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		<title>2010 Product in Review &#8211; Our Travel and Exclusive &#8220;LifeTime Travel Book&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free nights in a top hotel. Free airfare. A free ocean cruise. A free Caribbean vacation. If you told your customers that you would give them their choice of one of these free travel offers &#8211; would that help you close a sale?
For just pennies on the dollar, you can give your customers one of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Free nights in a top hotel. Free airfare. A free ocean cruise. A free Caribbean vacation. If you told your customers that you would give them their choice of one of these free travel offers &#8211; would that help you close a sale?</p>
<p>For just pennies on the dollar, you can give your customers one of these free travel offers for just making a purchase, renewing their membership, referring a friend, or joining or your mailing list. How about enticing your customers to make a larger purchase by giving them not just one, but twenty of the most popular vacation destinations, which have been jammed-packed in our Lifetime Travel Book.   An incredible $15,000 in value!</p>
<p>Or if you prefer, we&#8217;ll customize a travel offer just for you!</p>
<h3><strong><a title="Fun Planet Travel Site" href="http://fundraisingandtravel.com/" target="_blank">LifeTime Travel Book: </a></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">The LifeTime Travel Book is truly an amazing product. It is made up of 20 of the most popular travel offers. These travel offers never expire so the customer can take a trip every year for the rest of their life and never have to worry about the trips not being valid or the fees going up.</p>
<p>To redeem, the customer simply goes to www.LifeTimeTravelBook.com. Once on the site, they click the button called &#8220;Click Here To Register Now.&#8221; They will then enter their serial number and click &#8220;Continue.&#8221; From here, all they have to do is choose the travel offer they are interested in and then proceed to redeem that offer.</p>
<p>Please note that the Travel Incentive Program is built on upgrades. So in some instances, a customer may only pay taxes or boarding fees or some registration fees which is far cheaper then getting the whole trip and paying for it. But the company makes its money by booking each reservation over the phone and trying to then upgrade the customer from a two night stay to a four night stay or from an inside cruise cabin to a cabin with a view, from coach airfare to business class or from a standard vacation from one that includes car rentals, excursions, etc.</p>
<p>To learn about our travel partner please visit <a href="www.ClaimYourFunPlanetVacations.com" target="_blank">www.ClaimYourFunPlanetVacations.com</a> and click on the testimonial button. There you will find 20 or so testimonials regarding the company and their travel program.</p>
<p>Travel has been around forever but there has never been a LifeTime Travel Book. The travel company, is really a travel agency that redeems the products in the LifeTime Travel book. An amazing statistic is that only 3% of the travel offers are redeemed exactly as offered. The other 97% choose some form of an upgrade &#8211; and that is how a travel company makes its money.</p>
<p>In the very near future our LifeTime Travel Book will be offered as a Fundraising opportunity for Non-Profits.</p>
<p>Only the Best,</p>
<p>Michael Goulet &#8211; Team Leader<br />
Direct Strategies, Inc. &#8211; &#8220;The Incentive Pros!&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com" target="_blank">http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com</a><br />
michaelg@freegrocerycenters.com</p>
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		<title>Where Do Fr*ee Gas and Grocery Incentives Come from?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, free gas and grocery certificates are one of the most successful incentives in the marketing world.  Such incentives can increase sales up to 30%, making it one of the highest rates of return on investment.  For some, however, this may seem completely illogical.  If a customer buys $500 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Believe it or not, free gas and grocery certificates are one of the most successful incentives in the marketing world.  Such incentives can increase sales up to 30%, making it one of the highest rates of return on investment.  For some, however, this may seem completely illogical.  <strong><a href="http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com/main/faq_advertisers" target="_blank">If a customer buys $500 worth of my merchandise, and in exchange I give them a certificate for $500 worth of free gas, how could I possibly make a profit?</a></strong></p>
<p>The simple answer is that a $500 free gas certificate does not cost you, the retailer, $500.  Instead, you buy the certificates in bulk at a greatly discounted rate, just pennies to the dollar (and the more you buy at once, the lower the cost per certificate).  Therefore, the comparatively small cost of the certificate justifies itself by encouraging a customer to make a large purchase they might not otherwise have made.</p>
<p>Okay, that makes sense, you might say.  But doesn&#8217;t that mean that someone, somewhere, is losing money.  The answer to that question is yes… and no.  It&#8217;s complicated.  The goal of this article is to explain that complicated system to you, so that you understand how everyone involved benefits from free gas and grocery incentives.</p>
<p>Free gas and grocery incentives are underwritten by fuel and food companies as part of a strategy to generate guaranteed repeat sales, regular customers, and brand loyalty.  They see the free gas or groceries not as a giveaway, but as an investment in creating a loyal customer from whom they will make much more that $500 over the course of their lifetime.<br />
<strong><br />
<a href="http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com/main/faq_cert_holders" target="_blank">You see, in order to use the certificate for free gas or groceries, the customer has to select one grocery store or gas station where they can redeem their free goods.</a></strong> And they don&#8217;t get, for example, $500 worth of free gas all at once—they get it gradually over several months.  Rather, they purchase gas and groceries as usual, and at the end of each month they mail their receipts for the gas or groceries along with a redemption coupon to the redemption company.  If they spent at least $100 dollars on gas or groceries that month at the store they previously selected, then the redemption company send them a gift certificate for $25 at the store they selected.  This continued every month until the customer has redeemed the full value of their free gas or grocery certificate value.</p>
<p>So, although a gas company may be giving away, for example, $500 worth of free gas, they are guaranteed at least $2000 worth of sales from that customer, for a net return of $1500.  Furthermore, they have this customer&#8217;s loyalty for a period of months or even years.  For example, for a customer to redeem the full value of a $500 free gas card, they&#8217;d have to fill up at the same gas station for 20 months ($500 divided by $25 per month = 20 months).  Besides, once the free gas certificate runs out, the customer will probably still shop at the same gas station or grocery store anyway—stuff like that becomes habit forming after several months.</p>
<p>So the grocery and gas companies get guaranteed sales, the redemption companies that sell the certificates get paid for their services, retailers like you make more sales, and the customer gets free stuff.  It&#8217;s a win-win situation all around.  Or, more specifically, a win-win-win-win situation.</p>
<p>Michael Goulet<br />
Free Fuel Nationwide Team Leader<br />
<strong><a href="http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com" target="_blank">http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com</a></strong><br />
w-612-235-6372<br />
Fax-480-304-9095<br />
michaelg@freegrocerycenters.com</p>
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