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186 – An Important Tool For Your Travel Business and It’s Free!

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Podcast Number One-hundred-eighty-six A customer resource management (CRM) tool is an essential part of your travel business. Barry reviews a free CRM and recommends this free tool to new travel agents as well as seasoned travel agents. The CRM is OpenTravelCRM and can be found at www.opentravelcrm.com. There are several tutorial videos available to view … Continue reading 186 – An Important Tool For Your Travel Business and It’s Free! →

181 – Expand Your Market and Help People With Special Needs Travel

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Podcast Number One-hundred-eighty-one A differentiating factor a travel agent brings to the table when working with clients, is their knowledge of how to help the traveler. You may have clients who want to travel with family members but are limited because of their family member’s special needs. You will be a hero if you know … Continue reading 181 – Expand Your Market and Help People With Special Needs Travel →

176 – What’s in Your Back Yard? An Opportunity for Sales!

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What travel destination do you know the best? I will bet it is your own community. Lorene describes how a site visit in her community put commission dollars in her pocket and will generate more commission over time. You can do the same by visiting hotels, bed and breakfast inns and tourist attractions in your … Continue reading 176 – What’s in Your Back Yard? An Opportunity for Sales! →

170 – How Can a Blog or Podcast Boost Your Travel Sales?

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The most effective way to market your home based travel business is to get out of the house and get involved in your community. People will purchase their vacations from you but only after they get to know you, like you and trust you. The best way for people to get to know you, like … Continue reading 170 – How Can a Blog or Podcast Boost Your Travel Sales? →