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TVI Express vs. Global Resorts Network – I like both!
I just came across a couple of business opportunities that are literally sweeping the web. Both are direct marketing / network marketing based businesses involved with the travel industry.
The first is GRN or Global Resorts Network and it has been around the longest – offering it’s memberships starting way back in 1986. It also has the highest entry cost to get started. At $3000 it is a large sum to pay to get started in a network marketing business. That $3000 also gets you a lifetime membership with GRN and it is transferable. That being said – the pay off is high as well – with the top end commissions being $1000 /sale. There are also commissions on sales made by team members whom are in your organization. Some affiliates with this company are earning high 6 figure incomes. Wtih your membership you have access to discount travel vacations at 3-5 star resorts around the world. There are also tools and resources available to the affiliate to help promote their business.
The other is called TVI Express – Travel Ventures International. TVI is very similar to GRN as they offer discount travel vacations as well – along with other perks and deals through many third party channels. TVI Express is relitively new, opening it’s doors in January 2009. TVI also costs less money to get involved with as well with a one time cost of about $250. TVI uses a different compensation plan where each member is part of a Travel Board and an Express Board which as more people join – cycles and moves you up the board. Once you reach the top or cycle you get paid. Commissions range from $500 to over $10000 depending on which board you are on. TVI is popular due to low cost entry point.
With these types of business plans, marketers can be part of a community that travels the globe, offers a business opportunity and provides a vehicle to supplement one’s income or even replace it. The neat things about these businesses is the travel aspect offered with their membership. Everyone travels and almost everyone would like a discount on their vacations whether it be a flight, all inclusive resort, cruise or hotel. This may or may not be for everyone as there is risk with anything offered on the web.
These days especially with the downturn in the economy, job loss and insecurity in the business sector – people are looking to supplement their incomes. Some part time while keeping their jobs and others are doing it FULL TIME – either by choice or by necessity. You cannot rely on the government or your job to provide you a pension as many have disappeared or been mismanaged; by developing multiple streams of income from a variety of online sources you can not only supplement your income but you can also become financially independent. Online marketers are making high 5 figure incomes and some are into the 6 figures not only with the two businesses discussed above but with many other opportunities that are offered on the web.
Passive Income and Website Submissions
Easy web site submission can be defined as manual or strategic easy web site submission. Both techniques generate passive income opportunities.
The first, and the most reliable in regards to generating passive income, is manual submission.
How to Create Passive Income Opportunities By Submitting Manually….
As noted previously, there are two basic easy web site submission techniques. The first, and the most reliable in regards to generating passive income, is manual easy web site submission.
This is when you manually submit to search engines like Google or Yahoo. You can also use this technique to get links on other sites that are similar to yours. Both search engines and other sites often have convenient forms to keep submission as simple as possible.
How to Create Passive Income By Submitting Strategically….
Another technique is strategic submission. This allows you to generate the same passive income opportunities that can be obtained through submitting manually.There is one big difference between the two though: with strategic submission, you hire a service to submit your web site to various outlets. The cost for this easy technique varies. If you are truly looking for passive income opportunities, you should consider these options.
Is This Really Necessary?
There is some debate as to whether submissions are really necessary. Many search engines, like Google and Yahoo, claim to use crawlers that recognize sites regardless of whether or not a manual web site submission or another form of easy web site submission has taken place. Still, it is advisable to use at least one of these submission techniques to generate passive income opportunities. These also ensure that your site has not been accidentally excluded.
Manual submission is typically advisable if you are a new site or if you want to get listed in certain directories (the latter of which provides wonderful passive income opportunities). This will allow you to get your site listed on the directories that are most conducive to your business. It also ensures that the job gets done to your satisfaction.
If you want to monetize your web site, amplify your chances of ranking high on search engines, and generate passive income opportunities by getting listed in all of the most important places, you should look into strategic submission or manual web site submission. Neither one will take a great deal of time, but both will help you bring in traffic and meet your financial goals.
Do or Do Not – There is no Try!
Invest in yourself. If you don’t – you will fail.
Take the time to learn what you are going to be doing in your business, marketing plan, business plan and how you are going to share that with your partners.
Back in the day when I first set out to have a Home Based Business. I spent a lot of money. I purchased a lot of programs, and at the time thought that I had wasted a lot of time. Today I know that it took what it took, in order for me to get where I am today. If you are thinking of starting a online business, don’t be discouraged, not knowing if its the right one. Jump in with both feet, work it and make it the right program. I have been there with that unsure feeling, not knowing if its going to work. This is the very reason that I am showing you that you need to be informed.
Invest in educating yourself in what you are doing.
Belief in oneself is sometimes hard to do when you are not sure of your path. Sometimes even when you are on the path – you are not sure what direction it is heading and if it is the ‘right’ way. Educate yourself, learn from your mistakes, then re-educate. Always strive to better yourself – you will benefit in the end.
