Isn't America Great?

A few years ago, YTB was celebrating Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness eluding the authorities. But the real Lady Liberty, not the foam one that served as a channel to move $8M from YTB to the pockets of Coach and Kim, represents the American dream.


Where else but in America, can a person be a documented failure in business, and then turn that failure around, by hard work plagiarism, spelling errors, poor word choice, mis-truth, false information, and come out ahead? As I have said before, YTB was foolish enough to give the TravelPro all sorts of leeway in his non-compliance and now he is forging ahead with other opportunities armed with the contact information of most everyone in YTB.

Yes, the TravelPro will now be one of those "teach the scammers how to scam" people. You know the type--sign up for my mailing list and I will teach you how to build a downline of 100,000 people in 2 weeks. Buy this video and make yourself me rich. All built on his own personal experience failure with YTB. Yes, while the TravelPro is unabvle to get 250 in a downline, he will tell you how to get thousands. Yes, while TravelPro was unable to make Director in YTB in 6 years, he will tell you how to do it tomorrow. Yes, while TravelPro was not able to make any substantial money in YTB, he will be your guru to riches. I wonder if his new program might be called "TRUTB, The TravelPro's Method To Financial Success"?

But in all seriousness, TravelPro has professed that YTB was a good program and for him, it apparently is. He had senior directors and managers referring people to him. He is claiming to have developed the theme for this year's convention. Foolishly, they listened to him and offered him their most valuable asset--their people. And now, the TravelPro has turned his failure in YTB to success with several other opportunities including ShoppingGenie.  I wonder if he is with Narc That Car?

People will ask, why the personal attack on TravelPro? Well, while I have occasionally taken jabs at him in the past, for the most part, this blog has stayed on the issues. Unfortunately, when the TravelPro is out of things to copy or misspell, he resorts to attacks--you did see his tag cloud didn't you.  His lack of credibility, his lack of any moral scruples, and his profession of success all the while falling deeper and deeper into failure was indeed rich content for this blog. When Bush was out of office, all the late night comics bemoaned the loss of material--in a sense, that is what is happening now.

Here is the latest from TravelPro:

Remember this guy? (How could anyone forget?!)

Yes, it's the man - the myth - the legend in his own mind - Andy Cauthen!

We still keep in touch with Andy and he's doing great and sends his love. (We just talked to him a day or two ago.) We were thinking about Andy a lot this week and out of the blue, he called. (Funny how that happens - huh?)

The reason he was on our mind was due to one of the best contributions he's ever given to YTB. In our opinion Andy's greatest gift to us was his 76 Tips on Goal Setting which we not only took very seriously, but has paid off in spades for us personally.

We set goals each and every year, but Andy's suggestions and guide helped us polish our dreams and goals. Our goals became crystal clear by the time we were done. Today, we find ourselves being rewarded with an abundance of opportunities that we credit to this very exercise.

We never expected that our goals would come to fruition so quickly. Like magic - the right people - the right companies - the right products and opportunities just fell right into our laps.

It's been coming at such a rapid pace that we need to bump up our timeline and make a necessary change in our newsletter.

We're expanding and growing!

Over the last two and a half years we've studied data from this very newsletter, and we've found some interesting trends.

• One, you really like free stuff. (Duh! Like that isn't obvious even without data.)
• Two, you really like tools that help you become more business savvy.
• And Three, you're looking to promote your business in new and innovative ways.

While you'll find all the great news about YTB Travel and Zamuu like you always have, we're going to expand and break out of the current mold and offer more of what we believe will help you grow and expand as a person and a business owner.

Create new revenue streams - build better relationships with those you come in contact with - market more efficiently and effectively.

Sound good?

There is one catch and we've got to do this in order to be compliant. You'll notice logo's and trademarks of Zamuu and YTB going away very soon because this publication will no longer be YTB and ZamZuu specific. Same great information - just a little different look than you've become accustomed too.

You have entrusted us from the very beginning and we don't want to break that trust or the value we provide each and every week. It's an honor to have you as a subscriber and we want to keep you as a subscriber. Therefore, we have to make this small change.

One last thing we know about you. You've mastered change as part of YTB and ZamZuu. You're strong, determined, and resilient.

We're looking forward to adding even more value to you as a subscriber to Just Picture It Now.

You deserve it!

PS - Speaking of value...We'll have some very valuable information for you Monday morning on our blog. (A Google Alert came in this morning which uncovered a real gem!)

Yet another blow to critics who simply won't take "no" for an answer. ;-P

See you Monday on our blog!


Doug & Ronda Bauknight
AKA: TravelPro
Travel Agents / Network Marketers
YTB Travel Network

But fear not TravelPro--you were not a complete failure and you have earned a permanent spot in the Dumbasses Den.