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How To Succeed As A
Home-Based Travel Agent

"I do NOT sell a business opportunity!
That's why I am free to reveal
the secrets of
becoming a home-based travel agent
WITHOUT spending a fortune."

Tuesday, 8:00 p.m.
Branford, CT

Dear Home-Based Entrepreneur,

I'm running around like a crazy person, clearing off my desk, tying up loose ends and finalizing preparations before I take off on a trip to London, Amsterdam, and Paris. (Hey, I gotta travel sometime!) But I wanted to sit down and get this off my chest before I go because I'm angry and frustrated.

I'm angry because today my e-mail box had three (that's right, three) come-ons for get-rich-quick schemes in the "$4 trillion travel industry." I usually get one of these spams every couple of days, recently. Since you're on the Internet, you've probably seen them, too. I hope you just deleted them because they're a bunch of crap! (Excuse my French, but I told you I was angry.)

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 $50,000 a year.

Maybe you'd like to join them. If so, you might have been tempted to respond to one of those come-ons I just mentioned. If you did, don't feel too bad because I know information is hard to come by. It's especially hard to get reliable, unbiased information about this very exciting opportunity.

Let me help. I have spent the last twelve years discovering the secrets to becoming fabulously successful as a home-based travel agent. When I first started publishing information about the home-based travel agency concept, I took a lot of flak from some old-fashioned, "traditional" travel agents. But I was clearly on to something. Now even the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) recognizes that home-based travel agents are the wave of the future. And listen to this, many colleges that teach the travel agency business are using my materials to educate the growing numbers of home-based agents. Shouldn't you have the same winning resources that the big guys are using?

That kind of recognition has been personally gratifying, but there's still much to be done to educate the public about the opportunities offered by the home-based travel revolution.

I have designed this site to help you decide if becoming a home-based travel agent is for you (it's not for everyone!) and to familiarize you with the many benefits of my home study course.

My course 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.

My course even shows you how to avoid host agencies altogether (if you wish) and set up you very own independent travel agency, with its very own IATA number (a unique industry identifier).

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. And if you're already working as a home-based travel agent, you'll receive tips, techniques, and maybe a little inspiration.

I have been told that I should charge $147 a year for a newsletter like this. Apparently, many people writing other highly specialized newsletters charge even more than that! But I'm offering it FREE ONLINE because I'd like to get the word out.

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.

Be sure to enter your complete e-mail address. For example, mary679@aol.com and NOT mary679 or mary679@aol. Then, just click ONCE on the SUBSCRIBE button .

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.

Referral agencies issue their referral agents a photo ID that the agent can use to receive some travel industry discounts and courtesies from some suppliers. This annoys some people in the travel industry but, as far as I have been able to tell, the practice is perfectly legal. The agencies that accredit travel agencies have not taken any action against the travel agencies issuing these cards, nor have any travel suppliers. The federal government specifically declined to take any action, saying this was simply an alternative way of marketing travel.

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.

Home-based travel agents like this clearly do a lot more than the referral agent. They work with their clients to determine what kind of travel experience the client is looking for. Then they research the available options, speaking directly with the travel supplier. Then they present the options to their client, help the client make a decision, and make the booking arrangements with the supplier. In exchange for doing all this work, they receive a much higher percentage of the commission than the referral agent. In fact, they might get it all!

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.

Anyone who is halfway serious about pursuing a career as a full-fledged home-based travel agent -- even on a part-time basis -- will very quickly qualify for the "IATAN card." This is the Rolls-Royce of travel agent photo ID cards and it can be used to get all the discounts and privileges referral agents get and then some, and without raising any controversy. (I explain about IATAN elsewhere on this site.)

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?

If you are interested in becoming a referral agent, you will find information about that option elsewhere on this web site. For now, however, let's concentrate on how to become a full-fledged booking and selling agent. After all, that's where the real money is!

More Secrets on How To Succeed as a Home-Based Travel Agent

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. The reasons are detailed in my home study course. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

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. I know home-based travel agents who . . .

