by Sandy Salle
Wednesday May 27, 2015

You’ve heard it a ton of times: Travel agents are becoming obsolete with all the online travel planning platforms available. There’s no way to make money in the travel industry anymore. It’s a travel industry apocalypse for travel agents!

Well, guess what? Over the past several years, I’ve taken my boutique travel business and turned it into a million dollar company.

How did I do…

ShoreTrips offers more than 2,400 excursions and activities, all personally tested, in more than 420 cruise ship ports of call and cities throughout the world. Shoretrips are the experts – having researched every location thoroughly, choosing the best sites to visit, and the best things to do. They interview the guides and providers, and only when they meet their strict criteria do they offer their services to you. With 30 years of international travel experience, Barry and…

Today’s message was borrowed from my archive of lessons. The story is not current, but the lesson still holds water. It involves the sport of horse racing.

“Mine-That-Bird” was the name of the nag who left the gates at 50-1 odds, and won The Kentucky Derby.

Apparently nobody told him or his jockey that 50-1 was just another way of labeling the duo as a “loser.” Winning The Kentucky Derby being a 50-1 long shot was just a tad short of…