As the end of the year draws near, it’s time to take stock of your career and what you’ve achieved in 2022. Did you achieve job satisfaction but miss out on your personal aspirations? Is an improved work/life balance a 2023 goal? If you’re an experienced travel professionals looking to work from home, it may be time to talk to TravelManagers!
Working from home has become an opportunity that was a rarity for many travel consultants and advisors pre-COVID. Some branded travel agencies are even offering a hybrid model of part-home, part-office, or remote consulting employment.
If you would like to work from home and gain true flexibility to choose your days and hours, TravelManagers want you to know there is an exemplary alternative! Thanks to TravelManagers long-standing home-based Personal Travel Manager (PTM) model, you can create the travel business of your dreams in 2023.
The self-employed Personal Travel Manager structure
Is it time to begin working on your terms in 2023?
When you partner with TravelManagers, winner of the National Travel Industry Awards’ 2022 Most Outstanding Mobile Advisor Network, you get to:
- Choose your working days and hours with greater flexibility on your terms: work at a level and pace appropriate to your circumstances
- Decide your income potential. While not guaranteed, this has the potential to be far greater than a salary. Set your goals in alignment with your personal circumstances
- Access all destination and product famils
- Make your own decisions when to take a day off or take holidays
- Choose when going on leave, on holiday, or on a famil, to work remotely or rely on a buddy/locum. The decision is yours.
- Benefit from strong partnerships with suppliers and enjoy direct access to local state-based reps, alongside support and back-up by TravelManagers’ inhouse supplier team and your state-based Business Partnership Manager (BPM)
- Choose when and what marketing you do and promote via your webpage, blog, and social media channels. All supported by the NPO marketing team
- Benefit from protection against supplier failure with TravelManagers’ Peace of Mind risk mitigation measures and TravelManagers Customer Fund (TCF)
- Experience unparalleled support by the NPO’s finance, fares and ticketing, operations, technology, and marketing teams, allowing you to focus on your specialist skills
So, whether you’re looking to work part-time while you raise a family, want to go all-in to pay off your mortgage faster, or simply like the idea of reaping the benefits of being your own boss, TravelManagers works in tandem to your life goals. And not just your aspirations now; they’re committed to you through every stage of your life journey.
Work as little or as much as you need, work from home or the pool lounger at a tropical resort, and work knowing that the empire you’re building is on your terms.
TravelManagers offers you the flexibility and control throughout your career with the ability to adjust as your personal needs change.
Compare this to working from home as an employee. When you work as an employee this requires:
- Working specified days and hours, no matter your personal commitments
- Being in the office or at your home office desk at set times
- Some commuting between your home and the office
- Access and acceptance to famils at the discretion of your employer
- Approval of leave and holidays also at the discretion of the boss
- Access to suppliers and any perks they offer being available at the discretion of your employer
So, while the employee setup offers a wage and regulation, it leaves little room for personal or family matters during those supervised working hours.
Finding work/life balance in 2023
Danielle Goncalves, from Erskineville, NSW, hasn’t looked back since moving to TravelManagers. She commented, “After 12 years consulting in a traditional high street travel agency, I realised I wasn’t getting the work/life balance I needed. I had a young daughter, plans for another one, and needed flexibility and control. I wanted the ability to prioritise my family, which I didn’t have.”
She continues, “The change to my home-based business was scary, but I felt I had the skills and, together with the support of TravelManagers, I could be successful. It is so lovely to go to school events without asking permission. All the while being able to still work when I want to, doing what I love, without compromising.”
Why partner with TravelManagers?
TravelManagers know all about working from home, or from anywhere in the world for that matter. For over 17 years TravelManagers has been supporting experienced travel professionals to move from being an employee to running their own business, with the flexibility and rewards that brings. It’s what TravelManagers does best!
No other travel company offers home-based travel consultants and advisors stronger relationships with suppliers or better access to supplier representatives in your state. Not only this, but you also have access to national market days in each state, regional and suburban cluster meetings, the NPO supplier team, state-based BPMs, The Oracle (intranet), Clovermark (social pages), technology support, and more!
Outstanding supplier relationships
Christi Gowan, based in Paddington, QLD, is effusive about her switch to TravelManagers. She shares, “I haven’t looked back since making the decision to work for myself five years ago. Being my own boss allows me the flexibility to work with the people I want to – both clients and suppliers. I have found TravelManagers supplier relationships outstanding.”
Christi continues, “The information on the Oracle (intranet) is extensive and webinars are frequent. Local cluster meetings provide opportunities for us to get together with suppliers in person on a regular basis. Being able to form relationships with each supplier really helps if there is a problem down the track.”
Agents, make 2023 your year
If you’re ready to take ownership of your 2023, kick it off with a confidential chat with a local state-based BPM to discover the full TravelManagers opportunity. Call their partnership team on 02 8062 6421 or email join.us@travelmanagers.com.au.
Psst: if you’re under pressure right now, bookmark this page and set a reminder to make this your post-Chrissy dinner essential reading! Remember, you’re worth having everything you want!
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