Travel Articles And News On Vacations

Travel – The New Incentive To Get More Business

How do you get prospects to become clients? What extra can you add to your presentation to make the sale? Why not try an incentive? The three top incentives to get people to do anything is cash, products and travel. Cash incentives cost the most and believe it or not are the least effective. The reason being is that you pay dollar for dollar and what little cash you offer is used to pay bills and is quickly forgotten. Products work quite well, and it is true you can by them at a discount off retail but the problem is, most of your clients already have everything. It is almost impossible to guess what they want. Printed mugs, shirts, pens are very old fashioned. What is left to offer, a CD player?

Vacation and travel incentives are one of the most powerful methods of attracting business, retaining profitable clients, increasing profits, enhancing product awareness, and improving employee productivity. Businesses who have used vacation incentives in their marketing and promotions have seen at least 30% increase in their sales!

Why not recreation travel? First of all it is the cheapest. The most successful travel promotion in the country today (I will be mentioning it later in this article) cost 1.5% of its market value! More important recreation travel appeals to everyone. And travel is a long lasting gift. For example, think of all the preparation that goes into effect for a long vacation. Then think of all the pictures that you take during your vacation and remember for a lifetime. That's right. Memories of a vacation can last forever! How is that for a great incentive! To show you how powerful recreational travel is just look at the most popular screen savers on everyone's computer. You won't find pictures of money. You won't find pictures of products. What you will find is everyone's dream vacation resort with palm trees in the background. Get the picture! The first words from most lottery winners are – "The first thing I am going to do is go on a long vacation". I assume you get the point that recreation travel is one hell of an incentive.

According to the results of an email survey conducted by the Incentive Travel Fact Book, 58% say travel is more effective than cash or merchandise. Survey respondents consider travel to be the most effective reward. "Cash bonuses are necessary but travel is a higher reward", says Verizon's Porterfield. Porterfield added, "When people spend their money, its gone. But the recognition that comes from travel incentives lives on". Additionally, in a recent survey of American workers, 85% said they were motivated by vacation travel incentives.

Incentive magazine in their September2003 issue said travel is remembered two to one over cash or merchandise and a USA Today survey said "93% preferred travel over other incentives". Incentive Magazine said business respondents to a recent survey said travel incentives meet 99% of their objectives.

Travel incentives make great sales incentives. In a special report in Promo Magazine, it was noted that LifeUSA attracted new agents and sent sales soaring by abandoning its annual cash incentive program for an inclusive campaign that gave out merchandise and travel. By the program's conclusion enrollments exceeded LifeUSA's initial goal by 700%!

Travel incentives make great employee incentives. Target Appliances President Daryl Gamerman in Maryland said, "We introduced our first travel incentive for sales employees five years ago and since then we've only lost staff due to retirement. I don't ever have a problem with our sales people not working hard or volunteering for extra work, because they know it will help them qualify for a great trip".

Travel incentives builds customer loyalty. The Frequent Builders Program at Garco Building systems offered travel awards to individuals. Since launching the program, Garco has experienced a 15% to 25% growth rate, compared to the industry standard of 2% to 3%.

COST OF TRAVEL INCENTIVES

Now lets get to the best part. You can buy recreation travel wholesale, and I mean really wholesale. Look at these figures.

VACATION INCENTIVE COST MARKET VALUE

Two night stay for two at major resort $16 $400.00

Three day cruise for two to Mexico or Bahamas $50 $1,500.00

Round-trip airline tickets for two To major resorts throughout North America $30 $2,000.00

Seven night eight day vacation At major resort including round trip airfare $1,000 $3,500.00

O.K. take your pick. All these vacation incentives are marketed through my company, We are the premier travel incentive company in North America and provide companies with an inexpensive way of leveraging the most exciting and effective promotional premium available today. Travel! For the past 16 years, we have been helping business owners attract new customers, generate leads, referrals and appointments and helping retain good employees using an extraordinary inexpensive travel promotion. We are a certified full-service travel agency and a member of the leading travel agency associations.

Let me describe our signature travel incentive, called Fly Free America.

