To new Prospects looking into Coastal Vacations

Thanks for the kudos Harold. Things are great. Spending as much time with the lil one as possible. He'll be 7 months this week. Time is going fast.

I figured id jump back into the fold and add my 2 cents. Im glad that the forum is still going strong. I see there is still competition with the various factions and opportunities as well. Well I for one love competition. I think its great there are so many opportunities out there. I for one am not made for the traditional 9-5 so the fact there are so many opportunities to choose from out there has always made me happy.

I wish all the best in the home based business arena. Its the best thing going and in my humble opinion Coastal Vacations is one of the best opportunities ive seen in my 20 year home based business career.

Hello Adam and Harold

I joined coastal in 2001. I know there are many who are still promoting coastal, but there are also many oldtimers and old faithfulls who wish coastal would get their act together and introduce real product value (which has declined over the years), real training, quality control, control over fireselling directors, customer service for retail custmers as well as getting corporate certification.

If the members would demand this, things would improve for everyone. So long as members keep selling the packages with no regard to the above, no changes will be made.


Cheers
maria
Harold, did you attend the recent seminar in FL? How many were there in attendance?

No, Maria, I didn't go to the seminar and I agree with all of your points. I am not actively promoting Coastal right now because of these points. I don't want to discourage the people who are promoting Coastal, though. Coastal can make the dedicated member a lot of money if they are serious.

Hello Harold

It would not take much to bring Coastal back into the arena. It needs to have dedicated members on the board who have the business over their own financial fortunes as their driving passion. There is a lot of cross recruiting within coastal going on I hear.

Glad you are well Harold.

Cheers
maria

Thanks, Maria. I agree. Coastal could be back on top if a few changes were made and enforced.

If you are a new prospect looking at Coastal Vacations and have by chance stumbled upon this forum and read the post your reaction might be one of puzzlement. As you read you see people in what seems to be a debate about the pro's and con's of Coastal Vacations.

That is exactly what is happening and for good reason. Many of us have made a good living with Coastal Vacations. That includes many that have moved on with success to new opportunities as well. The debate is healthy. There is no doubt that many things could be done to improve Coastal Vacations, but by the same token the opportunity is great just as it is.

When looking at any opportunity you need to be sure it has certain features. First you need a good product. Well travel is one of the best. Now as time has went on there have been new opportunities that have come along and used travel as there basis as well. But let me ask you this. If you could still have a 1965 Mustang would you use it? Of course. What I am bringing to the forefront by mentioning this is that just because Coastal is an older opportunity and just because new "models" have popped up doesnt mean you should throw Coastal out as an option. This is not to say the new opportunities arent good but rather Coastal is still a good opportunity.

The next feature needed is to have a good pay plan. Well from $1000 to $9705 sounds pretty good to me. The margins of what we make as opposed to what we sell the product for is amazing. The Coastal pay plan is one of the best on the market.

I applaud anyone looking at Coastal Vacations as well as all of the members in Coastal that have had success with Coastal. Many of those members have used that success to move on the other opportunities and I wish them success there as well. My goal is not to compare their opportunity by any means but rather to use this forum to promote Coastal. Now dont take me saying im not comparing opportunities as a sign that I can't. I have been in home based businesses for over 20 years now. I started when I was 18 and will turn 41 on Friday. Ive been around. In my opinion this forum is to promote Coastal and I think we should use it as such.

Anyone needing to debate the pro's and con's of opportunities or needing more info about Coastal Vacations can use the various features of the forum to contact the various individual members. Many of us have websites in our signature lines and most of the member websites have contact info. In addition by clicking on member or preferred member status link in a members name you can use that to even send a person a private message. I wish you all the best.

Sorry for the length of the post. As I get writing I always seem to get excited and carried away.

Adam

your gesture is noble. But a forum by is meant to have discussion on a topic in more ways than one. This thread was opened with an introduction by Harold about Coastal and Funtime.

The way I see it Adam, if the coastal vacations board of directors read only positive posts, they might not understand that thousands of coastal members have gone else where due to some major issues with coastal, but due to natural progression.

Without learning about grievances there would be no reason for them to discontinue doing business as usual. Yes, they have been around for 15 yrs now, nothing has changed in the coastal bed, but laws have.

I challenge the BOD to make coastal become compliant.

Cheers
Maria
BTW your 65 Mustang might not pass emissions testing.

Thanks for the comments Maria. Yes there are things that can be changed in any opportunity and as I stated I am by no means shying away from the things that can be changed about the Coastal Opportunity. But again there are many positive things that come with the Coastal Opportunity. I for one choose to focus on the positive aspects. Which there are many of. You can find the negative anywhere. If you do a google search there are tons of links about how other opportunities are so much better than Coastal so being there is so much negative on the block I will always focus on the positive in here.

Everyone is free to post whatever they like but my post will focus ont he positive aspects of Coastal Vacations. Coastal has changed my life in a truly positive way and I will continue to share those experiences with new prospects looking at the opportunity.

P.S. - Ill still take my 65 Mustang and see the glass as half full.

I agree with Adam that Coastal is an awesome opportunity especially for someone that has some money to invest and is looking for something other than traditional mlm....



