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The YTB Opportunity

  1. The YTB Opportunity
  2. Compensation Plan

The YTB Opportunity

Trend One:

Travel is an industry that is just realizing its remarkable potential in the marketplace. The industry pulls approximately $1.3 trillion annually in the U.S. alone and almost $7 trillion worldwide, making it the fastest growing industry in the world. It is growing 23% faster than the global economy. With such growth, a boom is on the horizon. In fact, travel is expected to double to $14 trillion worldwide in the next 10 years. Of that economy, tourism accounts for almost 11 percent of all consumer spending worldwide. Travel spending alone averages $1.4 billion PER DAY, that’s $59 million per hour.

Trend Two:

Baby boomers - the generation born between 1946 and 1964 - have a huge effect on trends and opportunity and will have a huge effect on the travel industry. There are nearly one billion baby boomers worldwide and the first of them are turning 60. These 60-year-olds are facing retirement, which occurs at a rate of one person per eight seconds for the next 20 years. And what will these newly retired baby boomers do when they retire? Travel, of course.

Trend Three:

Every three seconds a new person goes online. Consumers are already spending billions on the internet, and travel is the fastest-growing segment of that trend. While five years ago, people primarily made small purchases only, today people have become comfortable buying things such as cars, homes, and of course travel, online. Consumers use the Internet to become better informed, save time, and save money and booking of travel online is perhaps the most successful niche of all the world’s e-commerce efforts. Use of the Internet to book travel continues to increase, with more than 80 million Americans booking online travel each year. The majority (83%) of online consumers are using the Internet to do at least half of all their travel booking.

Trend Four:

Statistics show that small and home-based businesses are the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. economy. Home-Based travel sellers are the fastest-growing segment of the travel agency community. Statistics say that 74% of all individuals who have acquired huge wealth, have done it by being self-employed business owners. When surveyed, 96% of people between the ages of 25 and 44 said they wanted to have their own business, but they just didn’t know how to get started! With large and mid-sized companies downsizing and outsourcing, corporate America offers little promise for job security. That's why people are turning to home-based businesses as a high performance vehicle that can take them into the future along with big time earnings and tax advantages.

Flawless Combination

YTB brings you the perfect opportunity to transform your life through combining the fun of travel with the speed of the Internet, multiplied by the power of home-based business and referral marketing to provide YOU with the ultimate home-based business solution. YTB is taking the world by storm!!

By combining an advantage-rich, home-based business (built around the Internet) with an extremely lucrative (and copyrighted) compensation plan, YTB has become "The Choice" for thousands of opportunity seekers.

In today's marketplace, myriads of companies seek your time and attention, each claiming that their opportunity is the best. 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. The Internet is opening the doors to the riches of travel as never before. 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.

Most everyone knows that...

“The best way to succeed is to find out where people are going and to get there before the masses do!” That is the extreme significance of trends. If we can place ourselves or better yet position “ourselves” on the leading edge of these trends; our future can change dramatically! The forecast is clear. Those that position themselves to take advantage of the four fastest growing trends will change their financial future forever.

YTB now offers you the ultimate leverage to start your own home-based business by combining the powerful e-commerce and information handling capabilities of the Internet with the world’s most dynamic product (Travel) and the personal touch of independent, home-based business people and the positioning to take advantage of the baby boomers. YTB has joined these trends together in a complete 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. You can easily be part of this!!!

The YTB Compensation Plan

What is a YTB Independent Marketing Representative?

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A person who has signed an Independent Marketing Representative agreement with

  • YourTravelBiz.com is called a Representative. (We will use the term “Rep” from now on).
  • They can sell On-Line Travel Agencies, enroll RTAs, and sponsor other Reps.
  • The earn commission on personal On-Line Travel Agency sales.
  • They do not receive travel credentials and cannot sell travel.

What is a YTB Travel Network Referring Travel Agent?

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A Referring Travel Agent (RTA) is a person who has purchased an On-Line Travel Agency in an agreement with YTB Travel Network of Illinois and pays the $49.95 monthly license fee for a personalized online travel website and it’s “Back Office”. (We will use the term “RTA” from now on). RTA’s refer to people to their website (On-Line Travel Agency) to book travel and earn commissions on travel booked through their personalized site.

