Investigate the Competition

Before you open an incentive travel business in your area, it's essential to see how strong the competition is. We've provided the link below to help you find competitors in your city. After clicking on the link, type in your city, state and zip code to get a list of incentive travel businesses near you.

• Locate Incentive Travel Businesses Near You

It's important to be aware of what the competition is doing. Take the time to visit the competition to properly assess their strengths and weaknesses.

A Good Source of Advice

After you've evaluated your local competitors, it's a smart move to learn from folks who are already in business. If you think your local competitors will give you advice, you're being overoptimistic. Why would they want to educate a future competitor?

But, a person who owns an incentive travel business in a different city may be more than happy to give you a few tips, once they realize that you are not going to directly compete with them in their community. In fact, they are often very willing to share startup advice with you. It can take a while to find an entrepreneur who is willing to talk, but it's well worth the effort.

Where do you find an incentive travel business entrepreneur outside of your area who is willing to talk?

It's not that hard. Just use the handy link below and enter in a random city/state or zipcode.

• Search for Incentive Travel Business Owners

Don't Rule Out Franchising

Recognize that your chances of doing well with your venture immediately improve when you join the ranks of franchisees in lieu of doing everything yourself.

Before starting an incentive travel business, it's worthwhile to check out whether franchise opportunities in your space might be the right move for you.

The link below gives you access to our franchise directory so you can see if there's a franchise opportunity for you. You might even find something that points you in a completely different direction.

• Franchise Companies