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Posted By: DaveB In Response To: Re: Info on YTB and Global Travel (Mel. White)
Date: Thursday, May 10, 2007, at 3:25 p.m.(pst)
YTB started out as a pretty good idea for a home based biz, howsome ever cookie cutter sites rarely work. I know, my 1st website was a cookie cutter affiliate site and after 6 months I made a whopping $00.00. There are many ways to make money on the internet but that isn't one of them.
DaveB
>> And hello to you, too!
>> Googling for the names shows that there's about 440,000 websites
>> advertising YTB and "global travel" brings up well over a
>> million websites advertising (105 million, in fact.) 101 million pages are
>> offering discount travel and nearly 300 million for "travel
>> network." Over 3 million sites offer "cruise packages" and
>> over 2 1/2 million offer "discount airfare.">> Top ranked sites for those searches include Cheaptickets.com,
>> Orbitz.com, Travelocity, Expedia.>> Serious question, now... how are you going to drive traffic to your
>> website when you have 3 million competitors (and don't say "they help
>> you do this" because they are also giving the same help to every
>> other rep for that company (about 440,000 representatives in the case of
>> YTB.)) How will you make your site #1 and keep it there... because only
>> the top 20 sites or so will earn money.>> If the answer is "ah... I don't know..." then I'd like to
>> suggest that you start a local home business based on something you know.
>> I have a friend who writes and earns money like that. Another does
>> specialty sculptures for the science fiction market. Another is a
>> cartoonist. Another one is a wood carver. Another one does crafts (like
>> you find in the craft magazines.) I know a bookkeeper and an old classmate
>> does tutoring as her home business. I know professional storytellers who
>> earn money as entertainers... and a professional magician and someone who
>> does balloon art. My parents got into jewelry and did craft and jewelry
>> shows for many years.>> What all these businesses have in common is that their local market
>> doesn't have 3 million people all trying to get money doing the same thing
>> that they're doing.>> If you go with an online biz, you will find that you're in competition
>> with thousands or millions of identical websites for that company. There
>> are always people ready to sell you a "magic solution" for
>> that... a downline builder, a special tool, etc, and they sell them to
>> everyone else they can find.>> Being successful in business requires finding a business that isn't
>> oversold and overmarketed. Surely you have some options there?
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