Work only occasionally to find great deals for themselves and a small circle of friends.
Work just enough to earn themselves one or two great vacations every year.
Work as home-based travel agents on the side, in addition to their regular jobs.
Work on a part-time basis to earn a respectable second income.
Work full-time and earn more than $50,000 a year.

No matter whether you work just occasionally or put in a 60-hour week, exactly how you work is totally up to you. You are completely free to concentrate on the destinations, activities, or modes of travel that excite you. There's no one to tell you what to sell, where to sell it, to whom to sell it, or how to sell it. (Unless you let them, of course, and I'll show you how to avoid that!)

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.

But to maximize your success you must acquire the knowledge of the most successful home-based agents -- either through hard-won and sometimes bitter experience, or by learning from those who have been there before you and are willing to give you the benefit of their experience.

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, as I will show you) must form a relationship with a host agency. And your success hinges on your understanding of this relationship.

(Of course, home-based agents also have relationships with travel suppliers with whom they deal directly. But my comments here are concerned mostly with host agencies.)

There are many ways to connect with a host agency. You can do it for free (I'll show you how), or you can pay a fee. You may have to sell yourself to an agency. Or several agencies may compete in offering you the "best deal" to sign up with them. Regardless of how it happens, once you've hooked up with a host agency, a commitment has been made. If money has changed hands then a certain "investment" has been made. Even though it is possible to work with more than one host agency at the same time, it is far more convenient to work with just one, so a certain sense of loyalty tends to develop. It can be a hassle to switch host agencies, so inertia sets in.

Perhaps for these reasons, many home-based travel agents start to think that they work for this host agency. They may know, intellectually, that this is not the case. But they behave as if it is. Because the host agency has a certain way of doing things, they start to think that this is the only way of doing things. Again, on an intellectual level, they may know this is not the case, but they behave as if it is.

They are thinking like employees. They gradually start thinking that their destiny, their success, is wrapped up with the destiny of the host agency. This is a mistake, but an easily corrected one. However, it is not the biggest mistake beginners make.

No, the biggest mistake newcomers to the home-based travel agent profession make -- especially those who have had no prior experience running their own business -- is that they think they are customers of the host agency. This is especially true if they paid a fee to get set up as an outside agent with that agency.

This kind of thinking is very dangerous.

Thanks to numerous "consumer advocates," Consumer Reports magazine, legions of product liability lawyers, and the growth of concepts like Total Quality Management and Total Customer Service, we live in the Age of the Customer.

Most of us have grown up hearing the phrase, "The Customer Is Always Right." In fact, some highly successful merchants have those words literally carved in stone at their entrances.

If we order something from Land's End or Nordstrom's and don't like it, we can send it back, no questions asked.

We don't even have to exercise plain old common sense. If we buy a cup of piping hot coffee from the McDonalds drive-thru and are stupid enough to stick it between our legs as we drive off, then McDonalds owes us a couple of million if we get burned.

But the fact of the matter is, the host agency is not Land's End or Nordstrom's or McDonalds. You are not your host agency's customer.

You and the host agency are two separate and independent business entities that have freely entered into a purely business relationship, because each party has independently decided that there's something in it for them.

In the business-to-consumer model there is an unspoken assumption that the business is smarter and more powerful and that the customer is less knowledgeable and less powerful. Therefore, the reasoning goes, the customer's interests must be protected.

In the business-to-business model there is an unspoken assumption that the parties involved are equally capable. On top of that, there is a general recognition that the interests of the two parties might be fundamentally different. In other words, what's best for you might not be best for the host agency and vice versa.

Oh sure, if you have a problem with a host agency you can always sue. And maybe you'll prevail in court. But the court will apply very different standards than it would if you were suing McDonalds because you spilled hot coffee on yourself.

Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that host agencies are crooks, who are out to get you. And I'm not saying that they don't give two hoots about you or your best interests. Of course that's not true.

But what is true is that every host agency is a business seeking to do business with another business. You, the independent contractor home-based travel agent, are that other business. Each of you has your own agenda and your own best interests at heart. Each of you is "in business."

