| I have been a professional timeshare-rep for more | | | | and working from a beautiful Resort. |
| than 5 years now. Never have I experienced what | | | | But this is the problem: |
| we are experiencing right now. The irony is this: Our | | | | You have no idea, how many top-closers there are |
| resort is breaking every record. Hard to believe, | | | | down here. There sure are enough tours for |
| right? We know that in the U.S. Vacation Ownership | | | | everyone most of the time (there are about 160 |
| Sales-reps are moaning and groaning and suspecting, | | | | reps working here). However, because management |
| the world is coming to an end. Yes, word travels | | | | knows about the "bubble-status" we have down |
| fast. And by the way,my company is in Mexico. But | | | | here, they also understand: they have the power. |
| this article has still been written with you in mind. | | | | Staff can't go anywhere, because: where to? |
| The success the company is experiencing is for a | | | | Basically, it's a love-line. People down here who used |
| variety of reasons. | | | | to make 6 Figures, have to sell their cars. The ones |
| New products, higher price-points, and a company | | | | in bed with management make 30K a month. I know |
| that has a marketing-machine working on it's behalf. | | | | this might be a bit hard to believe from where you're |
| So is that a good thing? Hardly. | | | | reading, but it's true. But don't come down here.....the |
| Let me explain... | | | | best spots are taken. 80 percent of us suffer just |
| Things have changed down here in beautiful Mexico. | | | | like you do. We are as trapped, as we used to be |
| This used to be our bubble. We have our own | | | | when we still lived in our respective countries. Just |
| economy. Real-estate goes upno matter what | | | | that there are palm-trees outside. |
| happens in other parts of the world. Swine-flue will | | | | The solution for myself? |
| just be a temporary bump in the road. Tourism still | | | | I have only about a year ago opened other venues |
| goes super-strong down here. | | | | for myself. It's only a coincidence that my new |
| But it's only one company dominating the market and | | | | business deals with vacations also. Back then, I had |
| you basically can't work anywhere else anymore. And | | | | no idea about a bad economy coming up. Imagine |
| this company's rules have just changed.... | | | | you had a vacation-product that would only cost 3K, |
| What happened to our bubble, our niche? I used to | | | | that it really (really really) offered superior value and |
| be proud of making good money, simply because I | | | | that you made 1K commission for every sale online. |
| dared what nobody else dared. Leaving it all behind, | | | | Could you sell it? Would you want to? |