them to your YTB marketing site to allow them to watch an online business presentation. No fuss. No hassle. They make their own decision.

We were looking for passive and residual income and we knew that an online business is what we needed. The thing that sold me on joining YTB was that there was no inventory to keep, no minimum monthly purchases to make, and no science or product testimonials to promote.

YTB hosts your website and fulfills all of your customer's travel plans. The expense is minimal when you consider startup costs of a brick and mortar travel business.

YTB Travel offers your customers the same room in the hotel, the same seat on the plane, the same car, the same cabin on a cruise that they find on the other big name sites, and our prices or the same or lower, the best part is: YOU make money just for referring people to your site.

Since starting our new travel venture, we have been getting lots of emails oabout YTB and all kinds questions about the business. Since we already have about 6 blogs, why not start another one devoted to the YTB business and what it can do for you!
www.thebestdiscounttravel.com is the new blog and we will talk about all the advantages of owning your own home-based business, devoted to travel!

There is a major shift in the world of travel made possible through the Internet. This Opportunity puts you in the position to own your own powerful home based business where you earn 60% commissions whenever anyone books travel on your own website. We also encourage you to build a team where you can leverage your time to earn additional bonuses and residual income.

This publicly-traded company will put you in a position to turn fun into fortune when we combine your personalized home-based travel business with the power of the Internet. Your customers experience some of the best in web travel fares and you enjoy the benefits of working in the travel industry.

If you are really looking for a business, a product, and tools to make it work - this is the business you want to be in. After all, travel is the top industry in the world, with $7 TRILLION spent annually...and although you might not think of it this way, TRAVEL is a product. It's the hottest trend in the market today growing 23% faster than the global economy and somebody has to sell it. Why shouldn't that somebody be you?

Network marketing is a legitimate business. It's based on providing people with real, legitimate products they need and want at a fair price. While some people do make a lot of money through network marketing, their financial benefit is always the result of their own dedicated efforts in building an organization that sells real products and services.

Pyramids are illegal and are based on taking advantage of people. For a person to actually make money in a pyramid scheme, someone else has to lose money. But in network marketing, each person can multiply his or her efforts, skills and talents by helping others be successful. Network marketing has proved itself as part of the new economy and a preferred way to do business here and around the world.

Network marketing isn't a get-rich-quick scheme. Of course some people do make large amounts of money very quickly. Many would say those people are lucky. But success in networking isn't based on luck.Success in NM is based on following some basic yet dynamic principles.

NM is a serious business for serious people. It's a proven system where the design, creation and expense the corporate team has gone through becomes a road map for your own success. Just follow the simple, proven and duplicable system that the good companies provide.

The real key is this: NM is all about leverage. You can leverage your time and increase the number of hours of work effort on which you can be paid by sponsoring other people and earning a small income on their efforts. This very basic concept is the cornerstone of network marketing.

By helping the people you personally sponsor to sponsor others, you duplicate yourself. As this process continues, you create compound growth that can lead to hundreds or even thousands of people coming into your business. You leverage your time by helping others be successful and earn an income from all their efforts.

With NM, there are no big capital requirements, no geographical limitations, and no special education or skills needed. NM is a low-overhead, homebased business that can offer many of the tax advantages associated with owning your own business. NM is a people-to-people business that can significantly expand your circle of friends. It's a business that enables you to travel and have fun as well as enjoy the lifestyle that extra income can provide.

How do you choose a home based business? So many choices and so much information out there.
Here is a list of 5 criteria to consider...

Product - Is the product in demand and is it something people will want even if there not interested in the opportunity? TRAVEL IS IN HIGH DEMAND! $7 trillion a year, worldwide.

Company - Is the company committed, funded, ran well, etc.? Is it truly committed to its distributors?
YTB has been around since 2001 and growing!

Compensation - Does it make sense or is it confusing? Is it something that anyone can do if they work at it? YTB offers a copyrighted compensation plan!

