Here is a simple, cost-free step that will help to improve Local Online Search results for your agency. Go to Google, and in the search box type in “Travel Agent 00000″ but replace the zero’s with your zip code. Does your agency come up in the search? If yes, consider yourself lucky and know that you may not be there very long without acting NOW. If NO, consider the next step a secret that 95% of your local competitors do not know about YET. Go to http://www.GetListed.org, and follow their directions to CLAIM your local listing on Google, Yahoo & MSN. Do you need a website to do this? NO. Does it cost money? NO. So what are you waiting for?! Why even do this? Read this article. Stay tuned for more search engine tips in future Image Up-Date emails.

Blogging? Twittering? What would I post? The idea behind blogging and twittering is that you are letting people know what you are doing right now!  Prospective clients will be interested to read about how you helped other clients save money! YOU have done all the research, and as soon as you book a trip, YOU are the expert on that location, on that date, from their departure city and for that length of a trip.  So here is an example for your next Twitter/Blog Entry:  “I helped JoAnn of Rochester MN save $756 on an August 15-day Heart of Europe Tour by Image Tours. The total package was $2987 including air.” (The restriction for Twitter is 140 characters including spaces.)  Plus if anyone does a search on Twitter about a “Europe Tour” your post will pop up!  Go sign up for your Twitter Account today!  It’s FREE!

Our Heart of Europe GRAND TOUR is a natural up-sell from the Heart of Europe tour.  The 22-day GRAND TOUR includes the same itinerary as the Heart of Europe tour but adds an extra day in Paris; the Italian cities of Florence, Assisi, Rome, and Pisa; and London.  So, if you have a client that is interested in the Heart of Europe tour but also wants to visit London and more of Italy, be ready to suggest the GRAND TOUR.