Here is what our travel incentive includes:

1. Two Complimentary Roundtrip Airline Tickets to four & five star domestic and international destinations worth over $2,000![ at a recent charity auction, these two tickets sold for $1,000.]

2. Travel on all major airlines to over 47 four & five star hotels, all-inclusive resorts, and condos in Hawaii, Mexico, the Caribbean, Lake Tahoe, etc.

3. Great hotel rates 365 days of the year, Prices start at $130 per night [Stay in Hawaii or the Bahamas for only $179 per night]

4. Tickets good for three years

5. No restrictions, airfare good from Jan 1 through Dec 31.

6. Kids under 12 stay FREE at our resorts.

7. Frequent Flier mileage accepted on all our flights

8. Tickets are good from any airport in the U.S. or Canada.

9. Absolutely no Timeshares are associated with our incentives.

Unlike other travel incentive companies, we are a high-touch company. We are known by the company we keep. Our partial client list includes the FBI, Federal Express, American Express, Auto Nation, MBNA Bank, Time-Life, Citibank, Marriott, and Sprint, to name a few. Fly Free America is trusted by these and hundreds of other companies to facilitate client and employee acquisition/retention programs.

If you think offering a travel incentive program is expensive, think again. Our travel incentive of two complimentary roundtrip tickets on major airlines costs you only $30.00 or less in volume while your customers/employees get a luxurious dream vacation with a savings value in airfare of $2,000. Over 90% of the businesses who use Fly Free America as an incentive in their business reorder the program. OVER 8 MILLION HAVE BEEN SOLD!

Our customers have been using our travel premiums successfully for over 16 years to:

Increase Revenue - New Customer Acquisition
Grow Sales of their Existing Base and increase Customer Retention
Generate More Lead Referrals from Customers
Reward and Motivate Sales Personnel
Improve Morale through Employee Reward & Benefit Programs
Increase Contract/Warranty and/or Service Package Renewals

Success Stories:
Citibank - new credit card activation (25% increase)
MBNA Bank - to activate new credit card accounts (60% increase)
American Express - catalogue promotions (customer retention / rewards)
Sprint - to activate new cell phone accounts (30% new business)
Nextel - to activate new cell phone accounts (35% increase in activation)
Blue Beard's Castle - lead generation (purchase 1000 units/month for nine-year period - zero consumer complaints)
MCG Marketing - purchase 600 units/month for 6 years. (35% increase in their warranty business)
Fraternal Order of Police – increased the # of donations by an average of over 700%
... and hundreds more.

Because we travel hundreds of FBI agents a year, our travel professionals treat everyone who calls to redeem the vouchers as if they were an FBI agent--with the highest level of courtesy, respect, and impeccable customer service. Hundreds of Thousands of people have gone on vacation through Fly Free America's travel incentive program and we have not had a documented consumer complaint in our history, since 1989!

So you can better understand how our Fly Free America Incentive program and other incentive programs have been used by other companies, I would be happy to email to you a complete description of our product line. My email is RudyChimo@optinware.com - for your subject please put - Saw your article on (Whatever) or call me at (Phone Number).

If you are interested in publishing this article on your website or ezine please feel free to do so without changing anything about the article including the bottom tag lines. Please notify us at Chad@travel-free-america.com as to where and how it's going to be published. Thank you.

http://www.Travel-Free-America.com/whois.html

© 2004 Chad Deckard and Rudy Chimo

Other Article Sites

findabook.com  moneycd.info  a-mortgage.info   about-lemon-laws.info  aboutstudentloans.info
all-about-publishing.info  auctions-articles.info  bestcollege-university.com  bestispconnection.com
biblefolder.com  blogger-website.com  books-used.info  brokers-guide.info  buywindows.info  cable-dsl.info
career-miner.com  carpel-tunnel.info  cashinaflash.info  cashloanreviews.info  casinobell.com  chat-house.info
clearmycredit.info  collegeloantips.info  crones.info  depression-articles.info   dirnic.net  dishguides.info
divers-below.com  expodog.info   financewizz.com  fire-insurance.info  getgood.info  handleit.net   it-idea.info
health-supplies.info  hosting-right.com  insidealert.com  insurance-facts.info  jobs-employment.info
justgood.info  lookgold.net   lowcost-travel.info  money-source.info  myhostzone.info  numisblog.com
peoplesearchfinder.info  pr-articles.info  realeas.com   refinancing-guides.info  spyware-remove.info
telelot.info  the-law.info   toppaid.info  travel-deals.info  travelcorrect.com  wedding-guide-site.com
your-blog.info  your-credit.info

