Honeymoon Registry for Travel Agents

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Honeymoon Registry for Travel Agents
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What is a Honeymoon Bridal Registry?

• On our online honeymoon registry, Brides Grooms
  list anything they want to do on their honeymoon
  even portions of their trip. First they book
  their travel as normal, then they go online and
  create their own bridal registry list.
• It works just like a wedding gift registry. 
  Instead of buying pots or pans, toasters or
  towels, guests purchase portions of their dream
  honeymoon as a wedding gift. We do not book
  travel or make reservations. We provide Brides
  Grooms a way to get more money to spend on their
  trip or to get reimbursed for monies already
  spent.
• Its free to agents, there is no set up fee for
  brides and grooms, there is a 10 total
  processing fee (7 service fee and 3 credit card
  fee) to cover management of the account, gift
  cards, wedding web page etc.

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For example, instead of a crock pot guests can
buy the couple a Kingston Day Tour or a
Romance Package. Using and promoting the
honeymoon registry, the couple receives an
average of 2000.00 in gift money to spend on
their honeymoon.
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Why do todays Brides Grooms want to use a
honeymoon registry?

• The average age of new honeymooners is 25 27.
• They are computer savvy, are you?
• More couples live together prior to marriage and
  already have a household.
• The rising cost of the ceremony is going up
  towards 20,000, couples still want to take a
  honeymoon but many need financial help.
• Second marriages comprise 37 of all weddings
  performed.
• Instead of ending up with a checks the night of
  their wedding, and leaving the next day with no
  way to cash them, with the registry they receive
  the gift money early enough to know how much
  money they will have to spend to upgrade or buy
  extras.
• Couples dont want to send out announcement cards
  asking to Please send a check to my travel agent
  at or No gifts please just cash.
• They want their guests to feel involved and
  choose a personalized gift.
• Using the honeymoon registry online lets
  them get gifts on the day of the wedding or even
  while they are away. If you do registries by
  hand and guests mail in checks to you it
  eliminates last minute presents for your
  honeymooners.

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Why do guests like using the honeymoon registry?

• More and more people like to shop from home
  Traffic, crowds and gasoline prices growing
  higher are just a few reasons that help to
  explain why on-line purchasing is up. According
  to new figures released by the US Department of
  Commerce, online retail sales totaled USD14.3
  billion in the fourth quarter of 2003, a rise of
  28 percent on the preceding quarter.
• Guests dont feel like they are giving anything
  personal when they just mail in a check or stick
  cash in an envelope. The honeymoon registry
  allows them to be more involved with choosing
  something really personal.
• Guests have less time and are looking for
  convenience through technology. How many people
  find it easier to email a letter instead of
  putting one in the mail box or shipping something
  at the post office?
• Using the honeymoon registry takes the guesswork
  out of choosing something that the wedding couple
  really wants (and worrying that might return it.)

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How does the Honeymoon Registry Benefit Travel
Agents?

• You have a way to get your clients extra money to
  
• spend on their booking.
• Last month Linda and James Dodge received
  7,020.00 to
• spend on their honeymoon through their agents
  registry.
• This is from Linda and James Dodges actual
  registry, using the registry they were able to
  upgrade their room category.
• Do you have clients that want a longer or more
  luxurious honeymoon, or would rather have monies
  towards their honeymoon instead of more pots and
  pans? Now you can offer a way to increase the
  amount of money Brides and Grooms have to spend
  on their trip just by using the honeymoon
  registry.

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Make 20 commission on registry item service
charges

• You can make commissions on more than their
  travel booking. You will receive commissions on
  the 7 service fees of items that are purchased,
  like the private dinner,spa treatments, extra
  activities , even shopping !
• You receive 20 of all service fees collected.
• Last month our highest commissions were paid to
  Travel Agent,. Melissa Frame. She helped promote
  her clients registry and received 140.00
  commission from us.

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You can give your clients their own wedding
website increasing the services that you can
offer them!
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Your clients will have an online photo album,
email wizard and blog!
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Take the Hassle out of In House Registries

• Why print cards and account for checks in the
  mail from the couples weddings guests? You get no
  marketing exposure from people sending you things
  in the mail.
• We do all the accounting for you! Its simple,
  free, automated and gives your clients beautiful,
  classy, state of the art technology to use as
  their registry. Using the registry will bring all
  of the couples friends and family to your website
  that is new, free website traffic!

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Who uses us now?
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About HoneymoonWishes.com

• We are located on Aero Drive in San Diego
• We have been in business since January 2003
• We are used by 130,000 travel agents.
• We bank with Merrill Lynch
• We are members of BBB and AFWPI
• We have an SSL certificate and work through
  PayPal
• We have our own servers hosted on site at Castle
  Access co location facilities
• We have 8 service providers
• We have a 24 hour NOC and BGP staff
• We are the registry for Carnival Cruise lines,
  Club Med, Couples Resorts, Namale,Signature
  Travel Network, Ensemble Travel, Mailpound, and
  Liberty Travel just to name a few.

