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Doing What You Love to Do. And Getting Paid to Do It. Seminar discussion topics. Who are Charlie and Sherrie Funk and what is Just Cruisin’ Plus?. What the home-based agent program is. What the home-based agent program Is not. What is included with the home-based agent membership.
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Doing What You Love to Do And Getting Paid to Do It
Seminar discussion topics Who are Charlie and Sherrie Funk and what is Just Cruisin’ Plus? What the home-based agent program is What the home-based agent program Is not What is included with the home-based agent membership
Who are Charlie and Sherrie Funk and what is Just Cruisin’ Plus? Sherrie has been in the travel industry for over thirty years in a variety of fields Sherrie started out of our basement in 1981 Sherrie started the first cruise-only agency in the state of Tennessee in 1988 Charlie is a graduate Chemical Engineer with marketing and sales experience in several industries Charlie entered the business full time March 1, 1993
Who are Charlie and Sherrie Funk and what is Just Cruisin’ Plus • Sherrie serves on the National Advisory Board of Vacation.com, the world’s largest travel consortium, replacing Charlie who served for eight years • Charlie serves on the Travel Agent Advisory Board for Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) • Both have served on advisory boards for three separate cruise lines
Who are Charlie and Sherrie Funk and what is Just Cruisin’ Plus Sherrie and Charlie are nationally known lecturers and educators in the travel industry, conducting training seminars for Vacation.com, Travel Trade Magazine and numerous other agent groups They are the authors of several books for agents and agency owners to grow sales and operate efficiently and profitably Sherrie writes for Travel Trade “Home Based Agent” Magazine Charlie writes for Travel Weekly Magazine
Who are Charlie and Sherrie Funk and what is Just Cruisin’ Plus Just Cruisin’ Plus is: • A Carnival Cruise Line Agency of the Year • A recipient of sales and service achievement awards from every major cruise line • Winner of numerous awards for marketing and promotional campaigns from suppliers and industry magazines and newspaper publications • In the top 2% of all agencies in North America in sales volume
What the home-based agent program is • An opportunity and tools to do something you already love to do • A way to learn how to do it better • Productivity tools to do it more efficiently and accurately • An opportunity to learn through travel • A way to get paid for doing what you already love and don’t get paid for now
What the home-based agent program is not An MLM (multi-level marketer) About recruiting others to be home based agents A way to travel for “free” A travel agent card mill A “get rich quick” scheme
What is included with the home-based agent membership Subscription and 24/7 access to the premier agent informational tool in the travel industry, Agentnet
What is included with the home-based agent membership Subscription and software to access Amadeus Cruise, the leading agent cruise booking tool.
What is included with the home-based agent membership • Subscription and access to the following sites that provide a wealth of information and tools to help you bookccl.com cruisingpower.com ncl.com Polaronline Disneytravelagent.com Myappleonline.com Vacationexpress.net Travelimpressions.com Blueskytours.com EZ Guider & EZ Cruise
What is included with the home-based agent membership • Email notification of special pricing, promotions, and offers which we encourage you to send along to your prospects and clients. This is a sample from Princess Your Weekly HOT DEALS!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "DUAL BRAND" Cruise Sales Flyer PromotionThe October DUAL Cruise Sale.This is HUGE - that we have a Cruise Sale focusing on Europe - that is SO RICH with BONUS COMMISSION & SHIPBOARD CREDITS! You need to participate in this extraordinary opportunity. Sign up on Polar Online or email Diana Chauncey at http://www.dchauncey@princesscruises.com and tell her that you want to! Attached please find the pdf of the Dual Brand Cruise Sale Flyer.
What is included with the home-based agent membership • Notification of educational trips and seminars including opportunities such as the following: • Carnival site inspection of four different ships in Miami, cost $100.00 plus transportation to the inspection site • Seminars at sea on regular cruises at reduced rates with several hours of classroom time to learn about the host’s ships, and how to sell them • Opportunity to attend Vacation.com annual conference, THE best educational, learning and networking opportunity available. • Local trade shows by multiple suppliers
What is included with the home-based agent membership Product training, either in classroom type settings or online through Webex sessions by our travel suppliers Procedural training to learn the ins and outs of booking a trouble-free vacation. Sales training, either in classroom type settings or online by Sherrie, Charlie and others Brochures in quantity for distribution to your clients (pick up at office or drop ship to you) Promotional collateral to publicize groups Sales support to help with presentations to your group travelers until you’re ready to go out on your own Errors and omissions insurance
What do you need • A passion for travel • An interest in helping others plan the vacation that best fits, meets and exceeds their expectations • A high speed Internet connection • A dedication to customer service • A computer with Windows 2000 Pro SP4, XP Pro SP1 (Vista Business is provisional) operating system preferred. Windows 2000 Pro SP1, SP2, NT4 SP6, XP Home or 2000 Server SP4 will work also • Microsoft Internet Explorer v. 6.0 SP1 or higher (IE 7.0 is provisional) • A computer with the following hardware specifications:
What do you need • Pentium III 700 MHz with 512 kb cache or AMD Athlon 700 MHz with 512 kb cache or higher (Pentium III 500 MHz, AMD K6-2/300 MHz or Celeron 500 MHz, all with 512 kb cache will work also) • 128 mb RAM or higher • 250 mb hard drive space minimum • SVGA video adapter, 800 X 600 or 1024 X 768 resolution, 16 bit color minimum • DirectX 9.0c or higher • MDAC 2.8 • Current Microsoft security patches • Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 runtime
What’s the next step • Determine if the program is for you • Request and complete • the personal information and background questionnaire • the participation agreement • Choose user names and passwords and complete Internet site registration forms • Come by Just Cruisin’ Plus to pick up brochure supplies or make arrangements to have shipped to address of your choice • Get out there and help your friends!