153 - Would You Like a Personal Business Coach to Help You Sell More?

Podcast Number One-hundred-fifty-three

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How would you like a personal coach to motivate you and point you in the right direction toward increasing your travel sales? In this edition of the show we talk about your personal business coach, what it will do for you and how to get it. Charlie Dubinski joins me and shares his enthusiasm for his just launched "Success for Travel Agents Website." Charlie also talks about upcoming cruise and training opportunities available at Cruise and Travel Agents Only.

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

Dengue Fever
"Lost In Laos" (mp3)
from "Digi EP"
(M80)

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152 - Are You Selling Too Many Cruise Vacations - No? Listen and Learn How to Sell More!

Podcast Number One-hundred-fifty-two

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Vicki Freed, the Senior Vice President for Sales at Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, highlights many of the tools offered by RCL to help the travel agent sell more cruises. Vicki also talks about RCL's family focus and some new selling opportunities being offered. Listen in and learn how you can boost your cruise sales! You can contact Vicki at askvicki@rcl.com.

Lorene mentioned video podcasts available at Traveltrade.com. You can find the videos and a button to subscribe to the videos via Itunes at http://www.traveltrade.com/video.htm.

This podcast is sponsored by GoToMeeting

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

Check out Blubrry. It's a great place to be a listener. You can comment on podcasts you listen to and you can sign up to be friends with the podcasters on the Blubrry Network. Go over to Blubrry, sign up and become my friend. I would like to get to know all of you!

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

Zebula Avenue
"Yemoja" (mp3)
from "Life Will Be Fine"
(Megawave)

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151 - Is a Bottle of Oxygen Standing Between You and Your Next Big Sale?

Podcast Number One-hundred-fifty-one

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What would you do if a client was going to cancel their family cruise because grandma needs to travel with oxygen. Andrew Garnett from Special Needs at Sea will tell you how to accommodate the special needs clients. Andrew's company supplies scooters, wheel chairs, oxygen equipment and sod to help your disabled clients travel. Did I say sod? Yes, service dogs who accompany disabled people need somewhere to relieve themselves on a cruise ship. Andrew's company supplies the sod or cedar mulch. Listen in and learn more about how you can serve the special needs market.

This podcast is sponsored by GoToMeeting

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

Check out Blubrry. It's a great place to be a listener. You can comment on podcasts you listen to and you can sign up to be friends with the podcasters on the Blubrry Network. Go over to Blubrry, sign up and become my friend. I would like to get to know all of you!

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

Marisa Monte
"Balança Pema" (mp3)
from "Brazil Classics at 20: Anti-aging Solutions Revealed"
(LUAKA BOP)

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150 - Making Travel Accessible for Everyone, Could This Be Your Specialty?

Podcast Number One-hundred-fifty

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Steve Mydanick from the Society for Accessible Travel and Hospitality (SATH) joins Lorene and I to talk about the travel industry and SATH's advocacy for accessible travel. SATH was founded in 1976 fourteen years before the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became a household word. Back then SATH's goal was to reach the untapped travel market of 40 million people with disabilities who were excluded from the ranks of tourists. Today there are over 50 million people with disabilities who have the time and income to travel. This market for travel agents remains largely untapped. A review of the landing pages of the major travel websites tells me they are ignoring this market. So what are you waiting for?

Want a great gift for clients? This gift will help your clients to afford their next vacation. Check out SmartyPig.com. SmartyPig is a website where you set a savings goal and then work your way toward that goal with the help of family, friends and your favorite travel agent. You can buy your clients a SmartyPig gift card to help them start a savings account and move them along to their next vacation. This is an unsolicited endorsement of SmartyPig. They are not an advertiser - but I wish they were.

This podcast is sponsored by GoToMeeting

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

Check out Blubrry. It's a great place to be a listener. You can comment on podcasts you listen to and you can sign up to be friends with the podcasters on the Blubrry Network. Go over to Blubrry, sign up and become my friend. I would like to get to know all of you!

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

Bradley Leighton
"It's On!" (mp3)
from "Soul Collective"
(Pacific Coast Jazz)

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