Aug 29 2008
YTB Press Release?……Former YTB Power Team Leader’s Question
If you go to the YTB web site and click on Investors, you come to a web page that provides Your Travel Biz Press Releases…Their latest press releases cover 2nd quarter financials and YTB’s franchise business model changes for next year. Why aren’t there Press Releases addressing their legal issues and claims of innocence?
As a former YTB Power Team Leader, I can’t understand why they don’t address YTB’s current legal problems. At the very least case, it’s only human to defend yourself if you’re innocent of legal charges or any personal accusations….Otherwise, questions arise that boggles the mind as follows:
When you consider that Your Travel Biz provides an MLM home based travel business with legitimate products and services, how could they get into this situation in the first place? After all, they are a publicly traded company and aren’t selling fruit juices that cure cancer, or gas pills for your car that will get you 10 more miles per gallon. They have never stated how much money you’re going to make if you purchased a YTB RTA home travel agency, or that YTB provides the cheapest travel available…So, where’s the rub?
I think the answer is quite simple if you follow this logic…Those who have a YTB online travel agency making money are not complaining, and those who aren’t making money are complaining. Since YTB provides the same home based travel agency to everyone who joins, why isn’t everybody making lots of money? It’s because they don’t know how to run a home based business, don’t know enough people to sell to, don’t have the time to dedicate to an online travel business and should not be involved with any MLM company regardless of what they sell.
If you agree with half of these reasons for failure, you can see why 85% of people in network marketing MLM’s fail. Check it out, because the Internet provides every statistic that supports this issue…
So, how can Your Travel Biz defend themselves against a former YTB online travel agent who did not make money at selling their products? First of all, I would put out a series of Press Releases that confirms YTB makes no committment, or promises on how much money anyone is going to make…In fact, it’s the law to do so….Secondly, any successful MLM online travel agency must work extreemly hard, put in long hours and have access to a large number of people to contact about their home travel business.
They should also stress the need to take advantage of all of YTB’s training, nightly conference calls and local weekly meetings. Most people that fail do not keep up with training, don’t understand the business, clueless on how to sell, or even describe the compensation plan. They depend on others like their upline to do their work, because it’s easier that way..After a period of time, their upline get’s smart and blows them off, because they are a drag to the spirit of an MLM business model. These people are “takers” and can never become “givers”, which is critical to the success of an MLM downline.
On the other hand, YTB is an Internet based company….Successful people must have very good, basic computer skills,and know how to promote their online travel agency over the Internet..Yet, YTB frowns on using Internet marketing tools like blog sites. In fact, this site…. YTBSource. Com….. is a blog site where we have recruited over 100 YTB affiliates.
Since YTB doesn’t allow custom YTB blog sites, we resigned from YTB two months ago because we don’t know enough people that are interested in any MLM opportunity. As a result, we would become another failure statistic…..No thanks…….
In spite of YTB’s “policies and rules”, we use Internet marketing business tools instead of YTB business cards, brochures, magazines and dragging people to weekly meetings, which is a recipe for failure with any MLM organization.
If anyone thinks otherwise, please respond to this post so everyone can benefit from your wisdom on this question…..”Why doesn’t YTB defend itself if they are innocent as charged?”
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WOW I couldn’t agree more. A very close friend of mine whom I’ve partnered with on several business ventures in the past, presented YTB to me for consideration. I am also an attorney in the corporate sector and saw the legal issues they are currently confronting. Of course everybody is innocent until proven guilty and I feel these complaints are as you stated from people who don’t know how, or understand how, to run a home based MLM business.
That being said I am SHOCKED that this group has not responded in ANY FORM. I presented these questions to my friend who then passed them into his “local Director” and got nothing by fluff response in return. To quote, “people attached McDonalds and Microsoft” and attempted to just pass it off as that.
I responded by stating that in business your reputation is everything and also something you can simply “buy back” when it get damaged. I can’t figure any reasonable excuse or strategy as to why these people have taken a position of not caring to respond. I can not believe for a second this hasn’t impacted their ability to sign up new people. I held off 100% due to these issues.
Furthermore the other odd actions that concerned me were that coming out of a national convention I have never seen a company not issue a single press release!?!?! Especially when the two AG’s issue their own at the same time.
My friend has always stated to me that “Perception is reality” and right now the perception isn’t very good when you look under the PR, Hype, Glitz and so called hood.
Love to hear other feedback. I’m not questioning what YTB is or is not. However when a company is asking you to commit funds and your valuable time to a company or product you would want them to help PROTECT your investment under such allegations.