Building a team of Reps is more easily accomplished if you understand the Rep commission plan provided by YTB to all Reps. There are 3 total teams as defined below:

  • The '1st Team'
  • The 'PowerTeam'
  • The 'Dream Team'

What is Your 1st Team?

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Your 1st team is made up of personally sponsored Reps plus the Reps they sponsor and so on. When you are qualified to override by having 4 active personally enrolled On-Line Travel Agencies (RTAs) [your own On-Line Travel Agency can count as one], you will earn a 50% match of the commissions earned by all personally sponsored 1st Team Reps. Your 1st team is considered complete when you:

  • Personally sponsor 3 or more Reps and
  • Have 6 active RTAs enrolled (On-Line Travel Agencies having paid their initial fee and paying the $49.95 monthly license fee) by you and/or your 1st Team Reps.

1st Team

What is the PowerTeam?

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Once your 1st Team is complete, you qualify to start your PowerTeam with all additional personally sponsored Reps. Your PowerTeam includes the 1st team of every Rep in your PowerTeam through infinity.

Example: Joyce qualifies to start her PowerTeam and personally sponsors Max. Max’s personally sponsored 1st Team member are Josh, Sarah, and Amy who personally sponsor at least 3 Reps each (9 total). If those 9 each personally sponsor 3 reps, there would be 27 additional reps in Joyce’s PowerTeam. All 40 of these Reps, and ALL additional Reps sponsored into subsequent 1st Teams, are in Joyce’s PowerTeam (this continues through infinity).

Remember, the 1st Team of every Rep in your PowerTeam is not complete until there are 3 or more personally sponsored Reps and a total of 6 active On-Line travel Agencies sold by them and their 1st Team Reps. Every sale that is made by any of these 1st Team Reps is considered a PowerTeam sale for you and is commissioned to you.

Power Team

What is the DreamTeam?

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When one of your PowerTeam Reps (regardless of depth) starts their own PowerTeam, that PowerTeam becomes a 1st Generation Dream Team to you. When a 1st Generation DreamTeam Rep starts a PowerTeam (regardless of depth), that PowerTeam becomes a 2nd Generation DreamTeam to you. This continues through six (6) generation of PowerTeams and comprises you DreamTeam.

When Are Commissions Paid?

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Every new sale (of an On-Line Travel Agency) that is entered into the system by 12 (midnight) Eastern Time Zone on Thursday will be paid Friday of the following week. This includes $50 Direct Sale Commissions, $50 PowerTeam Commissions, all DreamTeam Commissions, the 50% Match of your personally sponsored Rep’s Commissions and the $1000 and $10,000 LeaderShip bonuses. Residual commissions are paid on the 11th of the following month.

What Are Direct Sale Commissions?

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Reps earn $50 for every personal On-Line Travel Agency sale they make regardless of whether or not they are qualified to override. Once they have qualified to start their PowerTeam, they also receive the $50 PowerTeam Commission, $100 total (if qualified to override), on all additional personal On-Line Travel Agency sales.

How Do I Qualify to Override?

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You qualify to earn override compensation by making 4 personal On-Line travel agency sales and your own purchase can be counted as one. You will continue to be qualified to override so long as you maintain at least 4 personally sold active RTAs. Once you are qualified to override, you will earn a 50% Match of the commissions earned by the personally sponsored Reps in your 1st team and PowerTeam.

What is the 50% Match?

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This is calculated by multiplying the commissions earned by your personally sponsored Reps by 50%. If one of your personally sponsored Reps earns $1,000 another earns $2,000 and a third earns $5,000 in commissions ($8,000 total), then your 50% Match would be $4,000. The 50% Match includes Direct Sale Commissions, PowerTeam Commissions, DreamTeam Commissions and all Residual Commission. The Leadership Bonus, Dream Bonus and 50% Match are not included.

Matching Bonus

How Do I Get Paid on My PowerTeam?

