IC TRAVEL AGENT November 2013 | Page 26

The About YOU Tab Is the About Us tab on your website one click away from a snoring-boring review of your entire life, pets, family and latest auto or is it an opportunity to read about a fascinating individual who is full of first-hand accounts, travel stories and exploits from around the world supported by been-the re-took-that photographs and videos? Let’s make some changes right now. Many websites today come pre-packaged and more often than not are templates that either you or your host agency have bought into. All of which works as long as you can make one or two changes and here the focus is on making a change to the About Us tab. ABOUT ME! Doesn’t that sound wonderful? At last – it really is all about you. Or it can be. Should be. You might want to add your name, you might want to create a new term or phrase to replace the About Us text that every agent has. Doesn’t make too much sense having an About US tab when there is no “us” – only you. Ten ideas follow: http://about.me/stevecrowhurst Once you create your simple and concise About.Me website you can add the link or embed code into you emails and social media marketing. Keep it pure business. Forget fido and friends unless your travel niche is pet travel. No family names either. 1. About (your first name) 2. Learn About (your first name) 3. Find out about Me here… 4. Find out about (your first name) here 5. Scoop! 6. My News 7. ABOUT 8. It’s ME! 9. Who I am 10. What I do More About YOU You can go a promotional step further with your About Me information and instead of text, insert a video straight from your webcam. PowerPoint slides work too. Even a photo album gallery that tells your story through images and captions works. My suggestion would be video. Sit down, suitably attired, switch on your webcam or use your smartphone and start talking about yourself. Keep going even when you falter and edit later. A few minor errors present you as human and when you are passionate about what you do for a living, you may exude here and there. All good. Keeping YOU real can work wonders for your sales. ? ABOUT.ME Here’s a neat one page website where you can add a little more pizzazz to your About Me review and funnily enough that’s the name of the website. Check mine out here: Page 26