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Is Platinum One 1 Destinations Giving Coastal Vacations a Run For It’s Money?

Hello

No doubt you have read reams on the merits of both Coastal Vacations and Platinum One Destinations and even more information with reports that the other is performing a scam operation ans should be avoided at all cost.

Why it seems that any company who is not yours can not be a viable and good alternative is really beyond me. Negative reporting rarely come ahead as has been demonstrated in the current political campaigns.

Today is Super Tuesday and in my opinion the candidates who can keep calm under pressure, stick to the issues and not revert to name calling inevitably wins in the court of public opinion.

So how is Coastal Vacations doing under the pressure of thousands of their members swinging across to P1D?

The results of a certain few, mainly in relatively high positions in Coastal has been to release YouTube videos, Press releases and articles on why P1D is such a bad choice and that all potential new members should stay clear away.

However, if you scratch away at the surface you will find some good results that have come from the competition that has been thrust infront of them.

It appears that a new member volunteer committee is being formed which will look into the quality of the member packages and how it can be improved. This is a great first step for Coastal Vacations. I would also like to see a retail only Coastal package for those who are performing B2B marketing. This actually would be easy to organize by Coastal having a different mailing address for retail customers, so being able to distinguish between members who need to have marketing information in the packages and those who do not.

I know more good will come from the competition, it always does.

An Update:

The conference call number has been changed (yet again). The new number for the live calls and lunch time training calls is:

712-338-8000 pin 1103#

In conclusion, I think P1D might be the best thing that has happened to Coastal Vacations. Both network marketing businesses have their merits and there are many like me who are promoting both Coastal and P1D. I have never felt that it was an either / or situation.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

Hope this helps

Maria Porter

972-881-4694

www.2ezbiz.org

www.platinum-one-destinations.com

www.p1d.info

Introducing Platinum One Destinations

If someone would have told me 3 months ago that I would be introducing a new travel home business to my blog, I would have thought them nuts.

As many of you know, I have been with Coastal Vacations since August 2001, and I have made it my full time occupation and have loved it.
Yes many travel businesses have been presented before me and many of them have had very interesting aspects to their packages or their business plan, but I always found it easy to decline the knee jerk reaction of joining them, basically because the BIG coastal picture allowed me to make money on my terms with a product not readily available anywhere else.

So why have I decided to add Platinum One Destinations to my home business portfolio?

There are many reasons and I thought about it long and hard before telling the world I was interested in P1D as it is fondly referred to.

Here are the main ones:

Affordable, you can start as an associate for $49 (actually waived until Jan 31st 2008)

Team wide support and training. Synergy Marketing Group ~ SMG ~ (the old coastal synergy goup) has a history of providing top notch support, marketing systems and training to their group and their vision and leadership has taken the travel home business to the next level with P1D.

Professional websites.

No price undercutting.

Real products you can be proud of sharing with your loved ones.

CUSTOMER SERVICE (after struggling with zero customer service with coastal, this was a huge reason for me).

A Corporate structure, with huge funding and a vision for growth and market share you can build your future on.

Plus many more.

As you are not taking payments from customers, there is no need for the expense of having your own merchant account, plus there is no price negotiating, rewards rebates etc. In fact anyone seen participating in unethical practice will lose their ability to market P1D. I do not have to tell you how this issue alone has been one of the major pitfalls with coastal.

How popular is P1D, ’til date they have brought in $2Million since launching on 1-1-08.

I hope this does not appear as I am pitching but the flag ship product of concierge 5* high touch customer service has not been seen anywhere in the market place and the time is ripe to introduce this concept to the public.

At last, a traveler can call concierge, request dates, transfers, location, flights, activities, all on one call and know that the arrangements will be made, professionally, with the best prices.

This could be the end of the self service travel arena for many.

Lastly as this is being written in January, there are still some soft launch specials which are going away very soon.

I urge anyone who might be interested in adding a unique travel business with an unprecedented pay plan to their current business to take a look at www.platinum-one-destinations.com and make a reservation for the next wealth building webinar.

You may ofcourse call me with any questions you may have on 972-881-4694

Even if you are not looking for a new home business, you might just be interested in booking your next trip on our portal site

www.nettrav.com/porter  and with a low price guarantee, you will save on your next trip.

 Cheers

Maria Porter

www.P1D.info

www.platinum-one-destinations.com

www.globalp1d.com

27 Pages of Coastal Vacations Proof

Coastal Vacations has been in business for over 13 years.

Many entrepreneurs have managed to make a fortune with the business opportunity, but that is only 1/3rd of the story.

