Ep 277 How Travel Advisors Keep Their Marketing Running When They Get Busy
Send Rita a text with your thoughts! Register for the Plan Your Year Workshop: https://programs.steeryourmarketing.com/products/courses/view/1196435 Join the Waitlist for my NEW Group Marketing Program: https://programs.steeryourmarketing.com/products/offers/view/1198580 Join us for the marketing reset your travel agency needs: https://strategictravelentrepreneurpodcast.com/summer-camp-at-sea/ Busy season feels amazing right up until you realize your marketing stopped the day your clients’ trips took over. Whether you’re buried in client work, counting on referrals, or waiting until you feel ready to put yourself out there, I’m sharing why your marketing engine has to keep running. I’m also telling the story of an advisor who was procrastiplanning her launch until I asked her one simple question, plus why batching your content now means future you is going to love you :) Learn how to set a marketing minimum you’ll actually stick to, so you’re not launching to crickets or riding out a drought when things get busy. FAQ: What should a travel advisor’s bare minimum marketing be? Choose the one or two things that go out every week no matter how busy you get. For me, that’s a podcast episode and an email. For you, it could be one weekly blog post that you repurpose into Facebook group posts and social media. Should travel advisors wait until they’re ready to start marketing? Get the legal pieces done first, like your EIN, local business license, and signing with your host or franchise. After that, start warming people up before your systems are perfect. If you wait until everything is in place, you’ll launch to crickets because you haven’t built any leads. Are auto-posting tools worth it for travel agents? I don’t recommend them. They know nothing about you, your agency, or your clients, so the posts have zero personality, and they usually market the supplier instead of your business. Content calendars from Krystle Straub or Kyla Daisy, or even the resources in my cruise content library, will do more for you. Enjoy and take action! --------------------------------------------------------------- Rita M. Perez (Host) first began in the travel industry as a travel advisor in 2010. She only fully realized her role as a travel entrepreneur in 2018, and embarked on a mission to support her fellow travel advisors in 2021 when she began the Strategic Travel Entrepreneur Podcast . She now strategizes with travel entrepreneurs, so they too can build sustainable travel agencies and market effectively. She's a maven when it comes to content photography and videography, and as such founded the Cruise Content Library and leads retreats and partners on FAMs where advisors get top notch content and education for their marketing efforts. Website: https://strategictravelentrepreneurpodcast.com/everything/ Socials: LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritaperez19/ IG: http://www.instagram.com/steeryourmarketing FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/strategictravelentrepreneurs/ Email: rita@steeryourmarketing.com


