How Start a Home Based Travel Business Part 3 - Organizing Your Business, The LLC

Podcast Number Fifty-nine

This is podcast number three in a series of podcasts about how to start your home based travel business. I discuss the advantages of establishing your business as a Limited Liability Corporation, an L.L.C. I also take you on a tour of how to find the information on filing for a L.L.C. and what forms to look for and to fill out.

There will be no co-hosted segment this week. Lorene is attending a GoGo Worldwide learning conference on Hawaii and she is in Hawaii for this conference. We will get a report on this conference in an upcoming podcast.

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Thank you for listening to the Home Based Travel Agent Podcast. You can email me at barry@hometravelagent.net or email Lorene at sharptongued@mac.com

How to Start a Home Based Travel Business Part #2 and David Lovely from Modern Agent TV

Podcast Number Fifty-eight

This is podcast number two in a series of podcasts about how to start your home based travel business. In this series I talk about licensing requirements that your state may have requiring a seller of travel to be registered or licensed. A fairly good resource to check to see if your state requires registration to sell travel is at Travellaw.com. On Travellaw.com you can generally see whether or not your state has some requirements for you as a seller of travel. However, you will want to do your own research, or have a lawyer do some research, about the particular requirements in your state.

I also talk about the types of business entities that you may want to consider for your business. The various types you may want to consider are a sole proprietorship, a limited liability corporation or a closed corporation.

In the co-hosted segment, Lorene and I speak with David Lovely from Performance Media. David is the host of the Modern Agent TV show that is available on the Modern Agent website. David talks about all of the interesting offerings that Performance Media provides to travel agents and they are all free, including the Agent at Home and Cruise and Vacation magazines and all of the resources listed on the Modern Agent website.

Check out the short format, five-minute, travel podcasts at the Podcaster News Network!

Stop by my travel business site Special Destinations where you can just browse or create your own account and blog.

Thank you for listening to the Home Based Travel Agent Podcast. You can email me at barry@hometravelagent.net or email Lorene at sharptongued@mac.com

How to Start a Home Based Travel Business Part #1 and Cruise-a-Thon 2006

Podcast Number Fifty-seven

We will be starting a series of podcasts about how to start up a Home Based Travel Agent business. This podcast contains part one of the series and is a basic reality check about expectations you need to know about before starting the business.

In the co-hosted segment Lorene discusses her upcoming training at the Cruise-a-Thon 2006 or better known as CAT2006. Also, Lorene was quoted in the March edition of Cruise and Vacation magazine and Barry was quoted in the April edition of the Agent@Home magazine.

Links mentioned in the podcasts:

You-The-Brand
Drupal.org
Special Destinations LLC
Travel Trade Shows
Agent@Home Magazine

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Stop by my travel business site Special Destinations where you can just browse or create your own account and blog.

Thank you for listening to the Home Based Travel Agent Podcast. You can email me at barry@hometravelagent.net or email Lorene at sharptongued@mac.com

What's on Your Desk? The Office Tools that Make Our Life Easier

Podcast Number Fifty-six

Lorene and I discuss the tools that we use in our home office. We talk about what's on our desk and what we use to make our business life easier. Please drop us an email if you have tools, software or whatever that you use to help you in your office and business. Lorene also mentions a great service that allows you to receive your faxes anywhere as long as you have an internet connection. The service is Efax.

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Thank you for listening to the Home Based Travel Agent Podcast. You can email me at barry@hometravelagent.net or email Lorene at sharptongued@mac.com

Is Nexion a Host Agency for You? Scott Koepf Explains

Podcast Number Fifty-five

OOps, in the podcast I said we were at podcast number 54 for the Home Based Travel Agent. We are actually at podcast number 55.

Scott Koepf joins Lorene and I to discuss the host agency, Nexion. Scott talks about the advantages of choosing Nexion as your host agency. We discuss training opportunities, customer management, marketing and commissions. Listen to the podcast to learn all about Nexion and whether or not it is a host agency for you.


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Thank you for listening to the Home Based Travel Agent Podcast. You can email me at barry@hometravelagent.net or email Lorene at sharptongued@mac.com