Business is like a poker game. It can be fair and it can be honest and it can certainly be a lot of fun. But success in the game depends on keeping your cards to yourself and not giving away your secrets.

Do you think the people who want to set you up -- working for them -- in your own home-based travel business are going to say:

"Oh, by the way, I'm charging you $495, but you can get a better deal from someone else without paying anything."

Of course not!

Are they going to tell you:

"I'll give you 50 percent of the commission, but other agencies will give you 60 percent or 70 percent."

Of course not!

Are they going to say:

"I'd like you to give me all your business, but of course you can deal directly with many travel suppliers and keep the entire commission for yourself, without sharing it with me."

Of course not!

The point is, they only tell you what they have to tell you. They don't have any obligation to take you by the hand and explain the facts of business life to you. They don't have to show you how the cards are stacked in their favor. They don't have to tell you that the only one who can lose money in this deal is you. They are not charitable institutions.

But I will tell you all this, because I don't want you to work for me. My business model only works when I tell you everything and reveal all the secrets.

That is why I created this web site and my Home Study Course for home-based travel agents. (If you're going to earn at home, you might as well learn at home.)

I just wanted to express how incredibly grateful I am to have purchased your home study course. I purchased your books approximately one year ago. At that time, I was getting into the travel business merely as a hobby. One year later, I earned my IATAN card and now have a profitable business with extra valuable benefits. I owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to your program. I believe your course is the best education one can receive as a home-based travel agent! Thank you!!!

I have already referred your program to others that are interested in the business. I can't speak highly enough of your materials! Thank you for producing not only a valuable resource, but an affordable one too!

Anne Hovey
Great Rate Travel

Here Is the Vital Knowledge You Need To Have . . . and that I provide in my home study course:

About setting up your business

The absolute minimum amount of money you need to get started. I bet you'll be surprised at how little it turns out to be.
Two different ways of hooking up with a host agency. And how to determine which is best for you.
The three basic types of home-based travel agent opportunities. And why one of them costs so darn much. And why you still might want to consider it.
Five good reasons to ally yourself with a local agency. And three reasons you might not want to.
Six good reasons to pay a fee to become an outside agent. And six equally good reasons you might not want to.
What to understand about how host agencies split their commissions with their outside agents -- and how much money you can lose if you don't.
How to become an outside agent -- instantly -- no questions asked, and still get one of the highest commission splits in the industry. Without paying a fee!
Why most referral agents lose money. And what the successful ones do to make a killing.
What host agency "rules" you can safely ignore, and why.
The vital importance of a contract and the crucial wording that must be in a contract before you agree to sign it.
How to pass the IRS's rigorous "sniff test." (It's easy if you know how.)
How to save months of effort in searching for a host agency. (I've done all the tedious leg work for you.)
Quickly identify the host agencies that charge the lowest fees and offer the highest commissions. (Once again, I've done the hard work for you.)
The truth about insurance and why some travel agents believe you just don't need it.
What you need to know about the tax benefits (yes, benefits!) of being a home-based travel agent.
How to take legal tax deductions for things you never imagined could be deductions before.
The crucial importance of defining your travel business and the many different ways to go about it.
Which industry associations you should join and why.
When -- and how -- to cut your host agency loose and become completely independent.

