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Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Multi level travel marketer now is selling cars

Last July an article ran in Travel Trade magazine concerning multilevel marketing and the selling of travel & used cars.

The article states that multilevel marketer YTB International announced that their networks of “referring travel agents” are selling used cars.

They also disclosed some financial data that indicated they had paid out $2.5 million in commissions to their RTAs. I did some simple math and discovered that each of the 82,932 “travel agents” is earning an average commission of just over $30 per quarter, or $120 per year.

I am sure YTB will be successful in the car business. After all if they can convince 82,932 people to sign up as “travel agents” and pay YTB $600 per year to earn $120, they should have no problem selling them all cars!

After all selling cruises and tour packages is just the same as selling cars!

Here’ the link to the full article that was published July 18th article in Travel Trade, a travel agency trade publication: http://www.traveltrade.com/headline_news.jsp?articleID=8867