In your life as a travel agent, are you satisfied with your 💵 take-home pay?  Or do you wish you were making more money?  🧞 💲  Full disclosure, I’ve never met anyone who has told me they didn’t wish they were making more money.  Even if money isn’t your end-all,...

Spring is here!  (Well, it’s here according to the calendar anyway.  It still feels pretty dang wintry 🥶 in a lot of places right now.)  🌞 And as we all know, Spring is a time when we focus on refreshing, renewal, and rebirth.  🐣  Flowers 🌻 begin to 🌷 bloom again, ice...

If you’re beginning a travel business, you are probably super excited about the amazing perks that come with the territory - fantasy trips ✈️ to exotic locations (for research purposes, of course), being your own boss, living the “laptop life,” working on the beach 🏖️...

When you’re a solo travel agent, you’re 🤹 juggling a lot of responsibilities.  You’re making sales, marketing your business, wooing clients, researching great deals you can pass along…  It’s a lot of work, but at least you get the 💲 rewards all for yourself, too.  ...

For new travel agents just starting out in the business, or even folks who have been travel agents for some time, marketing their business can be intimidating and 🫣 scary.  After all, almost nobody goes out to get a 🎓 degree in marketing from Harvard before they start...

As it is February, the month centered around 💕 Valentine’s Day, I am focusing on things I love when it comes to the travel business.  And I love perks.  🥰   Perks, those little extra benefits you get from certain activities or memberships you’re involved in.  Those...

When I say the phrase, “team building,” what comes to mind?  If you have spent any time in the 🏢 corporate world, that probably brings to mind birthday lunches with your co-workers, trust falls, and all sorts of “mandatory fun.”  🎂 🎳 🍕  If you’re working in close...

Waaaay back in the day there used to be this commercial where these guys were eating at a busy restaurant and talking about stock tips. 📈 One guy says, “my stock guy says we should buy that stock” and the other guy says, “well, my broker is EF Hutton, and EF Hutton...

If I had a magic lamp that came complete with a wise-cracking blue genie 🧞 and all that, you know what I would wish for?  Well, first I’d try the “wish for infinite wishes” thing.  It’s worth a shot.  ♾️ 🤞  But after the genie and I had cleared up that scenario, I...

The biggest thing that 99.9% of all travel agents have in common is, naturally, a love of travel.  It’s what gets most of us into the travel business in the first place, and it’s what makes the work we do not feel a whole lot like work.  It’s even what we do when...