So I just came back from Portland, Jamaica for a quick vacation. The entire 5 days I was in contact with my team via Slack.
 

Slack is a messaging system only for your agency, that works on desktops and smartphones everywhere.

Here are just a few ways your travel agency can use it to keep everyone on the same page:

1. Assign new leads to agents.
2. Conduct meetings with agents that work from home.
3. Relay information to the office while you're on the back of an elephant (I actually had to do this once).
4. See who is in office or online.
5. Share new supplier offers, discounts, deals or coupons with everyone in the office at once.

Slack is free, and any Travel Agency can signup in 5 minutes.

We use Slack to keep everyone on the team informed on new things, and conduct virtual meetings every day one-on-one, or make phone or video calls right from it with colleagues.

My typical day looks like this - wake up, roll over, reach for my phone, check email, and then start chatting with the team via Slack -- all before getting out of bed.

It's ingrained in our culture, and we even have integrations so when someone signs up on our website, we get alerted in Slack. When a new customer service request comes in, we get that alert too. 

So start using Slack for your agency today!

Your friend in travel marketing
Ericson Smith
Travel Agency Tribes
Co-founder, marketing & technology.