Travel parties are a growing trend, and now you can host a travel party and jump onboard of this growing trend?

I wanted to start a HOME BASED BUSINESS, and after researching and getting into the vacation rental business and seen just how lucrative the travel industry was, I wanted a bigger piece of the pie.

I ran across a company called YTB Travel Biz. YTB brings you the perfect opportunity to transform your life by combining the powerful information handling capability of the Internet with the world’s most dynamic product – travel – and the personal touch of independent, home based business people. YTB has joined these three trends together in a flawless combination. By utilizing our simple strategies and proven techniques we can show you how to leverage your time to generate a residual income 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The elements of honesty, morality, and “being in the right place at the right time” are all in place today at YTB

I was on the fence for a couple of months, and one day I was invited to a travel party. I went to the Travel Party, and I won a trip and got started with the business.

Winning a trip, coming to a travel party and starting a home based business, all in one great night.

There are similar companies out there, but some of them wanted me to quit what I was doing and spend full time with them, this YTB company allows you to work at your pace and comfort zone and developed a blue print for success by “talking or showing” not “selling” the opportunity. You see, people naturally like to talk about travel and vacations.

With this business, I can work as hard, or little as I want and I still make money. You can make money several ways with YTB, that of a Referring Travel Agent (RTA) or and Independent Marketing representative (REP).

The travel booking engines are powered by Travelocity, who basically saw growth in this corporation and said ” They would rather be in business with them than compete with them”.

So come join us for some travel, some fun, and make money while doing it. With this business you can spend more time with your family, and friends.

View some of our promtional videos sites here:View Presentation Video ,eTravel Fortune ,Your Ticket to Paradise.

View our travel booking sites:Save on Personal or Business Travel and Cayman Island Resorts, Hotels, Flights, and Vacation Packages and our YTB World Travel and Vacation Blog.

Jack Hollingsworth is one of the most well known names in stock photography. An early and very successful pioneer in RF, Jack not only sells stock through Getty, Corbis and his own site, but was a founder of BLEND images as well as Red Chop Sticks and IndiaPhotos. Jack has been described as “Indiana Jones with a camera” due to his constant world travel. Jack teaches, lectures, blogs and has a column in Shutterbug magazine.

John:    You have a reputation as someone who is a pioneer, who doesn’t shirk from change, but embraces it and certainly someone who is an entrepreneur at heart.  I believe you are also a realist.  In my book, these qualities make you someone who is well suited to dealing with the current market realities. Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future of stock?

Jack:    I’m optimistic about the future of everything.  Stock is going through a difficult time right now but it will be back.  There will always be a need for images.  It might not come back in the same way we knew it, but it will be back.

John:    My strategy is two fold:  Make the best, most relevant images I can, then get those images in front of as many potential buyers as possible.  A huge part of my plan is the development and optimization of my web site. Can you share your strategy for dealing with the future?

Jack:    Online.  The web is everything.  The web is the center, the hub of the wheel that all the spokes radiate from.  You have to learn to use web 2.0, learn the tools, learn to explore and exploit what the web has to offer.  I am revamping everything,  my blog, my site, everything from the ground up.

John:    Do you see the consumer as a viable potential client?

Jack:    Yes!  I don’t yet know how to reach them, but there are millions, and millions and millions of them well beyond the channel of commercial distribution.  The money is in getting the photography in front of the consumer.  This is an entirely new kind of market.  There are 60,000 to 80,000 commercial buyers of stock in the world.  That number doesn’t really change.  Now, with a push of a button, we can reach a billion people.  Think about that!

John:    I do think about that!

Jack:    We are at a crossroads, an intersection.  Very few can continue to have the cool lifestyle of shooting stock that we have had.  Now it is about reaching the consumer.  It is about building community and then monetizing it.  People don’t get this: Our future success has little to do with our past but rather what we do from today on. It is not about your past, what you shot before.  It is about what you do from now on.  It is about what you shoot now, and how you shoot it. You can’t rely on your legacy. You can be a Micro celebrity on the net in 12 months.  It is about developing a fan base.  With a fan base of 1,000, or maybe 5,000, you can make a good living.

