Saturday, February 24, 2007

A Great Way to Add Commissions to Your Cruises or Vacation Packages

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Are you missing out on extra commissions. Lorene and Barry talk with Barry and Julie Karp of Shoretrips. If you are selling cruises, and your clients are booking their shore trips through the cruise line, you are losing commissions. The cruise lines do not pay you commissions on the shore trips that your clients book through the cruise lines. Shoretrips changes all of that. Your clients can book their shore trips through Shoretrips, the client receives a better value for their vacation dollar AND Shoretrips pays you a commission. Your clients can book a shore trip even if they are not taking a cruise. Shoretrips offers hotel pick up service at hotels in the major port cities. This is an interview that you should not miss if you are interested in your bottom line as a travel agent.

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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Learn About Travel Insurance as Lorene and Barry Talk Wtih an Expert

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Less than two weeks ago, Joel Abels an icon of the travel profession passed away. On February 9, 2007, Lenore Abels joined her husband in heaven. Joel and Lenore left a true legacy for the travel profession in all that they have done and with their Travel Trade Publications.

Lorene and Barry talk travel insurance with Sheri Machat of the M.H.Ross Company. We discuss what travel insurance will do for your clients. Sheri tells us of two real life examples of people that had a need for travel insurance. The M.H. Ross Company hosts the tripinsurance.com website where you can find out more about travel insurance.

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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. My goal is 100 pins by show 100.

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