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Travel Agency in a Year — 231 episodes

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Day 230: Understanding Inbound vs. Outbound Outreach for travel advisors

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Day 229: How a travel advisor can get seen beyond the feed

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Day 228: General Marketing vs. the "Push": creating a solid travel agency marketing strategy

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Day 227: Waiting for 'perfection' costs you more than you think as a travel advisor

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Day 226: Why a travel advisor should mind their own business

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Day 225: Imitation is the highest form of flattery

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Day 224: Why should a travel advisor track their specific offer launch?

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Day 223: Announcing your new travel niche is more than just posting once

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Day 222: The Travel Advisor's Guide to A Soft Launch

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Day 221: Shiny Object Syndrome isn't just falling for the latest travel CRM

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Day 220: Leadership lessons for TAs from championship coaches

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Day 219: Why a travel advisor should create a 5-year plan

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Day 218: What to expect if someone offers to sell you their travel agency

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Day 217: Which business model works for your travel agency?

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Day 216 - Building the Travel Agent's Story Bank

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Day 215: Discipline is a Skill, not a Genetic Trait

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Day 214: The ONE question to ask yourself when you're feeling stuck your travel business.

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Day 213: Why Travel Advisors need to repeat their message in marketing

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Day 212: Transcript to written content workflow for travel advisors

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Day 211: Batching the backend tasks in a travel agency

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Day 210: Batch it or Burn Out

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Day 209: Marketing the Mission of your travel agency, Not Yourself

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Day 208: Carrying Less

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Day 207:Are you the Owner of the Steward of your Travel Agency?

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Day 206: What "Premium" Actually Means for Travel Advisors

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Day 205: Someone Else Will Do What You Do... How to Be Okay With That.

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Day 204: Steal Like an Artist? Protecting Your Original Work as a Travel Advisor

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Day 203: Knowledge-Based Services & other Revenue Streams

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Day 202: Small Touches, Big Feeling: Building Luxury Into Your Travel Client Process This Week

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Day 201: Luxury travel isn't the Resort, it's how your travel clients feel working with you

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Day 200: Getting your packages in front of the right travel clients

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Day 199: The Travel advisor's guide to building service packages

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Day 198: Do you have real travel service packages, or just making up numbers on the spot?

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Day 197: Connecting with your travel clients via storytelling

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Day 196: The travel advisor's framework for building a brand

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Day 195: The difference between the Brand Story & your Founder's Story

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Day 194: Turning your story into content

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Day 193: The Travel Advisor's Guide to finding your Founder's Story

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Day 192: Storytelling in Action: how big brand use is (& how you can steal it as a travel advisor)

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Day 191 - Why Storytelling works for travel advisors

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Day 190: Mindset & Momentum

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Day 189: The Unglamorous Numbers... Operations Analytics

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Day 188: The Numbers That Matter - Marketing & Financial Tracking

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Day 187: From Maybe to Booked: A travel advisor's booking strategy

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Day 186 - Where Leads go to die: Building a pipeline that actually works

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Day 185 - The travel advisor & outreach: cold, warm & everything in-between

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Day 184 - Showing up on Camera: Short-form, Long-Form & Written Content hacks for travel advisors

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Day 183: Building the Travel Advisor's Marketing Gameplan

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Day 182 - Mid-Year Reset for travel Advisors

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Day 181 - How to un-pitch to corporate & retreat clients

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Day 180 - Kicking off your third quarter as a travel advisor!

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Day 179: The Q2 Confidence Audit (Celebrating Invisible Wins)

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Day 178 - Reclaiming Your "Why" When Travel Logistics Overwhelm You

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Day 177 - Decoupling your mood from Travel Clients

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Day 176 - Detaching from the "No" & getting ghosted by clients

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Day 175: Curing "Analysis Paralysis" (Trusting Your Travel Taste)

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Day 174 - Overcoming "Imposter Supplier Syndrome"

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Day 173 - Stick to the plan if you want to make money

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Day 172 - Why being a "Good" travel Advisor is keeping you poor

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Day 171 - The Mid-Year Chasm: How a TA navigates disappearing momentum

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Day 170 - Taking time off shouldn't destroy your travel agency

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Day 169 - The Tyranny of the 'Good' Travel Client

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Day 168 - How a travel advisor cuts off the employee mindset

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Day 167 - The Travel Advisor's High-Performance Framework

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Day 166 - Why TAs need a BORING Business

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Day 165 - The Horizon Effect Explained for Travel Advisors

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Day 164 - Outgrowing Your Host/Agency

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Day 163 - The TA Waitlist Strategy

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Day 162 - Why Enneagram & Personality tests are toxic to small biz owners like TAs

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Day 161 - Becoming the Transformational TA

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Day 160 - Why TAs have small tests before big changes

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Day 159 - Integrating Lessons for a TA's Quarterly Review

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Day 158 - Why TAs need to Build Capacity First

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Day 157 - The DW Day-of Timeline: How TAs can serve their couples

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Day 156 - The DW Planning Process for TAs in 20 minutes

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Day 155 - Travel agents' guide to crystal clear communication

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Day 154 - How a Travel Advisor can get out of their own way

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Day 153 - Detach: Become a Human Being not a Human doing

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Day 152 - How does a Travel Advisor Maintain Momentum?

