Free Vacations

Incidentally,

Thank you for your thoughful post. I feel your energy!

My product is wholesale vacations and many business
professionals use them as sales incentives.

I love your idea about giving a gift to thank them for their business.

As for a vacation or cruise giveaway making the customer bitter - quite the contrary. This gift typically builds a confidence that the
agent is so good at what they do that they have the success to offer such a gift.

Welcome to the forum

Karen

Karen,

Looked in on your website, sorry, but something smells, I'm sceptical, in life you have winners and losers, you don't have Golden Opportunitys for average Joes, women earning big bucks with jobs that allow them to stay home and mind the children.
Even worse your firm says you can earn $1000 to $9000 on just one deal, so you must be selling lifetime memberships at a juicy [high] price.

I know your lovely, I know your genuine, you pray daily, worship others, take a shower even if you don't need one, but you've missed out the nitty-gritty, the who wins and who loses bit, and as PROFESSIONAL salesmen we don't want to know.
Or lets put it another way, include me out. Poor deals get us all a bad name.

Originally Posted by Incidentally Karen, Looked in on your website, sorry, but something smells, I'm sceptical, in life you have winners and losers, you don't have Golden Opportunitys for average Joes, women earning big bucks with jobs that allow them to stay home and mind the children..

Sorry you feel that way but you state as fact something that
I can easily prove to be the contrary.

. . .Poor deals get us all a bad name.

You need more information before you make such broad assumptions and accusations but I appreciate your wisdom to
be skeptical. Sounds like you could use a break in life!!! Couldn't we all.

Best Regards,
Karen

Originally Posted by Karen Sargent Coda1108 - are you retired now or just out of the corporate world and into reality again?

Not retired, Karen. Just decided a little over 5 years ago to leave the corporate politics behind and start up my own venture. It's been quite an experience, both good and bad, but one I wouldn't trade for anything.

- Coda

Thank You Karen for your kind comments and spirited defence of your Free Holiday Promotion. Obviously I have heard of corporate gifts and promotions, but have not heard of companies "recruiting staff to offer and sell these items". Could it be that these MARKS* are being offered your goods in order to entice them into buying a Timeshare Offeror, or a "You can have this cruise cabin for 2 weeks each year, for Life", promotion. In other words your freebie is a loss leader to "get them to a timeshare develpment, and unwittingly into a CAPTIVE AUDIENCE, sales pitch?

Years ago I once had the idea that car showrooms / dealerships, should have a glass case stuffied with freebies, which was used as a closing tool along the lines of; "O I forgot to mention it, have you any children? [Ans 2 - Reply: good] I tell you why I ask we recently did a promotion with United Campsites and were giving away some quite nice family size tents and camping gear to every one who bought a Ford Primera, we still have some left? [now close them] I never went ahead with this and forgot all about it.

You'll notice I introduce it as "an afterthought", when its obvious its a planned promtion or scheme, clients minds go into a calculating and tabulating mode; Just remember clients can be quite cute, clever, calculating and LIARS. So the O I forget to mention it phrase goes down quite well. If you study clients many want something for nothing thrown in, so keep a few HIDDEN BONES in your sales cupboard.
*I hate this expression MARKS. But it does have a long history, and it does convey what we do for a living, we look for a mark, and sign him up. Con men are known for seeking a mark. See the biography of Yellow Kid Weill, Chicago, probably the worlds best ever con-man.

Incidentally,

None of the above applies to this thread.

Karen