Viola

If you are a new prospect looking at Coastal Vacations I wish you the best. In my humble opinion Coastal is one of the best opportunities on the market because of its adaptability.

You see there are many groups that have systems in place that you can just plug right into or you can be a self starter and do it your own way and use your own skills.

My rise in Coastal has been one where I first joined a group and plugged into their system. We became very successful. Now being a free spirit as an entrepreneur I sat back and learned all I could from their proven system and then used that knowledge to create my own style.

This is the beauty of this opportunity. You can learn from all the groups. This forum is a great place for that as many members from the various groups post here. So you have a wide array of ideas.
Take what you can and grow. For many you are just looking for something to plug into and we have it with Coastal but many of you are looking for an edge and we have that as well.

I could go on for days on all the innovative ways to do Coastal but instead of doing that I suggest anyone looking at Coastal should contact the members they see posting here. Ask your questions and find out how this opportunity will work for you.



Adam

Hello

Before jumping into any business opportunity I would recommend doing a search on the business name followed by scam (so you can read all the negative comments, after all if you are going to promote a business you know others will find the negative information and you will need to know how to answer the objections if there are any, or keep away from the company if there are too many negative reports).

Check to see if the company is listed on www.bbb.org and check their standings.

Check to see that the company is legal and has all the appropriate licenses.

Listen to training calls, live prospecting calls and product presentation calls. Listen to the information presented for professionalism and content with an unbiased ear.

Ask to speak to some members on your potential sponsors team, so that you can interview them without the sponsor being present.

You might not know everything there is to know about the company and business but the likely hood of being shocked by discovering unsavory information AFTER you have joined is lessened.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Maria

As a new person looking at home based businesses and especially Coastal Vacations id like to share some common sense advice I use in all my business practices.

1- Check out your state business laws and see what is lawful in your state.

2- Look at the opportunity and measure the integrity of the product.

3- Make a judgement on how much profit can be made per sale and how hard it would be to make a sale.

4- Ask around about the opportunity to the appropiate people but dont judge your success in terms of their success.

Everything isnt for everyone but on a whole I think Coastal Vacations can work for most. It's a simple formula. You have a product that has an unlimited supply of advertising power. You market it at a price that can't be beat. So it doesnt take a rocket scientist to succeed.



Adam

Hello Adam

one thing anyone selling Coastal needs to know is
that unless you are living in one state and selling coastal packages to people who live in your state and will only take vacations in the very same state, one needs to be compliant in all states and provinces.

Ignorance of the laws is not an excuse.

cheers
maria

I try to keep my post to topics as opposed to addressing individuals members but now I must ask you to thoroughly explain yourself Maria. Im not sure exactly what you are trying to say. I know at one time you where an active person promoting Coastal but always having many options going on. So please take the time to reply in full what your position is and why. I for one would love to hear your opinion on Coastal just as new prospects will continue to hear mine.

Adam

ibizniz: Ignorance of the laws is not an excuse.

I am with Adam here - I am totally in the dark on what you are talking about and I am always wanting the straight up facts on stuff so please explain.

Hiya Guys

there are many states and provinces with specific laws as pertaining to selling travel. You can check to see if the business you are looking at is licensed by scrolling to the bottom of the travel websites for the CST# number.

This is just one of the states with stringent reseller laws. Please read the following and then make up your own mind how it pertains to coastal:

http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/onestop/cs/travel.html

cheers
maria

I know this is one area that P1D said they were going to "go after" Coastal about. I was given information not long after P1D started, from a P1D member, about how Coastal was breaking laws and there was supposed to be a big advertising push by P1D members about this to get CV people to come to P1D in light of this new information given to them by their attorney. I never did see any of this happen. Coastal has been opperating for years without any legal problems so I wouldn't worry about it.

Hello Harold

P1D does not work like that...going after CV or any other group.

If you have read just the FL laws the way I have read it, I don't think stating not to "worry about it" is the right approach.

At least not in the way I see it. As you well know Harold, there isn't a company named coastal vacations or even a licensed trademark or even an address for Coastal vacations or even anyone who states they are the owner, which has served us well in the past, but I am not convinced it is so good with all the changes in licensing and regulation now present.

Just pointing out what I have read that's all.
cheers
maria

Maybe "go after" wasn't a good way to put it but that was how is came across when this person graciously informed me of what was about to happen. It never did happen. At least not what she said and I haven't seen any ads or fallout from what she said the lawyer for P1D was going to do. She named a few specific CV direcotrs that were going to be targeted by this attorney but I don't think that happened either. Again, people have been saying things like this for years and nothing ever happens. No disrespect to you, Maria. I'm just stating what has been in the past.

Hello Harold

well I am glad nothing has happened, I don't want to be a predictor of doom and gloom and law suits.

I also heard that the P1D attorney did mention all the ways Coastal was non compliant. But I don't remember him saying they were going to target any specific directors in Coastal, with all due respect I think he has better things to do.

Harold it is not just coastal, there are many travel businesses that do not appear to be compliant, at least looking at their lack of published CST# licenses makes them appear so.

Personally I would rather be safe than sorry and at least warn people than to bury my head under the sand and pretend these issues do not exist.

Cheers
maria