by Mary Stephan
Friday April 17, 2015

Love to travel? Want to get paid to travel? Travel for free? Sounds exciting doesn’t it? Like the serpent offering Eve the apple in the Garden of Eden a lot of these offers are very tempting. Travel is sexy, travel is fun, travel is something a lot of us aspire to do. These ads hit all the right buttons--love, free and get paid. Buyer beware--If it sounds too good to be true it usually is.

I get a lot of emails and calls from people duped into these so called “agencies” and I will use the word agency loosely here. They pay hard earned money, are nickel and dimed to death with very little return on their investment.

So, what’s a person to do who really loves…

I pride myself as being an upbeat, self-motivated, make-it-happen type of guy. In fact, my business card labels me as a “Motivational Speaker”, so I must be squared away more often than not.

I am also a seasoned realist: a guy who has been around the bases more than once and who has developed the skill of spotting a creep from down the block. I am a student of the customer service game and not much gets by me. I am good!

  — Travel Research Online
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