If you purchase courses, ebooks and videos – Learn, Read and Watch them! Don’t let them sit on the shelf.
I think back to my earlier years, I probably had bought some pretty good products. But I didn’t know what to do with them. Having the best product in the world is useless if no one knows about it. Marketing is the most important piece of the online business puzzle. When you get the time stop by my website and look it over. I’m confident you will like what you see. Today it’s not about me, its about you. The hardest thing about having a Home Based Business, is taking the first step and getting started.
Be truthful with yourself – if you don’t want to learn about your ‘new’ business – then get a JOB.
The truth is if you are not willing to invest in yourself, then you need a job. You need to work for someone else.
Start the journey to Financial Freedom. Wouldn’t you like to wake up in the morning, and be able to go and do anything that your heart desires? Wouldn’t you like to have the time and the money to take that dream vacation that others can only wish for? Get started today. It’s your responsibility, and only you can make it happen.
Conviction! Show it, possess it, share it!
The most important thing required in any business is conviction that you are in the best and only opportunity available. You have to believe in what you are selling, offering and doing – if not……then how is someone else going to be passionate about what you are offering. Create excitement, buzz….show them the big pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
You and your business should equal this:
- Passion
- Conviction
- Knowledge
- A Plan
- Execution
* and always be learning something new!
Determine Your Specialty
It’s common knowledge that the U.S. economy is beginning to rebound, and that positive development has benefited other markets in the Western world. Entrepreneurs who were once reluctant to test the waters are now taking the crucial steps to launch a fledgling business. There are plenty of ways to make money online, and many people are lured away from the daily grind of a 9 to 5 job in the hope of succeeding elsewhere.
Not all online ventures are successful, of course, so a bit of market research will improve your chances of investing in the right enterprise. Bear in mind that specialized products and services are infinitely more marketable than those that can be sold cheaper and more efficiently by a big box store or an online giant. As an entrepreneur, you should limit your focus to a small selection of specialized products that target a given niche.
Advertising Online: Choose Wisely!
Are your pieces in place?
In order to increase your online business traffic, it requires appropriate advertising to make the business popular. As your online business is overcrowded into the world wide web along with thousands of others selling the same product or service as yourself. Search engines have the potential to deliver a deliver a steady flow of targeted traffic to your web-site. there’s 3 basic areas to consider for efficient use of your funds when it comes to getting traffic to your web-site.
1. Use proper keywords to target to draw traffic back to your primary web-site.
2. Use Google’s pay-per-click program matching with targeted keywords.
3. Use proper content on your website’s homepage.
Pay-per-click programs are an excellent way to advertise your business without taking a risk that you have advertised in the wrong place. With pay-per-click, you can advertise your site and only pay for those who click the link and go to your site.You must spend adequate time and effort to research and generate a list of relevant and effective keywords. If you’re promoting your own product you can always reinvest your earnings to continue your campaign and grow your income.
There is another option for drawing traffic to your web-site is based on the use of custom written articles and other targeted content. You can use your budget to have some unique articles written on your favorite key topics, but this can be pricey and time consuming. Articles such as these can be submitted to editorial directories.
Article marketing is huge. Create your own, have someone write them for you or use free content and modify it with your own special flare. Imagine hundreds of new articles each month on a topic of your choice…articles that use their content to attract visitors and can be added directly to your own web-site or used in a variety of other ways for drawing more traffic from forums, blogs, press releases, etc.
Your aim should be to find a balanced mix of online and offline advertising. This will go a long way towards getting the greatest bang for your advertising buck! Be sure to explore your options and use your time and funds wisely in the method. With a little creativity you will be maximizing your profits while minimizing your expenses.
Wealth Systems – Choosing a Business
Back in the day, when I first decided to have a Home Based Business; I spent a lot of money, I purchased a lot of programs, and wasted time pursuing and working at programs that didn’t work. Now here in the present I know that if I wouldn’t have tried all the stuff that didn’t work then I wouldn’t have the knowledge and fore site to know what will work now. If you have been trying to figure out what to do from home as a home based business you need to read this page. Wealth systems, money making businesses, internet opportunities abound and selecting one takes some vision.
How do you choose a business to work online? Automated wealth systems, money making clubs, ebooks, Clickbank products, reselling other peoples products…..do a search on the web and you will see a plethora of these opportunities. Follow me here and I will provide some tips on how to pick one that you can be proud of and will work for you.
Strong work ethic – Tangible Product – Keeping current with the market:
Do you have a work ethic – is it efficient and productive? Do you get things done? No one knows your work ethic like you. You need to have a consistent and effective process in place. If you don’t then you need to change it so it is. Realize this as well, that you can never know how much money you will make online or the amount of time it will take to make money period. Stay clear of a company that tells you that its possible to become rich with little or no work at all. Your business has to offer something that the people want or need. Something tangible. It needs to scalable and adaptable with the changing times ahead.
