TrackResults 2nd Annual “Send Me on Vacation” Breast Cancer Charity Poker Tournament is coming up fast, and this year’s Pre ARDA WORLD evening event is shaping up to be even bigger and better than the first. The call to “go all in to help cancer survivors win” has rallied the support of industry-leading sponsors and supporters.

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This year marks the second running of TrackResults’s charity poker tournament servicing cancer survivors and terminal patients nationwide. TrackResults partners with Send Me On Vacation (SMOV), a 501 (c) (3) charity devoted to helping breast cancer patients and their families in order to fund all the costs associated with airfare, food, and incidentals for sending a recovering or terminal cancer patient to an amazing timeshare resort vacation:  no hooks, no cost, no catch, no problem; it’s just pure philanthropy.

This year’s VIP poker tournament will be held in Orlando at the Marriott’s World Center Resort on April 11th, the evening before the 2015 ARDA World Global timeshare event kicks off. In hopes to attract the early arrivals for ARDA, along with timeshare locals, TrackResults charity poker tournament will deliver all proceeds to SendMeOnVacation.org in order to support the survivor vacation mission. Though the event is still a month away, the support from industry-leading companies and individuals is already above last year’s numbers. 

The Poker Tournament: How’s Your Poker Face?

Approximately 200 drinking, laughing, scowling players are expected to be seated for the battle of the coveted timeshare-industry tournament. Your company reputation is on the line, so bring you’re A game. Ten players will be seated to a table, one CEO or Executive included at each. Bet minimums increase every 15 minutes until the final table of 9 players is filled. Rebuys are permitted, and prizes will be awarded for numerous milestones, such as “Best Hand of the Night”, “Every 4 of a Kind”, “Biggest Bluff” and “SPONSOR BOUNTIES!” A bounty is where you win a prize for knocking out an official, sponsored, target player.

Each sponsor will identify one “ringer” (or bull’s-eye player). If you knock out that player, you get BONUS chips, plus the pot, a prize, and bragging rights. The list of prizes include: VIP tickets to Sundance Films Festival, dinner for 4 at Rockos Tacos, 150 MPH laps on the racetrack with exotic race cars, an all-inclusive timeshare vacation with AIR, mini vacations with Air to Vegas, and an IWatch. To see a list of more prizes and all the tourney rules visit: http://trackresults2.wpengine.com/poker.

Our GOAL for 2015

TrackResults’s lofty goal for 2015 is to help fund 52 SendMeOnVacation.org  breast-cancer patients on life-changing, memorable getaways to heal their minds, their bodies, and as much as possible, their families from the toll and havoc of breast cancer, one survivor vacation every week for 52 weeks—sound familiar?

The Sponsors –

Thus far, TrackResults and SMOV have rallied the support of 17 sponsors for this year’s event including: Westgate Resorts, Travel To Go, Festiva Resorts, Advantage Travel, Generator Systems, Vida Vacations (Cancun), CondoTravelClub,  CasaBlancaExpress, VacaStayConnect & Krisma Resorts, Resort Management Services, Grand Mayan Cabo/Vida Vacations, Global Connections, SaveOnResorts, Breckenridge Grand Vacations, Unlimited Vacation Club, and SFX (San Francisco Exchange).

Individuals can register here.  http://www.eventbrite.com/e/trackresults-2nd-annual-go-all-in-to-help-cancer-survivors-win-texas-holdem-poker-tournament-registration-15881293376

Last year, we had 12 major sponsors from companies within the vacation-ownership industry,” said Sean Nickerson, CMO for TrackResults. “So the fact that we have 17 already pledged this year, and with a month to go, is exciting! We need 25 table sponsors total (only 7 more) for this event to hit the goal. This is an emotionally important event for us. Breast cancer affects so many women and families in our industry alone, as many as one in every eight women, in fact. Many of these families will know people who know people that we know. Often there is only 1 or 2 degrees of separation between you and the survivor. That’s why we’re devoted to making as much of a difference as we possibly can.”

Breast Cancer and Its Toll: It’s True—1 out of 8

Anyone who has ever experienced cancer for themselves, or has seen a loved one battle with the disease, knows of the toll it takes on individuals and their families. While cancer treatments are certainly financially burdensome, they are all the more emotionally and physically draining. One in eight, that’s the dreaded number, and it’s a staggering number to consider. With a statistical reality such as this, it’s highly likely that if you don’t already know someone affected by the disease, you will soon.

