You'll be able to offer your clients a definite advantage when you become an Online Travel Broker.

We're successfully applying the best of internet based marketing techniques to building and improving our business. We'd like to do the same for you.

There is a plethora of wonderful online systems and software out there that help us build and manage really great relationships with our clients. We love exploring these, finding ways to apply them to our travel business to give us an edge - and sharing all that with you!

Right now, you get:

• Immediate advice of all travel deals by email with all the detail. It's information overload at times but we make sure you get all the market info fast and in detail.
• Access to a database of over 50,000 travellers - for FREE. If you've got a package or group tour you'd like to promote this is an amazingly responsive channel and (again) it costs you NOTHING.
• Access to the best airfare buying in the market. You can self-issue or buy from our consolidators.
• Great range of preferred suppliers... you like them, then we'll happily buy from them.
• Unlimited calls to landlines around New Zealand. (We use Skype for this and it's available whether you're working from home or from one of our bases.)
• Your own web page(s) within the TravelCafe.co.nz domain which you can edit as you wish. You could redirect your own domain to this if you like. This is a great place to get the word out there about your specialist knowledge.
• The ability to blog (it's optional) and build your own profile online.
• Tramada & Amadeus - free installation - great systems.
• Email that's available on your computer or anywhere there's an internet connection - with built-in SPAM filters and 7 gigabytes of free storage. Use our domain (@travelcafe.co.nz) or your own.
• As many sets as you need in Flickr to store and display your travel / famil photos and links back to your webpage. Have a look at how we use this here.
• Participation in our email marketing programme - your clients get the Travelscoop emails and their response is directed to you personally (and this is automated so there's no delay.)
• Passport and frequent flyer membership reminder email service to your clients. Completely automated - you don't need to do anything.
• Access to TravelQuote where you can manage all your Quotes, measure your conversion rates and make sure your clients get the fastest and best quotes possible.
• Assistance with creating a Facebook page to profile your business, Plaxo and Linkedin accounts to enhance your networks, a blog to promote your business online and help you get found on search engines... in fact we'll help with anything online because we know it works!

We also provide a free 'starter pack' which includes:

• 100 Travel Wallets
• 100 Voucher / Itinerary covers
• 250 Business cards

We've got you covered for Professional Indemnity Insurance.

• We participate in a very competitive group scheme. The cost is passed on to all participants and it varies each year - it's about $185 + GST per year.

Business analytics.

• Daily, weekly and monthly business reports so you know exactly how you're doing. Completely secure and available when you need them, online.

Need help with other forms of advertising (including yellow pages, whitepages, newspapers and anything else?)

• We focus entirely on online advertising - being search engine marketing (SEM) and email marketing and we pay for all of that. If you'd like to put an ad in the Yellow Pages then we'd be happy to help you set something up so that you can ensure the response is measured and directed straight to you. We're happy to help with creative / ideas and design too.

TAANZ Bonding / IATA License

• We provide this at no cost, but we do need to list as you as an TAANZ Approved Salesperson (if you're home-based) and we pass on the TAANZ Fee to you which is about $200 a year.
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