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Travel Advisors, Stop Using These Phrases Right Now

Feb 06, 2023
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Travel Advisors, Stop Using These Phrases Right Now
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This week on Trade Secrets, Jenn Lee, vice president of trade engagement and support for Travel Planners International, returns to the podcast to talk about the kind of language travel advisors shouldn’t use when talking to clients.

Co-hosts Jamie Biesiada and Emma Weissmann perform a sample dialogue for Lee, and she takes Jamie, posing as an advisor, to task for all of her negative language (including the use of phrases, “I add value” and “What’s your budget?”).

Lee also talks about why words matter, and the fact that, in her words, “People buy on emotion and justify logically.”

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