I want to say here that if you are already involved in the Travel Industry field and are a seasoned marketer, you might do very well with Coastal Vacations, however, if you are a new comer to Internet Marketing, you might find that selling this package will be like selling ice to an Eskimo.
Coastal Vacations is located in Kissimmee, Florida and was founded by a successful entrepreneur by the name of Fred Combs. Combs clearly realized the upward growth of the Travel and Leisure Industry, seized the day, and created this travel-based company that offers vacations at reduced rates.
Here are three issues that should be of importance to anyone considering joining the Coastal Vacations opportunity.
#1. Sponsor Support – With any Online Marketing Business, your first two sales are with out a doubt the hardest to get. Coastal Vacations is a 2-Up system, which means that your first two sales, a total of $2000, will bypass you and go right to your sponsor. With Coastal, I found there to be no compensation plan in place to make sure that your sponsor stands by their new member. With no monetary incentive in place for them to keep helping you, they most assuredly will receive their $2,000 and be off to find the next person to give them 2 qualified sales, leaving you are flat out of luck my friend.
#2: Enrollment Fees: What's so nice is that Coastal Vacations offers three different payment levels of service. Domestic and International travel options are available with the 3 packages and you can earn $1000 - $9705 per sale. The packages Level #1 costs $1295, then the enrollment fees go all the way up to $11,000 and this $11,000 fee includes Levels 1, 2 and 3.
#3. Customer Service: Here's the deal, if a Coastal Vacations travel member has a problem, you the Rep/Agent, will be the one handling the problem call, period. There aren't any particularly good reports that I could find about Coastal Vacations customer support system. I don't know about you, but I have much better things to do with my time than handle customer service issues.
In Closing, I believe that only highly skilled Marketers with Coastal Vacations will succeed because there isn't an incentive in place for sponsors to teach and help the new members once they receive the $2000 from you. While a few do make some money, the majority are either off to the next home based business opportunity or back to focus on their J.O.B. It is so important, with any Internet Marketing Program, that you decide on, that you have a sponsor that will teach you the ropes and stand by you. In considering any online opportunity it is a good idea to check with The BBB and other government agencies because they have lists of Coastal Vacations Scams and other home based bussinesses you might be considering.