Discount Air Carriers And Discount Air Travel Transforming The Air Travel Industry
Why the Discount Carriers are Winning

Travel-Hungry Consumers Use Value-Added Vacation Packages And Discounts To Make Great Vacations Possible
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Resorts Announce Value-Added Packages

Online Travel Companies Join Forces Inspiring Travelers with Exciting Vacation Ideas & Travel Deals
Dunhill Vacations Inc. a leading travel internet marketing company, and SoGoNow.com, the rapidly growing and award-winning online travel magazine, have announced a strategic alliance to help travelers research, plan and purchase their next vacation.

A Coastal Vacation Business Idea For The Home Based Travel Agent
Travel remains one of the most lucrative and competitive industries in the United States. Every year entrepreneurs seek a coastal vacation home business idea so that they can tap into this market.

What Travel Agents Won't Talk About Can Save You 50% to 70% on All Vacations
Are you planning your next trip? Do you want to save more money and have more fun? You may stop by a travel center and ask for a quote. And then, you walk by another travel agent and ask for another quote.

Virgin Vacations Offers United Kingdom and Europe Winter Travel Deals
Virgin Vacations offers extensive winter vacation deals to the UK and Europe with 6 Night London packages from $749 per person.

2008 Wisconsin Dells Travel & Attraction Guide©, Makes Planning a Vacation Easy
Thinking of planning a vacation to the Waterpark Capital of the World? Then you'll want to be sure to get the Original 2008 Wisconsin Dells Travel & Attraction Guide©, an annual publication which has been helping families plan their vacations to the Dells region for over 30 years. It is is available as an online at www.dells.com, or at www.wistravel.com as well as at over 1000 locations throughout the Midwest.

Adventure Travel Fused with Wellness: A Fresh Take on a Unique Costa Rica Vacation
Playa Nicuesa Rainforest Lodge in Costa Rica created a yoga & massage residence program of world-class yoga instructors & massage therapists, in order to offer guests a fusion of wellness programs with Nicuesa's signature Rainforest Multisport Adventure vacation experience.

Guided Tours Vs. Luxury Travel Vacation Packages
So, you have decided to book a luxury vacation. It is time to call your travel agent. The first question most travel agents will ask you is ?Are you interested in a cruise, a tour, or a travel package?? You know that cruises are not for you, but what about a tour? And what exactly is the difference between a tour and a travel package anyways? With different definitions and inclusions, it is important for any traveler to be informed enough to make the best decision for their unique needs.

Travel Europe – How to Travel Europe on a Cheap Budget
We all want to travel Europe on a cheap budget these days.Budget and discount price airlines have sprung up in almost every European country in the last few years – all of them fighting furiously with each other to offer the best value cheap airfare deals.

Your Guide To Vacation Travel Insurance
Anyone planning a vacation will likely experience that almost-inevitable excitement in anticipation of a great time, but there also may be nervousness and some anxiety over events that can possibly go wrong. Though there may be a sense of exhilaration and huge relief to be taking a break away from work (and life in general), there are still a lot of mishaps that can take place prior to or during a vacation to sour those feelings very quickly. That is why you may wish to consider purchasing travel insurance, so your mind can be at ease when you do depart for the vacation of your dreams.

Travel Secrets Revealed by Top Vacation Rental Company in Orlando
Global Resort Homes Spills the Secrets of Off-Season Orlando Travel

Travel Tips For Your Cycling Vacations In Italy
In this article we present common sense tips you can employ to ensure that you have a fun and safe vacation in Italy.

Redesigned Online Travel Guide Makes Planning Myrtle Beach Vacation Easier Than Ever
Giving a traveler the 'entire picture' was the driving force behind the complete redesign and relaunch of MyrtleBeachNow.com, one of the first and most popular Grand Strand and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, online travel guides.