John:    Micro, RF or RM…or some combination?

Jack:    Add footage to that as well.  All of them are going to be around.  It isn’t either or, it is a little bit of everything.  Some people will do all of it, some will do two or three of them.  You have to find out what works for you, what you love to do and then do it. My priority is first footage, then Rights Managed and then a split between RF and Micro.

John:    How about prints?  Are you planning on getting into that arena?

Jack:    Yes! Possibly through Imagekind, or something like that.  Right now I am going through my collections cherry picking the images that I think would make good print sales.  I really believe in merchandising.  I have big plans for what people can do with my images.  It can be coffee mugs and that sort of thing or it can be a whole lot more. We don’t even know all the ways people are going to be using photos.

John:    Jack, you are undergoing a major re-branding with your website.  When do you think you will have that ready for us to see? 

“Too often. . . I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” – Louis L’Amour

Almost every-single person on the planet makes a big mistake when it comes to their income. They rely on just one source of income to earn a living. This source is usually their day-job. If for some reason they were to lose their job, they’d lose their only way of making money.

This causes people to live in constant fear of their boss, their performance on the job, hourly wages and the possibility of getting fired.

This doesn’t have to be you. You can fire your boss. And if you do have a job that requires a boss, you won’t worry about losing your job.

What you need to have is several different ways of making money. If one or two of those ways go sour, you’ll still have three or more different sources of income that consistently earns you cash.

When you combine money-making strategies, not only will you have a lot more freedom, but you’ll also have a lot more money.

If you use a website or blog as the corner-stone of your money-making empire, you’ll have something that automatically makes money for you – even while you are busy doing something else.

And you don’t have to rely on just one website or blog. You can have several nich-websites/blogs that all earn money. Even if you only make a small $500 a month from each of your websites, but you have 10 of them, you’ll be earning $5,000 a month.

Then what you can do is work one, or several, travel jobs. Anything you do for these jobs gets put up as content on your website, or websites.

By using this strategy you’ll be earning more money from your websites, while you earn additional income from your travel jobs.

Let me give you an example of how this could work:

We’ll say that you have just one nich-website to start with. Your website is set-up as a blog; it’s all about you. You monetize the site with Google ads and affiliate commissions (like through Clickbank or Commission Junction). You don’t even have your own product yet, but you still earn money.

You then work in Alaska for the winter commercial fishing season. You earn several thousands of dollars per month, with free room and board. You take the experiences you have in Alaska and post them on your website as articles, pictures, video, MP3s, or anything you like – it’s your website.

So not only are you making money from your Alaska job, but you’re making more money from your website as well.

You also take the photographs you have of Alaska, and post them on stock photography internet sites to earn a commission every time one of your pictures is downloaded. This starts to earn you residual income that will last for years to come.

After the fishing season, you grab the money you saved and decide to travel around Europe for three months. While you travel you update your website with your travel experiences and you post more photographs to the stock photography sites.

You also decide to write a few articles for magazines and websites about tourist destinations in Europe, that earns you even more money.

After your Europe trip you decide to go to Tailand. You find Tailand to be a fascinating, affordable country, so you plan to stay there for five months.

In Thailand you continue to update your website with your travel experiences, thus gaining you more visitors and more income. You regularly post photographs to the stock websites, and you land a job teaching English.

When you’re not teaching English you stroll over to the handicraft shops looking for deals. You buy handmade scarves and sweaters for dirt-cheap prices. Then you sell them for 20 times what they cost you through online auction sites like eBay.

After your visit to Thailand…

Do you see how this works? The more you do what you love to do, the more money you’ll make. Plus, you’ll be making money from five, ten or fifteen different sources – most of which run automatically for you.

This way you can make just a small amount of money from each job, yet still have more than enough cash to do anything you want to do. Can you imagine how much money you’ll earn if each job made you moderate wages? What if each one earned you great wages?

And you won’t have to worry about getting “fired” ever again! You’ll be financially independent from a variety of money-making sources, and you’ll have all the time you need to do whatever you want.

“Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut