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VIP Travel Services Online has researched the travel industry extensively to search out and locate the very best and most credible host agency with whom you should become associated.
Starting a business alone is very difficult. By becomeing a VIP Member you are joining a unique team of professionals that will support, coach and direct you through the complicated maze of todays business world. Knowledge Is Power (Not To Mention Money In Your Pocket)
As with so many other things in life, the secret to success as a home-based travel agent is finding out how others have achieved success before you, and then modeling your own career on theirs.
The alternative is trial and error, which is not only time-consuming but can be very, very costly. Some host agencies charge thousands of dollars to become one of their outside sales representatives. If you discover that you don't like working with them, too bad. Your money is gone. Most of them have no "money-back guarantee."
Save yourself the time, the agony, and the money
The minute you sign-up as a VIP Member you will receive the following benefits:
- Personalized Websites & Lead Capture Pages
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- Discounts On Hotels, Resorts, Car Rentals And Cruises
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- Access To Thousands Of FAM (Familiarization) Trips
- Professional Privileges And Agent Rates
- Tax Advantages (Consult Your Tax Advisor)
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You will discover how VIP Travel Services Online immediately links you to the support and training needed for your new career and/or meticulously shows you how to become a worldwide traveler for a fraction of the cost.
Whether you are a seasoned traveler or just take a yearly vacation, not only will you enjoy the tremendous savings by becoming an Independent Travel Agent, but also, you will receive VIP treatment and fantastic income while enjoying the lifestyle you’ve always deserved.
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So, you want to be a Home - Based Travel Agent?
But you are tired of hearing all the sales tricks and being continually bombarded with unwanted e-mail advertising. Well I am as mad as you because today my e-mail box had three (that's right, three) come-ons for get-rich-quick schemes in the "$7 trillion travel industry." I usually get one of these spams every couple of days. Since you're on the Internet, you've probably seen them, too. I hope you just deleted them because they are just someone trying to convience you to pay them.
I'm also frustrated because I know that thousands of folks just like you are making good money working in the travel industry as home-based travel agents. You can, too. It's easy. They're doing it honestly, ethically, and legally and so can you. They're making real money, too. Part-timers can earn as much as $500 (or more) on every sale. That's not pocket change, that's a serious commission. What will you do with the extra money that you will earn as a part-time, work at home travel agent? Pay off your bills? Or spend the money on your own vacation?
Full-timers are supporting themselves and their families. A lot of them are seeing more of the world than they every dreamed of seeing before. And a few of them are making very good money indeed, over $100,000 a year.
Maybe you'd like to join them. If so, If you have questions you'd like answered by an active travel agent with no pushy sales talk just provide your name and phone number below along with the best time to call and we'll have an agent contact you to answer any quesitons you may have.
VIP Travel Services Online has been designed to teach you what you need to know to:
- Navigate through the confusion (not to mention the outright disinformation) that has grown up around the home-based travel agent area.
- Choose wisely from the scores of competing offers out there.
- Design your business to meet your needs (as opposed to letting someone else tell you what's best for them and then hoping it'll be good for you, too).
- Get started on a shoestring and "test the waters."
- Negotiate a contract with a "host agency."
- Understand the nature of your relationship with your host agency.
- Earn the highest commissions possible.
- Get the travel industry discounts and benefits to which you are entitled.
- Take tax-deductible cruises while you learn the business.
- Receive FREE training from industry experts.
There's a lot more to learn, of course. In fact, this list barely scratches the surface.
So what I would urge you to do before reading any further is to take a moment to subscribe to my FREE newsletter for home-based travel agents. That way you'll get regular updates and new information about this exciting field.
Here's a simple form you can use to subscribe. Your e-mail address won't be sold, rented, traded, or given away. This is strictly for your FREE newsletter.
The First Thing You Need To Know About Being A Home-Based Travel Agent
Becoming a home-based travel agent is easy. The problem is knowing what kind of home-based travel agent to become. There are probably as many ways of being a home-based travel agent as there are home-based travel agents. No one does it exactly the same.
This is where a lot of people make costly mistakes. Because they don't know the full range of options available to them, they pick the first one that comes along. Or they look at two or three options and pick the wrong one.
There are two basic types of home-based agents.
- Referral agents.
- Booking and selling agents.
