The recent winners at this years Fractional Life Awards showed the popularity of Tuscany and Vail, with Timbers Resorts coming out as the top developer.

The first two parts of this series stressed the need for fractional sales agents to “engineer the train of thought” of their customers. Agents must control the direction of the sales dialogue and avoid becoming “sidetracked” by time-wasting issues. These issues include premature or lengthy discussions of differences between fractionals and. timeshares and the minutia of reservation policies and procedures.

A new Quick Poll from SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) today showed that 70 percent of high-net-worth individuals surveyed are users of Facebook and other social media sites.  That’s considerably more than the number of daily social media users among the general populace.  According to an August, 2010 report from the Pew Research Center, titled Older Adults and Social Media, 61 percent of Americans ages 18 and over have used a social networking site.