One of the markets I target for my Coastal business and product is professional business people. My main goal is to have a professional sales person join the business to build a six-figure income.

When I talk to these people, I don’t talk to them about Coastal as being a “business opportunity.” So many people use that term and it is old and worn out - plus sometimes professional sales people get turned off by the term.

The way I position Coastal to these types of people is a technique I feel works very well with them. And it is a great way to position the product and your business when you are approaching a business owner. (more…)

When I got started in Coastal Vacations with the Coastal Synergy Group, I had NO desire to target my warm market. That is, people I personally knew or friends and family.

In fact, because I was so skeptical at first, I didn’t even want to tell anyone I was doing this “little” travel online business, given that I was a CPA and MBA with over 15 years of an accounting background.

I was very excited to know that I could plug into a system that would generate leads for me. And I was delighted to find out that it actually worked! It worked so well that I generated over $23K in my first 90 days using leads. (more…)

When I was in high school, I knew back then I wanted to make my own money.

At the age of 14 I began managing a local card store down the street from my house.

The owner trusted me so completely that I began running the store myself, cashing out the register at night, closing & locking up the store, the whole works. It was a great experience for me. It gave me confidence, a sense of
responsibility, and just a taste of what it would be like to have my own business.

The bad news was (more…)

 In our Coastal Vacations business, many of us can ride a wave of emotions at every phase. There is the exhiliration of making our training sales, making our first profit sale, releasing our first director, receiving our first platinum check.

And there can also be the crash of the wave when people who we really thought would get started don’t. Or the new team member who has such fire and then chooses to quit before even getting started. (more…)