Given that most travel businesses are owner operated, the initial consultation (generally between 2-3 hours) will work with you to outline your personal goals including desired lifestyle, family and financial needs. This then allows us to determine the outcomes you need from the business to meet these goals.
From here we can start to map out a business plan that ensures the business outcomes are aligned to your personal goals. So a plan for someone who just wants a sustainable 2 or 3 person agency will be quite different to one where the owner is looking for significant growth or who owns multiple locations.
Having set the required outcomes from the business, we can work with you to create a business plan that delivers these outcomes. Key to this is a series of Action Plans to deliver the outcomes. Action Plans will normally be set for each quarter and always look a year ahead.
The Action Plans will have a focus on revenue and yield, where on-going and extra revenue is derived and what actions are required to generate this income including the use of social media and marketing via traditional channels.
Note for Home Based Consultants: As a home based consultant we will work with you in a slightly different manner as we recognise that your operation is very different to a bricks and mortar agency. We work on an hourly basis and after our first discussions will indicate the sorts of actions that need to be taken, what we can do (and approximately how much time we would need to spend on this) and what you should do. You can then decide if you need more help from us or if you feel you can go it alone – so we give you as much or as little help as you need.