Are you looking for a home-based business with flexible hours and low start-up costs and expenses? Are you a stay-at-home mom who needs some extra income? Do you need more money to supplement your paycheck from your regular job? Are you unemployed and looking for some income to tide you over? Do you have a passion for travel? Starting your own online travel agency might just be the right move for you.
This 16,000 word book isn't about multilevel marketing programs or worthless cookie-cutter travel sites. It gives you five solid steps to starting your own online travel agency. If you implement these steps, you'll have your very own travel business. It also discusses the realities of the business, without false get-rich-quick promises.
Topics in this comprehensive guide to starting your own home-based business include:
-Is an Internet travel agency right for you?
-How to calculate your earning potential
-Making a business plan
-Making a marketing plan
-Choosing a specialty and differentiating yourself
-Start-up costs and expenses
-Finding a legitimate host agency (and avoiding scams)
-How to handle failure
This career guide contains exercises to help you see you're cut out to be online travel agent and to help you set up your business. It's also loaded with helpful links to free and cheap resources and vital information. It's written by Barb Nefer, a successful online travel agent since 2004 who books Disney Cruise Line and Walt Disney World trips. She's also author of another career guide, "So You Want to be a Counselor." Barb brings her experience to this book and offers her advice throughout, based on her own extensive experience as a home-based travel agent.
