Travel agents provide an amazing service to the world. You’re not only helping people take amazing trips and create life-long memories, you’re opening their eyes and hearts to other cultures and people and generally making the world a better place. You also play a crucial role in the tourism industry, serving as an intermediary between tourists and travel service providers. And think of how important tourism is to so many economies around the world. What you do really matters! While the job can be rewarding, it can also be stressful, with long hours, demanding clients, and tight deadlines. On ..read more

How have the first couple weeks of 2023 been going for you? We hope it’s off to a great start! If you’ve been in our 7-Figure Travel Agent Mastermind group this week, I’d bet you’re feeling a lot better about your chances of success than you were last week! That group is on fire with optimism and excitement for this new year! No matter where you’re at right now – happy and hopeful, or weary and worried, or all of the above – we’re here today with a few ideas to help you create an even brighter year ahead! These tips are all courtesy of our dear friend Lana Shlafer who is a mindset coach, and ..read more

Can you guess what marketing question we get asked the most? Everybody wants to know how to SEO their website to get it to the number one spot in the search engines. So it makes sense that one of our all-time-most-popular Advanced Modules in the Travel Expert Marketing Academy is an interview Heidi did with SEO Expert Neil Patel for this exclusive Academy training. Today we’re going to share just a few of the golden nuggets of SEO wisdom that Neil shared with our Academy members. (If you’re an Academy Member, you can find the full interview in your Advanced Modules inside the Academy.) For tho ..read more

In last week’s Travel Expert Insider I gave you the Full-Time Travel Agent Secret Formula. The first part of that formula is your niche, specialty and ideal client. They key word here is “your”. You are the secret sauce in the secret formula! It may sound a little cliche, but Dr. Seuss said it best: “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” Customers buy from people they know, like and trust, and the only way to get them to know, like and trust you, is to be authentically you. Authenticity is important, because customers these days are savvier ..read more

Wondering why your phone isn’t ringing off the hook with potential clients who want to book travel with you? Or maybe you’re just wishing your phone would ring – period! If you don’t have enough clients, if people aren’t reaching out to you, inquiring about booking travel with you, then you have a lead source problem. What’s a lead? A lead is simply a prospective client. So, a lead source is any tool or activity that you use to bring in new prospective clients. Some examples are: Google ads, Facebook ads, speaking engagements, TikTok, Instagram, email marketing, joint ventures… and there are ..read more

There are few things more frustrating as a travel agent than those “clients” who pretend they are interested in your services, but are really only interested in picking your brain and getting as much as they can out of you for free so they can book their own travel. It’s a complete waste of your time, and it steals time that you could, and should be spending growing your business and working with clients who know your value! In today’s Travel Expert Insider, Galen is going tell you one simple strategy that you can implement TODAY to end the dreaded cycle of working for free!  VIDEO TRANSCRIP ..read more

Galen is going to show you how one of the travel agents in our Travel Expert Marketing Academy increased her bookings by 50% in just 3 seconds. You’ll learn what to say, when to say it, and – maybe most importantly – what NOT to say. Click below to watch the video or read the transcript below!      VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Are you saying too much and is it hurting your bookings? Are you damaging your commissions because you’re over sharing, over talking, and not listening to your client enough? I’m Galen Wood with Marketing For Travel Agents. In this video I’m going to talk about what ..read more

Imagine working with so many ideal clients that you have to start turning new clients away?? It’s not a pipe dream, it’s a reality for many of our Travel Expert Marketing Academy members. These travel agents are actually turning down clients because they already have more than enough, and that’s not all – they’ve figured out how to attract ONLY IDEAL clients who they LOVE to work with! So, how did they get to this dream-worthy level of business success? Well we’re here today to tell you, of course. Watch the video below to find out how!     VIDEO TRANSCRIPT So by now I’m sure a lo ..read more

   Free 5-Day Challenge for Travel Professionals In this FREE challenge you will increase your confidence in yourself, get clients to respond back to you and commit to booking with you, and learn a proven system for attracting a sea of IDEAL clients. By the end of this challenge you will feel more confident in yourself and in your professional skills as a travel agent, AND you’ll know how to get more bookings with the RIGHT clients! All it takes is 30 minutes a day. This challenge is exclusively for travel professionals, travel experts and travel agents and brought to you by Marketing F ..read more

   VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Travel Professional! We are here to invite you to a free five-day challenge that we are doing online to help you boost your confidence and get more clients. So in this five day challenge, what are we doing, Galen? That’s such a great question, I’m so glad you asked. The whole challenge is built around increasing your confidence and increasing your booking. So first and foremost we’re working on helping you feel better about yourself, your skills and specifically your skills as a travel professional. We help you walk through your fears, set up a value proposition whi ..read more