How to Make More Money as a Travel Agent

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,...

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New Wanderlust Campus Revealed

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...

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How Do Travel Agents Make Money?

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 🏖️...

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Is Building a Team Right for You?

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.  ...

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Travel Agent Marketing Tips I Love

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...

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Travel Agent Perks I Love

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...

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Travel Agency Team Building Tips I Love

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...

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3 Critical Things 7-Figure Travel Agents Do

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...

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The Pros & Cons of Being a Travel Agent in 2023

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...

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Do Travel Agents Really Get Free Travel?

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...

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