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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...
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...
What Is The Best Tool For Marketing My Travel Business?
One of the most important factors in succeeding in the travel business is the effectiveness of your marketing. Sure, you could just post stuff on Facebook or Instagram from time to time and maybe bring in some clients. But are you a professional 📷 photographer? How...
What Questions Should You Ask Your Clients as a Travel Agent?
We’ve all heard that old maxim, “the customer is always right.” But is that actually true? No! Of course not. Sometimes as a travel agent you’re going to run into clients and potential clients who are just plain wrong. Wrong attitude. Wrong approach to working...
How To Prepare Travel Clients for a Vacation
If you’ve ever gone on a really great trip, you probably remember that sense of anticipation that preceded it. You were super excited when you booked it (with the help of your fabulous travel agent, no doubt), but it seemed 🗓️ so far away at that time, so the...
How To Prepare For A Recession – What Travel Agents Need to Know
If I had a 🔮 crystal ball that let me look into the future, I would love to see how the economic winds are going to blow over the next few years. That would be so useful as a business owner and as a citizen of the world. (And of course I would share what I learned...
Summer is winding down, but your travel business should be heating up!
Take a look around you. Notice anything different? 🤔 Well, if you’re a parent, you might have noticed that your kids have gone back to 🏫 school! (Unless you’re homeschooling them, in which case, we feel your pain. Bless your hearts.) That’s because the summer...
Travel Agents: Tell your clients about the “Suite Life” on cruises!
My family and I had a great time 🛳️ sailing on the Harmony of the Seas (Royal Caribbean) this summer! It was a fantastic experience that I can’t stop telling people about. Now, you know me. I’m never going to let an opportunity to build my brand and my business...
Behind the Scenes of the Global Travel Marketplace (GTM)
We’re going to do something a bit different this week. This time around, we’re going to give you a rare look inside an exclusive, ✉️ invitation-only travel conference at the Diplomat Resort in Hollywood, FL. The Global Travel Marketplace (GTM) is put on by the...
The Ultimate Travel Agent Mastermind: Careers On Vacation
You’ve probably heard me talk about Careers on Vacation before, haven’t you? 😀 If you haven’t, let me give you the real quick version here: Careers on Vacation is my signature 12-week immersive mastermind program for aspiring, new, or experienced agents. The...
7 Critical Questions To A Potential Travel Agent Mentor Before Starting
When beginning a relationship with a potential mint, there are several critical questions you should ask before starting. Are you looking for peppermint or spearmint? Is the flavor very strong? 💪 Does the mint contain sugar? Is the mint hard and crunchy or...
The Benefits Of Having Mentors For Travel Agents And Why You Should Find One
Are you struggling to get your travel business off the ground? Is it not growing at the rate you hoped it would? Are you not sure what you should be doing to get back on track? 🤔 Then you could probably use a mentor. I am a big proponent of having mentors for...
What Does The American Society of Travel Advisors Do and Why Does It Matter?
The American Society of Travel Advisors, or ASTA, is the largest organization representing travel advisors and travel-related businesses. This can include everybody from individual independent 🙋 travel agents, big 🏢 travel agencies, travel suppliers, and even 🏫...
What Kind of Insurance Do Travel Agents Need? (Protect Your Business)
Everybody gets into the travel agent game with high hopes for all the cool things that come with the territory. But when you were dreaming of spending your days talking travel and booking beautiful vacation packages for your excited clients… did you ever dream of...
What Are The Main Responsibilities of a Travel Agent?
When people ask you what you do as a travel agent, how do you respond? You probably say something like, “I help people take once-in-a-lifetime vacations” or “I get to talk to people about travel all day,” right? 🏔️ 🛳️ 🚁 🏄 You answer that way because it can be...
The Fee Models Travel Agents Are Using Post Pandemic
As the world opens back up with the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions, we are all having to adjust to 🔮 unforeseen changes. The travel business has been one of the industries that was most affected by COVID-19, and it’s not likely to get back to the old “normal”...
How COVID Ignited Demand For Skilled Travel Agents In 2022
It’s no secret that COVID-19 has changed our world over the past couple of years, and we’re still seeing new and unexpected impacts crop up in different ways. One of the changes that most people wouldn’t have seen coming is a strong 📈 uptick in demand for skilled...
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