IC TRAVEL AGENT June 2014 | Page 6

Meet Rebecca, Alex, Lisa and Rob Rebecca, Alex, Lisa and Rob are independent contractors and newcomers to selling travel from their respective home based offices. Surrounding them is a group of strangers and it would be perfectly legal for our four newcomers to strike up a face-to-face conversation with someone in this group and ask them directly for their vacation travel business. If our four newcomers sent a “book with me” prospecting email to any of these people without their permission to do so then our four newcomers would be in violation of the new anti-spam legislation. The challenge: if you cannot email someone to ask for their business without their permission how do you grow your business? How do you even start to build a client base? From here on, each page in this issue is dedicated to attracting would-be clients by means that fall outside of complying with the CASL and CANSPAM programs. Once you attract a new customer then you must comply with CASL and CANSPAM. 