Excuse Me...But She's Only Inhaled....
The calls and e-mails have been coming in droves over the last several days. News of our Carnival Sale was originally stated to be announced yesterday. A minor glitch has come to our attention which to my understanding has no bearing on our ability to sell or get paid on travel. (Nor does it lack the ability to be corrected.) This in turn has detoured our efforts with Carnival in announcing these numbers. For those of you who truly understand the forces out there who have been slinging mud lately, certainly you understand. The rumors and accusations that I've seen been thrown around the internet are amazing, especially in light of the fact that there has been no definitive announcement made by anyone concerning anything. People "think" they know what's going on and while some are calling for a concert from the Fat Lady, others who know what has happened realize, it's a little naive to make assumptions without having all the facts. That has little bearing however, when you have an opportunity to point fingers and create your own story to advance the cause.
I don't really know the proper word or phrase to describe the announcements made concerning YTB, both last Thursday, November 8th, and then again yesterday November 13th concerning YTB. Ironic, maybe. Coincidental, possibly. I think our good friend John Freyane and our Petitioning Agents may consider the news "exquisite timing" however.
Therefore, the company has decided to keep a very tight lip as speculation and rumors continue to mount while YTB prepares to answer all the questions circling around the industry. While some of us wait confidently, unfortunately, at this time, I must take a back seat and allow my company to issue statements concerning the future growth and dominance in this industry. As an Independent Representative of the company, it's not my place to speculate to anyone what our future plans are.
I will tell you this. Based on what I know, I personally feel not only very good about what will transpire, but confident that the company will answer in a way that is both accurate and meaningful in regards to just who YTB is, and how we will continue to play a major part in the Travel Industry for the coming months and years.
The first part of our answer has come this evening just after the market close, with news of our second profitable quarterly report in a row, with record revenues of $39.9 Million and our best profit to date of $2.1 Million. ($1.6 Million year to date.) All this, while we continue to grow and expand our infrastructure to support our valued Reps and RTA's.
More importantly, Travel Commissions are starting to support the $226 in sales from 2006 on our SEC filings. I'm sure we will have those who botch these numbers throwing out figures from this filing that support their cause, while ignoring the growth of Travel Sales by those that that have been with this company for more than 9 months. I've seen these numbers and filings ransacked many many times over the years.
We may have to provide a special course on what these numbers actually mean for some of our guests here to enlighten them, but that's another post at another time.
More news to come, I'm sure, and I believe based on the release of our quarterly numbers, it will be sooner than later.
Till then.
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I see that our success is not going unnoticed, as our friends who are hiding behind Anonymous names and protected forums are back in full force.
(http://www.tripso.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18135)
Please be advised that this is my forum, and as the soul moderator of this Blog, it is my intent here to speak facts and truth.
I mentioned above that some will botch our numbers? Check out this comment partial comment…
”When you divide 5,536,399 by 120,948 you get an average commission of $45.76 per RTA. That doesn't even cover the monthly cost of the website!”
First, “Anonymous” divides by the total commissions earned, ($5,536,339) not the actual commissions paid to RTA’s ($3,913,021).
Second, Anonymous doesn’t realize that 38,032 are brand new RTA’s who have joined our ranks since July. While they may have only sold Travel, they have not been paid for the travel yet.
The math is a physical impossibility even if divided by the proper number. (Looks like we might have to take the time to “educate” our Anonymous guest on how to read YTB’s financial numbers.)
Posted by
TravelPro |
Thursday, November 15, 2007
hey you so full of lies
everybody know ytb is a scam
Posted by
Anonymous |
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
hey you so full of lies
everybody know ytb is a scam
Everybody, or just the uninformed?
- Travel Weekly doesn't think it's a scam.
- Carnival doesn't think it's a scam.
- The FTC doesn't think it's a scam.
- Myself along with 135,000 other RTA's don't think it's a scam.
Clearly, the lie is that "everyone" thinks YTB is scam.
Documentation beat Conversation every time there Annon. ;-P
Posted by
TravelPro |
Wednesday, December 05, 2007