Starting A Home Based Travel Business Part 8 - Permission Marketing

Podcast Number Sixty-five

In the Co-hosted segment Lorene talks about contact management using the Trams software. Trams will save you a lot of time and keep track of your of your clients and sales opportunities.

Barry continues the series on How to Start a Home Based Travel Business in part 8. The discussion is about Permission Marketing. Permission Marketing is a book written by Seth Godin and it has a wealth of information that you can use to bring in those clients.

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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 Start a Home Based Travel Business Part 7 - Marketing

Podcast Number Sixty-four

In this podcast we discuss some the basics and realities of marketing your home based travel business.

In the co-hosted segment, Lorene discusses here experiences in Vancouver attending the Cruise-a-Thon.


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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 6 - IATA Numbers, What Are They?

Podcast Number Sixty-three

Lorene Romero joins the podcast from her ocean view room in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Lorene discusses her trip to Key West.

In segment six of the how to start your home travel business, I discuss the International Airline Travel Agent Network (IATAN) numbers and numbers that are similar to the IATAN number and registered with IATAN. These numbers are your "seller of travel" numbers and they identify you to travel suppliers as a legitimate travel professional. I discuss how you can get your own seller of travel number. The various organziations that can issue you a seller of travel number are:

International Airline Travel Agent Network (IATAN)

Cruise Line International Organization (CLIA)

Outside Sales Support Network (OSSN)

National Association of Commissioned Travel Agents (NACTA)


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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