This week in Orlando, from the main stage of the OutsideAgents Annual Conference, their leadership team announced that every advisor in the network will get full access to Travefy as part of their membership, at no additional cost, starting in September. That’s 13,000 travel businesses, and here is what sits behind it.‍

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A true partnership

OutsideAgents has been building their incredible network since 1992. More than 13,000 advisors and over a billion dollars in annual sales, and every bit of that reputation well earned, one advisor at a time, over three decades.

The part that doesn’t fit in a press release is what we’ve seen up close. Every hour we’ve spent with their team in Jacksonville, on calls, and in conversations, has reinforced what makes them truly exceptional partners. They’re brilliant industry leaders running one of the most successful host agencies, but have also built something special underneath. In a lot of companies family is a word on a careers page, and at OutsideAgents it’s real enough that you feel it in their offices and you hear it in how they talk about their network when no advisor is in the room.

OutsideAgents didn’t pick a tool for this year. They ran a comprehensive review of the market and chose a partner for the future, which means a platform that leads this category today and keeps investing in what’s ahead. And September is the starting line, not the finish.
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“We didn’t just choose a new tech tool — we chose a partner. Bringing Travefy to every OutsideAgents advisor is one of the most exciting investments we’ve made in this community, and it’s only the beginning of what we’ll build together.” Steve Muraca, CEO of OutsideAgents

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We’re here for the long haul

We started Travefy over a decade ago because travel advisors deserve technology as sophisticated as the experiences they create. Today more than 50,000 travel brands run on the platform, and we’ve been named to the Inc. 5000 four consecutive years. The number I care about, though, is the hours we hand back to advisors who would otherwise be copying the same client detail between four systems at 11pm.

And we keep investing, because a platform that stops deepening stops mattering. We rebuilt the CRM from the ground up. We keep advancing our award winning itineraries, which deepen an advisor’s most important relationship, the one with their clients. And we keep opening the platform so the systems this industry already runs on can talk to each other, because your work should feel connected, not fragmented. We are nowhere near finished.‍

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Where this is going

The host agencies and networks that win this decade will treat technology as core to the value they deliver, not a line item they tolerate. Advisors are running real businesses and delivering extraordinary trips, and the platforms behind them should be every bit as good.

OutsideAgents just made one of the biggest investments in the industry on exactly that idea. Our business only works when advisors’ businesses work, so when 13,000 OutsideAgents advisors grow, we grow.

Thank you to Steve, Dave and the entire OutsideAgents team for your trust.

To the advisors, we can’t wait to get to work.

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