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What's New in Online Business Travel |
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One of the biggest
dilemmas facing business travel agencies today
is how to win more business and increase
margin as clients increasingly use the web.
While business
clients are becoming increasingly familiar
with booking their travel online, travel
agents without the IT budget to offer their
clients a custom solution are often stuck at a
competitive disadvantage.
So how do you reconcile these seemingly
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The answer lies in the availability of new
ePortal solutions - designed specifically for
travel agencies forced to invest in
genuine customer service rather than
information technology.
And this is the challenge that Quick
ePortal meets.
Quick ePortal allows you to easily create and
maintain business travel solutions matched to
each of your client's needs with an absolutely
minimal Information Technology investment, yet
delivering a real added value benefit to you
and your clients. |
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ePortal provides the means to: |
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Win more sales by creating client
oriented sales demonstrations quickly and easily
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Add more value by reflecting the
way each corporate really works |
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Capture higher % of clients' spend
by offering more on-line services |
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Increase margin by making more
commission on all on-line services |
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Reduce your IT costs by using a
single common platform for all clients |
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Retain more business by responding
quickly to client needs |
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Differentiate your services by
taking the lead on e commerce |
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Become more proactive with clients
helping with account retention |
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Extend your footprint in to
multi-national accounts |
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Increase client satisfaction |
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Get more client referrals |
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"Designed Specifically for Corporates and
their Travel Agents" |
Every year the demand for more online
travel solutions increases. But the
industry is still hugely fragmented with
no player offering the breadth of online
services expected by businesses.
Which is why we developed Quick ePortal.
As a provider of added value travel
portals to corporates, agents and
communities we have developed many
solutions on different platforms. This was
becoming more time consuming and expensive
to maintain.
We believed there was a better way. This
is why we developed Quick ePortal.
We now run all our web portal business on one single platform including:
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A corporate with a travel spend of over £1m
p.a. |
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6 Chamber of Commerce travel clubs with a
membership of some 20,000 businesses |
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A travel agent supporting multiple clients |
So everything we have learnt about travel
portals is built in to the Quick ePortal
solution. |
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"A
Travel Portal unlike any other" |
Too fantastic? Maybe - but when you
understand everything that the solution
offers comes not from theory but from our
hard bitten experience of delivering
travel portals to corporates, travel
agents and communities then you'll start
to understand why it is a solution unlike
any other.
Unlike any other travel solution, Quick ePortal focuses on integrating travel
services, it runs alongside your
selected flight booking engine and adds
the missing link to bring everything
together. Existing investment you have
made developing web sites and affiliate
links isn't lost
either - we just reuse it in Quick ePortal.
And here are the good bits...
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You don't have to install a new piece of
software, we will manage the complete
solution for you! |
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You don't need any technical skills - we
do everything for you |
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It comes with a complete set of travel &
information services, right out-of-the-box |
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The cost or running the system per month
is less that you'd pay for a single day of
a web developer's time! |
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"Take
a look at some of the great features
you'll
get right out-of-the-box" |
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Branding to suit each client |
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Controllable Client Menus |
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Unique Content - e.g. Preferred hotels |
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Your own embedded affiliate links |
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Broadcast travel updates |
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Create a leisure club |
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Hold forms |
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New window information content |
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Users can 'tune' their own
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Track your days abroad for the tax man! |
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Provide travel options |
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Promote all your services for a
trip |
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"With
Quick ePortal you could be up and running a
week from now!" |
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Imagine
a week from now
having a brand new business travel site with
more content than your competitors....... |
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Imagine
a week from now doing a sales presentation
and including a demonstration of an online
travel solution with the client's
corporate colours and branding..... |
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Imagine
not having to worry about your online
business travel solution again!.... |
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"Meeting
the corporate expectation" |
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Corporate travel managers are expected to
demonstrate that they have continuous cost
reduction programmes in place and increasing
use of the web is a given.
If the business travel agent does not facilitate this
for them, then they will do it directly, with
the agent forgoing easily available
commissions.
Quick ePortal allows the corporate the
means to reduce costs by: |
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Promoting every aspect of travel policy at
the time of booking |
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Promoting preferred hotels anywhere in the
world |
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Providing added value best practice
transfer information
relevant to the company |
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Allowing trips to be planned office
to office rather than airport to
airport |
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Leveraging
best rates from local country providers |
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Increasing negotiation potential
by making content available to other
countries in a muli-national |
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...........and much, much more |
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For more information and to discuss how Quick
ePortal can help add value to your business:
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Please call: Mike Fill. Tel: 0870 027
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or Email:
mikefill@itemconsulting.co.uk |
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We would be happy to organise a demonstration
of Quick ePortal. |
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Formed in 2001, item Consulting and Services uses experienced consultants with
international track records in both travel and
management consulting and IT disciplines gained through
working with the world's largest global Management
Consulting, Travel Management Companies and IT
service companies, servicing both national and
international corporates and travel businesses.
item
Consulting have a track record of success and are
asked to speak at the most prestigious industry
conferences, including Global ACTE, PhoCusWright,
UK Business Travel show, IATA world conferences
and Eye for Travel. |
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---STOP
PRESS--- |
7
July
2006
Cumbria Chamber of Commerce select item consulting to run
their member travel service using Quick ePortal |
23 June 2006
Ofcom decide to move their corporate travel systems to item
consulting's Quick ePortal |
2 May
2006
item consulting selected to build the web shop for a TV
shopping channel |
13 March
2006
item consulting announce the release of their Quick ePortal for travel agents and corporates |
8 March
2006
item consulting will be on the panel discussing on-line
booking tools at the Corporate Travel & Expense Management
Forum |
6 March
2006
item consulting selected by A Spa to Life to build their new
web site. |
14 Dec 2005
item consulting selected to build web site for Eclass
Lifestyles including a travel portal |
1 Dec 2005
item consulting selected to build web site Thurrock District
Association of Industries |
30 June 2005
item consulting launch Quick eSurvey product
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27 February
2005
item consulting announces the June release of a web based survey
tool which allows esurveys to be created within 30 minutes and
results analysed on-line
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14 February
2005
item consulting win the contract to build a web site for ITG
Marketing which manages leisure properties for their owners |
10 February
2005
item consulting retained for 2005 as interim travel managers
at ofcom |
20 January
2005
item consulting win web site renewal project for Thameside Electrical |
14 October
2004
item consulting announces the release of the world's first
intelligent travel portal
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