Home Based Travel Agent Podcast: Boost Your Business by Becoming A Cerified Travel Advisor

Podcast Number One-hundred-nine

Lorene and Deb Gronski talk about the challenges, rewards and fun they had in preparing for the Certified Travel Advisor (CTA) Designation. The Travel Institute offers a course of study that leads to the CTA and other advanced designations for the travel agent.

This podcast became a challenge to produce when the electricity went off at 4:00 p.m. this afternoon. After a couple of hours without power, I decided to try and produce the podcast using the battery power from my laptop. I knew that I wouldn't have much time because I had to connect a USB microphone and my Sprint wireless internet card. All of those extras add drain to the laptop battery. I raced through recording a short intro, the GoTo Meeting advertisement and a short outro. Fortunately I already had the co-hosted segment and I did the editing on that audio last night.

I had very little battery power left by the time I got the podcast put together and converted to MP3 format. I was going to have to get creative to find a source of electricity to power the laptop so that I could upload the audio to the file server.

I pulled my car out of the garage, grabbed my DC to AC inverter, a lawn chair and a small table. I was all set to power up my laptop using my car as a power source and the lawn furniture as my outdoor office. Just as I was about to complete my outdoor office, the power came back on.

You now have a no frills podcast but I'm sure the enthusiasm of Deb and Lorene in the co-hosted segment make up for the loss of the other bells and whistles.

This podcast is sponsored by GoToMeeting

Check out Lorenes travel agent website at www.sharptonguedconsulting.com.

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Stop by my travel business site Special Destinations where you can just browse or create your own account and blog. Would you like to get more information about the travel business, about life and about business in general? Check out my personal blog at http://www.hometravelagent.net/WordPress/ 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