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Navigating the Path to Becoming a Travel Advisor in 2024
Explore some of the ways to becoming a travel advisor in 2024 along with the pitfalls to look out for, and the resources we have at Wanderlust Campus to help you navigate this tricky path. Hey there, travel enthusiasts! Do you find yourself looking ahead to the...
30th Anniversary: Honoring Cyndi's Mentors
I’m celebrating 30 years in the travel industry, and I’m really having fun strolling down memory lane. I can’t help but 😃 grin when I think back at all the things I’ve done, the places I’ve been, and the people I’ve met along the way. Speaking of people I’ve met along...
Big Reveal: 2023 Holiday Gift Guide for Travel Lovers
Sing it with me now! 🎵 Notebooks and planners and magnet phone holders Tripods and t-shirts and scarves for your shoulders Holiday headbands and Christmas earrings These are a few of my favorite things! 🎵 Yes, it’s that fabulous time again where we start loading up...
Tricks & Treats in the Travel Industry
You should be seeing this a couple of days after Halloween, so I want you to think way back to the big day itself. Did you have a fun time? Did you take the kids trick-or-treating? Did you go trick-or-treating yourself? (Hey, no judgment here.) These days, when the...
Carve Out The PERFECT Travel Business
Right now you may be looking at your upcoming 📆 calendar and thinking, “here we go again.” After months with relatively little to fill in all the days, that’s about to change. 🎃 Halloween. Then 🦃 Thanksgiving. Then a mad dash through the gauntlet of December 🎄 holiday...
Don't Be Scared of Marketing!
We’re smack dab in the middle of “Spooky Season!” That means everywhere you look, everything is decorated with 🎃 jack o’ lanterns, 👻 ghosts, 🕸️ cobwebs, and gravestones. And the only thing scarier than spending $300 on a 12-foot-tall plastic skeleton for your yard...
Cyndi's 30th Anniversary Panel Interview
At the risk of tooting my own horn… 🎺 Happy 30th anniversary to me!!! 🥳 🎉 🍾 Yes, 30 short years ago, I began my journey in the travel industry. From starting out as a travel agent in the 🏢 corporate world, to going independent, to creating my own business and 🏫 travel...
The Best Travel Agent Course For New Agents
I’ve been in the travel business for 30 years - 30 years! - so I have a ton of experience and knowledge that has built up over all that 🕰️ time. All that accumulated wisdom makes me feel very confident in every aspect of working in travel and helping others to do the...
How To Be An Independent Travel Agent
It’s time to start the career of your dreams as a travel agent! Get ready for the fun of having your job revolve around fantastic locales and experiences! Get ready for the satisfaction of helping people have the trip of a lifetime! Get ready for the excitement of...
Wanderlust Social for Customer Service
I want to let you in on a little secret. 🤫 Your customers could book their vacations with any travel agent. Heck, for the most part, they could book their vacations themselves! 😮 So why should they come to you for all their travel needs? What sets you apart from the...
Certified Travel Agent Training
Alright everybody, all together now, say it with me: “I am a travel agent!” There! You did it! Congratulations! 🎓 🎉 You’ve just completed all the training and certification that’s required for you to become a professional in the travel industry. Which is to say, none....
Countdown to 30 Years in the Travel Industry
I’m about to hit a major milestone - thirty years in the travel industry! Can you believe it? 🎉 🥳 🥂 For a lot of folks just starting out, that number probably seems pretty wild. Maybe you’ve been a travel agent for six months or maybe a couple of years, and you’re...
Wanderlust Campus: Learn To Be A Travel Agent
So you’re thinking about a career change, are you? Tired of the same-old same-old? Ready for a new adventure? Is it time to learn how to be… … an astronaut? 🧑🚀 Well, I can’t help you there. Maybe give 🚀 NASA a call. But if you’re feeling an itch to travel (a...
Wanderlust Social for Video
If you’ve been following my videos and posts for awhile, then you’ve surely heard me talk about Wanderlust Social, our 🔑 turnkey marketing solution for travel businesses. On top of about a million other things, Wanderlust Social gives you tons of high-quality photos...
Wanderlust Social for Email
I want to let you in on a little secret: Your pal Cyndi has someone else write her weekly emails and that sort of thing. 😮 Why? Well, with all of the things that go into running my business, I don’t have the bandwidth to do everything myself. I’ve delegated email ✍️...
Wanderlust Campus: Travel Agent Training
Nobody starts a new job knowing exactly what to do. There’s always a learning curve, and training is vital to get the new hire up to speed. Somebody has to show the newbie how to properly flip that 🍔 burger, or change that valve cover, or audit that insurance claim…...
The Travel Agent Business Set Ups You Need to Know
When you’re ready to start your career as a travel agent, you’re going to find that there are several different ways to get started, all with their unique 👍 pros and 👎 cons. Do you want to work for an agency as a contractor? Are you ready to 🤿 dive in as an...
Wanderlust Social for Blogs
How’s your blog going? 😀 I’m assuming you have a blog because back when they first became a thing, everybody jumped on the free blogging websites and made one. 🖥️ 🖱️ Back then everybody pretty much did the same thing - post updates regularly about what’s going on in...
How To Be a Travel Agent For FREE
When you’re daydreaming at your corporate job, waiting for quittin’ time, it’s easy to think of the life of a travel agent as the ultimate freedom. Freedom to set your own hours, travel the world on 🛳️ “research trips,” make 🤑 money for yourself instead of for some...
Wanderlust Social For Lead Magnets
When your kid draws a beautiful crayon picture of what they claim is a unicorn riding on a motorcycle and you want to hang it on the fridge... 🦄 🏍️ When you’ve dropped your favorite needle into a haystack and you want to get it back out… 🪡 When you want to draw more...
How to Be a Disney Travel Agent in 2023
I’m going to let you in on a secret: I don’t like Disney. 😯 That’s right, I don’t like Disney. I ❤️ LOVE ❤️ Disney! L - O - V - E love it. 🫶 Florida, California, France, Japan, or out sailing the Caribbean, there’s no better vacation experience than a Disney vacation...
Do I Really Need Wanderlust Social For My Travel Business?
If you’ve been following me for a while now, you’ve probably heard me talking about our turnkey marketing platform, Wanderlust Social. We created Wanderlust Social to be the best tool for marketing a travel agency ever, and we’re really proud of it. But if you’re just...
The Best Supplier Portal for Travel Agents
Travel agents have always needed a way to learn about the deals, commissions, and opportunities available with the various suppliers in the travel industry. Believe it or not, we haven’t always had a certain 🔍 search engine that rhymes with “foogle” to help us track...
Set Up Your Summer Schedule With Me
Remember summer vacations when you were a kid? 🌞 Every day of summer vacation was just a glorious celebration of freedom and joy. Maybe you took trips to the 🏖️ beach, maybe 🏕️ camping, maybe even 🏰 🐭 Disney World if you were extremely lucky. And these great...
Travel Agent Discounts: Disney Edition
Most obvious statement ever: Travelers around the world love Disney in all its many locations and varieties. There’s just something about Disney - call it Disney Magic - that excites people like nothing else in travel. 🏰 🐭 Disney travel is honestly very easy to sell....
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