Two Years...And Better Than Ever!
If you would have told me two years that I would be were I am today with YTB, I would have never believed you. Honestly, all I really expected out of this thing was a chance to play “Travel Agent” and take a couple of nice vacations a year. It’s turned out to be so much more! Oh sure, we took some nice vacations this year…Sandestin, Walt Disney World, Williamsburg, a 7 day Western Caribbean Cruise to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Montego Bay, and Labadee on the World’s Largest Cruise Ship ever to set sail, Freedom of The Seas, and a month later, a short 5 day to Grand Turk, Coco Cay, and Nassau with the company and Carnival for a Seminar @ Sea just before the Funshine Trade Show back down around Disney.
What we’re most proud of is how this has turned into a full fledged business for us. Our first year with YTB was pretty much “spare time”. When we looked at the company two years ago, I had a full time job, two part time jobs, and a family with two small children at home. You would think I was NUTS for taking on something else with everything I already had on my plate. While I couldn’t afford to spend a vast amount of time with YTB our first year, what I found was I was happiest when I was working this little “side business”. The support from my sponsor, among other leaders in the company was astounding. They seemed to truly care about helping and teaching us, and were genuinely happy to see us at company events and functions. Everyone at the Home Office seemed so nice too and to actually meet Coach, Scott and Kim helped us understand why this company has the track record and success that it has.
The longer I was with the company, the more I wanted to be around it. All the upgrades with the Booking Engine, Marketing Site, and Back Office made me realize this company was very serious about its goal of becoming the Number One Travel Company in the world. They not only set goals, they blew right past them and exceeded everyone’s expectations, including our own. Then came Success from Home back in September. All I can say about this little gem is...WOW! Talk about having a perfect marketing piece in which all you had to do is hand someone this magazine and let them decide for themselves. This publication literally changed the direction of my entire business. That's when things REALLY started to move for us. More importantly, it was something I could teach others to do, and I soon had several hundred magazines being put into the hands of people every single month.
Not having much Network Marketing experience, and of that little experience, having failed like we did, our expectations really were not that high. It would make a nice “Part Time Business” someday if we were “lucky”. But the longer I remained, the longer I saw what the company was doing, the longer I get the type of support I did from the company and up-line the more we realized, we just might be on to something.
I was miserable with my “Day Job” and the other part time jobs I had kept me away from my family. I was constantly working just to make ends meet. Last January, we made the decision that enabled me to quit one of my part time jobs, and I would start devoting more time to YTB, making that my new “Part Time Job”. Our hope was that I could possibly make this business work so I could quit my “Day Job” by the end of the year. Again, the more I worked with the company, the more I fell in love with what I was doing. I already had a small team that I had stumbled upon, and it didn’t take long for that team to grow, just by telling more people that I was a “Travel Agent”.
I was able to reach my goal of quitting my “day job” on June 30th of last year, a full 6 months ahead of what we had originally scheduled. I thought it was fitting that I was able to celebrate my own “Independence Day” so close to the 4th or July! We’ve been working YTB full time every since, and we’ve never been happier!
Sure, I’ve run into my share of obstacles along the way. As successful as we are, I still have people try to tell me that YTB is a scam, or that YTB is nothing more than one of those pyramid schemes. I still run into folks who don’t think Network Marketing is a viable business model. I still run into people who think I only made it because I got lucky.
How would I comment on all these beliefs about what people heard about, or read about, or simply think about Network Marketing and YTB being some sort of scam? I’ll try to put this as delicately and eloquently as I possibly can…
“What – A – CROCK!”
While it’s certainly within your right to believe what ever you want to believe, my experience with this company and industry over the last two years has given me more knowledge, more insight, more self confidence, more self respect, more success than anything else I’ve ever experienced before. I can’t tell you how much I’ve grown as a father, as a husband, a business man, as a friend, and as a leader because of the choice I made two years ago. It’s been the most incredible ride of my life.
If you’ve been introduced to YTB or Network Marketing in general, and you’re doing your “due diligence” and your own research on the company I applaud you. If I can offer any words of advice to you, it would be this. “Follow your gut”. The mind can play some powerful tricks on you, and society has formed a lot of what you currently believe. I’m living proof that all the garbage and junk you’ve heard about, read about, or may have even experienced in the Network Marketing industry is simply an illusion, based on fear and ignorance. Some of you may not feel “worthy” of making it big or achieving your dreams, or that your dreams are false based on having fallen short before.
Are you really happy were you are, right here, right now? What are you going to do to change that? If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you’re going to continue to get what you’ve always got.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Dr. Wayne Dryer
I changed my direction two years ago. As I look back, it was the best move I ever made, hands down. Was it always easy? No. Was it “rags to riches”? No. Was it always “comfortable”? No. But it was the best two years I’ve ever had. I spend more time with my family, less time stuck in traffic, I get out of bed when I wake up, I’ve got some of the best friendships I’ve ever had, with people all over the country. We’re in business for ourselves, just not by ourselves. One last thing…we’re finally getting paid what we feel we are worth, and the income keeps going up every month!
2007 can be a great year for you too based on what you decide to do, right here, right now. I certainly can’t promise you’ll have the success we’ve had. I can promise you this, you’ll never know until you get yourself in the game.