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  • $50 Direct Sales Commission on personally enrolled RTAs
  • $50 PowerTeam Commission on personally enrolled RTAs
  • $50 PowerTeam Commission on RTA enrollment made by any PowerTeam Rep until they have reached their own PowerTeam
  • 50% Match of commission earned by personally sponsored PowerTeam Commission, you will receive 4% ($2) Residual commission of the monthly license fee.

Note: You must be qualified to override in order to receive the PowerTeam Commissions, Residuals, or Bonuses described above.

How Do I Get Paid on My DreamTeam?

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  • 1st Generation Your DreamTeam begins when a Rep in your PowerTeam, regardless of who sponsored them, qualifies to start their PowerTeam. That PowerTeam becomes your 1st Generation DreamTeam and you earn $30 on new On-Line Travel Agency sales made by those Reps (and their PowerTeam) plus 4% Residual ($2) commission on all On-Line Travel Agency license renewals of $49.95. If the PowerTeam Leader that starts your 1st Generation DreamTeam is also personally sponsored, you qualify to receive a 50% Match of their $50 PowerTeam Commission ($25) plus your $30 DreamTeam Commission, or a total of $55.
  • 2nd Generation When a Rep in your 1st Generation DreamTeam qualifies to start their own PowerTeam, their PowerTeam becomes your 2nd Generation DreamTeam. You earn $20 on new sales made by those Reps (and their PowerTeam) plus 4% Residual ($2) commission on all On-Line Travel Agency license renewals of $49.95.
  • 3rd Generation are started when a 2nd Generation DreamTeam Rep qualifies to start their own PowerTeam. You earn $10 on new sales made by those Reps plus 4% Residual ($2) commission on all On-Line Travel Agency license renewals of $49.95.
  • 4th, 5th & 6th Generation YourTravelBiz.com has a total of 6 generations of DreamTeams that pay overrides. On your 4th, 5th, and 6th Generation DreamTeams you earn $5 on all new sales plus 2% Residual ($1) commission on all On-Line Travel Agency license renewals of $49.95.Note: You must be qualified to override in order to receive any of the DreamTeam Commissions and Residuals described above. There can be multiple PowerTeams in each DreamTeam Generation.

How Do I Qualify for the Leadership Bonus?

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Once you qualify to start your PowerTeam, you have unlimited time to earn your $1,000 Leadership Bonuses. The first is earned when the total active On-Line Travel Agencies sold by your PowerTeam reaches 6 or more at the end of any weekly pay cycle (12 Midnight Thursday Eastern Time Zone). Leadership Bonuses will be paid WEEKLY on Friday of the following week for any Pay Cycle where the Active PowerTeam enrolled RTA total reaches 6, 12, 18, 24 or 30.

Example: If on midnight (EST) May 6, 2004 (end of Pay Cycle) you have 5 new Active PowerTeam Enrolled RTAs, then on the following Friday (May 14, 2004) you would receive a PowerTeam Commission of $250 (but no Leadership Bonus). If in the following Pay Cycle that begins Friday, May 7, 2004 and end at midnights (EST) on May 13, 2004, you add 7 sales which brings your Active PowerTeam Enrolled RTA total to 12, then the following Friday (May 21, 2004) you would receive a PowerTeam Commission of $350 plus TWO $1,000 Leadership Bonuses for a total of $2,350 just from your PowerTeam! (one for each six RTAs) There is NO TIME LIMIT to receive Leadership bonuses. Once you accumulate 30 Active PowerTeam Enrolled RTAs you start back at zero and receive the bonuses when the number of your Active PowerTeam Enrolled RTAs again reaches 6,12, 18, 24 and 30.

How Do I Earn the $10,000 Dream Bonus?

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When there are a total of 100 active PowerTeam enrolled RTAs, you earn a $10,000 bonus. You can earn multiple $10,000 Dream bonuses with subsequent increases of 100 active PowerTeam enrolled RTAs.

