Volume 9

Travelers Motor Club Entrepreneurs Creed: “If I have to have a job . . . I demand that I be the Employer”

At Travelers You are Building to Own Under the TMC Brand.

Weekly

Highlights

The flight was great and at least half

of us got there on time!

Upon arrival we were taken to our

motel suites and checked into the Hyatt

Place where we were welcomed by a

beautiful welcome basket filled with

chips, salsas, Chex-mix, a nice variety of candies and a

personal card signed by all the TMC staff and owners.

We then went to the corporate office where we re-

ceived a personal tour. The Home Office was more

beautiful than what we imagined. Then we received a

welcome snack of chips, salsa, and some of Norma’s

delicious homemade bean dip. YUM

Yummmmmmmm. Then we went to dinner at a

placed called the Elephant Bar - everything was succu-

lent.

After our meal (which was Goooooood!) we had a

surprise. With very little notice we were pleasantly

surprised with tickets to the Oklahoma City Thunder

and New Orleans Hornets NBA game. We had the 1st

seats available in the coliseum and had an awesome

view.

AND THIS CONCLUDED OUR 1ST DAY - Unreal

thanks to everyone at TMC!

Day 2 We started day 2 with a great breakfast joined by

both Mark and Gene at our motel, and then journeyed

back to the Home Office to start our TMC University

Training.

It started off in the Board /Conference room with a

great opening/Welcome by Ricki, followed with a

great motivational speech from our very own Gene

Hammond. Some of the most memorable parts of the

message were; “Take just one second of every

minute of every hour of every day to think about what

you want to do or accomplish in life; it has been

proven that this will help you to be successful in any

and every venture of your life”. “Every choice has a

life of its own; the choices that you make will

determine your outcome and you cannot go back and

change those choices once made.”

Gene also made mention of his vision for Travelers

Motor Club, that he would “like to keep the company

TMCU - The Trip . . . small and always family oriented, never

forgetting that it is our principles, morals,

and values that makes a company great.”

This is one of the many things that

convinced us that this is the company we want to retire

with.

We then received hands on training and tutoring from

each of the various department heads of the TMC staff

where they fielded multiple questions via sales force,

our customer base, adding members to existing member-

ships, retaining customers, setting up new mem-

bers, scheduling trips, scheduling, reviewing, and paying

claims, payroll, newsletters, providing legal services,

etc, etc, and the great multitude of other functions being

performed on our behalf. We would like to take a little

time to thank each of you for caring so much for our

sales team.

So “Thank You” Ricki, Norma, Manuel, Janice, and

Debbie.

Then we had a very nice catered in lunch at TMC’s

Home Office and once again excellent foooood.

After lunch we continued on to complete our training

for the day. This day gave us a totally new appreciation

and respect for all the work that is done for us behind

the scenes.

Around 5 o’clock we were escorted to a very nice

restaurant called the Paseo Grill, where we were joined

by the staff and their spouses and friend, as well as Mark

and Gene. We enjoyed great food, great conversation,

and had a barrel of fun, jokes, stories, laughter accompa-

nied with great conversation.

The meal started with appetizers, drinks, and then

some of the best steak, shrimp, meatloaf, mashed

potatoes, fried green beans and vegetable salad. For

dessert we had something called Chocolate Pyramid and

some of the best bread pudding we’ve ever had. The

restaurant then served a complimentary desert of fresh

berries, and real whipped cream. This was the best

dinner and dessert of all time.

We would like to take this time to thank both Gene

and Mark for such a great day.

Day 3

January 25-27,2012

We started off the day with breakfast at our motel

followed by a visit to Oklahoma City’s Alfred

P. Murrah Federal Building Memorial & Museum.

Most of us were around on April 19, 1995 - which

was the day this tragedy took place and from various

parts of the country when we learned of this catas-

trophe, via the television, radio, newspaper, or just

word of mouth. Truly a mind adjustment, a shock to

one’s awareness to be onsite and to learn first-hand

from the survivors, all the various different rescue

teams, the media, as well all the International atten-

tion that was given to this attack, the events that

took place that day and lives lost.

At 9:03 am, the bombing took place, claiming 168

lives. A totally different perspective to be at ground

Zero.

Then it was back to TMC for lunch and some of

the best homemade Hispanic food and sauce we’ve

ever had the pleasure to taste. Kent Frates, one of the

founders of TMC, joined us for lunch and shared

some of the early days with TMC. A look into the

history books from one of the writers of this history.

Mark said, “ We need to keep our business small,

family oriented, grow the business to 20 or 30 good part-

ners, to about 5 million a year and everyone will be hap-

py, always remembering we need to always help every-

one that is in the picture.”

Once you reach the partnership level with TMC;

which would be like going through college and receiving

your Bachelors, then Masters and then on to obtaining

your Doctorate. This is when the real work begins and

the real money is made.

After lunch we received our Graduation Certificates

and parting gifts from TMC University, and from our

support staff, our Team, our better halves.

Back to the airport and our return back to our

families. What a gift

Twins

Arnold/Danny DeVito

My brother from a different mother. FAMILY

It’s Showtime!

~ Robert Hicks & Jim Knight

Robert and his new

best friend

Gene shares the TMC

philosophy

Lunch!

Norma explains

payroll

processing

Go Thunder!

Manuel

discussing

financials

Ask Robert

about his

new

“cheaters”! Jim

processing

a claim

Dinner! Manuel, friend Daisy, Mark G, Mark, Robert,

Jim, Gene Ricki, Norma, Ignacio

Bread

Pudding!

Survivor tree and Ranger at the Memorial

Independent

Contractor

Convention Bonus

This is a bonus for all

Independent Contractors

that plan to attend the

2012

Convention in

Nebraska City, NE.

Earn $10.00 toward the

convention cost for you &

your spouse for every

member you enroll - simply

have weekly production

starting week ending

January 25, 2012.

Come join the

excitement at the

convention!

The following Participating Partners excelled in their contribution to the success of Travelers Motor Club

for the week ending 2/1/2012

Office News

Thank you, Robert and

Jim, for visiting the

Home Office!

PLEASE NOTE!!!!

The Home Office will be

closed Thursday,

February 16, 2012.

The Post Office will be

closed. Monday,

February 20, 2012.

for President’s Day

Rodney Tweed

Ronnie Murray

21 Members

Bill Ragland

34 Members

Phil Huggins Shaun VanOort Carey Zwahr

TMCU Graduates

James Knight and Robert Hicks

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

2011 Convention Contest

Burn it Up!

Qualify for the

2011 Convention Contest (goes through week ending March 7, 2012 ! )

Have a total of 50 primary (master) members during the contest period and share

in a $2,011 prize pool.

Shaun VanOort

33 Ronnie Murray

36

Bill Ragland

36

Randy Hauger

23

Terrell Simonson

17

Robert Hicks

16

BJ Puttergill

25

Dan Hyder

15

Carey Zwahr

12

Jim Knight

12

Still tim

e to qualify

!

Don’t go down in flames!

TMC Mentoring Contest….

A great start to earning your way to the

Niagara Falls Elite Retreat

in September 2012!

The prize -

$1,000.00

Contest period:

First quarter of 2012

(ends week ending March 28, 2012)

Rules:

Prize will be awarded to the mentor that has a new

recruit with the most total members over 20. New

recruit must be hired during the contest period.

Contest is open to all participating partners!!

Good News!

To assist you in the hiring and mentoring process, the Home Office has prepared a

packet of information for you and your new recruit. It contains all the forms you

will need and some additional helpful information.

Just call the Home Office when you have a prospect that has been approved by

your manager and we will get you the packet for your new recruit!