
How to Make More Money as a Travel Agent
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,...

New Wanderlust Campus Revealed
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...

How Do Travel Agents Make Money?
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 🏖️...

Is Building a Team Right for You?
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. ...

Travel Agent Marketing Tips I Love
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...

Travel Agent Perks I Love
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...

Travel Agency Team Building Tips I Love
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...

3 Critical Things 7-Figure Travel Agents Do
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...

The Pros & Cons of Being a Travel Agent in 2023
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...

Do Travel Agents Really Get Free Travel?
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...