Is it time to stop doing everything yourself & start leading a team that makes growth feel effortless?
Agency Expansion Academy
This signature program is your complete, self-paced blueprint for building a dream team of pros, streamlining your operations, and unlocking the kind of growth that feels effortless and sustainable.
for booked out-and-burnt out travel advisors
truth bomb incoming...
There IS a right way, and a WRONG way, to grow your travel business.
The Right Solutions...
for the Wrong Problem
Are some of the above the right move for certain agency owners?
For sure—except for that last one. We are so not about “the grind” at TIQUE.
But if you’re even thinking about jumping to any of the above, you’re jumping WAY ahead. Because none of these “solutions” directly tackles the real problem growth-minded-but-don’t-know-how-to-get-there advisors are facing.
Feeling like you’re failing at all the things.
Client details are falling through the cracks, you’re making mistakes in your marketing, and the occasional massive error is actually cutting into your profits—and undercutting your reputation.
Riding a roller coaster you just don’t know how to get off of.
When clients are coming in in droves, you drop the ball on your marketing and don’t post to social media for months … and when things get quiet you have to build up your business all over again. Cue the viciously EXHAUSTING cycle.
Being green-eyed with envy By the people around you.
As you watch another advisor get invited yet again to that fancy FAM trip, top-producers club, or luxury conference, where she meets suppliers while sipping mai tais next to a golden beach. How is SHE keeping all the balls in the air while yours are dropping left and right?
Riding a roller coaster you just don’t know how to get off of.
When clients are coming in in droves, you drop the ball on your marketing and don’t post to social media for months … and when things get quiet you have to build up your business all over again. Cue the viciously EXHAUSTING cycle.
Waking up to a less-than-enthusiastic review from a client.
… and letting the doubt creep in enough to get you wondering if you’re even cut out for this whole travel business thing in the first place.
So you may be flailing right this Second… but let’s back it up so you can FIRST give yourself some major kudos.
Because those problems are all pointing to the fact that you are actually doing something big right.
You’ve got clients! Too many of them, maybe … but remember when you never thought you’d get here in the first place?
You’re a talented & savvy advisor who just happens to have too much on their plate.
The goal now is to eliminate “failure” from your vocabulary, and self-doubt from your mind.
Because when we do, you’ll be able to fully embrace the success you are due.
Success that looks like:
Seeing your inbox fill up with referrals, because your clients can’t stop singing your praises from the rooftops. Replacing the topsy-turvy roller coaster ride with consistency you can count on. Feeling confident that if you go on a FAM (or, call us crazy, a real vacation), your business won’t crash and burn without you. Doing more of what you love and what you’re brilliant at—aka the stuff that got you into this business in the first place!—instead of the soul-sucking tasks that burn you out.
And: Being able to step out of the weeds and build a long-term vision for your business, one that you can be super-duper proud of.
The good news? There IS a tried-and-tested way to go from flailing and failing to financially fit and filled with passion for what you do again.
5 ways you’ve been kneecapping your own growth while *thinking* you’re right on track for smooth scaling
You think bigger IS better.
A.k.a. You think the not-so secret to agency growth is bringing on ICs. We’ll admit, it seems like an intuitive idea.
You’ve got clients coming out the wazoo, more clients than you know what to do with—so why not pass along some of your book of business to a team of hungry ICs? You’ll feed them leads, they’ll book the trips, and you’ll sit back, relax, and watch your plate clear enough to book a nail appointment on a Wednesday afternoon.
There’s just one tiny problem … running a team of ICs is a lot harder than it sounds (for real, ask us how we know!).
You’re replacing one problem with another: taking on the major duty of becoming a mentor. You now have someone else’s career in your hands.
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What you need:
To optimize the ways you run your own book of business, before passing it off to somebody else.
Look, ICs can definitely be a part of a profitable agency model. But you’ve got to get your own house in order before you invite others in. And, you have to know how to run a crowded house effectively—meaning: you need to know what numbers to hit so that bringing on ICs makes financial sense … because this is not the key to “easy money.”
There’s going to be NO time for that nail appointment between training your newbies and putting out the fires they inevitably cause.
You think of outsourcing as hitting an “easy” button.
You’re DROWNING in tasks—so why not throw some at a contract hire? Someone can help you with social media, another can set up and write your marketing emails, heck—you could even hire someone to answer the phone! What could go wrong?
Oh boy. Outsourcing isn’t the fix-it-quick solution advisors think it is. For one, it’s tough to get someone to care as much about your business as you do, when they’re not even a part of your team. If you’re not careful, subpar outsourcing work can cause your biz to take a HUGE reputational hit.
And two, outsourcing churn is real. Since they have no real loyalty to you, it’s super duper common to cycle through outsource hires faster than new Tik Tok trends. Get ready to retrain, retrain, and retrain some more.
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What you need:
To stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
The tasks you need the most help with may not be the best fit for outsourcing in the first place!
More than anything else, outsourcing is the biggest band aid solution advisors turn to when they’re first trying to scale … so it’s time to rip the bandaid off.
You’re looking for a jack-of-all-trades “magic unicorn.”
You’ve decided to play big and bring on your first REAL hire. So you search for an employee who can be your right-hand woman—someone to plug all the gaps, who’s equally a whiz at setting up workflows as they are at designing creative Canva graphics—and can step in in a pinch and support your traveling clients when you’re off the clock.
You’re searching for the yin to your yang … but for some reason, finding that “magic unicorn” is proving impossible.
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What you need:
To hire strategically, and realistically. Because, let’s face it: that do-it-all hire just doesn’t exist! And expecting the world of your new hire is just setting them up to fail. No bueno.
You’re already growing your team … and you regret it.
Instead of making your life easier, bringing on a team has just made more of a mess.
You’re constantly hand holding, correcting mistakes, and relisting your job postings because one of your hires left you in a lurch again. When are you going to get to the “good” part of growth?
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What you need:
To focus on ways to keep your employees, not just hire them.
That means developing a fool-proof training plan, creating a company culture that nurtures your team while fostering loyalty, and shoring up your rehiring process so you're building an A-team … not a group of benchwarmers.
You’re skipping to scaling first, and asking questions later.
You’ve hit a wall, and you think the only way around it is to scale it. You know things aren’t going as right as you want them to in your business … and all this talk about “growth” and “scaling” and “building an empire” sounds oh-so sexy
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What you need:
To take a step back, in order to move forward. This is NOT the time to look before you leap.
The truth is, there is more than one right way to build a travel business … so you first need to determine if scaling even aligns with your biz goals, and then you need to make a plan to get you there—without biting off more than you can chew before you’re ready.
When you invest in the right way, amazing things start to happen. You go from travel advisor to travel agency owner, from booked out but burnt out to booked out and better than ever, from self-doubt to successful scaling that allows you to reach new heights in your business that you’ve only ever dared to dream was possible.
… all while leaving you with more time to do what you love outside your business (or to remind yourself that you can have a life outside your business in the first place!).
So, what is that mysterious “right” way? It’s the basis for our Prep, Hire, & Manage Blueprint™ for growing and sustaining your A-team.
If you’ve made it this far, you already know that there is a right way, and a wrong way, to grow your travel business.
It’s time to get real about growth—what it is, what it isn’t, and what it can REALLY do for your travel business
Our Blueprint is the beginning-to-end process for:
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Laying the groundwork for growth. It’s time to get your house in order and diagnose exactly what’s stopping you from scaling, so you can prioritize the help you need now to grow—instead of throwing spaghetti at the wall just to see what sticks.
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Hunting down your dream team. You’re going to learn how to hire pros like a pro, so building your team doesn’t turn into a money pit or an endless source of headaches—and instead allows you to expand with ease, increase your profits, and build an empire that’s in alignment with YOUR values (not what you *think* success is supposed to look like).
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Onboarding and managing your team so you build loyalty, decrease turnover, and create a team you can count on, always.
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Bringing on ICs … if that’s where you want to take your business. This should be the last step in the scaling process, not the first. We’re going to show you how to do it strategically so that the numbers add up—and your agency becomes a launching pad for totally fulfilling travel careers.
Meet Robin & Jen.
Little known fact about us: before we made our way to the travel industry, we both had experience in hiring and building teams—Robin started her career at a recruiting firm while Jen led recruitment at 27 different hospitals.
Once we made the jump into travel, we eventually built A-teams that helped our businesses thrive: first as a host agency that pulled in over a million dollars in sales, and then at Tique, where our team has allowed us to make our vision of reaching thousands of travel advisors a reality.
But it wasn’t always smooth scaling. Along the way, we made some really good hires … and some really bad ones. Like, “regretted it in the first week” bad.
If we could make those kinds of mistakes with our professional background, what chance does a travel advisor looking to expand but who has no hiring expertise have?
So, we developed and refined a system that made hiring, retaining, and expanding our dream team into a science—a proven and repeatable process that eliminates the guesswork and the missteps we made ourselves early in our own expansion journey.
This is the exact system you’ll find in our Prep, Hire, & Manage Blueprint™.
A.k.a. The TIQUE team here to teach you how to build your dream team.
introducing
Agency Expansion Academy
The holistic blueprint for expanding your impact & maximizing your agency’s profitability by building a dream team of pros you can count on.
We’re turning your growth up to an 11, with juicy course content like:
that introduce you to the Prep, Hire, & Manage Blueprint™ so you stay in control of your business even as you bring new pros in, delegate the stuff you hate, and do more of what you’re BRILLIANT at … as you watch your bottom line grow.
3 self-paced core modules
that break the entire recruitment lifecycle down into baby steps—because we know you’re already crazy busy … so we’ve made it as easy as possible to “do the work” until you get your team in place to help you clear your plate.
14 adjustable spreadsheets, Checklist, & Tutorials
full of swipeable copy for emails, job descriptions, SOPs and MORE so you’re never starting from scratch as you pull together the tools you need to attract and train your A-team.
5 Fill-in-the-blank templates
let's break down the content for you...
module 1
5 videos
Preparing Your Business for Growth
✓ Define scaling on your own terms, in a way that aligns with YOUR vision for success—right now, and three years down the road
✓ Use cold, hard numbers to determine your most strategic next step in the recruitment process—aka figuring out your next best hire
✓ Understand the difference between hiring and outsourcing, and when you should turn to which
✓ Use the Budget Tracker spreadsheet to make sure you’ve got enough money in the bank to grow, so you don’t (oops!) overleverage yourself
Time to survey where you travel biz is at right now, what kind of growth you’re up for, and what the roadmap looks like to get you there. Laying the groundwork now will get you ready for smooth scaling later.
After diving into Module 1, you’ll be able to:
module 2
5 videos
Hiring Your Dream Team
✓ Define the role(s) you're looking for that complement what you already bring to the table
✓ Hammer out enticing job descriptions fast with our swipe-able templates
✓ Know where to go to sniff out top talent (hint: most advisors looking to grow are barking up the totally wrong tree)
✓ Rock the interview with your field of amazing applicants—while expertly dodging red flags
Now the fun part really begins: you’re stepping into the CEO role and bringing on the ace team that’s going to fuel your BIG business goals and free you up to do the high-level work you’re most passionate about.
With Module 2 tackled, you’ll be able to:
module 3
5 videos
Onboarding & Managing Your New Team
✓ Develop your own set of Standard Operating Procedures so you can cut out the handholding and trust that your new hires can execute tasks from Day 1
✓ Cultivate a company culture that your team is PROUD to be a part of—and that cuts down on super-costly employee/contractor churn
✓ Implement systems & tools for managing your team with ease … effectively avoiding the trap of replacing time spent on drowning in tasks with time spent wrangling employees
✓ Know what to do if a new hire starts to flounder—and how to end things respectfully if it doesn’t work out (hey, it happens! and it doesn’t have to be scary)
Even a dream team needs some direction—which is why the recruitment process doesn’t end just when you get your new hires through the door. The name of the game now is train and retain … so you’re building a team ready to grow WITH you.