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Day 151 - The TA's guide to the "Look Back" and the "Look Forward"

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Day 150 - Why do a review every 12 weeks?

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Day 149 - Step 1 to the TA's Quarterly Goal Adjustments

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Day 148 - Understanding what the heck is a P&L statement: TA edition

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Day 147 - TAs, are you reviewing your budget?

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Day 146 - Finish your quarter stronger with a final push: Tips for TAs

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Day 145 - Resilience is CRUCIAL for travel advisors

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Day 144 - What do you do when travel clients aren't coming back?

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Day 143 - Tips to keep your travel clients coming back every trip!

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Day 142 - The TA's guide to Upselling & Cross-Selling

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Day 141 - Giving Your Travel Clients the VIP Experience

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Day 140 - The true cost of constant new travel clients? Could be your sanity

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Day 139 - The TA’s guide to quick decision-making

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Day 138 - Why are Travel Advisors afraid to sell?

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Day 137 - The Travel Advisor's Consultation Framework

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Day 136 - What's your process for travel consultations?

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Day 135 - Get to know your travel leads before the consultation

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Day 134 - From Travel Leads to Clients: Conversion Analysis & Stages to Track

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Day 133 - Gratitude for Travel Advisors

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Day 132 - Growth Tactics for Travel Advisors

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Day 131 - The Travel Advisor's Visibility Assessment

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Day 130 - The Travel Advisor's Lead Magnet Assessment

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Day 129 - The Travel Advisor's Untapped Opportunities

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Day 128 - TAs NEED to double-down on the best lead sources!

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Day 127 - Lead Generation Analysis for Travel Advisors

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Day 126 - Pay attention, TAs: Perfect is the enemy of done

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Day 125: Red Flags Travel Advisors should note during monthly reviews

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Day 124 - TAs: Pattern Recognition Made Simple

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Day 123 - Developing Habits that work for Travel Advisors

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Day 122 - The "Optimization Trap" Travel Advisors Face

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Day 121 - Spirituality & Your Travel Agency Pt. 2

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Day 120 - How Spirituality Changes your Business

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Day 119 - Leveraging Partnerships in Your Content Strategy

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Day 118 - The Butterfly Effect

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Day 117 - Strategy Adjustments & Content Analysis for Travel Advisors

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Day 116 - How does a Travel Advisor create win-win Partnerships?

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Day 115 - How does a Travel Advisor Cold Approach Partnerships?

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Day 114 - the TA's Monthly Review

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Day 113 - Should TAs diversify their Marketing Strategy?

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Day 112 - Why Travel Advisors NEED the personal touch

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Day 111 - Aligning your Online presence with Your Travel Business

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Day 110 - Niching: simplify your travel business

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Day 109 - What strategies do TAs need to develop for their business?

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Day 108 - Sorting out Immediate vs. Future Actions as a TA

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Day 107 - Discipline & Decision-Making as a Travel Advisor

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Day 106 - A Travel Advisor's How-to Guide to Group & FIT Audits

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Day 105 - Why does a travel advisor need consistency?

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Day 104 - Why Discipline is Freedom for Travel Advisors

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Day 103 - The anxious TA and Networking

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Day 102 - Sincerity vs. Authenticity: Why TAs need to master both

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Day 101 - Is it worth it for travel advisors to network?

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Day 100 - The TA's Guide to Referral Program, Loyalty Program & Networking

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Day 99 - TAs, are you connecting with your clients?

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Day 98 - Are you asking for your travel clients' feedback?

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Day 97 - You are the 5 people you spend most of your time with

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Day 96 - The TA's guide to identifying skills gaps

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Day 95 - 300 things for your life as a travel advisor

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Day 94 - Why you're not getting rich as a travel advisor

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Day 93 - You don't have dream travel clients because you're stuck in your old self

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Day 92 - Phrases TAs use that kill the close

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Day 91 - Can you survive the next travel disaster? Understanding Cash Flow

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Day 90 - What Type of Leader is a Travel Advisor?

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Day 89 - How do you know it's you and not influence?

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Day 88 - Becoming the TA authority, Part 2

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Day 87 - How to become the authority as a travel advisor

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Day 86 - Finding Your Clarity as a Travel Advisor

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Day 85 - The Travel Advisor's Quarterly Review

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Day 84 - The fear of growing your travel business too much

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Day 83 - Are you afraid you aren't good enough for your travel clients?