Businesses eager to stand out from their competition have been utilizing incentives to build their business since the beginning of time. As the bonus vacations in all 3 packages are transferable, who wouldn’t prefer to hand out a cruise and stay complementary certificate over a magnet, mug or calendar? Visit www.officialcoastaltools.com for details on how the Coastal memberships can help your business.

Are the Vacation packages purchased as retail packages in their own right? Absolutely and below you will find a link to demonstrate just how powerful the savings can be:

27 Pages of Coastal Vacations Travel Savings Proof

After 13 years the Coastal Vacations memberships represent the best in wholesale travel savings available for the individual, family or business. Cheers 

Maria Porter Level 3 Director 

www.coastalincome.com/maria

www.2ezbiz.org 

More Strange Coastal Vacations Scammers

Coastal vacations has been in business for over 13 years. I personally have been with coastal for 6 years, and during this time, never have I see so many scammers touting themselves as Coastal Vacations Directors.

Please be aware, if you are looking to join the Coastal Vacations Business Opportunity, get all the details about the person you are thinking to join under (name, address, contact details, website details etc).

The latest scam is a phone call, where the caller will urge you to join Coastal for $400. If you can’t do that they will call you back and say that they will take your first sale instead but will require $39 to set up your get your Coastal website.

In both cases they will take your credit card over the phone and that’s it. You will never hear from them again.

If this has happened to you, report this issue to your credit card issuing company.

In the 3 cases that were reported to me, the victim had nothing but a toll free recording and a fictitious name.

Legitimate Coastal Vacations directors do not sell the packages for $400 or will require you to purchase a website from them.

With success comes fraudulant activity, please be cautious.

Cheers

Maria Porter

level 3 Director

www.2ezbiz.org <===== Visit for free advertising and marketing advice and support for Coastal Vacations or for any network marketing home business

972-881-4694 / 866-629-3806

Happy 4th July from Maria with Coastal Vacations

 …………….But I am Not Like You Maria….

Well, no 2 people are alike, but you could be a British born, trained physical therapist who is married and has one son…and joined Coastal Vacations in 2001.

More than likely that does not describe you. But what may describe you is, you are tired and worn out doing what you are doing. You have a desire to have more out of life than you are currently experiencing. You want to be your own boss, you are sick and tired of driving 2 hours a day just to plunk your body down in a JOB that wears you out. You would like to spend more time with your family and help with the homework and have time to do it…..and so it goes. I can bet some of those remarks could have been made by you….but they were made by me, so you just may be more like me than you think.

What is the difference? The main difference is that I decided to take the plunge, take the jump, open myself up to ridicule should I have failed again, and joined a home business opportunity I was passionate about, but I didn’t fail.

The only way you can fail is by not trying at all or trying and then giving up.

How many times did all the great people in history fail before they succeeded? More times than they succeeded I would guess. America is simply the most fabulous country on this planet, it can even make someone like me who came to the USA at the age of 32 into a contented well earning entrepreneur. Hey, I even speak with that funny British accent and was still accepted….

 48% of Americans will not even take a summer vacation this year….well what a shame not to take a few days off and enjoy traveling around your wonderful country…. I hope if you are reading this, that you will take time to relax, eat a burger and be grateful….for your country is celebrating a Birthday….and it’s a beautiful thing!

Happy 4th of July!

Cheers

Maria Porter

Level 3 Director

972-881-4694

www.2ezbiz.org   www.coastclubpackage.com

Fake Coastal Vacations Packages Have Surfaced

I received a very distraught telephone call yesterday from a coastal vacations member who had purchased a coastal vacations travel package from a level 2 director.

She had received a call from the shipping center, stating that she was in possession of a counterfeit Level 1 coastal vacations package.

The package is absolutely identical to any other level 1 package, except for one thing, the ID number is fake.

Well coastal vacations has now become one of the very big boys, in the business opportunity world, when counterfeiters find it lucrative to make fake packages…..

Read more:

http://ibizniz.blogspot.com/2007/06/counterfeit-coastal-vacations-packages.html

Cheers

Maria Porter

Level 3 Director

75 Ways To Get Traffic And Leads With Marketing

1. Leave comments on other people’s blogs with a backlink to your site. (just make them real, and not spam)

2. Write articles and distribute them to article directories.

3. Answer people’s questions on www.answers.yahoo.com.

4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature. (after you join the conversation)

5. Write a press release and submit it to www.PRWeb.com  , www.webwire.com , www.openpr.com.

6. Advertise your website in the appropriate category on www.CraigsList.com . (tip: create multiple email accounts for multiple postings per day)

7. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site. (maybe they’ll post your comment on their sales letter?)