YTB IMR Director Bonus Program

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Qualifications, Terms and Conditions

  • INITIAL QUALIFICATION: An IMR will qualify as a Director upon the attainment of 500 currently active RTAs sold by Director and their IMR downline; with a maximum of 167 (1/3) from any one leg. A Director, in order to receive Director Benefits, must sign a Director Agreement which may be signed at any time, but must be signed within 30 days of initial qualification.
  • MAINTAINING QUALIFICATION: On the first anniversary date of qualifying as a Director, and on each anniversary date thereafter, in order to maintain qualification as a Director, there must be at least ONE (1) more active RTA in the Director’s downline than the total on the previous anniversary date. (Example: If on the Director’s second anniversary date there were 1,867 RTAs in the downline, the total number on the third anniversary date must be at least 1,868 RTAs.)
  • MONTHLY DIRECTOR BONUS: A Director participates monthly in the Directors’ Bonus Pool with other Directors.
At the level of 500 RTAs = $2,000
At the level of 2,000 RTAs = $4,000 minimum
At the level of 5,000 RTAs = $8,000 minimum
At the level of 10,000 RTAs = $8,000 minimum
At the level of 25,000 RTAs = $8,000 minimum plus

$1 active RTA downline.

COMMENCEMENT OF BONUS AFTER QUALIFICATION

The first Bonus paid to a Director after qualification is determined as follows:

  • The month in which an IMR qualifies as a Director is defined as the 'Pre-Qualifying' month;
  • The month following is defined as the “Qualifying Month,” during which the Director must maintain at least the minimum number of active RTAs at the end of the month;
  • The next month is defined as the “Bonus Paid Month,” on the 20th day of which the Director will receive the applicable monthly bonus.

DIRECTOR CHALLENGE

4. ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL BONUS: At time of receipt of Bonus, Director is eligible for the following bonuses upon the achievement of the following number of active RTAs at a month’s end sold by Director and their IMR downline:

At the level of 2,000 RTAs = $50,000 Bonus
At the level of 5,000 RTAs = $100,000 Bonus
At the level of 10,000 RTAs = $250,000 Bonus
At the level of 25,000 RTAs = $1,000,000 Bonus
Total Bonus $1,400,000

All Achievement Level Bonuses are paid by an equivalent value in stock options in common stock of YTB International, Inc. issued and deemed earned on June 15 of each year as to bonuses qualified for January 1 thru June 30, and on January 15th following the calendar year in which the Director qualified for the bonus between July 1 and December 31. The equivalent value is determined exclusively by YTB.

5. GROUP HEALTH AND LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS: A Director will receive the following benefits and options:

  • YTB will furnish upon Director request, group health benefits at no cost to the Director, guaranteed issue, which will commence on the first day of the month following the Qualifying Month. The Director may elect to pay for group health benefits for family or business partner, and the cost of such additional coverage will be deducted from the Director’s Bonus.
  • YTB will furnish upon Director request, a $150,000 life insurance policy at no cost to the Director, which will commence on the first day of the month following the Qualifying Month. The Director may elect to pay for expanded life insurance on self, and life insurance on family or business partner, and the cost of such coverage will be deducted from the Director’s Bonus.
  • The Director may further elect to pay for self, family, and/or business partner dental insurance, short term disability or long term disability coverage.

6. OTHER PROVISIONS:

  • Exclusive to YTB: In order to maintain status as a YTB Director, the Director, spouse, family, household members, or Director business partner are required not to participate in any other direct sales, network marketing or director sales company;
  • Disclosure: The Director must fully, at all times, disclose any ongoing residual income being received from any other network marketing or direct sales company;
  • Event Participation: The Director agrees to participate in up to twenty (20) YTB meetings or events annually, at the direction of the company;
  • Compliance: The Director agrees to comply with the Policies and Procedures, and Terms and Conditions of a Rep and RTA of YTB, and to remain in good standing;
  • Materials and Presentations: All materials and presentations relating to YTB and Your Travel Network must be company pre-approved.
  • Charging of Fees: YTB disallows the Director from charging any fees, tuition, or purchases of any events or materials without prior company approval;
  • IMR status: The Director shall maintain the status of a YTB IMR in good standing.

