187 - Cruising on an Italian Cruise Liner

Podcast Number One-hundred-eighty-seven

Lorene joins the show this week and talks about her recent cruise experience aboard MSC Cruise line. Join us and learn about some of the unique experiences aboard this Italian cruise line.

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Pleasure Principle
"New Year's Eve" (mp3)
from "Pleasure Principle"
(gMusic)

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186 - An Important Tool For Your Travel Business and It's Free!

Podcast Number One-hundred-eighty-six

A customer resource management (CRM) tool is an essential part of your travel business. Barry reviews a free CRM and recommends this free tool to new travel agents as well as seasoned travel agents. The CRM is OpenTravelCRM and can be found at www.opentravelcrm.com. There are several tutorial videos available to view even if you don't have an account set up at OpenTravelCRM. This makes it easy to check out the tool before you buy - oops, you don't buy it, it's free!

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

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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

The GrooveBarbers
"O Christmas Tree" (mp3)
from "Happy Holiday - Christmas Favorites"
(Rock River Music)

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185 - A Host Agency Who Sends You Customers

Podcast Number One-hundred-eighty-five

Travel agent Deb Gronski joins Lorene and I to talk about host agencies. Deb shares her positive experience with her host agency America's Vacation Center.

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The Airmen of Note
"Blues for Mundy" (mp3)
from "Today"
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184 - Jazz Singer Lucianne Evans Joins Us To Talk About Turning Your Passion Into Your Business Specialty

Podcast Number One-hundred-eighty-four

This show reveals how your business can blossom if you have a passion and apply that passion to develop a specialization. Lucianne Evans joins Lorene and Barry in the co-hosted segment of the show. Lucianne is a talented jazz singer who has a passion for travel. Lucianne is exploring turning that passion into a business helping people travel to jazz festivals and jazz cruises. Listen in and enjoy one of Luciann's songs and learn about how jazz relates to travel. You can find Lucianne's music at www.cdbaby.com/evanscoppola.

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Lorene's Twitter name is lorener

Barry's Twitter name is kantzb

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!

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