Oct 12, 2020
Welcome to the second episode of Travel Matters.
Rick Calvert and Palle Bo talk about
TBEX North
America 2019 in Billings, Montana. How did it go, and how
was it different than previous events?
Rick reveals that there were more older people than
usual.
TIPS FOR FIRST TIMERS
There were many new faces again this year, and we talk to
Kerwin McKenzie who did a pre-session for TBEX
first-timers.
Kerwin is an
Amazon.com #1
best selling author, speaker, and ex-airline employee who travels
on average over 250,000 miles a year. He writes up-to-date airport,
destination and ground transportation guides plus airline flight
and hotel reviews with a mission to motivate airline employees to
use their travel benefits at
Passrider.com. He’s flown 176 airlines
and visited 125 countries and teaches travelers how to be loyal to
travel brands at
Cruisinaltitude.com and
shares 365 unfamiliar destinations at
UnfamiliarDestinations.com.
Kerwin has been to 17 TBEXs, and he knows that going to a
conference like this one is all about the network and building
relationships, so one of Kerwin’s advice was always to sit next to
someone you don’t know.
CREATOR OF THE MONTH
In this episode, we feature Lauren from
Misadventures of an Outdoorsy
Diva. Hear her story, what she does, and how she works with
brands in this episode. We also talk about her podcast and how SEO
has helped her blog after taking a course with Gemma and Laura
of
MakeTrafficHappen.com.
PAID OR TRADE?
Angie Orth did a session on how to work with brands
called “Paid or Trade? When (and How Much) to Pay Influencers
for Content.”
Angie is a recovering agency publicist with more than 15 years
in the marketing industry and 13 years as an award-winning content
creator. She created
AngieAway.com to chronicle a
yearlong round-the-world trip that accidentally became a career.
She currently produces and co-hosts
The Jet
Sisters, a video series focusing on Millennial travel. At the
closing party, we talked to the two Jet Sisters, Angie, and
Rachel.