8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100’s of free blog directories.

9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines. (or pay someone to do it)

10. Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase.

11. Add a link in your email signature to your website. It’s a free and easy way to get a little more traffic.

12. Make a custom 404 error page for your website redirecting people to your home page.

13. Use PPC search engine advertising. Don’t just use Google Adwords, also use Yahoo Search, MSN and Miva too.

14. Add a “bookmark this site” link to your webpages.

15. Have a tell-a-friend form on your site.

16. Send articles to ezine publishers that includes a link to your website in your bio box.

17. Hold a crazy contest and make it go viral with videos.

18. Give away a freebie (ebook, report, e-course) to keep people coming back to your site.

19. Add an RSS feed to your blog.

20. Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net.

21. Participate in a banner or link exchange program.

22. Create a software program and give it away for free. 

23. Purchase the misspellings or variations of your domain name, or those of your competitors.

24. Buy a domain name related to your niche that is already receiving traffic and forward it to your site.

25. Pass out business cards with your domain on them everywhere you go.

26. Start and affiliate program and let your affiliates send you visitors.

27. Start a page on social bookmarking sites such as www.MySpace.com.

28. Submit a viral video to www.YouTube.com

29. Conduct and publish surveys to your website.

30. Find joint venture partners that will send you traffic.

31. Start your own newsletter or ezine.

32. Use a autoresponder or email campaign to keep people coming back to your site.

33. Purchase ads on other sites.

34. Send a free copy of your product to other site owners in exchange for a product review.

35. Sell or place classified ads on www.eBay.com  with a link to your site.

36. Post free classified ads on any of the sites that allow them with a link to your site. Write good subject lines, so ads get read and clicked on.

37. Exchange reciprocal links with other related websites.

38. Network with other people at seminars or other live events. Join a meet up group: http://www.meetup.com

39. Purchase advertising in popular newsletters or ezines.

40. Advertise on other product’s “thank you” pages.

41. Create a free ebook and list in on the “free ebook” sites.

42. Buy and use a memorable domain name.

43. Do something controversial.

44. Create an Amazon profile and submit reviews for books and other products that you have read, use your domain name as the review name.

45. Start a lens on www.Squidoo.com.

46. Use a traffic exchange (low quality traffic, but can sometimes be worthwhile).

47. Get referrals form similar but non-competing sites.

48. Create and sell a product with resell or giveaway rights and include a link to your site in it o others pass it around for you.

49. Email your list. If you don’t have one, get one.

50. Buy a pair of sandals; get your website engraved on the bottom and walk on the beach, stomp in the mud or play in the snow.

51. Use Skype and other instant messengers to chat with people all over the world. Look at their profiles, find people like you, with similar interests, see if they are open to new ventures and friendships.

52. Send postcards in the mail

53. Write a nice long copy sales letter, using powerful persuasion and ethical copy to get people to buy your product or service.

54. Buy unused cable TV airtime, from local stations, on leased access, and show a 30 or 60 second commercial or public service announcement

55. Check out other commercials and Ideas for a co-op at www.spotrunner.com.

56. Hire and outsource marketing to places like www.agentsofvalue.com.

57. Join the Chamber Of Commerce.

58. Submit your videos to many video sites, besides youtube and google, there are well over 40 sites out there hosting free videos. Make sure you optimize the titles for keywords.

59. Do your keyword and SEO research which this great free SEO tool. http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/

60. Make a WHO IS PAGE, so people learn about who you are, before they buy from you.

61. Pick up the phone and call leads, learn to sell using the phone.

62. Buy a magnetic car sign and stick it on your car, with a short slogan and 24 hour message on it.

63. Wrap your car with a slogan, and 24 hour message

64. Set up a 24 hour recorded message on a toll free number.

65. Hire a call center, or a retired person or a student to close the sales for you, you just generate the leads

66. Hire a virtual assistant to work for you.

67. Put bandit signs (We buy ugly houses) all over town, with a phone # for people to call on it.

68. Put a coupon in VAL-PAK mailing to 1000’s of homes.

69. Go to pizza hut or a pizza shop in town, that is NOT a franchise, and ask if you can rent the space on the top of their pizza box. Pay them .15 a flyer to stick it on the box, with your advertisement on it.

70. ASK for referrals

71. Place classified or display ads in newspapers

72. Make a podcast where you can interview people, experts, or review other people’s stuff via audio or video podcast.

73. Go to old happy clients and ask them for referrals, give them a free gift or incentive for each referral.

74. Go to swap meet or community fairs or fundraisers and peddle your warez there.

 75. Do a community fundraiser for a great cause, get lots of advertisers, peddle your warez in the auction or whatever you can with all the pulicity.

