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A massive thank you to Michael Durie for his fantastic presentations!

jolene — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:16:11 +0000

Michael Durie of Australia Post delivered fantastic presentations in both Sydney and Melbourne as part of our Working Smarter Breakfast Seminars. Michael imparted some of his 35 years of knowledge in direct marketing to our audiences and delivered informative and practical presentations that were very well received. The feedback we’ve had so far has been great!

So, thanks very much to Michael and also to everyone who attended the events. For more information about Michael, please check out his profile on LinkedIn - http://au.linkedin.com/in/michaeldurie

Stay tuned for our next Working Smarter Breakfast Seminar which will be held in Sydney on the 12th January and Melbourne on the 19th January. The topic for January will be “It’s all about the people. How to find and keep good staff. ” Please see our events page for more details - www.travelogix.com/events

Working Smarter Melbourne – a success!!

jolene — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:02:40 +0000

Our first Melbourne Working Smarter Breakfast Seminar took place yesterday at the East Melbourne Library and went swimmingly! Thank you to everyone who decided to get up early to come and join us.

A massive thank you to our wonderful speakers Kristi Barrow and Serena Star-Leonard who flew down from Sydney to deliver their highly informative and practical presentations on ‘Going Online, how do I do it?’If you missed out on this event and would like a copy of the presentations please email Jolene through the contact form on our website.

www.travelogix.com/company-info/contact/

Initial feedback from the event has been very positive and we’re looking forward to running the next one in Sydney on 24th Novermber and in Melbourne on 1st December. The topic for November/December is: ‘How to make your marketing dollars work harder and smarter!’

Michael Durie from Australia Post will be delivering a presentation based on his 34 years experience in marketing, with a particular focus on Direct Marketing. For more information about this event and our Working Smarter Series, please check out our website – http://www.travelogix.com/events/

We plan to run our Working Smarter Breakfast Seminars on a monthly basis in both Sydney and Melbourne throughout 2012. If you would like to go on our mailing list, please flick Jolene a note through our contact form.

Bookings are now open for our Melbourne Working Smarter breakfast seminar

jolene — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:51:14 +0000

Don’t miss out on your chance to hear industry professionals offering their expert advice – Getting Online…….How do I do it?

Book here……

Congratulations to Adam Burke of Wendy Wu!

jolene — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:43:39 +0000

Adam Burke of Wendy Wu Tours was the winner of our recent Technology Survey and scored himself an iPad2.

Samantha Lippiatt, Travelogix BDM presented a delighted Adam with his prize on Friday at the Wendy Wu offices in Sydney.

Congratulations Adam and thanks to everyone who entered, your feedback will help us shape future development of the Travelogix Wholesale Application.

Working Smarter, Melbourne, 20 Oct 2011

philip — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 06:44:40 +0000

Travelogix is sponsoring a new monthly business briefing series for managers, owners and professionals working in the travel industry.

Once a month, we are inviting a couple of great speakers to speak about topics of interest and address the opportunities and challenges facing our businesses everyday. The series started this month in Sydney, and we are really excited to be expanding to Melbourne in October.

The first Melbourne event is on the 20th of October at the East Melbourne Library. The topic will be: Going Online… How do I do it.

We have two great presenters:

Kristi Barrow, an online marketing specialist whose former positions include Director Online at Macquarie Bank and Marketing Director Australia / New Zealand for Expedia, and
Serena Star-Leonard, a business coach, author and web strategist who works with small and medium sized businesses to help them drive business and grow their customer community through online and social media.

If you would like to attend please sign up here:

www.travelogix.com/working-smarter-events

It will be informative, practical and you even get a free coffee and a pastry !!

See you there…

Working Smarter Breakfast Briefing

jolene — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:07:21 +0000

This morning we held the inaugural Travelogix Working Smarter Breakfast Briefing.

As it was our first we were not sure how it would go but in my opinion it was a tremendous success. We had around 25 dedicated guests turn up at the unearthly hour of 8am, free coffee and Danish in hand, to hear the top recommendations for going online.

Our speakers, Kristi Barrow and Serena Star-Leonard, certainly did us proud.