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Day 82 - Fear of Burnout as a travel advisor

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Day 81 - Fear of Success

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Day 80 - The Fear of Rejection

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Day 79: It's lonely being a travel advisor

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Day 78: Why travel advisors fear the unknown & how to change it

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Day 77: Are you afraid your marketing sucks as a TA? You're not alone

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Day 76: Fear of failure as a travel agent

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Day 75 - Managing fears of financial insecurity as a TA

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Day 74 - Mindset Chatter: Fears all TAs face at some point

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Day 73 - Don't get caught up in vanity metrics as a travel agent.

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Day 72 - Benchmarks for your Travel Agency

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Day 71 - Why would a travel advisor have benchmarks? And what are benchmarks?

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Day 70 - Comparison is the Thief of Joy

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Day 69 - Travel Trends to consider for your agency

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Day 68 - Opportunities as a TA in 2026 & Beyond

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Day 67 - Mitigating threats in the Travel Industry as an Advisor

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Day 66 - Building Resilience as a Travel Advisor

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Day 65 - Feeling like a travel agent failure? Managing sales slumps

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Day 64 - Staying committed to Your travel business

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Day 63 - Monitoring Your Business as a Travel Advisor

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Day 62 - Celebrate Your Successes!

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Day 61 - Staying Engaged with Your travel leads & clients

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Day 60 - Why would a travel advisor want to backlink?

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Day 59 - How Can Travel Advisors Leverage SEO/AEO/GEO?

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Day 58 - AI isn't just ChatGPT, how can Travel Advisors leverage AI?

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Day 57 - Using AI as a tool, not a crutch (and it's not replacing your travel business!)

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Day 56 - Distractions that destroy your travel business

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Day 55 - Keep Your Health & Sanity in Check Part 2

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Day 54 - Travel Advisors, listen up! Keep your sanity & your health in check!

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Day 53 - Tips to stay organized as a Travel Advisor

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Day 52 - Backing up all the things as a Travel Advisor

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Day 51 - Preparing to Hire

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Day 50 - Prepare to Scale Your Travel Business!

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Day 49 - Prepare for Launch!

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Day 48 - What should be in a TA's email funnel?

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Day 47 - Funnels for travel advisors

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Day 46 - The travel advisor's guide to lead magnet guides & quizzes

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Day 45 - Video Lead Magnets Content Ideas for Travel Advisors

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Day 44 - Logistics of lead magnets as a travel advisor

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Day 43 - Types of lead magnets a travel advisor can create

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Day 42 - Why should a travel advisor have a lead magnet?

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Day 41 - How do you batch content?

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Day 40 - Content Calendars for Travel Advisors

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Day 39 - Why track communication as a Travel Advisor

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Day 38 - TA Templates from start to finish

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Day 37 - The TA's Client Journey Map

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Day 36 - The Travel Advisor's Communication Standards

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Day 35 - The Travel Advisor's Communication Philosophy

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Day 34 - Travel advisors & Networking: more than joining a BNI

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Day 33 - Honing You Active Listening Skills as a Travel Advisor

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Day 32 - What is active listening and how does it benefit your travel business?

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Day 31 - Understanding Marketing and Analyzing Your Travel Content on Social Media

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Day 30 - The Devil is in the details of your travel business

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Day 29 - Your relationships with your travel clients

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Day 28 - Developing the Travel CEO Mindset

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Day 27 - How to be Innovative in the Travel Industry

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Day 26 - Where can you grow in Your Travel Business?

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Day 25 - Basic Financial Terms

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Day 24 - Money Foundations for your Travel Business

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Day 23 - The Travel Advisor's Marketing Strategy

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Day 22 - Why Should Travel Advisors Network?

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Day 21 - Best Low-Cost/Free Marketing for Travel Advisors

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Day 20 - Authenticity & Your brand voice as a Travel Advisor

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Day 19 - Mistakes to Avoid with Travel Clients

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Day 18 - Connecting with Your Travel Clients

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Day 17 - Your Client's Journey with You

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Day 16 - Your Client's Journey: from trip idea to finding you

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Day 15 - Developing discernment as a travel advisor

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Day 14 - Consistency in Marketing to Service

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Day 13 - Boundaries & Your Travel Agency Schedule

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Day 12 - how to manage emergencies as a travel advisor

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Day 11 - Travel Advisors need Time Off, too!

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Day 10 - Daily Tasks vs. Weekly Tasks as a Travel Advisor

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Day 9 - Goal Setting as a Travel Advisor that fits your schedule

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Day 8 - Scheduling Your Work Day...when you have another job

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Day 7 - Consistency & Systems in Your Travel Biz

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Day 6 - Staying Disciplined to Hit Your Goals

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Day 5 - Your Business' Financial Health

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Day 4 - Plan to Scale to Hit Your Goals

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Day 3 - Who & Where is your ICA?

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Day 2 - Travel Agency in a Year

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Day 1 - Travel Agency in a Year

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