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An Interview With
Michelle Fee, CEO
Cruise Planners / American Express
Joanie Ogg, CTC, MCC had an
opportunity to sit down with Michelle Fee, CEO of Cruise Planners
for an in-depth look at Cruise Planer's home-based agent
program. Also, Michelle offers some sage advice on how to survive
this economy.
Read the Interview
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Articles Featured
Have Big Dog - Will Travel:
Joanie Ogg, CTC, MCC shares her experience taking her St.
Bernard to Mexico for an extended stay. If you have clients
that travel with pets, this article is a "must read"!
Viral
Marketing and You:
Are you looking
to grow organic traffic to your website? Here are critical
things to know about viral marketing.
Clients
for Life Managing Travel Over Time:
The fourth article in the series that deals with how to
maintain clients for life.
Forty
Shades of Green: Jan
Shaughnessy shares information regarding her recent visit to
Ireland.
All
the World's a Stage - The U.K. for the Performing Arts:
Paull Tickner shares his wealth of knowledge of the U.K. and how
to appeal to special groups in this wonderful article.
Hot Topics
At the request of some
newsletter readers, here is a list of just some of the hot
topics being discussed at HBTACommunity.com. If you are not
yet a member, you will need to register before participating
in the discussions. Registrations is free and fun!
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Why Should I
book through a travel agent?
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The Economy & Cruise Lines -
What would you do?
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Customer
Contact, How Often and How
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Group Hosting Opinions
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When a potential client does a 360
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How do we compete with suppliers that
are increasingly ramping up their already aggressive marketing
campaigns to our existing and potential clients?
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How is everyone doing with Tripology....
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Puerto Vallarta / Punta Mita Update
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New Cruise Social Network is Friendly
Towards Travel Agents
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NEW CLIA Requirements
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.travel domains
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Sounding board for a possible
"grass roots" effort towards multi media campaign and PR
campaign explaining what TA's do...
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NEW &
COMPLETELY UPDATED!
April 1st, 2009 Edition
We have just completely
rewritten our flagship book "How to Start a Home Based
Travel Agency" April 1st, 2009 editions are now available
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On the Road
Tom and Joanie
Ogg, the champions of home-based travel professionals
worldwide hit the road and hope to see you there!
HomeBasedTravelAgent.com will have a booth at each event. We
look forward to seeing you!
Cruise3Sixty,
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, April 2nd through the 6th, 2009
Attend one of Tom Ogg's Cruise
Seminars
After taking a short break
from cruising, Tom is back at it. Join Tom on one of his
upcoming cruise seminars. Here is a list of the ones he is
scheduled to take so far.
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May 31st, 2009, Celebrity Mercury,
7-day Alaska Inside Passage
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Oct. 17th, 2009, Celebrity Century,
7-day Western Med.
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Nov. 15th, 2009, NCL Spirit, 7-day
Exotic W. Caribbean
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