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CruisePak And The Home Based Agent
Today, the Home Based Agent is the fastest growing segment of the travel and tourism industry with the Home Based Agent becoming the new Doctor/Dentist of the service industry. Due to the down turn in the retail agency model, many individual travel agents are opening their own "Travel Practices", which service select clients and ensure that their client's travel plans are executed without delay or issue. However, when seasoned travel professionals open up their own "travel practice", they quickly find out that they need to wear all the hats. In the agency, their sole focus was often selling. Now, the home agent is the marketing director, financial director, information technology guru, legal consultant, administrative assistant, janitor, and yes, still a seller of travel.
CruisePak does this by providing a totally integrated and efficient suite of software product and features such that you, and you alone, can perform the marketing, financial, and administrative tasks quickly, and efficiently such that you can keep your manpower costs down and therefore realize increased profit. Implementing CruisePak As a single Home Based Agent, all that is necessary to implement CruisePak is a PC that meets the CruisePak software requirements. Generally speaking, if you have a computer with Windows XP or Windows Vista Home Premium or above as the operating system, and an internect connection, then you should be all set. If your computer does meet the above requirements, then all you need to get going with CruisePak is to install it and begin using it. You can reference the Getting Started section for more information or you can click the Download link at the top of this page to immediately download and install the software. Working With A Host Agency Many host agencies want you to enter in your bookings into their own host agency on line application. This is so they can quality assure your booking and pay you a commission. This is good for you in that they might catch an errant issue. However, the reality is that the solution is one sided. If you don't have a CruisePak, then how can you Quality Assure the host agency? How can you keep your business going. How can you do your own marketing. Remember, once you enter your booking into the host agency system, the host agency can market your customers thereby giving your customer the option to bypass you in the booking process. There are more issues, too many to go over here. The bottom line: Keep your customers, track your financial, and do your own marketing. If you switch host agencies, or the host agency goes out of business or becomes the target of supplier punishment, Move on. Your in business. Using CruisePak protects oneself. Travelling...Taking Your Data With You On A Laptop Many agents travel, and they like to take their CruisePak with them; especially if their escorting a group or some other task that may require immediately access to their data. In most cases, home agents have both a desktop computer and a laptop. That the agent's do is that they:
Travelling....No Laptop? Remotely Accessing Your Computer If you want to access your CruisePak remotely, you have to install remote control software. A Product such as GotoMyPC (www.gotomypc.com) or PC Anywhere (www.symantec.com) which allows remote access to your PC is required. Concerning the option above, you must leave your PC on and connected to the internet. Don't worry though, those products are very secure and when used in combination with your firewall and virus program, your PC is like Fort Knox. CruisePak In Comparison To Other Web Based Home Agent Applications Aside from the competitive feature diffences, the biggest difference technologically speaking is
Remember, with CruisePak, your customer names, addresses, passport numbers, etc. are stored on your personal computer, under your control. With Competitors web based applications, your customer data is stored on a publicly accessible web server. The risk associated with identity theft, the black market value of customer travel data, and the laws associated with data loss disclosure (Read More) really make us lean towards a solution that minimizes your exposure to data loss issues. Why take the risk?
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