We Are Little. Cancer Is Big. But Together We Can Make A Big Difference

TrackResults knows the timeshare industry has hundreds of families that have been personally affected by breast cancer, and this is a huge reason as to why we rally to support the SendMeOnVacation.org’s critical mission. We created this fundraising event for one very important purpose: We realized that while we do not have the resources to help cure cancer, we can do a lot to contribute to healing the affected by the disease, and we can do it by using timeshare-industry patronage.

Our industry is unique, and our people move mountains all the time. This fundraiser impacts the survivor right now, today—when the victims need it most. The impact is this:  all proceeds from the poker tournament will send a breast cancer patient on a timeshare vacation THIS SAME YEAR, in 2015. These are the immediate action and results we work so hard to achieve.

$1,000 Is A Drop In The Bucket. Let’s Fill The Bucket.  

TrackResults’s annual charity poker tournament delivers all proceeds to Send Me On Vacation—providing cancer patients, a stress free opportunity to create an amazing, lasting memory to offset the pains of chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and grief.  The average survivor family receives about $1,000 – $1,200 in paid travel expenses from these fundraising events, not including all the free donated resort-developer inventory. We are honored to help SMOV change someone’s life today. So, please, join the cause with us, because even if you can’t attend, you can still help make a difference.
Click here to support the cause.

TrackResults took home another 1st place win, at the Perspective Magazine award from the 2015 GNEX conference in San Diego. This award is the company’s second “1st place” Blue ribbon title, within two years, having won 2014 Best Product Development last year, and 2015 Best Business Product this year. 

 The Perspective Magazine Awards

The Perspective Magazine Awards are held every year as a global-recognition program used to award companies in the vacation ownership industry (dominated by timeshare resorts)  for their talents, charity efforts, and innovative advancements. Along with this, the awards also recognize businesses and organizations that serve the industry—hence TrackResults’s involvement. The Perspective awards are part of the annual GNEX Conference, where leaders in the vacation-ownership space meet to network and to discuss trends and innovations in the business. This year’s awards ceremony was held in San Diego, California as part of a private event that took place aboard the USS Midway Navy aircraft carrier in San Diego Bay.

Sean Nickerson, CMO for TrackResults Software said, “Having Judges and our peers award the Best Business Product to us is indicative of what we work hard to provide: a revolutionary tool that offers revolutionary results. It’s an honor to be recognized for such, and taking home a trophy for our service to the industry for a second year running is indeed a privilege.”

Last year, TrackResults won Best Product Development, and this year’s Best Business Product award becomes a great addition to the company’s early-year successes. The Best Business Product award is geared specifically toward companies that serve the vacation ownership industry—businesses that provide valuable, behind-the-scenes assistance. The company that delivers the most innovative and supportive solution becomes the winner of this prestigious award.

TrackResults has been doing this very thing for years now, and their  revolutionary business-analytics software provides invaluable tools in an extremely competitive environment. In the end, the judges and voters found TrackResults’s worthy of another award and further recognition.

Contact TrackResults for More Information

 

We thank all our clients who voted for TrackResults in the Perspective Magazine awards for 2015. We won the Best Business Product Award.

The TrackResults team traveled to San Diego California the week of Feb 17th to attend the GNEX 2015: Timeshare Leaders Conference. Their days were spent in meetings with other industry leaders,and participating in great sessions geared towards brainstorming better ideas for our industry as a whole.

The team was presented the award for “Best Business Product” at the Perspective Magazine Awards Gala Dinner aboard the legendary USS Midway Navy aircraft carrier. The party culminated with the announcement of winners before senior-level industry executives from more than 115 companies.

The Perspective Magazine Awards program is a coveted global recognition program that uniquely combines a panel of four judges with a public online vote. Each judge represents 20 percent of each nominee’s overall score, with the public vote accounting for the remaining 20 percent and representing a 5th wildcard judge.

Winners were presented with elegant crystal trophies in 32 award categories.

TrackResults Sessions at ARDA World 2014.

