about YTB

The Opportunity & Compensation Plan
YTB Independent Marketing Representative - 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).
1. They can sell Online Travel Agencies, enroll RTAs, and sponsor other Reps.
2. They earn commission on personal Online Travel Agency sales.
3. They can earn overrides on Online Travel Agency sales made by Reps on their teams.
4. They do not receive travel credentials and cannot sell travel. Unless fully contracted with YTB Travel Network.

YTB Travel Network Referring Travel Agent
A Referring Travel Agent (RTA) is a person who has purchased an Online Travel Agency in an agreement with YTB Travel Network and pays the $49.95 monthly fee for the personalized website and its “Back Office.” RTAs who personally enroll and maintain six RTAs are reimbursed their $49.95 monthly fee. (We will use the term “RTA” from now on.) RTA’s simply refer people to their website (Online Travel Agency) to book travel and can earn commissions on travel booked through their personalized site or by direct referral.

Building a team of Reps is more easily accomplished if you understand the pre-determined structure provided by YTB.

There are 3 total teams as defined below:

The “1st Team”
The “PowerTeam”
The “DreamTeam”

1st Team
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 Online Travel Agencies (RTAs) (your own Online 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:
1. Personally sponsor 3 or more Reps
2. Have 6 active RTAs enrolled (Online Travel Agencies paying $49.95 monthly fee) by you and/or your 1st Team Reps.

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

Example: Mary qualifies to start her PowerTeam and personally sponsors Eric. Eric’s personally sponsored 1st Team members 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 Mary’s PowerTeam. All 40 of these Reps, and ALL additional Reps sponsored into subsequent 1st Teams, are in Mary’s PowerTeam (this continues through Infinity).

Remember, the 1st Team of every Rep in your Power Team is not complete until there are 3 or more personally sponsored Reps and a total of 6 active Online Travel Agencies (RTAs paying the $49.95 monthly fee) 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 commissionable to you.

DreamTeam
When one of your PowerTeam Reps (regardless of depth) starts a PowerTeam, that PowerTeam becomes a 1st Generation DreamTeam 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) generations of PowerTeams and comprises your DreamTeam.

Commissions Paid
Every new sale (Online 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 LeaderShip bonuses. Residual commission is paid on the 20th of the following month.

Direct Sale Commissions
Reps earn $50 for every personal Online 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 (if qualified to override) on all additional personal Online Travel Agency sales.

Override Qualifications
You qualify to earn override compensation by making 4 personal Online travel Agency sales and your own purchase can be counted as one. You will continue to be qualified as long as you maintain at least 4 personally sold YTBnet Subscribers. A YTBnet Subscriber is an RTA who is paying the $49.95 monthly fee for their Online Travel Agency. 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.

50% Match
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 Commission, PowerTeam Commission, DreamTeam Commission and all Residual Commission. The Leadership Bonus, Dream Bonus, and 50% Match are not included. Home-based travel sellers are the fastest growing segment of the travel agency community. With the large and mid-sized companies laying off people and cutting back, corporate America is no longer a stable place to be. Everyone is looking for a home-based business that can be the high performance vehicle that takes them into the future along with big time savings in tax advantages. YTB is going to be YOUR home-based business vehicle!

PowerTeam Payments
$50 PowerTeam Commission — You earn $50 on ALL Online Travel Agency (RTA) sales made by Reps in your PowerTeam.

$100 on personal Online Travel Agency sales — You receive the $50 PowerTeam Commission in addition to the $50 Direct Sale Commission on all new personal sales once you have qualified to start your PowerTeam.

50% Match — You earn a 50% match on the commissions earned by personally sponsored PowerTeam Reps. If they make a personal Online Travel Agency sale and earn $50 Direct Sale Commission, you earn a 50% Match of $25 plus the $50 PowerTeam Commission for a total of $75.

4% PowerTeam Residual — RTAs pay $49.95 per month for their Online Travel Agency and business building tools. The PowerTeam Leader who receives the initial $50 PowerTeam Commission will also receive a 4% residual commission ($2) on all Online Travel Agency renewals of $49.95.

Bonuses — see YTB LeaderShip and Dream Bonuses.

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

DreamTeam Payments
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 Online Travel Agency sales made by those Reps (and their PowerTeam) plus 4% Residual ($2) commission on all Online Travel Agency 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 Dream Team 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 PowerTeams) plus 4% Residual ($2) commission on all Online Travel Agency renewals of $49.95.

3rd Generation — 3rd Generation DreamTeams 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 Online Travel Agency 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 Online Travel Agency 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.

Leadership Bonus Qualifications
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 Online 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. There is NO TIME LIMIT to receive these bonuses. Once you accumulate 30 Active PowerTeam Enrolled RTAs you start back at zero and receive the bonuses when your Active PowerTeam Enrolled RTAs again reaches 6, 12, 18, 24 and 30.

Example: If on midnight (EST) May 6, 2004 (end of Pay Cycle) you have 5 Active PowerTeam Enrolled RTAs, then on the following Friday (May 14, 2004) you would receive a PowerTeam Commission of $250 (but no Bonus). If in the following Pay Cycle that begins Friday, May 7, 2004 and ends at midnight (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)

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

Note: Online Travel Agencies are considered active for the Dream Bonus if the $49.95 YTBNet subscription fee was paid in the pre-qualifying and/or qualifying month(s).