HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED CREDENTIALS SUPPORT

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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT
Basic Building Blocks Travel Training
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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT

• HISTORY AND CHANGES
• Store front Travel Agencies have been reduced
  from over
  
  120,000 to 20,000 since the
  early 1990s
• Airlines cut commissions in early 1990s
• Forced a change from on-land agencies to
  on-line agencies
• Industry expected to grow from 6 Trillion to
  10 Trillion in the next decade
• Baby boomers are retiring at a rate of 1 every
  8 seconds in the US alone
• 70 of all travel is booked online

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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT

• THE HOME BASED AGENT
• Shifted from store to home
• Ranks 1 among home based businesses
• Internet has allowed it to be little overhead
  with unlimited growth potential
• More freedom earn when you want, earn what you
  want
• Tax benefits of owning your own home-based
  business
• you should consult with a tax professional on
  this.

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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT

• WHAT MAKES GT TRENDS UNIQUE?
• Complete web-based travel website
• One-of-a-kind customer acquisition program
• Free 24/7 marketing via e-mails, banners, and
  on-line movies
• Business website recorded trainings,
  accounting software to track your business,
  training modules, live support, and live training
  calls!

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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT

• THE BENEFITS
• Most common Travel Associations ARC, CLIA,
  IATA, IATA/N, ASTA
• We have ARC status
• IATA/N is a status reserved for Full-Time
  Travel Agents to qualify for this status, you
  must be employed by the agency for at least a
  year and earn at least 5,000 in travel
  commissions during that year.
• ATA is an internal GT Trends designation that
  stands for Associate Travel Agent
• Benefits are a courtesy, not a right so conduct
  yourself in a professional manner

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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT
YOUR TRAVEL STORE
http// (yourusername) .gttrends.com
Click on Member Log-In
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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
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YOUR TRAVEL STORE
If first time visiting your Travel Store, click
on Not a Member?
Dont use your ATA email.
Fill out the customer registration.
Only the fields marked with an are required.
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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
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YOUR TRAVEL STORE Tracking your customers
After clicking Submit
You will then receive your customer username and
password to be used when logging into your
customer site.
Your customers will then follow the same
procedure and from that point on, your customers
commissions will be tracked every time they
purchase travel.
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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT
FAM FAM NEWS
After clicking on Fam News Subscription in your
back office, Only fill out the fields that have
an asterisk next to them
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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT
FAM FAM NEWS
After registration, go to www.famnews.com and
enter the username password that you created.
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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT

• GETTING STARTED
• Explore your entire Travel Store
• Use your customer acquistion program
• Pass out business cards
• Join Social and Networking Organizations
• Use the GT Trends movie system to generate new
  leads!
• Send out e-mails to all your friends and family

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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT

• GETTING STARTED COMMISSIONS
• As an ATA with GT Trends, you will receive 50
  of all the commission that you book with GT
  Trends.
• Vendors by law must pay out all commissions
  earned to the agency by the end of the month
  following the conclusion of the trip.
• GT Trends then pays out the commissions on the
  Monday following the first of the following
  month.

50 of the commission, not the gross.
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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT
CREDENTIALS
Click on the ATA Exam/Credentials link in your
back office menu take your exam.
Click on the Credentials Application link to
finish filling out your card info upload your
picture
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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT
CREDENTIALS Your Photo
Make sure the picture is 300 dpi has a white
background. (see example below)
Click on the Browse button to upload your picture
Use the crop feature in your photo program
to get the photo into a square that is 300 pixels
by 300 pixels.
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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
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SUPPORT
Click on Download Conference Calls under the
Business Training Tab Take advantage of all the
training available in your back office!
Click on Recorded Travel Presentations All the
tools and resources are available to you 24/7 to
ensure your success in this incredible industry!
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HISTORY HOME BASED AGENT THE BENEFITS
TRAVEL STORE FAMS GETTING STARTED
CREDENTIALS SUPPORT

• SUPPORT Free Travel Publications
• Mail Pound www.mailpound.com
• Travel Weekly www.travelweekly.com
• Agent _at_ Home www.agentathome.com
• Travel Trade www.traveltrade.com
• GT Trends GT Trends Travel Newsletters