Thank you To Justin Michie for her forum post with these great ideas.

Feel free to steal this list and post it in your blogs, pass it on!

Cheers Maria

NEW ENTRY LEVEL for Coastal call Center

April 21st 2007 NEW ANNOUNCEMENT

If you have been looking at Coastal Vacations but just do not have the $1295 to start with to join Coastal at the Level I entry level, or $1995 if you wanted to utilize the talents of the Call Center we now have NEWS for you:

 HOT OFF THE PRESS….RELEASED TODAY!

The Call Center has just released an entry Level for the Call Center at ONLY $795 Don’t delay…this is a hot new option for anyone looking at marketing what has been touted as the best home business opportunity available today.

www.wecloseyourcoastalsales.com  for full details or

 REQUEST A CALL BACK:

http://4694mp.wecloseyoursales.biz/site/contact.asp

You will still get all the bonuses everyone has come to expect from me, Maria Porter, valued at over $3,000 (NO OTHER DIRECTOR GIVES YOU THIS…PERIOD)

Click Here for Details: http://www.2ezbiz.org/bonus.html

For more information, free reports, free advertising advise and more please visit:

www.2ezbiz.org

Maria Porter Level 3 Director

5 Steps To Success in Network Marketing

Automated systems work well if your product is digital and costs less than $99. The seller will attain better results when the sales page is formulated with a personalized video explaining the product and showing proof of training resources, or the product or their earnings. But what if you are selling a higher end network marketing product … what are some of the best steps to take to build enough trust or reasons for a buyer to purchase the product sight unseen?

Here Are My 5 Top Tips:

1. Building A Web Presence

It is necessary to have a web presence to market your product. The latest web 2.0 techniques covering the umbrella of social book marking sites, like blogs and video lure search engine spiders like flies to a web. The latest marketing techniques level the paying field, making it no longer necessary to have a huge advertising budget to have your website ranked high in the search engines. Utilizing a selection of varied marketing methods on a regular basis will attract traffic to your website.

2. Building relationships

Showing your face, recording your voice and adding testimonials to your site all increase the connection between you and your web visitors. Your new clients should feel as if they know you and can trust you and can contact you at any time without feeling like they are a burden to you.

3. Giving advice

Writing articles with useful materials will result in increased free traffic to your website and will establish you as an authority in your niche. Offering free reports, free downloads and adding web content will keep the internet seekers coming back to your site.

4. Adding Bonuses

Using competitions and time sensitive bonuses will add to the sense of urgency. Seekers will become buyers if they have a reason to purchase today. The one time offer strategy has become a huge success with internet marketers.

5. Care after the sale

Once the sale is done, many marketers feel that their job is over, in reality this is the most important aspect to any sale. Taking time to market and establish rapport with a client only to drop them after the purchase will lead to discontented members and complaints. Establishing a regimen of regular contact and training is essential for the success of your business and growth of your down-line.

For a free report, free advertising resources and my mentoring program please call me on 866-629-3806 or visit: Coastal Vacations  Thank you Maria

The Truth Behind Coastal Vacations Press Releases

Press releases are literary compositions submitted to the press for distribution by companies and individuals with news worthy content. The releases usually contain creditable information about the release of a new product, expansion etc.

As time has gone by the notion to marketers in small business that the news released needs to be worthy of promotion seems to be dwindling. This method of advertising is rapidly developing into a cunning method of self promotion.

Press releases distributed by some of the larger well known distribution companies have the ability of getting the release indexed on the first page of ‘Google’ in a matter of hours. For this reason, some marketers are distributing them numerous times per month and dare I say it per week for the exposure.

Many business opportunities on the internet follow guidelines set forth by the company they are representing. In the case of coastal vacations where no policy and procedures are present, any individual is able to release as many press releases about anything as they feel fit with impunity.

The larger question is whether the companies releasing press releases are now releasing anything and everything because they are being compensated monetarily and is this leading to a dilution of news worthy content available on the internet?

Will there come a time when the public will simply not take press releases seriously as the content becomes unreliable and of so poor and repetitive quality.

For those marketers who are using press releases as almost their sole method of getting their word out, are they are doing a disservice to their team members, as this method of promotion is not duplicable by the masses?

Would it not be more beneficial for the future growth of the team if the sponsor would distribute marketing and advertising articles with satisfying and trustworthy substance as opposed to self promoting keyword rich non-newsworthy repetitive releases?

Just a thought.

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