Atlanta, GA - Travel Quest Network, a leading host agency and the premier platform for building and growing a travel business in America, is excited to announce the release of the latest version of WorldVia PRO, its travel advisor business management system. The new release includes several groundbreaking features such as Trip Manager in its CRM, Content Creator™ version 2, and numerous enhancements to the CRM, designed to help travel advisors prioritize their work and maximize their business potential. A key feature of the latest release is Trip Manager in its CRM, enabling travel advisors to ..read more

It’s September, which is unbelievable to me, yet here we are. How has this year fared for you and your business? For many, we’ve seen and heard of record-setting years, goals met and exceeded. For others, we’ve seen great determination and progress towards meeting your goals. Still, some of you are just starting on your journey. Congratulations on your successes and progress. You earned it. As we come down the home stretch of 2022 and work to cap off the year, it isn’t too early to start planning for 2023.  As a business owner, time is your most precious resource. How you invest your tim ..read more

Efficiency is what distinguishes a great individual travel professional from a growing, profitable travel business. A business that is an asset with a tangible and growing value. An asset that you own! Time is moving faster than ever, and I’ve dedicated many recent messages to the ideas of creating simplicity in your business, the power of selecting a winning niche, and the benefits of using Agent Profiler (and our writing workshops to learn our system for making it perform) to attract more clients interested in your specialty. All of these are grounded in the idea that time is money and creat ..read more

A System For A Great Experinece: A Simple Trip For Sneakers Illustrates The Secret For Business Success  My recent shopping experience is a great lesson for all of us in the travel industry. My oldest daughter, Bella,. is active. It was a Tuesday evening, and I was finally taking Bella out to pick up a new pair of running shoes. As her running distances have increased (along with her foot pain), we decided to skip the chain sporting goods and shoe stores and visit a local specialty running store.   As you probably guessed, I am not a runner, and I was prepared for the worst. Eli ..read more

A software engineer for an e-commerce company thought that maybe, just maybe, customers would buy more if they were shown other products they might be interested in based on what was in their shopping cart.  The engineer’s boss, a senior vice president, disagreed. Strongly. He believed it would distract customers and actually prevent sales rather than grow them. The senior vice president didn’t know this for sure, but he let his beliefs dictate. In fact, he was so afraid of being wrong that he forbid the engineer from working on the feature or even bringing it up again in conversation.&nb ..read more

I am a terrible writer. I admit it wholeheartedly, while also being slightly embarrassed by that admission. However, I am a copywriter, someone who writes words that sell. I have to write. As a travel entrepreneur, you are also a copywriter. Whether you are writing a social media post, a broadcast email, website copy, or your bio for a speaking event, you write words that sell you and your travel business. Even your one-to-one emails to your prospects and clients involve copywriting. If you are writing words that sell, you can't afford to make mistakes. They can lessen the impact of what you w ..read more

The economy is a living organism. It expands and contracts. It goes through long-run cyclical shifts and short-run acceleration and drops. A million factors culminate in key measures like GDP growth, unemployment, and the value of the dollar.   As entrepreneurs, we spend most of our time thinking about how to drive improvements to our businesses. The quality of the product and service we deliver, the number of customers we deliver them to, the efficiency in delivering them, our revenue and expenses, the satisfaction our of customers, all pointing to the profit we can achieve and the ..read more

People talk often about the idea of continuous improvement. The thing is, a lot of the time it is just that, an idea, nice words without much action. Continually getting better. Continually improving a weakness. Continually solidifying a strength. It all sounds great, doesn’t it? Nearly everyone likes to think that they really embrace this concept. Everyone wants to continually improve, at least in some aspect of life, right? So, why don’t we? Why can’t you observe amazing improvement all over the place, in every walk of life, in everyone you know?  It isn’t the idea of seeking improvemen ..read more

I’ve talked about investing here before. Whether you’re Warren Buffett, you, or me, all investors seek a degree of certainty before pulling the trigger. Complete certainty is elusive, but when is there enough certainty? When do you know that it is safe to make the investment that your business needs to thrive?  All businesses require investment, or re-investment in some cases. All of them. Investment can be in the form of cash or time. It can be new cash you put into your business, or re-investment of profits you generate. It can be allocation of your time to build a new capability or exp ..read more

Going on a trip as a travel pro is a great opportunity to create travel content for your website and social media pages. Here are three things you can do on your trip to create content your consumers will love. Take Photos Throughout your trip, take photos featuring one or more person and write captions for each photo. Sharing your own photos of a destination or hotel will add to your credibility as a travel agent. According to a 2014 research study from Georgia Tech, photos with human faces are 38% more likely to receive likes on Instagram than photos without faces. That’s one of the many rea ..read more