Card mills are cyclical. They come and they go. High season always seems to bring them out of the woodwork. The bargain-hunters. The something-for-nothing crowd. And the card mills that love them.

My colleagues and I have been seeing one “agency” in particular, and have been delighting in taking apart their online ads. While it looks gorgeous from the outside - free travel, piles of money for practically zero effort - pretty much every legitimate travel agent sees these ads and rolls their eyes at the inaccuracy.

We work, you see. For every single penny we earn, we work. There are loads of things that these card mills don't tell people. Like how much our commission drops every time somebody downgrades, every time the cruise line drops…

I recently finished the fourth book written by a guy named Harry Beckwith. I enjoy this man's writing style and I easily "connect" with his messages.

His four books include: Selling The Invisible, What Customers Love, The Invisible Touch, and You, Inc. They are all good, easy-to-read, and are written around short, message-bearing vignettes with a bold, one sentence sum-up message at the conclusion of each story.

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by Elizabeth Cody
Tuesday July 21, 2015

Turkey is truly a melting pot of Eastern and Western cultures. Positioned between the Middle East and Southeastern Europe and bordering the Mediterranean Sea, the region was conquered down through the years by  various empires  including the Greeks, Romans, and Ottomans. Modern-day Turkey was established in 1923 from the wreckage of the fallen Ottoman Empire, and joined the United Nations at its founding in 1945. Today Turkey’s warm and inviting people welcome visitors to its beaches, mountains, historical sites, and all of the other attractions the country has to…