Business Development, Sales, & Marketing

Nationwide travel shows are yet another opportunity for Cruise Planners travel agents to sell to new clients and generate hot leads In a convention center full of camels and zip lines, one may get easily distracted, but those looking for a travel expert to plan their next vacation know exactly where to go at the Travel & Adventure Shows: Cruise Planners booth. At each Travel & Adventure Show around the nation, Cruise Planners has two travel planning booths supported by travel agents advising and planned custom vacations on river cruises, land vacations and ocean cruises.

The Technology Team at Cruise Planners works diligently to ensure our travel agent franchises have the absolute best and latest travel technology tools at their fingertips. Travel Agency Franchise owners rely heavily on the award-winning tools created by the Technology Team to assist with cruise, land, and tour bookings. Planning and booking customized trips working from home or on the go is a breeze with the CP Maxx Mobile App which allows Cruise Planners travel agents to manage their travel agency business from anywhere in the world. Clients are able to use a second consumer-facing mobile app, Cruise Planners Mobile, to book new trips and review previously booked trips. Not into mobile apps? Cruise Planners franchises' websites are accessible on both desktop format and mobile platforms and are responsive to all smartphone browsers.

Cruise Planners’ Business Development Team acts as the biggest support system for franchise owners. Each team members’ main goal is to motivate and assist our travel agency owners in all aspects of small business ownership. Whether cultivating business plans, creating marketing tools or hosting coaching calls, the Business Development Team strives to ensure the success of every franchisee who becomes a travel agency owner.

Freshen up your site by adding something new. You create new opportunities for sales and growth when you continue to add “new” and refreshing ideas or products to your website presence. By adding a new product you not only attract new business, but your current clients are going to want the new product as well. Even attracting business with a combination of 2 or more items as a special package can bring new sales. Make yourself a valuable resource to your potential clients and regular customers. Look for ways you can be a resource for your prospects and customers. Supply them with free information. Help them do things faster, easier, less expensively. You get another opportunity to sell something every time they come back to you for help. What sets you apart from your competition? Cost of the franchise? Better package deals? Cheaper rates? Personal attention or quick results to their inquiries? Promote The Results of using your services. Let your customers know what the end result of your work and efforts affords them. Will it satisfy their needs and wants for a pleasant journey? Will the end result make them want to use your services again? Will they want to recommend you to their friends? Make sure that you continue to implement new changes to your business techniques often and don’t expect it to grow with the same day in and day out sales effort you put into it. Update brochures, websites, concepts, packages, ideas and perks for your clients. Don’t wait for your business to slack off before you make changes to sustain growth.

FOCUS ON ONE TASK AT A TIME While multitasking may be fading into the sunset, the not-so-new credo for productivity is calling for staying focused on one task at a time. While this is not always possible to do in your job, if we continue to “prioritize” our work, it will result in staying more focused on one task at a time, thus increasing productivity in a timelier manner. Let that phone ring up to three times, go ahead and finish that last sentence.