After Module 3, you’ll be able to:
Bring on the BONUS MODULE 4
Building A Team With Advisors
Have big dreams of becoming the Next Big Thing in travel, with a multi-million-dollar team of travel planners all working under your brand?
big bonus alert
Hey, we’re not going to stop you. But we ARE going to stop you from doing it the wrong—and majorly costly—way.
We’ve grown an ace team of ICs ourselves, so we know what it takes to make it a success, from the numbers you need to hit to how to mentor advisors hungry to learn your ways (while leaving time to still service your own clients). We’re spilling all the beans inside this BONUS module … that we’ve packed full of game-changing downloadable resources.
>> Like: swipe-able email templates to send out as you begin recruiting new ICs, from initial outreach to offering (or declining) the role.
>> And: a 10-module New Advisor Training Program that you can tweak and share with ICs new to the industry, to get them up to speed jiffy quick on what it takes to become a successful advisor. We’re talking everything from finding clients to establishing a brand and business structure to nitty-gritty tax and compliance issues.
If the New Advisor Training Program sounds like a full course within a course, well, that’s because it is … we *could* have just sold this separately, but AEA students get instant access when they join. Huzzah!
Agency Expansion Academy
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This course feels like having your
own personal HR department, ready and at your finger tips!
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We feel FULLY confident that AEA is the course that will set you on the path toward growing your business AND your bottom line—without falling into the scaling traps that trip up so many advisors.
That’s why we’re proud to stand by our 30-day, “Acing Expansion” Guarantee.
Here’s how it works. Take a full 30 days to dive into the three core modules, try filling in the plug-and-play templates, and complete the workbooks. If, after you’ve put in the work, you don’t feel like AEA has set you up for scaling your business step by step (while doing so in alignment with your unique business goals) … all you have to do is email us at operations@tiquehq.com with your completed workbooks for a FULL refund.
The 30-Day, “Acing Expansion” Guarantee
You’re not afraid to admit you need help, like, yesterday.
Growing a kick-a** team requires you to get humble and say out loud, “hey, I can’t do this all on my own!” This isn’t failure … it’s a superpower, one that’s going to super-charge your travel business.
You’re ready to go BIG with growth via Agency Expansion Academy if …
You’re open to exploring “growth” in all its forms.
Scaling may not look like what you were expecting it to—so AEA will work best for open-minded advisors more interested in real profitability & growth in alignment with their core values, rather than building a “brag-worthy” business that looks good on Insta.
You already have lots of clients.
In fact, it feels like too many! Advisors on the cusp of scaling are typically advisors who have lots of business coming in (although it may come in waves). AEA is probably not the best fit yet if you’re still consistently struggling with sales.
You are SO over sad desk lunches and working on the weekends.
The status quo—and that zapped feeling of not having enough hours in the day—is not working for you. You are ready for a BIG change.
You’ve taken Tique’s Seven Figure Sales course.
This is definitely not a prerequisite, but if you’ve mastered your sales through SFS, then you are most likely right where you need to be to now scale … so Agency Expansion Academy is the natural next step.
You know you want to grow your agency … but you have no idea what that looks like.
That’s a-okay! Because we’re going to help you determine your best course of action first thing inside AEA. In fact, coming in without a preconceived plan could serve you well.
You’re looking for a holistic blueprint, not a bandaid.
Many advisors equate “growth” with “hiring.” We’re covering that—and a LOT more, because you need to ace the full recruitment life cycle (including onboarding, training, and defining a strong company culture) so you don’t get stuck rehiring again and again.
You feel confident grabbing your login knowing you have 30 days to test drive AEA.
It’s simple: You watch the modules, complete the workbooks, and exhale in relief that you finally have direction on how to grow with grace—and make the kind of major impact you’re TRULY capable of … or you shoot us an email to let us know you want to hit “reverse” on this whole agency expansion thing, risk free.
If you can check off MORE THAN HALF of the above—well, we can’t wait to meet you inside of Agency Expansion Academy now.
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