squirk
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- Apr 9, 2011
For those who only want to work with a full-time Disney-focused TA, I wonder how many of those agents actually exist.
Rough cowboy math here, but if the agency gets 10% of the booking and the TA gets 60% of that, you would have to make $100,000 of commissionable sales to pocket $6,000.
I have no idea what the "average" cost of a WDW trip is, but let's just say for the sake of argument that it's $5k for a family of four for a week. That would mean you'd have to book, on average, 20 vacations to make that $6,000. And that's IF the full $5k of the vacation is commissionable (and not a case where the clients bought their own food from Garden Grocer or picked up their tickets themselves from Undercover Tourist). If my $5k guesstimate is on the high side, it gets even worse. $3k? That's 33 vacations to make $6,000.
So if you wanted to do this full-time and make $50k/year, you'd have to book over $800k of fully-commissionable sales. That's over 160 vacations @ $5k and over 275 vacations @ $3k.
I cannot imagine the time, effort and money it would take to build up a sufficient sales pipeline to move that kind of tonnage, especially since you have to spend time on client questions, service issues and other hand-holding, as well as tire-kickers who waste your time. It really would have to be a labor of love because there sure are plenty of easier ways to earn $50k/year.
EDIT - wow, sorry for the necro. I found this thread via Google and didn't notice how old it was until after I posted.
Rough cowboy math here, but if the agency gets 10% of the booking and the TA gets 60% of that, you would have to make $100,000 of commissionable sales to pocket $6,000.
I have no idea what the "average" cost of a WDW trip is, but let's just say for the sake of argument that it's $5k for a family of four for a week. That would mean you'd have to book, on average, 20 vacations to make that $6,000. And that's IF the full $5k of the vacation is commissionable (and not a case where the clients bought their own food from Garden Grocer or picked up their tickets themselves from Undercover Tourist). If my $5k guesstimate is on the high side, it gets even worse. $3k? That's 33 vacations to make $6,000.
So if you wanted to do this full-time and make $50k/year, you'd have to book over $800k of fully-commissionable sales. That's over 160 vacations @ $5k and over 275 vacations @ $3k.
I cannot imagine the time, effort and money it would take to build up a sufficient sales pipeline to move that kind of tonnage, especially since you have to spend time on client questions, service issues and other hand-holding, as well as tire-kickers who waste your time. It really would have to be a labor of love because there sure are plenty of easier ways to earn $50k/year.
EDIT - wow, sorry for the necro. I found this thread via Google and didn't notice how old it was until after I posted.
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