Specializing in Gay and Lesbian Travel and an Important Marketing Lesson

Podcast Number Seventy-four

Lorene provides information about selling gay and lesbian travel. She provides a list of specialized travel companies that cater to the gay and lesbian community. The sites that she mentions are: Rfamily Vacations, International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association, Atlantis Events, RSVP Vacations, and Olivia.

Barry talks about a marketing lesson that was originally discussed by Heidi Miller on her Diary of a Shameless Self Promoter podcast. The lesson is about staying in contact with your clients.

The upcoming Labor Day Weekend may be without a Home Based Travel Agent podcast. We are traveling to Cambridge, MA to visit my new grandson, Jacob. I may do a no frills update from Cambridge if the opportunity arises. Otherwise we will talk to you on the weekend of September 9, 2006.

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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

Globus Travel and Tours Products that Make Selling Easy

Podcast Number Seventy-three

Kathleen Kavanaugh, the Home Based Travel Agent Channel Director for Globus Tours, joins us once again to talk about the Globus product line. Unfortunately during our previous interview, the recording equipment hickuped and we lost the last half of the interview. In this show we pick up where we left off and we talk about the Globus product offereing. Globus makes selling easy because they focus on the home based travel agent and offer very attractive products. Check out the travel agent portal at Globus and sign up! Globus offers more information for travel agents including fam trips at Globus at Home. The Globus consumer website is at Globus Journeys.

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

Please check out my personal blog, my MySpace and drop over to the Frapper Map and let us know where you're at by placing a pin in the virtual map.

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

Focus the Information You Receive From Travel Suppliers

Podcast Number Seventy-two

Lorene returns from her Carribean Cruise and tells us about her experience and how it will help her sell more cruises.

Rob O'Connor, the Chief Technology Officer for TravelScream joins the podcast to talk about how Really Simple Syndication (RSS) can simplify your life by tailoring the information you receive from travel suppliers. Getting email from travel suppliers is a shotgun approach. You may receive one email out of ten that offers you something of interest. You can narrowly focus the travel supplier information you receive by signing up with TravelScream.


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

Please check out my personal blog, my MySpace and drop over to the Frapper Map and let us know where you're at by placing a pin in the virtual map.

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

The Platinum Luxury Travel Seminars - Learn About Luxury Fam Trips and Seminars

Podcast Number Seventy-one

Dana McPherson of the Platinum Luxury Society and Seminars joins the podcast to talk about the learning experience you receive with Platinum Luxury Seminars. By taking a Platinum Luxury Seminar you will get to experience luxury travel at the same time learning great techniques to sell luxury travel. Treat yourself to some great travel and great training. Listen to the podcast and learn how!


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

Please check out my personal blog, my MySpace and drop over to the Frapper Map and let us know where you're at by placing a pin in the virtual map.

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