The Family of Orange Lake Resorts is proud to announce its top sales executives and sales consultants from 2007, honored this week at The House of Blues® at Downtown Disney® West Side, as part of its annual sales awards celebration.
Honorees who exceeded sales of more than 8 million dollars include Bill Charriez, Erika Kessler and Sammy Tamannai; Lake Geneva Sales Consultant of the Year Patricia Koehler, British Line Sales Consultant of the Year Alice Green, British Line First Runner-up Sales Consultant of the Year Carla Galvin, Latitudes Sales Consultant of the Year Billy Martin and Quality Assurance Officer of the Year Barbara Christian.
“We are thrilled with the exceptional sales and marketing professionals we have and their record results of $175 million gross sales year in 2007,” said Bob Albertson, Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing for The Family of Orange Lake Resorts.
“We had five sales professionals who went platinum with more than $1.5 million in net volume for action line sales and more than $1.6 million in net volume for owner line sales. “Albertson also paid tribute to Senior Vice President of Sales, John Sutherland for being one of the best sales innovators in the industry and being a driving force behind Orange Lake’s sales success.
Sutherland, a 2007 Silver ARDA Award winner, thanked individuals throughout the resort for their contributions. “Orange Lake’s sales success doesn’t happen without the support of other teams,” he said, as he thanked individuals throughout the resort.
Sutherland also presented fellow ARDA Silver Award winners, Elmira Leon and Mike Blank with Sales Consultant of the Year Awards for action line sales and front line sales, respectively.Contributing to the record-setting sales year was the grand opening of Orange Lake’s Founder’s Club in 2007. The 3,000-square foot area allows owners to upgrade their vacation through a Points-based member exchange program, GlobalAccess™.
The new facility is able to host the now doubled volume of tours. As a result of this new center, owner sales upgrades now account for 35% of the resort’s total timeshare revenue, an increase of 15% from 2006.
This two-year old initiative is over 16,000 members strong—largely a result of The Founder’s Club.The Family of Orange Lake Resorts has evolved from a best-kept secret as the world’s largest single-site timeshare resort to a multi-site resort with a growing network.
New resort additions in Wisconsin, Vermont and Florida were carefully selected and tailored for their owners, resulting in the creation of a brand new member exchange program, GlobalAccess, to facilitate reservations within the resort network.
Orange Lake’s flagship location in Orlando was established in 1982 by Holiday Inn® Founder, Kemmons Wilson.
The company plans to continue the expansion of their resort network and is actively seeking more growth opportunities to continue being the “home-away-from-home” to more than 110,000 owners from all 50 U.S. states and more than 120 countries.
For more information about The Family of Orange Lake Resorts, go to http://www.orangelake.com/ or contact Stacey Sutherland at 407.905.1914.
Top Earners At Orange Lake Resorts Celebrate Their Annual Sales Awards
A Career In Timeshare – Is It A Good Time To Start?
I regularly get e-mails these days asking me if I think it’s a good time to start a career in Timeshare and whether I think the slump in the Real estate Industry will affect the Timeshare and Holiday Club Market so I thought it would be good to address the situation this week and ask you all for your feed back through the comments section as I can only really speak about how things are in Europe and I’m sure there are a lot of people out there asking the same questions and would value all the feedback.
Below is the latest e-mail I received and Pete kindly gave me permission to include it in the debate this week
Dear Alan,
My name is Pete, I live in NY. Next week I am moving to Las Vegas. I was offered a job as OPC greeter for Tahiti Village. My background in NY has been commission sales of Home Improvements for the last 10 years. My question, if you would be so kind to answer was, I know I am a great salesman and love people but will I be able to earn an income in the industry with current state of things in the Real Estate market? Is the Timeshare Industry affected by the Real Estate market? I know when I started out in Home Improvement sales things were really tight in the beginning until you built your funnel. Moving to a new city I don’t want to end up on the street.
Thank you in advance
PKC
My brief answer to him was as follows:
Dear Pete,
Thanks for your e-mail, it's always encouraging to get feed back and know that people are reading my articles and getting something out of them.
In answer to your question, I don't think that Timeshare sales will be too affected by the slump in the Real Estate Industry as traditionally (at least here in Europe) even in past recession times people have still taken holidays.
Whilst real estate companies are closing down on a weekly basis, Timeshare developers are on the rise and investing vast sums of money into what has always been and will continue to be one of the fastest growth industries throughout the world
Of course all business suffers peaks and troughs and it will really depend on how much time and money the company you are going to work for is willing or able to put into their marketing programmes during the slumps.
I hope this has helped a little bit. I would like to do an article on my site regarding this issue and ask your permission to put your e-mail (Not your address just what you wrote) on my site with my answer as there are a lot of other people out there asking the same questions at this moment in time and I feel they could all be helped by featuring your e-mail on my site and let other people give us their feed back as well.
So let’s hear all your views on the subject, good or bad and especially any personal experiences of the ups and downs and effects of other industries affecting Timeshare sales.
Please feel free to leave any comments below or e-mail me with permission to post your e-mail on this site.
