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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....
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...
New Year, New You: Travel Agent Edition
Have you made your 🎉 New Year’s 🥳 resolutions? Set out those goals you have for 2023? Here, let me take a look at that list… Let’s see… Get in shape. 🏋️ Read more. 📖 Less screen time. 📱 Become a successful travel agent. 💰 Eat healthier. 🥗 All of those are...
Top 3 Things to Know Before Becoming a Travel Agent in 2023
Happy 2023, everybody! 🥳 🍾 🎉 If you ask me, this is the most exciting part of every year. It’s the time when a whole year full of endless possibilities is just laid out in front of you, waiting to be seized. If you’re a goal-setter (and you know I am!), you are...
Is Being a Travel Agent in 2023 a Viable Career?
Do you have people in your life that are total bring-downs? Tell them you won the 💲 lottery and they tell you how much 💸 tax you’re going to have to pay. Tell them you’re having a 🍼 baby and they tell you how you’re not going to get any sleep for the next few...
So You Want to Be a Travel Agent in 2023?
The end of 2022 will be here before you know it. We’re in the throes of the holiday season and everything that comes with it, and most people are feeling a bit of that December-itis. 🎁 Shopping, 🎄 decorating, 🥳 parties, 🎼 concerts, 🍽️ family get-togethers, and all...
Setting Up Your Marketing Calendar with Wanderlust Social
🥂 Date nights. Netflix roulette. The occasional trip to Disney World. There are some things in this world that really should be based on spontaneity. Marketing your travel business isn’t one of them. Winging it with marketing has a tendency to go wrong. 😧...
The Recipe to a 7-Figure Producing Travel Business
Do you have a 😋 favorite dish that you absolutely have to have every 🦃 Thanksgiving? You may enjoy the rest of the dishes for their own merits, but without Grandma’s green bean casserole, or sweet potato pie, or macaroni and cheese with the crust on top, it’s just...
Fall Edition: Growth Strategies for Travel Agents
As you sip that first pumpkin spice latte ☕ of the season, and gaze at the beautiful reds and golds of the changing 🍂 leaves, and begin to feel that nip in the air 🌬️ that signifies the beginning of sweater weather, there’s one question that’s certain to come to...
What It Takes To Be A Million Dollar Travel Agent
Most people get into the travel business because they love to travel. 🛳️ 🛫 They love planning and going on trips, they love talking about the 🏞️ places they’ve been and 🗼 places they want to go, and they think it would be so much fun to get paid for doing those things...
3 Ways to Creatively Sell Travel Packages
Do you ever feel like you’re just not selling as many travel packages as you should be? Sometimes being a travel agent feels really easy, and you’re crushing it, making loads of sales and watching that commission flow your way. 🤑 But other times, it can feel like...
Can You Be a Travel Agent Without a Host Agency?
“What’s the deal with host agencies? I do all the work, and they take some of the money. Who are these people? Can’t I be a travel agent without them?” 🤔 No, I’m not trying to do Jerry Seinfeld-esque 🎤 observational humor here. I’m giving you a taste of some of...
How Do I Start a Host Travel Agency in 2023?
Working for someone else can be a real drag. It’s one of the main reasons people start in the travel business in the first place - to get out from under a 👔 boss or a 🏢 company structure and enjoy the independence of self-employment. The life of an independent...
How to Streamline and Grow Your Travel Business
Imagine your travel business five years from now. 🤔 💭 What does it look like? Are you thriving? Are you pulling in clients with ease? Are you on a 📈 growth trajectory with no signs of slowing down? 😀 Great! Now how do you get to this imagined - but very...
How Much Does It Cost To Start A Travel Business Online
Ah, the possibilities of starting your own travel business! Making your own hours, taking 🛫 research trips to exotic locales, making people happy by sending them on 🛳️ dream vacations, taking your laptop to the beach so you can work - or not - while sipping your...
How To Get Quality Leads On A Consistent Basis
Travel agents usually don’t make their living off of just one or two 🐳 major clients who take big, expensive trips three or four times a year. That’s just not something that you can count on to make up the bulk of your income. If you’ve gotten into the travel agent...
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