Doug & Ronda Bauknight
AKA: TravelPro
Travel Agent / Networker
Phone: 678.458.5812
What we’re most proud of is how this has turned into a full fledged business for us. Our first year with YTB was pretty much “spare time”. When we looked at the company two years ago, I had a full time job, two part time jobs, and a family with two small children at home. You would think I was NUTS for taking on something else with everything I already had on my plate. While I couldn’t afford to spend a vast amount of time with YTB our first year, what I found was I was happiest when I was working this little “side business”. The support from my sponsor, among other leaders in the company was astounding. They seemed to truly care about helping and teaching us, and were genuinely happy to see us at company events and functions. Everyone at the Home Office seemed so nice too and to actually meet Coach, Scott and Kim helped us understand why this company has the track record and success that it has.
The longer I was with the company, the more I wanted to be around it. All the upgrades with the Booking Engine, Marketing Site, and Back Office made me realize this company was very serious about its goal of becoming the Number One Travel Company in the world. They not only set goals, they blew right past them and exceeded everyone’s expectations, including our own. Then came Success from Home back in September. All I can say about this little gem is...WOW! Talk about having a perfect marketing piece in which all you had to do is hand someone this magazine and let them decide for themselves. This publication literally changed the direction of my entire business. That's when things REALLY started to move for us. More importantly, it was something I could teach others to do, and I soon had several hundred magazines being put into the hands of people every single month. Not having much Network Marketing experience, and of that little experience, having failed like we did, our expectations really were not that high. It would make a nice “Part Time Business” someday if we were “lucky”. But the longer I remained, the longer I saw what the company was doing, the longer I get the type of support I did from the company and up-line the more we realized, we just might be on to something.
I was miserable with my “Day Job” and the other part time jobs I had kept me away from my family. I was constantly working just to make ends meet. Last January, we made the decision that enabled me to quit one of my part time jobs, and I would start devoting more time to YTB, making that my new “Part Time Job”. Our hope was that I could possibly make this business work so I could quit my “Day Job” by the end of the year. Again, the more I worked with the company, the more I fell in love with what I was doing. I already had a small team that I had stumbled upon, and it didn’t take long for that team to grow, just by telling more people that I was a “Travel Agent”.
I was able to reach my goal of quitting my “day job” on June 30th of last year, a full 6 months ahead of what we had originally scheduled. I thought it was fitting that I was able to celebrate my own “Independence Day” so close to the 4th or July! We’ve been working YTB full time every since, and we’ve never been happier!
Sure, I’ve run into my share of obstacles along the way. As successful as we are, I still have people try to tell me that YTB is a scam, or that YTB is nothing more than one of those pyramid schemes. I still run into folks who don’t think Network Marketing is a viable business model. I still run into people who think I only made it because I got lucky.
How would I comment on all these beliefs about what people heard about, or read about, or simply think about Network Marketing and YTB being some sort of scam? I’ll try to put this as delicately and eloquently as I possibly can…
“What – A – CROCK!”
While it’s certainly within your right to believe what ever you want to believe, my experience with this company and industry over the last two years has given me more knowledge, more insight, more self confidence, more self respect, more success than anything else I’ve ever experienced before. I can’t tell you how much I’ve grown as a father, as a husband, a business man, as a friend, and as a leader because of the choice I made two years ago. It’s been the most incredible ride of my life.
If you’ve been introduced to YTB or Network Marketing in general, and you’re doing your “due diligence” and your own research on the company I applaud you. If I can offer any words of advice to you, it would be this. “Follow your gut”. The mind can play some powerful tricks on you, and society has formed a lot of what you currently believe. I’m living proof that all the garbage and junk you’ve heard about, read about, or may have even experienced in the Network Marketing industry is simply an illusion, based on fear and ignorance. Some of you may not feel “worthy” of making it big or achieving your dreams, or that your dreams are false based on having fallen short before.
Are you really happy were you are, right here, right now? What are you going to do to change that? If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you’re going to continue to get what you’ve always got.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Dr. Wayne Dryer
I changed my direction two years ago. As I look back, it was the best move I ever made, hands down. Was it always easy? No. Was it “rags to riches”? No. Was it always “comfortable”? No. But it was the best two years I’ve ever had. I spend more time with my family, less time stuck in traffic, I get out of bed when I wake up, I’ve got some of the best friendships I’ve ever had, with people all over the country. We’re in business for ourselves, just not by ourselves. One last thing…we’re finally getting paid what we feel we are worth, and the income keeps going up every month!
2007 can be a great year for you too based on what you decide to do, right here, right now. I certainly can’t promise you’ll have the success we’ve had. I can promise you this, you’ll never know until you get yourself in the game.
Doug & Ronda Bauknight
AKA: TravelPro
Travel Agent / Networker
Phone: 678.458.5812
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One of my goals was to get back into Radio, a profession I left back in the late 1980’s after 10 years. I put the “intent” out there a few weeks ago to host my own Radio Show about our experience with our Home Based Business and YTB. Before I knew it Tim Dominey, a Second Level Director with YTB called and handed me an opportunity to be interviewed with someone who was also with the company and had her own radio show.
