Support Your Local OSSN Chapters
by Anita Pagliasso-Balamane
Author of "How I Made A Small Fortune as a Home-Based Travel Agent"
(www.redticketproductions.com)
President, Ticket To Travel (www.aticket2travel.com)
OSSN Western Regional Manager
Email: sanjoseca@ossn.com
Phone: 408-531-9228

It was just one year after I started my home-based travel business in 1992 that I somehow stumbled upon a meeting announcement in a trade magazine for OSSN, an association for home-based travel agents. Wow, I thought, a whole association just for home-based travel agents!! Back then I thought I was the only one running my business this way. I immediately sent in my reservation to attend.

The guest speaker for the evening was very informative and entertaining. However, the best information that I received that evening was not just from the keynote speaker, but from the agents sitting next to me. I was amazed how willing these agents were to share insights about their business. In one evening I picked up invaluable information by merely networking with the other OSSN home-based agents. It was because of those initial supportive encounters at that first meeting that I decided to become further involved with OSSN. In 1993 I became the San Jose Chapter Director and then in 1995 the Western Regional Manager.

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