Episode 234： Best Travel Tips For Executives and Entrepreneurs
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Summary
After 15 years of experience, I ve come up with things that work to become an efficient traveler and hopefully you can take advantage of some of these tips for yourself as well. Here s a list of the best travel tips for executives and entrepreneurs.
Transcript
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30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach
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the sky, turn the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
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I'm Patrick, I'm your host of Evaluatainment and today we'll be talking about the best
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All these years I used to be an amateur, a traveler, where I used to be frustrated watching
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other people go through it swiftly and I was always figuring out a way and it would take
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a long time so eventually after 15 years of experience I've come together with things
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that work to become an efficient traveler and hopefully you can take advantage of some
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How often have you gone on a business trip and you forgot your business cards?
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How many times have we forgotten this puppy before, right?
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I have multiple of these in my briefcase, in my car, at the office, in my home, everywhere
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Have extra phone chargers everywhere for you to not run out of batteries on your phone
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because how many of us have been on a trip and we had our phone run out of batteries?
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This is a required thing to have as an entrepreneur in your bag.
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When you sit on the plane, sanitize your hands.
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Nowadays they have them at a lot of airports but if they don't, you got to bring your own
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as well, sanitize your hands, sanitize the table that you're going to put your hands
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on and the side where you put your arm rest here, sanitize that as well because a lot
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of times someone's sick, they sneeze, they touch that, you touch your face, you get a
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As an entrepreneur, you can't afford to do that because one week could set you back a lot
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Next, all the apps of airlines you fly on, have them on your phone.
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So if it's American Airlines, Delta, Southwest, have it on your phone.
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If there's delays, whatever it may be, they send it to you and they tell you if you had
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All of that stuff will go on your phone so you don't have delays taking place for you.
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Next, have you ever gone in a line to check in and you do a security checkpoint and you
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have to take off your shoes, you have to take off your belt, you have to take off your
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Have you ever done that before and you just sit there and you're wondering, why are these
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folks on this side, they go to the place that says TSA Pre, they go through the whole thing
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They must be pilots, they must be flight attendants, they must be CIA, they must be FBI because
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Well, they came out with a system a few years ago that you yourself can be part of TSA Pre
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If you look at the screen here, it's by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and so what they
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If you're an American Express user, that $100 American Express will refund you but if you're
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not, you pay $100 and that $100, they go through doing a background check on you, misdemeanor,
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If you come out clear, if you come out clear, you don't need to take off your belt, you don't
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need to take out your computer, you don't need to take off your shoes and you don't get
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You go in the TSA pre-line with the airlines that are approved.
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You don't wait in line for anybody, you simply go in and if you are TSA pre, the other benefits
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you get is you get bumped up into first class, you get bumped up into business class.
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Airlines like having people who are TSA pre because they want to feel safe.
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Another thing is with getting there early, have you ever had on a trip where you go in
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and all of a sudden you miss your check-in time and they say it's within 45 minutes, you
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can't check in your bag, you're upset because they say you need to wait for the next flight
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five hours and you're going to miss this appointment you were supposed to make and you don't know
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Here's one way that works and you can do it every time.
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So they are not allowing you get on the flight because the check-in for the bag is too late.
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You can get your ticket for yourself, even if you're late, you get the ticket.
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You check your bag on the next flight, even if it's five hours later.
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You get on your flight, you make your meeting, five hours later your bag will land in the
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You can simply send somebody to go pick up your bag and bring it to you.
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This happened to me on a trip to New Mexico, I was being interviewed on NBC, same exact thing
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happened, got on my flight, went there, my bag showed up six hours later, we were squirted away,
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I made it on my TV show that I was supposed to be in, everybody went home happy.
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So that's something to keep in mind if you are going to be late.
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Now the point is this, if you're going to a business meeting with an agenda, have your
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assistant or staff print out an agenda with as much details on it as possible.
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Who you're meeting with, information about the meeting you're having with the person,
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what's the outcome of it, what are they wanting, what do we want, who are you going to meet
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at this time, who are you going to go have to meet at this place, the details, name of the
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person, all those details you're going to have, the more info they give you, the better
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Next thing, when I travel on my phone, I have in one of my notes section that writes out
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exactly the restaurants I've been, all the cities all over the world I go, I have a place
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in my notes section that tells me, in this city I go to these three restaurants, this
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restaurant I order sushi, at this restaurant I order Italian, at this restaurant I order
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this, and then it tells me what things I've ordered before that I like the most, food.
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I have it in my phone, couple reasons why you need them when you go back, it's tough
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to find good restaurants, the other thing is when you know a friend that's going to
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a certain city, you can always recommend a good restaurant to them.
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Next, Southwest Airlines, if you're flying on Southwest Airlines and you want to get an
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aisle seat, or you want to get an exit seat, aisle seat, there's A, B, C, because you know
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If you're before B30, you'll normally get an aisle seat, after B30, it's tough to get an
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aisle seat. If you want an exit seat, you've got to be before A30. Generally, if you're
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below A30, A25, you'll get yourself an exit seat, if you want an exit seat with Southwest
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Airlines. Another thing is with American Express Lounge, you have these airport lounge, if you
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have a delay on your flight or any of that stuff, an American Express Platinum card allows
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you to go into the lounges that they have at different airports, as well as a few different
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cards, the diner card, the Centurion card. If you're a, you know, Platinum Flyer member,
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with any of these airlines, you have some advantages to go to these lounges. They have
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chargers there, they have TVs there, they have bars there, they have restaurants there.
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It's quiet, you're sitting with other business people as well when you go there.
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Another point here, when I'm traveling, I don't use taxi, I use Uber. Uber is a great
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app to pick up, download, use, they're very effective, they're very efficient, they're
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very fast, you get a lot of discounts, it's a good system to use. When you land, when you
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land, write a note, give it to the pilot, say thank you for a safe landing, put your business
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card in there, you'd be surprised how many times that pilot that sees you on another
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flight will greet you and sometimes there's additional perks that comes with it. Another
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thing, when you go to an airport and you go to SkyCab, you know the SkyCab is a curbside
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assistant where they take your bags and they check in instead of going inside and waiting
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15 minutes. When you do that, know that they work for tips. Always have cash with you to tip
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them. One dollar per bag if they don't have to take you to the front. If they have to take
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it to the front, it's $2 per bag. You give them three bags, it's $6. You give them five
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bags, it's $10. Just keep that rule. One dollar if they're not taking it in, $2 if they are
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taking it in with the bags. And last but not least, I am not a fan of Wi-Fi on planes.
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I know a lot of people do a lot of business on planes with Wi-Fi. I'm not. I think flights
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are great opportunities as an entrepreneur and a businessman to have a therapeutic moment
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of just taking a break from the world. And we need that as entrepreneurs. My suggestion,
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read, write letters, reflect. That's what I do on my flights. It gives me a break from
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the world. I love to read. I love to write. I love to write letters. I love to sit there
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and reflect about life and just take notes about what's been happening with life and
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how I can improve and how I can do this and how I can do that. Great time to do it. That's
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typically as an entrepreneur businessman that's going a million miles an hour, you need your
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break. Flights are those breaks for you. Take advantage of it. Don't waste your money
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on Wi-Fi. You'll be more thankful you didn't when you land because you're in a better state,
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better place. Thanks everybody for listening. And by the way, if you haven't already subscribed
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