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Sunday, September 07, 2008

Joystar Benefits Overview
 

Double Your Income

With Joystar, you will enjoy the most lucrative and highly rewarding compensation in the travel industry. Included in your compensation plan is a Stock Option Plan and access to a 401k for Retirement Planning.

Our "Key Account" status with the Biggest Names in the Travel Industry. View our list of preferred suppliers and ultra high commission levels!


Blow Away the Competition

Within minutes of joining Joystar, you will have a world-class presence on the Internet empowering you to successfully compete with the biggest online agencies.

Your Private Label Website is powered with a collection of best-of-breed technology companies including Revelex, Amadeus and other leading content providers. Your prospects and clients will enjoy real time access and booking capabilities from 20 cruise lines, 51,000 hotel properties, 45 car rental companies, 490 airlines as well as a database of over 80,000 special vacation offers.



Create Loyal Clients

Our comprehensive marketing system helps you create client loyalty as well as build a steady stream of new  customers. Many of our campaigns will be funded through co-op advertising paid for by our preferred suppliers. By participating in our direct marketing programs you will be able to dramatically increase sales, loyalty, and best of all, profits.

Twice a week, we will send you tailor-made travel specials via email that you can customize with a personal message and forward to an unlimited amount of clients and prospects. These emails include your agency's name, address, phone number, email address and logo.


Your One Stop Business Resource

myJoystar helps you research, proactively market, plan and execute the sale of high-margin complex itineraries. Here, you’ll find:

  • Preferred travel supplier details,
  • Timely travel promotions,
  • A complete suite of booking engines;
  • Robust CRM and accounting databases;
  • State-of-art electronic marketing tools;
  • Sales training and travel educational tutorials;
  • Headline news and video/audio archives;
  • Community bulletin board;
  • CEO blog
  • And much more.

Knowledge is Power

How do you distinguish yourself from the competitor? One way is to advance your professional knowledge through curriculum offered by the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA), Cruise Line International Association (CLIA) and The Travel Institute. Joystar pulls these offerings together and more through our Knowledge Center.

Featured within the Knowledge Center is Joystar University – an online campus that delivers "on demand" travel education programs that allow you to study at your convenience. Travel industry experts have created exciting courses and interactive lessons to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in the exciting world of travel.


Total Marketing Support

As a business owner, few things will be as important to your success as ensuring your business' growth through effective marketing and advertising. And that's just what our Marketing Center is designed to help you do. Within this dedicated resource, you’ll find detailed profiles of our preferred suppliers; marketing and sales letter templates; and link to a variety of travel partners that can help you with lead generation, e-brochures, consumer flyers, clients gift offers and more.


The Best Booking Tools for Your Needs

One thing we’ve learned hosting thousands of travel agents- including 20 year veterans who book millions of dollars annually as well as entrepreneurs just starting out- is that no two agents are alike. You have different needs, desires, and business strategies. With Joystar, you’ll have a variety of ways to sell and book travel. Our philosophy is simple: If you’ve been in this business for a while and are comfortable with your methodology, we don’t ask you to change the way you are currently doing business. If you prefer to call the supplier to complete your transactions, please continue to do so. On the other hand, if you’d like to automate your research, planning and purchasing of client’s vacation plan, you’ve also made the right choice.


Conference Calls

Joystar members rave about our hosted weekly conference calls.  They are a great way to interact with Joystar’s staff of travel experts as well as top executives and representatives of our preferred cruise line and vacation / tour operator partners. The calls begin at 11:00 AM Pacific Time and last approximately 30 to 45 minutes. If you cannot attend a conference call, archived recordings for all sessions can be found in our Listen-On-Demand Library.

Monday – New Member Orientation
Tuesday – Technology Training
Wednesday – Vacation & Tour Sales Training
Thursday – Advanced Cruise Sales Training
Friday – Email Marketing via the AgentPort System


Communications Program

One thing that sets us apart from other hosts is our absolute commitment to communication with our members. You’ll benefit from receiving Joystar’s industry news; preferred supplier product promotions; operational and technical updates; training and FAM opportunities; and more so that you can focus on creating client loyalty and promoting travel.

Joystar also produces a sales & marketing newsletter recapping the most important information of the week so that you’ll never have to worry about missing that all important communiqué everyone is talking about.



Community / CEO Blog

Joystar has decided to publicize the Company's inner workings. We believe in truth in marketing and adhere to high moral standards and business ethics. What better way to prove it than to show you exactly how we're going about our daily business.

Our Community bulletin board is a great resource for members to help other members. Discussions are informative and well worth contributing to if you want to actively engage yourself within our extended network of travel professionals. Investors and our preferred suppliers are also welcome to the Joystar Community.


Product & Sales Training

Staying up-to-date on product knowledge and know how to close a sales are two critical elements to your success. Joystar understands the value of product and sales training and presents abundant opportunities for you to gain proficiency with each. Besides our weekly conference calls; online travel campus – Joystar University; membership in ASTA, CLIA and The Travel Institute – members and affiliates will be able to attend seminars-at-sea, ship inspection weekends as well as Joystar sponsored conferences.

 

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I started with Joystar after a seminar with Larry Norman at Cruisefest in Miami . I was really hesitant to leave my comfort zone of the host agency that 'trained' me. I'm 'smalltime' so I wasn't sure Joystar would want me. I started by setting up my website - how big time I felt with that. I now have an interactive website with my name and picture that can compete with Travelocity or Expedia! …If there's a downside to going with Joystar, I haven't found it yet.

Barbara Schuler
- now a truly independent agent!

They have proved to me to be professional and helpful. I would like to say that I switched to Joystar because of the high commissions. I now say that it is more than just the high commissions that keep me here. With Joystar, I now am making 90%.I like the booking notification process. It is a "back-up" to each booking made and is great for record keeping of all my bookings. So far commissions have been prompt. I always get a friendly "smile" on the phone when I call about any issue. I am referred to the proper person with the most knowledge in that particular area. It has been a very pleasant experience. My only criticism is the website. I don't feel comfortable referring clients to the website. I feel it needs to be more user friendly. It is hard to navigate in the cruise department… Maybe modeling it after a successful companies’ website would be a good idea. I hate to be critical, but I think hearing about the shortcomings of the website will only make Joystar better. I love the people at Joystar. Danielle, Emily, Leslie and everyone I have spoken to at one time or another has always answered my inquiries and have given me the answers I need. My emails are always promptly answered. Please feel free to edit out the criticism of the website. I just want Joystar to hear about it so it will help to improve on it.

Thanks Joystar!

Robin Vitulle
Ship to Shore Vacations

I switched Host Agencies for higher commission originally, but then I "met" the staff at Joystar, and stayed for the "family" atmosphere …

Dava Thompson
Dava's Travel

I am an industry veteran of over 30 years and now have decided to operate a home-based travel business and I am very glad I signed on with Joystar. I researched many other hosts before deciding to join Joystar and most want a lot of your revenue for no contribution or support at all. With Joystar, I can get a great commission structure and great support.

Francine Verronneau
Grand Explorer

I've been in the business for 4 years and during that time have had 2 different host agencies although the commission was great the service was horrendous the lack of communication and mistakes have cost me dearly causing a lot of frustration, time and effort that could be used for travel sales.

I became a part of Joystar's success oriented community, immediately my website was set up, I was granted access to the Agent's area, my log ins were e-mailed to me and I received more support and communication than I had received in 3 years with my previous host.

I'm certain I made the right decision in Joining and am truly excited to be part of this successful growing community.

Mandy D Ferreira
Royalty service & Travel

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