YourTravelBiz.com - IMR Bill of Rights

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Pursuant to the Terms and Conditions of the Independent Marketing Representative Agreement contractually binding YourTravelBiz.com, Inc. and its Independent Marketing Representative YourTravelBiz.com has the right to issue Policies and Procedures which, when published to the Independent Marketing Representative of the company become binding provisions of the Independent Marketing Representative Agreement, binding both the Independent Marketing Representative and YourTravelBiz.com. Pursuant to the foregoing authority granted to it in the Independent Marketing Representative Agreement, YourTravelBiz.com does hereby publish this INDEPENDENT MARKETING REPRESENTATIVE BILL OF RIGHTS which shall become a provision in the Independent Marketing Representative agreements both heretofore and hereafter entered into between YourTravelBiz.com and its Independent Marketing Representative, effective this 1st day of September 2005.

PREAMBLE

Since the beginnings of modern era network marketing over 50 years ago, and continuing through the present date, it has been the promise of network marketing that when an Independent Marketing Representative builds a sales organization from which they derive a residual monthly income that, having built a sales organization and having become entitled to residual income from their personal sales and from the sales of their downline organization, the Independent Marketing Representative will continue to receive the fruits of their labor by way of continuing receipt of residual commission income.

This “promise” has yet to be fulfilled by any company in the network marketing industry. The intervening events which keep this promise from being kept by network marketing companies, and benefited from by their Independent Marketing Representatives, are many and varied and include events such as cessation of network marketing, corporate bankruptcy, sale of the corporate business, sale of the revenue streams generating residual commissions, and the outright termination of residual commissions by the company.

The results of such intervening events to Independent Marketing Representative and their families are often calamitous, causing serious economic consequences to the Independent Marketing Representative and their families and sometimes the destruction of families. YourTravelBiz.com is firmly resolved that its present and future Independent Marketing Representative shall not suffer such consequences and that for the first time in the network marketing industry a network marketing company, YourTravelBiz.com, shall keep the promise to its Independent Marketing Representative of uninterrupted residual commissions.

Pursuant to this firm resolution YourTravelBiz.com adopts and implements the following Bill of Rights for its present and future Independent Marketing Representative.

  1. This Policy and Procedure is not subject to future modification by YourTravelBiz.com, its heirs, successors and assigns.
  2. The term “residual commissions” shall mean those commissions and the amounts thereof currently earned as of September 1, 2005.
  3. YourTravelBiz.com shall not, ever, reduce the IMR residual commissions in effect on September 1, 2005.
  4. So long as they are commission qualified pursuant to the YourTravelBiz.com Compensation Plan, present and future Independent Marketing Representatives of YourTravelBiz.com shall be deemed to have fully and unconditionally earned all residual commissions upon the monthly revenues paid by RTAs established by themselves and by Independent Marketing Representatives in their commissionable downline, subject only to future monthly payments being made by the RTAs commissionable to them.
  5. No present or future Independent Marketing Representative of YourTravelBiz.com may be divested of the foregoing right to receive residual commissions except upon the voluntary termination of their Independent Marketing Representative status, or their involuntary termination as a Independent Marketing Representative for cause and pursuant to the procedures of YourTravelBiz.com in connection with the involuntary termination of Independent Marketing Representative status for cause.
  6. No cessation of network marketing sales, bankruptcy proceedings, or sale or assignment of the right to receive future RTA monthly revenues, or other act or occurrence whatsoever, shall be deemed to defeat or otherwise be superior to the right of the present and future Independent Marketing Representative of YourTravelBiz.com to receive residual commissions as set forth herein.
  7. No fee, purchase or renewal of Independent Marketing Representative status shall ever be required of present and future Independent Marketing Representative of YourTravelBiz.com as a condition of their receipt of future residual commissions.
  8. In order to further secure, provide and protect the rights of its present and future Independent Marketing Representative to receive residual commissions as set forth in this Policy and Procedure, YourTravelBiz.com has filed with the offices of the Secretary of States of Illinois, and of New Jersey, a UCC-1 Financing statement securing to all present and future Independent Marketing Representatives of YourTravelBiz.com their residual commissions upon future RTA monthly payments.

Dated this 1st day of September, 2005.

The YTB companies offer two unique and powerful business opportunities, that of referring travel agent or 'RTA' and that of independent marketing representative or 'REP'. The travel agent opportunity has an initial fee under $500 and a monthly license fee of $49.95. There is no fee or travel agency purchase required to be a REP. You may choose to participate in one or both opportunities.

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