Kristi, former Marketing Director of Expedia (ANZ) presented first and shared a lot of highly interesting statistics about internet searching and usage in general, then specifically related this to the travel industry. She talked about the extraordinary increase, over the last 5 years in online travel searching and bookings – not just on PCs but also on mobile devices. Did you know that of all mobile phone owners in Australia around 50% have a smart phone that they can access the web on? And this figure is expected to increase to 65% by 2015. People are now more confident using the internet to actually make bookings and pay with their credit card – and they can do it from anywhere, at any time!

Serena, Author, Radio Presenter and Business Coach gave our guests some very practical tips about how to utilise the free social media tools that are now at our disposal. The number of people using applications like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and even Youtube on a daily basis now means that marketers have more power than ever before. Instead of the traditional one to many marketing, with one post on the right social media forum we can now reach one to many to many and so on! These extraordinary tools are still underutilised in many industries however this is changing rapidly. Serena’s Seven Steps to Building your Online Community should benefit our guests and further their marketing reach greatly with no financial outlay!

Feedback on the event has been very complimentary and the next one is already half full and we haven’t even planned it yet! We do know it will be held in November – register your interest now and stand by for more details.

The Working Smarter Melbourne Breakfast Briefing will be held on Thursday 20th October at the East Melbourne Library so if you missed your opportunity to hear Serena and Kristi speak today you had better get yourself down to Melbourne! Book early!

Travelogix invited to speak to UTS Travel Students

jolene — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:03:37 +0000

Philip Hancock, GM Sales and Marketing was invited to present to the Travel and Tourism undergraduates at UTS on behalf of Travelogix this morning.

Around 80 students, who will be the future leaders of the Travel Industry, were in attendance.

Philip received great feedback for his presentation which centred around the massive growth in technology generally and specifically within the Travel Industry. With more than 47% of Australian mobile phone owners now accessing the web on their smart phones and these figures expected to rise dramatically with the introduction of the national broadband network, can you afford not to be online?

For a copy of Philip’s presentation, please contact sales@travelogix.com

Working Smarter with Travelogix – Business Breakfast

philip — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:09:43 +0000

Travelogix is sponsoring a new monthly business briefing series for managers, owners and professionals working in the travel industry.

Once a month, starting in Sydney, we will invite a couple of great speakers to speak about topics of interest and address the opportunities and challenges facing our businesses everyday.

The first event is on the 15th of September at the great new Surry Hills Library. The topic will be: Going Online… How do I do it.

We have two great presenters:

Kristi Barrow, who until moving to Macquarie Bank was the Marketing Director Australia / New Zealand for Expedia, and
Serena Star-Leonard, a business coach, author and web strategist who works with small and medium sized businesses to help them drive business and grow their customer community through online and social media.

If you would like to attend please sign up here:

www.travelogix.com/working-smarter-events

It should be informative, practical and you will even get a free coffee and a pastry !!

See you there…

Sale and support teams get stronger still.

jolene — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:16:18 +0000

We’re still growing our team!

Samantha Lippiatt is our new Business Development Manager and will look after all new clients across Australia and New Zealand with ambitions to become our Global BDM as the Travelogix platform is adopted across the world!

Samantha is a passionate and determined individual who has worked in Business Development for a number of years, with a background in the travel and events industries. Samantha’s speciality is in relationship building and she is excited to join the travel technology sector.

Born in Europe, Samantha has called Australia home for most of her life and lives in the Inner West suburb of Annandale. Samantha has a real passion for both travel and fitness and when not working, can usually be found doing something active like scuba diving or planning her next trip! Get in touch with Samantha via LinkedIn to learn more about the Travelogix platform!

Paul Haddad also joins us to fill the role of Learning Services Manager.

Most recently Paul was engaged at Martin College as a teacher and also working as the IT Course and Distance Education Coordinator. Paul worked in the teaching industry for more than three years and during this time developed a passion for enhancing others’ learning experiences. Paul enjoys being the supportive “go to” person and creating innovative new work practices. Outside of work Paul’s passion in life is spending quality time with his loved ones and being outdoors. He has a positive outlook on life and believes all problems have a solution!

Please join us in welcoming Paul and Samantha to the team.

Interesting report from McKinsey about the importance of appropriate IT investment

philip — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:56:34 +0000

http://bit.ly/pSpUMe