Hello,

My name is <em><strong>Patricia Bannister</strong></em> and I hold two titles with OSSN.  First, I am the <strong>Memphis &amp; Northern MS Director for OSSN</strong>.  I am also the <strong>Southeastern Regional Manager for OSSN</strong>.

I began my career in travel as a member of a host agency.  The agency was in my town and gave all of us some wonderful travel education.  As with life, things began to change, and my host moved out of town and stopped paying commissions to those of us who were really trying to sell travel.  I later found out that my host was a card mill.  They issued cards to everyone who paid them a lot of money, and they didn't care whether you sold travel, memberships, or nothing.

I went to an NCL breakfast one morning and met a director for OSSN.  OSSN helped me to save the business I had begun, and helped me to own my own agency.  They taught me all the things that I needed to know to follow the seller of travel laws in my state, they helped me with the forms that I needed for clients and to set up my office.  I found my E&amp;O insurance company on their site, as well as the company that I deal with now for taking credit cards.

Then, I became the Memphis Chapter Director for them.  That was later expanded to N. MS and E. AR.  We hold meetings in Memphis once a month and we have various suppliers attend.  Those suppliers are OSSN allied suppliers who have stated that they want to work with you, the home-based agent to build your business to the level where you want to go.

I have learned so much from my association with OSSN, and I truly believe that that association helped me more than anything else to save my business.

If I can ever help any of you, feel free to contact me at 662-288-9052 or at <a href="mailto:memphis@ossn.com">memphis@ossn.com</a>.

Patricia Bannister, Southeastern Regional Manager, OSSN

 