WorldVentures and YTB Comparison

WorldVentures and YTB Comparisons

Since signing up with HubPages, and publishing my first Hub regarding WorldVentures, I have noticed a lot of Google ads on my page - most of which relate to YTB, or Your Travel Business. I would like to state some of the major differences between the two companies.

Key Distinctions*:

1. Ownership: Public vs. Private

YTB: A publicly traded company, listed on the Pink Sheets (not a stock exchange). The Pink Sheets are a quotation service that does not require companies to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or to remain current in their periodic filings. The SEC states that "companies quoted in the Pink Sheets can be among the most risky investments." YTB spiked to $18.50 then declined to its current level of $1.24.

WorldVentures: Privately held by its founders who neither need an exit strategy nor additional operating capital for growth (two common reasons to go public). By maintaining its private status, WorldVentures' number one focus is always to their Representatives and customers, not shareholders.

2. Sponsorship

YTB: Your first 3 personally sponsored Reps are called your "1st Team" (as well as the first 6 RTA product sales, so if all RTAs are also Reps, as many as 6 Reps). You earn a 50% match of the commissions earned by your personally sponsored reps. However, every rep they sponsor, and every rep they sponsor, to infinity, is also on your "1st Team" and you receive ZERO commissions or bonuses off these reps.

Also, if a rep is working on their "Power Team", it potentially creates the sponsor dilemma of either A) fully educating their prospect on the compensation plan, thus risking they hold off on sponsoring their "studs" and fill their "1st Team" with non-performers, or B) provide a vague compensation plan explanation, hoping the prospect will fill their "1st Team" with their best contacts (which yields maximum Sponsor benefit, but could ultimately undermine Sponsor-Prospect trust).

WorldVentures: It doesn't matter who introduces you to the business; if a prospect joins my team because of me, or someone thirty levels deep, any future sales that Rep generates will benefit me equally, to infinity.

3. Spillover

YTB: With YTB, "Spill-over" (when someone is placed in your team that you did not directly or indirectly enroll) never happens.

WorldVentures: Depending on the growth of your team and the pace of your "upline", "Spill-over" can and does happen.

4. Upline Support

YTB: Your sponsor earns the maximum commissions and bonuses off their "Power Team". If you are their "1st Team", they have less financial motivation to work with you. And, if they were on their sponsor's "1st Team", then their sponsor has absolutely no financial motivation to work with you. It's possible that you could be several levels removed from anyone who would have a serious vested interest in your personal success. Additionally, when you build your DreamTeam, once someone gets past your 7th Generation, you get paid ZERO on them and their efforts.

WorldVentures: It doesn't matter if I'm your direct sponsor, or you're 100 levels of sponsorship removed. Your efforts and your sales directly help my team and affect my checks equally, to infinity. It is absolutely in my best interest to help you be as successful as possible.

5. Income Growth Potential

YTB: As your organization grows in size, it has the potential to result in an increasingly large number of reps joining who have little to no impact on your checks. Someone as few as two levels down on your "1st Team" could become a big leader but you would NOT receive ANY commissions on his or her efforts. Additionally, after your DreamTeam grows past its 6th generation, you would no longer be compensated on those sales and new reps.

WorldVentures: All sales and any new reps who join your team, throughout your entire organization, count equally, to infinity.

6. Product Differentiation

YTB: Only offers an RTA program.

WorldVentures: Offers the incredible DreamTrips Membership product, a one-of-a-kind vacation club membership that is unique to the market. WorldVentures second product, the LTC program, is also unique in that it features proprietary Powersearch technology.

7. Comp Plan Type

YTB: Employs a "coding" compensation plan which can be incredibly difficult to explain, is difficult to achieve success with, and is not commonly found in newer network marketing companies.

WorldVentures: Uses a Binary Compensation Plan, the type of plan most commonly used by the most successful companies launched in the last 10-15 years including Isagenix and Synergy WorldWide, and most recently Agel and MonaVie.

8. Comp Plan Comprehension

YTB: Incredibly complex with numerous restrictions based on sponsor relationships, generations, etc. Numerous WorldVentures reps with previous experience at YTB have expressed a lack of understanding of YTB's compensation plan.

WorldVentures: Can be explained on a napkin.

*Distinctions are the opinions of WorldVentures, based on careful analysis and comparison of YTB and WorldVentures' Compensation Plans and opportunities.