Category — wineries

This is a shameless plug for Ytb Travel Network and Ytb, International, the parent company of my travel company, and 26th largest travel company in the world. These photos are of me and the Syracuse contingent at the recently attended Ytb, Inc. International Convention in St. Louis.

So, here’s my story: A few months ago, I had been thinking of setting up trips for my wine drinking customers to visit wineries all over the world, but hadn’t a clue how to get started. A month or two later, I’m serving wine at the farmers market and need water to wipe up some spilled wine. Nearby there was a guy at a table with lots of plastic water bottles at his display. I went over to him and he said, “how would you like to get paid to travel and have that money go back into your business”? That was all I needed to hear. Several weeks later I joined Ytb Inc, and started Lakeland Travel Club. You can see it at www.lakelandtravelclub.com.

In a nut shell, I get paid to do what I love doing…travel. And, you can too! Just visit my website; watch the video; sign up to become a member of Ytb and begin working at the most exciting and potentially rewarding business you’ve ever owned. Make money from commissions paid by airlines, hotels and car rental agencies when people book travel on your website. It’s not easy, but what is? You have to work it, like any job. Tell people your reason for joining. Everyone has their own story. What’s yours?

Want to know more? Call me at (315)572-4763 and reserve 30 minutes of your time to find out more.

Andy

I was driving to an Engineering job on Kayuka Lake last week when I came across these gentlemen harvesting their grapes, which would be sold to Welches for grape juice. They were delicious tasting.

I asked if I could ride along…”no problem”. “So that’s how they do it. The plastic paddles shake the grapes off the vines and a conveyor belt catches them and dumps them partially crushed into a hamper.

Photo by joey norsen.

Stumbled across a study from last year, which points out that the New York wine industry is one of the fastest growing in the 50 states.

With more and more Personalized Winemakers and wholesale customers every day, is it just a coincidence that our winery is growing? Maybe—but we’re definitely working pretty hard to make it happen!

The Northeast also consumes the most wine:

Respondents from the Northeast region exhibit the highest incidence of drinking wine, followed by respondents from the West region. Three—New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey—out of the top ten
wine-consuming states (Adams Beverage Group) are in the Northeast region. Additionally, the New York wine industry is one of the fastest growing in the U.S. (Mintel/Simmons Spring 2006 National Consumer Survey)

I’ll have to dig through this study further to find more interesting tidbits…