Within each category there are a lot of different ways to go about it but, for now, let's consider these two basic types one at a time.
Referral Agents
Referral agents, as the name implies, do not actually book or sell travel products. Instead, they simply refer people to a travel agency. That travel agency's "inside agents" do all the work of closing the sale and making the booking. In exchange for steering the customer to the agency, the referral agent receives a percentage of the commission that the travel agency gets from the supplier (the cruise line, the airline, the hotel, or whatever). The referral agent also typically books his or her personal travel through the agency and receives a commission on that as well ( a sort of "rebate" or "discount" in effect).
As a referral agent, you don't have to know a great deal about the mechanics of the travel industry. You don't have to know all the airline codes, or what's the best hotel in Hawaii, or the difference between Category C and Category D on a cruise ship. Your job is to communicate the fun and excitement of travel and get people to call the toll-free number of your agency.
So far, there's nothing new or controversial about this. It's been going on for decades in the travel industry, where referral agents have traditionally be known as "bird dogs." But in recent years, some travel agencies have made the use of referral agents the core of their business model and the practice has been getting a lot more attention. And attracting some controversy.
The fact of the matter is, the referral agencies sell an awful lot of travel and who wants to argue with success?
Booking and Selling Agents
A lot of people, however, are attracted to the idea of becoming home-based travel agents because they love getting involved in all the details of planning wonderful trips, across the country or around the world. Or perhaps they have developed some expertise in a particular destination or type of vacation or mode of travel and they are looking for a way to turn what they love into a source of income.
Booking and selling agents are home-based travel agents in the truest sense. That is, they work from home but they do everything that a travel agent at the storefront agency on Main Street does. Of course, many of them choose NOT to do everything that the storefront agency does (and for very good reasons). But the fact remains that, if they want to, they can do everything a "traditional" travel agent does.
By the way, the term "booking and selling agent" is something I'm using here just to make clear the distinction between referral agents and all other home-based travel agents. As far as the travel industry is concerned, a home-based agent who does all the booking and selling is a travel agent pure and simple.
So the first decision you, as a would-be home-based travel agent, have to make is what kind of home-based travel agent do you want to be?
So you've decided to learn more about the opportunities available to you as a full-fledged home-based travel agent! Good for you!
I have nothing against referral agents. In fact, there are very good reasons why someone might want to be both a referral agent and a home-based agent who does all the work for a higher commission.
One of the greatest things about the opportunities available to home-based travel agents is that this is not a one-size-fits-all or an all-or-nothing proposition.
The Key Concept in Your Home-Based Travel Agent Career
Being a home-based travel agent means representing and marketing travel products that are created by someone else. You are not going to start your own airline, or go out and buy a cruise ship, or build a chain of all-inclusive resorts. (If that's your plan, you're on the wrong web site!)
That's why you so often hear home-based travel agents referred to as "outside sales representatives." "Outside" because you do not work in the office of the company whose products you represent.
Whether you deal directly with a travel supplier or through a middleman (usually a host agency), it's important to remember that you are not an employee, either of the host agency or the ultimate travel supplier. (Another reason for the term "outside.") Because you are not an employee, you do not receive a salary or any of the benefits (medical, dental, vacations, etc.) that go along with being an employee.
You make your money ("get paid") through commissions on what you sell. You negotiate your commission level with either the host agency or the travel supplier. Sell a lot, make a lot. Sell a little, make a little.
You are what the IRS (and many others in the business world) call an "independent contractor," which is another, legally precise way of saying you are not an employee.
So what's the key concept I mentioned?
It's not that you work "outside" (although that's important).
It's not that you represent other people's products (although that's important).
It's not that you are a salesperson (although that's very important).
It's not that you are not an employee (although that's extremely important).
The key concept is that you are independent.
Think about that for a moment. It means that you are your own boss. No one can tell you what to do or how to do it. You control your own destiny. Your success (or failure) is entirely your responsibility.If that scares you.,well, maybe this site isn't for you.
If that excites you, congratulations! You have what it takes to be a success as a home-based travel agent.
The Biggest Mistake Beginners Make
Although you are independent and on your own, you are never alone as a home-based travel agent. You must constantly work with others to provide service to your clients.
Virtually every home-based travel agent (there are very, very few exceptions) must form a relationship with a host agency. And your success hinges on your understanding of this relationship.
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