Passion – Dedication – Perseverance:
Passion is key to any business – you have to like what you are doing and be able to dedicate yourself to it on a daily basis. Don’t pick a business that you don’t understand or that is not ethical. Even if your passion is making money – you still have to have a product to offer that will make you that money. Might as well make it something that you enjoy. (ie: gardening, sports, travel, health, investments ). You also have to be persistent with your business. Don’t jump in and after one week or one month give up because you haven’t made millions. You have to start with the first sale – your first online dollar. Then progress into making more. Take your time to research the business or opportunity that you are considering. Pick two or three that are suitable to you and compare them – Cost, product, reoccurring costs, is it ethical, and how about long term success. Does the product have longevity in the market. Can it be sold for years to come? Don’t get in because it has a good sales pitch or offers quick results? Any business will take time to get off the ground.
Viewpoints – Belief:
Once you have narrowed down the businesses opportunities that you think you would enjoy doing – picture yourself in this business as a business owner, promoting it, marketing it, becomes wealthy from it. See yourself working from home with no commute and no boss being accountable only to yourself. Then see if others have that same viewpoint. Friends can sometimes be dream-breakers – but they can also offer good insight. ‘Yeah Val – I can see you doing that!’
or ‘Man you would be awesome at that.’ If you believe in yourself – others will believe in you as well.
To Be or Not to be in Business. Working for yourself have many benefits. Tax write offs, unlimited income, time freedom, no boss, no commute and the ability to work from anywhere in the world if you like. Make a list of pro’s and con’s of the business you are considering. Write down what is important to YOU. Also make sure that you are choosing a wealth system or internet marketing opportunity that is ethical, profitable and something that you can be passionate about. Everyone is an individual and unique. So are the many home based businesses out there. Choose wisely.
The Economy. What are you doing about it?
Bailouts, recovery programs, money being handed out to this corporation and this agency. Are you afraid?
Are you unsettled — not knowing what will happen in the coming months…years? Well a lot of people are satisfied with cocooning themselves. They are happy not taking any action to help preserve their way of life.
That may be a good thing – it may not. Who’s to really say what is ‘really’ going to happen down the road.
Being paralyzed with fear is not a way to live. I see what the media feeds us and I take note – but is that what is really going on?? I can understand the loss of a career or not being sure if your job of 20 years will be there tomorrow – but regardless – it is time to stop letting the media, the governments and huge corporate bodies control us. We’re stopped spending money, making purchases and doing the things that we normally do – and that is making the economy stagnant. We’re scared, we’re unsure, there is fear in the air. 
FDR once said: “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” FDR
Unfortunately – the lingering hope that the government will help us out in this crisis lays in the back of everyone’s mind; but what if they don’t fix the economic issues – what if they can’t restart the economy?
What then? We are ultimately responsible for ourselves. We have to have some control over what happens in our lives. Do we live in fear or do we boldly set out to create our own destiny? Our own economic turnaround. I say be BOLD!
Having a backup plan or a recovery program for yourself is the ultimate way to stay in control. Business opportunities abound if you look for them. People are starting new careers from their home offices and kitchens. Instead of sitting back and waiting – entrepreneurs are setting forth and creating their own cash-flow and fortunes. Globally it is up to us – the risk taker, the home business owner, the internet marketer to take the big step and help people start believing in themselves again. The world wide web is expanding – work from home opportunities are increasing exponentially. It is time people around the world took a stand and started opening their minds to new possibilities and new opportunities.
Fire Your Boss and Get out of Your J.O.B.
If your boss micromanages you and work is a drag–you’re probably tired of working for someone else. And, it may be time to start your own online business. This way you can work from home with no worries of an obnoxious boss breathing down the back of your neck. If you are thinking about starting an online business opportunity you’ll need to follow a few important steps. 
First you need to come up with a good idea. It’s best to choose something you’re interested in and knowledgeable about. Next, you need to market your online business. If you’re not experienced in this area it’s probably better to hire a marketing firm to help you. A good marketing and publicity campaign can make the difference between a successful business and a bankrupt business.
Being your own boss rather than working for someone else – makes you accountable to yourself if things go wrong or go right. Being J.ust O.ver B.roke with rules and someone else’s schedule is not a place where you are reaping the profits; but when you are self employed with a online business opportunity you have much more control over how and what is done and more desire to succeed.
Inexpensive Resources To Generate Business Leads
I have included 5 of my top performing marketing resources to generate leads for a home based business. These are the exact places we go to create leads for Infinite Income Plan and each is easy to implement as well as low cost on the pocketbook.