Training/Support - Are you going to get training and support? This will be one of the biggest concerns for your prospects. Your first place to get your YTB education is through your two YTB sites. Both sites offer lots of information to get you started. Online training is offered. Certified Training is offered. The person who signs you up, like me, can offer lots of help and guidance. The person that signed me up, can also offer help and guidance. YTB also offers conference calls with coaches almost every day of the week. WE ALL WANT YOU TO SUCEED! WE'RE A TEAM!

Timing - Is the timing right? Are you trying to market something there is a decreasing demand or are you in front of trends at the right time with the right thing? Are there other 4 criteria also present?

The industry is changing. Travel agencies are no longer "brick and mortar" buildings of the past, but "click and mortar" agencies of the future. YTB is captializing on the shift. Instead of paying other large, online booking engines for your travel, you can pay yourself for booking your travel and the travel of family, friends, and customers earning 60% of the commision.

They say the "proof is in the pudding!"

The proof is in the pudding'' is actually a shortened version of a very old proverb, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating.'' It means that the real worth or success or effectiveness of something can only be determined by putting it to the test, appearances and promises aside - just as the best test of a pudding is to eat it.--

Editors of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition

I joined with YTB with the idea of starting a home-based business and generating passive revenue, PLUS I wanted to save on my own personal travel. Though YTB appears to offer a good compensation plan, there were flaws.

The three major problems with the marketing plan ...

#1 Cost! $500.00 + $149.95 and a 7 hour day for your CRTA training! total $650.00

#2 Aussie 6 up program, you need to give up your first 6 to get to your power team ( the average person only ever enrolls 2.3)

#3 95% of the people never get to the residual income, because they never get to their power team.

I was introduced to Traverus a couple of times but didn't look at it seriously until 1 month ago, once I looked at it hard, I had to make the switch over to TraVerus.

Just a couple of great examples when you compare the compensation plans and start-up costs:

YTB pays 60% travel commission,.... of the only 8 % to 10% booked through the site! Out side the site pays more.
Traverus pays 70% travel commission...of the only 8 % to 10% booked through the site! Out side the site pays more.

YTB pays $50.00 on a $449.00 start up cost
Traverus pays $50.00 on a $119.00 start up cost

YTB pays a 50% matching bonus after you enroll three people
Traverus pays 150% matching coded bonus on your first two enrollment's then 100% from your third on.

YTB pays $2.00 per month residual income per person from your 7th person on that are coded to you in your power team.
Traverus pays you $5.00 per month residual from your 3rd person and on all people coded to you from those enrollments.

YTB pays $2.00 per month residual in your dream team first generation then progressively less
Traverus pays pays in a forced matrix bonus in addition to the $5.00 coded residual bonus, they pay $6.00 per month 2nd generation $10.00 a month 3rd generation $5.00 month 4th generation $4.00 a month 5th & 6th generation and more on the same people!

YTB doesn't offer member trips that are way less than FAM trips,
This company does. Here are some examples:

Puerto Vallarta - ALL INCLUSIVE-- $556.99 INCLUDING AIRFARE
Playa Del - ALL INCLUSIVE-- $529.99 INCLUDING AIRFARE
Disneyworld No Air Includes meals and tickets and resort stay $345

YTB is only open in two Countries (US and Canada) ...
Traverus is open in 18 including Australia, Canada, and Mexico, Japan, etc.

YTB has a 40% retention rate...
Traverus has 85-90% retention rate

YTB has 100,000 reps in US...
Traverus has 5,000 in 18 countries! Which means you can get in at an early stage and be a part of the huge growth!

I can no longer ignore the "proof of the pudding" without sharing it with you and give you the opportunity to make a decision for yourself!

www.makemoneywithtravelonline.com - more info

www.thebestdiscounttravelonline.com -
the opportunity outlined.

contact me! bestdiscounttravel (at) gmail.com