Drew Reynolds RRP
Speaking Tues April 8
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Topic: Big & Little Data – Business Intelligence for Decision Making

Sean Nickerson RRP
Speaking Tues April 8 –
9 AM – 10:15 AM
Topic: Sales Technology

Send Me On VacationTrackResults : Texas Holdem Poker Tournament to Benefit Breast Cancer Survivors

Attendees of the upcoming ARDA World Convention in Las Vegas will now be able to gamble for a good cause at the TrackResults Business Intelligence “Go All In To Help Cancer Survivors WinInvitational Poker Tournament. The poker tournament will take place at the South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa at 8 p.m. the evening of Saturday, April 5, 2014, the night before timeshare and vacation industry professionals will officially convene for the ARDA World Convention. One hundred percent of the net proceeds of the poker tournament will benefit survivors through the efforts of Send Me On Vacation (SMOV).
The poker tournament will feature a total of 11 tables, with 10 of the tables being sold for a buy-in of $2,500. The playoff table, which is the “final table” level of sponsorship, is still available and up for grabs to the highest bidder who has the financial resources and desire to provide the most support.

Thus far, some of the companies that have have committed to sponsoring at “table level” in support of SMOV’s mission:  Travel To Go, Merlin Software, Westgate Resorts, Festiva Resorts, Wells Fargo, Brag Fire, Leisure Loyalty, Contact LLC, Chicago Title, and Nordis Direct. To receive a seat in the tournament, these are the sponsors who have control of the “buy-in” tickets.
Prize sponsors are still needed to support the cause with smaller donations. All prize sponsors receive press recognition, web mentions, listing on the sponsorship banners, and a seat in the tournament. Prizes will be awarded for play actions such as “Highest hand of the tournament,” “First person knocked out,” “Worst bad beat,” “Aces cracked” and raffle drawings.

for more info visit https://trackresults2.wpengine.com/poker PokerNight7

GNEX 2014 Timeshare Conference , Ritz Carlton Sarasota, from February  9-12 , 2014. http://perspectivemagazine.com/gnex

ARDA WORLD – American Resort Developers Association Annual , April 6 – 10 , Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas. http://www.arda.org/convention/


RDO5 – Resort Development Organization Annual Conference,September 18 – 20 , 2014 , London . http://www.rdoconference.org/


American Resort Development Association, ARDA Fall Conference,November 13-15, 2013 Washington DC. http://www.arda.org/fallconference/ ( Attended)

Timeshare State of the industry-June2013Park City, UT – July 2013   Timeshare Software TrackResults, known in the industry for providing instant sales and marketing analytics with insights delivered in real time, has announced its June results for Average VPG on Net sales.


Timeshare clients using TrackResults’ dashboards and analytics to aid fact-based decision-making in the sales and marketing arena report an average VPG (Volume Per Guest) of $3,383. Travel Clubs are coming in at $1,102. The figures excludes pending transactions, trade-ins, as well as any equities credits.

If you’re looking for timeshare software, timeshare reports, travel club software, timeshare analytics, timeshare sales reporting, and/or marketing business intelligence for vacation ownership, TrackResults is your team.

In a short two week period, running February 7- Feb 21 TrackResults applications exceeded an impressive One million pageviews. These are actual pageviews visited by users ( logged in , non advertising)while using the web based application across all developers and tour generators.

TrackResults analytics was accessed ( logins) approximatley 59,000 times , each entrance being a new visitor or a returning visitor with a minimum of a 30 minute lapse between the last pageload.  Approx 9% of the users logged in, and used the dashboard only, then exited. Approximately 1/2 of the views were simple changes to dateranges, or search criteria modifications.

We just thought this was cool, and wanted to boast. We hope you find it interesting too.

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How many attributes does it take to generate 3 BILLION dollars in net sales?
( all numbers are approximate, using End date Dec 31, 2012)

Choo Choo train image  Last year alone TrackResults added the following growth factors to hit the aggregate milestones below: Our clients added $920 million in sales, 1.2 million new tours, 2,927 new liners, closers , and OPC’s working in 1,702 new venues, in 208 offices on 43 new domains.


$2,905,680,000
  (3B) sales ( Dollars) volume produced using TrackResults intelligence.
5,039,238   timeshare and travel club tours manifested
82,251  report combinations available selecting only 4 of these attributes.
26,299  timeshare and vacation club professionals have been tracked
11,803  unique TrackResults users.
7,805  active industry professionals currently being analyzed for performance
6,872  mail, daydrive, and OPC marketing venues rated
659 unique sales locations & call centers accessed our manifests.
123  domains deliver TrackResults marketing intelligence

58  attributes you can isolate or combine for instant intelligence
13  TrackResults Certified Marketers. 
7
  company professionals that assist you.
1 day required to train your whole team.
.01%  tolerance for bugs, slugs, lame ass reporting, and complacency.
ZERO ! The number of industry companies with our analytics capability. 

and a Partridge in a Peartree.
Happy New Year to the Timeshare Industry.
… Complacency : self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of deficiencies