About selling travel

Five simple steps to follow in making every booking.
The simple (but crucial) things to understand about "travel products."
The "magic words" that will get you the highest level of service from reservationists and travel suppliers.
How toearn commissions on airline tickets, even though most airlines have stopped paying commissions.
How to get the absolutely most important piece of information about airfares between any two cities in the world quickly and for free on the Internet.
The most overlooked product in the lodgings area today and the huge commissions you can make offering it to a largely untapped market.
The importance of the package and why you should be looking to sell it every chance you get.
How to avoid "the screaming me-me's."
The four secrets to setting sales goals that will work for you.
How many "prospects" you need to keep your "pipeline" full. And more sources of them than you thought possible.
How to determine, with amazing accuracy, the value of a customer.
The three things your business card must accomplish.
What to do on your very first sales call with every prospect, an easy-to-learn formula you can use over and over.
How to use targeted direct mail to reach your best prospects. And where to get lists of them absolutely free
Everything you need to know about "qualifying." And why learning how to do it will place you miles ahead of your competition.
The information you need to collect about all your customers and how to keep it organized.
How to analyze a travel brochure. What you learn can make the difference in making the sale.
An easy-to-use process for presenting the wonder of travel in a way that translates interest into confirmed bookings.
A four-step process you can use to handle any customer objection.
How to convince your customers that a high-ticket vacation is their very best travel bargain (without lying to them). (The secret is to get them to convince themselves.)
The most important thing to ask a customer. And why you should always ask it.
The solid-gold sales step that most travel agents forget. (Hint: It comes after you've made the sale.)

About maximizing your income

The importance of preferred suppliers and why they can be crucial to picking the right host agency.
A simple decision you can make at the very beginning of your travel career that will assure you the highest income possible.
How to get 100% of the commission (but why that might not always be the best deal).
When, why, and how to "go direct," bypassing your host agency, and deal directly with travel suppliers. Plus, what to tell your host agency when they squawk.
What travel suppliers look for when dealing with independent home-based travel agents and how to convince them you're the genuine article.
How to purchase airline tickets at the super-low "net" fares reserved only for travel agents.
The important relationships among commission structure, product mix, and volume. And which one of the three has the biggest effect on your bottom line.
The very best travel product to sell. It has the highest per-sale payback and 85% of everyone who buys from you once will come back again. And again. And again.
How to track the commissions due you and make sure you get paid.
Which travel products pay the best commissions and which pay the worst.

About getting those super travel agent benefits

What the "card mill" controversy is all about.
Complimentary upgrades to first class? Do travel agents really get them? The answer may surprise you.
How to get a free trip for signing up as few as six paying customers.
How to develop a profile as a travel agent with the people who count most.
Not all ID cards are created equal.
The importance of the IATAN card, and why it is not all it's cracked up to be.
How to tell a so-called "travel agent discount" from a real travel agent discount.
The very best form of travel agent ID. (It's not a photo ID card!).
How to turn what used to be "vacations" into tax-deductible "business trips."
Why "fam trips," low-cost familiarization trips for travel agents, have become such a racket. And how to tell the real thing from the come-ons.
The best way to get free (or very cheap) fam trips.

What Others Are Saying

Rudy Maxa, host of Public Radio's Savvy Traveler program calls it "a definitive guide to getting in on the travel business."

Consumer Reports Travel Letter calls it "the best current source of information on becoming a home travel agent."

But I am proudest of the raves I get from my students:

"On Thursday, February 23, I purchased your manual and can honestly state it was the smartest move and best bargain I have encountered in my six years as a part-time agent. I understand more fully the concepts involved, can make better bookings, and have a definite game plan for retirement. Thank you. It should be mandatory for every part-time agent."
Terri Austin
INTERNATIONAL TOURS OF NORTHEAST
Philadelphia, PA

"Thank you very much! I've been looking for a way to be involved in the travel industry and combine it with my interest in golf. You provided me with the material I needed."
Penny Rauenhorst
PJ'S TRAVEL & GOLF GETAWAYS

"It is everything they did not teach us in the travel agent training course -- a virtual gold mine for anyone, such as myself, interested in testing the waters of the travel agent business before diving in."
Rosalie Hughes
Boise, ID

"I was anxious to start selling travel without paying the price as an entry-level travel agent inside an agency. Your manual gives me the nuts and bolts on how to do it. It really is great!"
Matilda Teitgen
BLUE LAGOON ADVENTURES
Long Island, NY

"Thanks for making my dream possible!"
James K. Fowler
Englewood, CO

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. Like I said, these companies are not Land's End or Nordstrom's Most of them have no "money-back guarantee."

Save yourself the time, the agony, and the money!

