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How To Grow Your Travel Business By Design

Bookmark this site and stop by regularly for a dose of motivation while you embellish your selling skills.

Selling Tips & Reminders

Return to this site often. New and meaningful sales and marketing materials and information will be added regularly to help you become more successful.

As you move forward in your business you will come in contact with just two types of people: Those you can help … and the other kind. Spend the majority of your waking hours looking for type “A.” Allow the others to eliminate themselves from your business world. This site will help you stay focused.

AmaWaterways cares about your success. This is “your” site. Take your time. Browse around. Learn. Laugh. Enjoy.

Below you will find categories for articles, videos, sales tips, webinars and client interviews. Don’t allow yourself to become overwhelmed. One click at a time, listen, watch, internalize the information and implement what you personally connect with. Stimulating and thought-provoking information will be here waiting for you each time you return.

“Chance Favors The Prepared Mind” … Louis Pasteur

ARTICLES

Short, on-target reminders to help you become exceptional at what you do. Keep checking back. This list will continue to grow.

1. Marketing Works… If You Do
2. Elephants Don’t Bite: The Devil Is In The Details
3. The Travel Institute Friday Five (River Cruising)
4. Five Home-Based Mistakes  NEW

SELLING MISTAKES

1. Sales Mistake #1: Trying To Up-Sell
2. Sales Mistake #2: Not being obsessed with helping people
3. Sales Mistake #3: Not listening to the prospect …is a mistake
4. Sales Mistake #4: Not empathizing with the prospect
5. Sales Mistake #5: Seeing the prospect as an adversary
6. Sales Mistake #6: Becoming distracted
7. Sales Mistake #7: Not taking detailed notes
8. Sales Mistake #8: Failing to follow through
9. Sales Mistake #9: Focus
10. Sales Mistake #10: Not planning the day efficiently

MARKETING MISTAKES

Mistake #1: You don’t know to whom you are marketing

Mistake #2: You don’t know why your customers buy

Mistake #3: You are not client centered

Mistake #4: You have no marketing plan

Mistake #5: You are not persistent.

Mistake #6: You expect the prospect to do too much work.

Mistake #7: You don’t ask for the business

Mistake #8: You are boring people

Mistake #9: You fail to connect with your clients and prospects sufficiently often

Mistake #10: You let past customers and prospects get away

SALES TIPS

Effective and appreciated sales expertise does not come by accident. Stop by this section often to enhance your personal professionalism while learning from Mike’s 25 plus years in the business.

1. Sales Tip: Proper Eye Contact Infers Confidence
2. Repetition Works. Just Don’t Become Obnoxious
3. Speed Wins
4. Selling Tip Postcards

TRAVEL REARCH ONLINE

1. Likeability: People do business with people they like
2. Reciprocity: If you like me … I like you.

3rd THURSDAY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 

1. January: The Wealthy Travel Agent with Guest Dan Chappelle
2. February: Putting The Fun Back Into Sales With Scott Koepf
3. Selling To Groups With Stuart Cohen
4. Talking River Cruising With Ralph Grizzle
5. Social Media With Catherine Heeg
6. More Sales In Less Time With Jill Konrath

VIDEOS

Business basics will be shared here in a light and entertaining fashion.

1. Speed Wins: Be The First To Respond When You Can
2. Selling Skills Workshop: Session 1 – Target Marketing
3. Follow Up & Follow Through
4. Shoppers Are Good Things
5. Eye Contact
6. Motivation (NEW)

 AUDIOS

1. Twenty Audio Lessons. Easy To Listen To … Easy To Internalize
2. Facts & Rules
3. How Do You Feel About Your Progress Right Now?
4. The Absolute Necessity of Making a Difference
5. Email Mechanics: The All-Important Subject Line
6. It Is Easy. All You Have To Do Is To Work Half 1/2 a Day
7. Your Hobby? Or a Business?

INTERVIEWS

Client interviews will be placed here for you to use as testimonials which will help sell your next river cruise. These audio links will be unedited and will share true experiences and memories with your prospects. The first interview recorded my personal feelings after my first river cruise.

1. The Stuart Cohen Radio Show With Kristin Karst
2. Fresh off a Danube Cruise, Mike interviews another happy River Cruiser.

WEBINARS

Instructional “How-To” Webinars will be positioned here for your review. In most cases, these will be recorded PowerPoint Presentations coupled with an audio sound track.

1. Selling River Cruises In a Box

1-MINUTE RIVER KNOWLEDGE

You can’t know too much about your subject matter. This section was designed to share interesting and important information as it pertains to each individual river. Small bites of information in an easy-to-remember writing style. This information will be added regularly. Stay tuned. Danube Mosel (NEW) Rhone (NEW) Rhine (NEW) Seine Douro Maine