The more aggressively you promote, more trips and money you'll earn.

According to some travel companies, it is not uncommon for a very aggressive promoter to walk away with a free trip AND a very sizeable amount of cash.

Some travel firms say their top producers earn as much as $10,000 a trip.

There is no limit to where or how you can advertise a trip to general public. The more widely you advertise your tour or pilgrimage, more trips you'll book and more cash you'll make.

To maximize your chances for success, it is advisable to announce and begin promoting your trip at least a year in advance of your departure date, so that you have plenty of time to reach enough people -- and to enable your prospects sufficient time to raise fund and schedule trip.

If you are already affiliated with a particular group such as a school, a church, or a club, it makes promoting a trip all easier as you already have easy channels of communication in place. Writing letters or emails, making phone calls, announcements at meetings or services, announcements in bulletins, etc.

If you are interested in making as much money as possible in addition to a free trip -- either for yourself or as a fundraiser, you might want to look at other ways of reaching a wider audience.

* Press releases to newspapers and other media. * Posters and flyers posted on community and church bulletin boards. * Small ads taken out in newspapers and appropriate magazines. * Posting in special interest forums on Internet * Holding public meetings and seminars.

Organizing a trip gives you rewards way beyond trip and money. In process of organizing a trip, you will also come into contact with many like-minded people you might never meet otherwise ... resulting in friendships that last a lifetime.

For many, best part of actively organizing and promoting a trip is meeting new people who have at least some common interests.

Because you are group leader, you are in a unique position to have already "broken ice"... so that when it comes time to embark on your cruise or tour, you will often be on a first name basis with everyone. This feeling of camaraderie with a large number of fellow tourists can contribute immeasurably to success of trip -- and can often lead to lifelong friendships.

So don't put off traveling just because you don't have cash.

Look through resources below for a travel company that suits you. Then get in touch with them, set a date and a destination. And start making plans to take trip of your lifetime... by helping others do same.

Bon voyage!

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Jacqueline Corbett is editor of www.thelivingweb.net . She can be reached at xenith@thelivingweb.net

Jacqueline Corbett has been researching and writing content for web pages since 1997. Marketing & Advertising of various offline products before 1997.

We talked about just taking some heli runs if sun did shine because your chances of getting to fly in heli in moderate light is better than it is in ski planes. The ski plane pilots need very clear days in order to see ever-changing landscape that they are landing on, where with a helicopter you don't need a runway to take off and land. Besides after you land in a plane you usually still have to hike up to top of your line. The drawback was that there was only one helicopter operating in town and there were six groups wanting to go out. We hoped that Men's Journal Adventure Team which was there with a group of ski racers and ski legends would go for their main objective – a peak on coast; which would mean a lot less of a cluster getting onto heli.

With original plan for some glacier plane trips into Glacier Bay National Park for split boarding and a winter camp squashed by weather, and chance to heli jaded by adventure boy team, drinking waged on and on. The locals say that you can drink it blue.

When it's good, it's great. Photo: Longnecker

Well, after nine days of drinking, sun finally shone, and we headed to heli at 33 mile for day ten, last day in Haines. Being on not so special list, we finally got out at around 4:00pm for two runs with our ultra-cool guide Jim: first was on "Deflowered" and second on "Hangover Helper" – short runs in Alaska standards, but pretty damn big anywhere else. The snow was blower, lots of new snow from eight days of precipitation and just enough cold air to keep it light and fluffy late in day. All of a sudden it was 7pm and we had to haul ass to catch ferry. Cramming all of our stuff, three of us, and Jason's dog Chewe into helicopter pilot's 1970's Subaru was a bold task, but we got it done; and off to Juneau we went to catch plane home.

After nine down days I was leaving Alaska 1 for 10. Two long powder runs in bag made for a relaxing ride to Juneau on ferry, and many daydreams longing for more on plane ride home.

Alaska is a land of adventure. You don't have to be loaded to ride high powdery peaks in Alaska; you just have to have solid backcountry knowledge, glacial travel experience, and knowledge of local mountains. Three people can catch a ride on a glacier plane (Drake Olson / Earth Center Adventures ( 907- 723-9475) at one time and depending how far you go into mountains, you can expect to pay about $300 each for roundtrip in and out. Once you're there you can explore via split board for day or camp out for as long as you like; just remember tent fever comes on a lot quicker than cabin fever!