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Home-Based Travel Agent: How To Succeed in Your Own Travel Marketing Business. This 448-page, step-by-step moneysaving manual is the heart of the home study course. It gives you all you need to design and set up your business for your profit, not someone else's. Includes complete instruction on the crucial selling skills you need to be a success as a home-based agent.
The Travel Agent's Complete Desk Reference. 384 pages of the data and information that professional travel agents must have at their fingertips. Airport locator codes, supplier 800 numbers, web sites, sources of FREE travel information at home and abroad, visa and entry requirements for every country in the world, annotated listings of travel associations and publications, and much, much, more.
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Over 900 information-packed pages that will transform the beginner into a seasoned professional and a savvy businessperson. And these aren't printed in big type with wide margins like other home study courses you may have seen. The Home-Based Travel Agent manual alone is over 100,000 words long. When I say information-packed, I mean packed.

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People pay anywhere from $800 to $1,200 for travel school training programs and still don't get the streetwise, real-world savvy and understanding available in this home study course.

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Bonus #3 (a $67 Value): A Special Report on Ticketing Ploys: How To Beat The Airlines At Their Own Game. Whether you are booking for clients or yourself, you'll want to know these strategies -- from the fairly obvious to the seriously tricky -- for getting absolutely the best deal possible. PLUS, how to protect yourself and your clients from retaliation by the airlines.
Bonus #4 (a $49 Value): Powerful business forms to help you gather information and manage your business affairs. These forms can be reproduced over and over again. Some can be edited for the specifics of your business. Use them for years to come.

Bonus #5 (a $17 Value): A FREE copy of Air Travel's Bargain Basement. Consolidators are specialists in discounted international and domestic airline tickets. This dynamite e-book, supplied on CD, lists over 500 sources of cheap tickets, including a valuable cross-reference of consolidators who sell only to travel agents. Travel agents like you! Once you have mastered the home study course, you will be able to buy airline tickets at the ultra-low "net fares" reserved for travel agents. Use them yourself, or sell them for whatever the traffic will bear. With consolidator tickets you can write your own commission check!

Bonus # 6 (a $149 Value): My private compilation of Supplier Web Sites. Just open these documents in your favorite web browser and launch yourself into cyberspace with my personal collection of supplier web sites. It's the most complete available anywhere. The world's airlines, rental car companies, hotel chains, cruise lines, tour operators -- they're all here. It took me weeks of research to compile this resource and it's yours FREE.

Bonus #7 (a $79 Value): Interviews with industry insiders. A series of interviews provided in mp3 format. You can listen on your computer or download them to an iPod or similar device to listen to while you're on the go. PLUS, a series of question and answer sessions with Kelly Monaghan that answer the most common "newbie" questions.

Bonus #8 (a $49 Value): Canadian Supplement. Additional information for our friends to the North, including more Canadian host agency contacts, Canadian airlines, Canadian airports, Canadian travel media, and (very important!) Canadian airline consolidators. (U.S. agents will want to look at this, too.)

BUT PLEASE HURRY!! I have been under considerable pressure to raise the price of the home-study course. But I am holding the line -- for now. So, please order TODAY. When the price goes up, it goes up for good, and it will be too late to lock in this low price.

Please don't let this opportunity slip by. If you are seriously interested in making money in the travel business then you owe it to yourself to make the minimal investment required to do it right the first time.

All this for a modest investment of $139. (Plus $11 for UPS Ground shipping -- a total of $150.)

Attention Connecticut residents: We must add $9.04 sales tax to your order for a total of $159.04. If you order online using our Secure Server (Option 1 below) we will add the $9.04 as a separate charge, so you will receive two email receipts. Sorry.

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There are two simple ways to order:

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Remember, this is not one of those "get-rich-quick" or "get-something-for-nothing" schemes. This is a serious home study course about a serious business that can make you some serious money. So, if you're looking for one of those deals that promises "make $2,000 a week in your sleep without selling anything" (Hah! What a laugh that is!), then please do not order this course. If you want to give your money away, at least give it to a reputable charity where it will do some good.

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