Remember patience and perseverance. You have to be willing to be consistent with these. Repeat them often. People fail because they give up. Try a different ad each week – see which provides results. Try different media to submit your ads – video, signature lines, text ads, banner ads, article posting…do what you know and what is easy for you. Remember – Repetition.
#1 – Free Ads
US Free Ads – is one of the more popular ones but you can use any free ad site you want.
Exposure for your business can be targeted through free ads – as you can usually target an area or state of your preference. The main thing is getting you ad out there to as many places as possible.
#2 – Safelists
Start joining safelists – some are free and some charge for submissions. Either way you can get alot of exposure using these. Safelist databases are always changing and growing so fresh eyes are seeing your opportunity.
#3 – Pay for Lists/Opt-In Email List Submitters
Rent-A-List and/or ReVisitors are two site’s I use to get targeted traffic to my business opportunity.
I have been using their targeted email marketing and lead services for over 2 years.
They often run specials that offer savings over the standard prices. Easy to use, fast, professional and very reliable.
#4 – Social Media
If you are not using Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, YouTube or any other of the many social media sites then you need to start. Awesome potential to create traffic, buzz about your business and general conversation about whatever you are promoting. Be creative and unique and you obtain a following. All of these sites will allow you to feed traffic to your main business opportunity. I am now #1 on Twitter for my location – Edmonton, AB – that’s pretty cool seeing as I only started using Twitter about 2 months ago.
#5 – Blogging
Blogging is a great way to backlinks to your main business. Blog entries can have pictures or videos associated with them. You can link to other sites as well. With a blog you can post just about anything related to your business. ie: if you business is about making money online – you can blog about the recession, the economy, residual income after retirement, business news, investment news, business opportunity comparisons, profit, wealth systems, making money from home and so forth. Blogging is fun and can help provide your business with more targeted traffic.
Supplemental income, residual income, passive income — Whatever you want to call it – You have to create it yourself. The more you do for yourself the more things will start to happen for you. Never rely on one site or method and try to generate word of mouth publicity. Feed traffic to your main site with any of the above mentioned techniques. Go grassroots and build your ads, articles and website for people and for search engines. The more traffic you get = the more sales you will get. It is all numbers.
Start with one – and then move on to another. Some will work better than others but combining more than one technique is better than using just one or none at all.
Home Based Business? Is it for you?
In this day and age there is a greater number of websites on the internet than there are people on this planet. This can make for a difficult time when trying to find a way to make money on the internet. A lot of opportunities promise you the world and never deliver. Let me give you a few things to consider when trying to choose a home based business opportunity online.
First realize that no one knows your work ethic like yourself. So no one else can make you a promise of how much money you will make, or the length of time it will take you to make it. I don’t care how good the product might be. Stay clear of a company that tells you that its possible to become rich with little or no work at all. For your home based business to stay strong, it needs to grow with the ever changing times. So you must always work at your business, updating, changing formulas, trying new marketing strategies, sending out the old and bringing in the new.
Never let your emotions get in the way of you using your common sense. When I first started looking for a online Home Based Business Opportunity, I joined one company after another. The idea of being able to work at home clouded my judgments. I would join one company work with it a couple of months, I would never making any money. So I would move on to the next golden opportunity, and I would repeat the same process over and over. This went on for quite some time. I was under the impression that I could join a company, and the big checks would just start rolling in automatically. It just didn’t happen like that for me. It took me a couple of years to find out, in order to be successful with a business you need to learn the business. In order to learn the business you have to work at the business.
I remember back when I first set out to have a Home Based Business. I spent a lot of money. I purchased a lot of programs, and at the time thought that I had wasted a lot of time. Today I know that it took what it took, in order for me to get where I am today. If you are thinking of starting a online business, don’t be discouraged, not knowing if its the right one. Jump in with both feet, work it and make it the right program. I have been there that unsure feeling, not knowing if its going to work. This is the very reason that I am promoting my latest at home opportunity, because it is a program that dedicated to the new guy. It takes you by the hand and shows you exactly what to do, step by step. It even teaches you how to market your business. And that is the most important factor.
I think back to my earlier years, I probably had bought some pretty good products. But I didn’t know what to do with them. Having the best product in the world is useless if no one knows about it. Marketing is the most important piece of the online business puzzle. When you get the time stop by my website and look it over. I’m confident you will like what you see. Today it’s not about me, its about you. The hardest thing about having a Home Based Business, is taking the first step and getting started.
The harsh truth someone once shared with me is, If you are not willing to invest in yourself, then you need a job. You need to work for someone else. Start the journey to Financial Freedom. Wouldn’t you like to wake up in the morning, and be able to go and do anything that your heart desires? Wouldn’t you like to have the time and the money to take that dream vacation that others can only wish for? Get started today. It’s your responsibility, and only you can make it happen.
