The Lead Gen Problem You’ll Love to Solve Have you ever had guests you couldn’t get rid of? It’s like they’re taking advantage of your goodwill and time. That’s how it is for many travel agents who must suffer through travel shoppers who are poorly qualified leads for one reason or another. It’s hard to…
How to Attract Travel Advisors Being more proactive about recruiting quality, experienced, and successful travel agents might be the one of the productive efforts you make to succeed. Like all online companies, you need marketing techniques that attract competent new and seasoned travel advisors. The value proposition of individual, successful agents is high. They have…
Empowering Travel Agencies The 2025 travel market is suddenly looking a little more challenging with the introduction of the Trump tariffs. International travelers are adjusting their trip decisions based on worsening economic outlooks, rising US dollar, and rising costs due to inflation. The low performing agencies will have poor operational efficiency, weak tour/trip selection, with…
Local Travel Agents Near Me Travel shoppers have a lot of options when they travel. They can use AI travel planners, use a big travel marketplace, an agent in the destination country, or a local travel agent. Given travel agents in your town or city have an extensive set of tools, experience, and travel and destination…
Do you Know the Real Reason your Content Marketing Campaign Failed? If you’re like many SMB owners today, you’ve wasted thousands of dollars on ads, time spent on social media, and hastily built some landing pages which resulted in no real leads, no real sales. And to add insult to injury, it’s likely that your…
Who’s Launching Startup Travel Businesses? With an economic revival likely for the coming 5 years, entrepreneurs are intrigued about investing in and launching a travel startup. And the people jumping all over this opportunity are millionaires and people like you and me. Starter Story’s recent post on “How profitable is a travel agency?” suggests this…
Why Search Engines Are Essential for Your Travel Business Success Given the promise of the incoming Trump 2.0 government with its pro-business agenda, both personal travel and business travel will see a big boost in 2025. And with travelers using digital tools such as Google to plan their trips, its absolutely necessary to build visibility…
The 2025 Revival of Small Business Travel agencies, retail shops, SaaS software startups, and real estate brokers are small businesses and they haven’t been represented well in the last 4 years. And small business provides most of GDP and income/jobs for most Americans. They employ 61 million people or 45.9% of the entire U.S. workforce…
Unlocking the Power of Creativity As a travel business owner you’re not really paying for marketing execution anymore. AI and marketing software are responding to that need. The real weakness or gap is with creativity and imagination in your marketing and promotion. More focus needs to be placed on developing the creative powers that will make…
Why not Have a Dedicated, Active Brand Ambassador? One of the most common issues with digital marketing campaigns is while they’re designed to meet advertiser needs, they often fail to create the kind of compelling human connection that resonates within travel consumers. Instead of leaving a lasting impression, the ads, messaging and landing pages often…
Pay Per Click Campaigns for Travel Businesses Travel businesses rely heavily on pay per click campaigns and paid social boosting to reach targeted travel consumers. It’s hard to beat the placement and reach of online advertising. It’s extremely fast and powerful, yet it’s competitive. The required minimum bids will shock you. Before you spend…
Attack Your Competitor’s Strengths A commencement speech from Roger Federer at Dartmouth College recently, offered one really important tip for entrepreneurs and future CEOs in the audience. He spoke about his challenges in becoming the greatest tennis player of all time. He mentioned having to work hard and shore up his weaknesses, become disciplined, managing…