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Its free we dont book travel!

• This is a completely free program for you no
  cost to join, operate with a designated link or
  to use our materials.
• We are not travel sellers and are never in
  competition with you. We want you to book more
  travel!
• We are registry experts that is all we do.
• More bookings for you more registries for us.

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We are the only registry that offers you your
own Private Labeled Honeymoon Registry

• Why would ever send your clients to another
  registry where they can find other travel agents
  options?
• We give you our technology with your name logo
  on it so that your clients stay in your own
  website.
• Not only will your clients stay on
• your website, but they will send an average
  of 68 new people to view your website.
• This program is only 39.95.
• See order form on www.honeymoonwishes.com/ta

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How do you sign your clients up?

• You book the travel and refer the couple to the
  registry to sign up. You do not have to sign them
  up yourself, but taking a moment to show your
  clients where to sign up is recommended. You will
  receive an email notice with a link to their
  registry once they have signed up.

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What site do you direct your clients to?Your own
Website.

• A Private Label site is our software with your
  name and logo on it.

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What if you dont have your own website?

• You can still refer your clients to
  HoneymoonWishes.com
• They can select you as the referring agent and
  you still receive commissions
• They can not link out or get any other travel
  agents contact information

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How do Brides and Grooms register for what
they want they want to do?

• The couples go online and register for anything
  they would like to do on their honeymoon, even
  portions of their trip.
• We walk them through every simple step.
• We give ideas of what to ask for, or they can
  create their own. They just click choose for
  what they want.

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One more time.Who pays for the Registry?

• Its a free service to you and your clients.
  There is a 10 total processing fee (7 service
  and 3 credit card)on the transaction however
  this covers all account management, credit card
  fees, wedding web page, gift cards, Thank You
  cards,
• and its convenient.
• We are the only site where the couple can choose
  to take the service charge out of the gift amount
  they receive or add it to the gift amount at the
  time of purchase.

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How does the Couple let everyone know about the
registry and Wedding Website?

• We provide Announcement Cards, Save the Date
  Cards and even bridal shower games that they can
  download and print.

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How are gifts purchased?

• Wedding guests go online, view all the gifts the
  couples wished for and then purchase a gift for
  the couple. Its safe and secure we never store
  or reuse their information.
• Remember the couple has all ready paid for the
  trip so they are essentially getting reimbursed
  for their travel they also have more spending
  money for their extras like the Spa, Gift Shop
  and Tours!

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What happens after a gift is purchased?

• The Wedding guest sends a
• personalized gift card via email
• The gift money goes into our Merrill Lynch
  account
• We pay the Couple whenever they designate it
• The couple can view all their cards and gifts at
  anytime through their account login

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When does everyone get paid?

• The Couple can collect their gifts at anytime
  through pay pal or check by request.
• We do not mail checks to you or the supplier,
  checks go directly to the Bride Groom.
• Travel Agents are paid 30 days following the
  close of the honeymoon registry (approx. 120 days
  after the honeymoon date.
• There is a 50.00 minimum that must be reached in
  commissions before your check is sent out and
  everyone can be paid by check or pay pal.

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How can you market to honeymooners?

• Make sure your registry is easy to find on your
  website. Use a button or text link that is not
  only easy for Bride Groom to find but easy
  for the guests that are buying gifts to find, you
  dont want frustrated guests signing off your
  website.
•  Tag all email correspondence with Find out
  about our Honeymoon Registry or Find out about
  our Wedding Websites have that link go to your
  site.
•  If you have an automatic email system respond to
  any honeymoon inquiries with and email about your
  honeymoon registry and wedding website.
•  Each time you send out a package in the mail,
  include your one page flier about your honeymoon
  registry.

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If you have an office or storefront, print out
the poster about your honeymoon registry and post
for your clients to see. Once your clients have
done their registry, take a moment to see what
they have signed up for. Take that opportunity to
book upgrades or commissionable items that they
want. Print out announcement cards for your
clients as a gift for booking with you once they
have registered.
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Where can I find more detailed information?

• For general information on the program or to sign
  up go to
• the Partner Programs section of
  www.HoneymoonWishes.com
• Once you register, you will be sent detailed
  information on how to get started and where to
  download marketing materials from.
• To get your private label site, send your URL
  that you would like to link from to
  Support_at_honeymoonwishes.com after you sign up.
  We will then send you a designated link and an
  assortment of buttons for you to use.
• Last but not least let your clients know about
  it through email, newsletters, mail. Show this
  power point to all the agents in office so they
  know how to use the registry to.

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What our Couples say about using the registry.