Tash Petrella

Experience

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  Harding brothers retail uk

  Mar 2006 - Apr 2010

  Sales on board cruise ships
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  Amazing Vouchers

  Apr 2010 - Sept 2012

  Holiday unit coordinator
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  Flight Centre South Africa

  Oct 2012 - Dec 2013

  Travel Consultant

  Retail sales of holiday products including flights, accommodation, visas, insurance, transfers,etc for leisure and business travelers.

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  Imagine Holidays

  Dec 2013 - Jan 2015

  Holiday product assistant

  - Building of holiday products, keeping the website and product pricing up to date. - Training of staff on products and systems. Proofreading advertisements.- Analyzing the South African market and designing holiday products to be advertised on the website for all international travel destinations. Main market: Asia, North and South America, Europe, Indian Ocean Islands.- Putting all elements of the holiday together as a package, ensuring the least expensive price found every month and keeping all products pricing updated.- Designing and editing the website in CMS back office system and proofreading of advertising(e-shots and press).- Training of new sales staff on systems and holidays products.- Assisting accounts with queries and systems, booking procedures and ensuring supplier systems are updated.- Covering in the call centre and stores when required. Show less

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  AmazingHolidays.co.za

  Feb 2015 - Jan 2017

  Travel Consultant

  - Sales and booking of all travel needs including flights, accommodation, transfers, tours and insurance for leisure and business travellers for outbound local and international worldwide destinations.- Following up on all bookings with regards to changes in itinerary and special requirements.- Dealing with all administration and follow up on the booking- Continued sales and service training with the company- Building and designing holiday products to advertise on our website for international destinations including Europe, Asia, Indian Ocean Islands, North and South America and more. Show less

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  Perfect Destinations

  Feb 2017 - Jun 2020

  Product Manager

  - Building/costing international leisure travel packages for sales and advertising for Travel Dreams, Travel Dreams Cruise division, PerfectDestinations and Dream Sports. Focus destinations: Asia, Indian OceanIslands, Europe, North and South America, UAE and more.- Costing included all individual elements from suppliers and aggregates including flights, accommodation, transfers, day tours, meet & greets, etc to give the best value to the clients for a complete package. Packages ranging from 3 - 5* luxury options.- Worked together with DMC's to create tailor-made, guided (shared and private) packages and costed together with flights and other elements.- Adding and updating packages and pages on the WordPress sites daily.- Negotiating deals with suppliers/DMC’s from around the world to promote.- Meeting with and setting up training with resorts/suppliers from around the world.- Attending worldwide trade shows (TTM Thailand, PATA Macau & ITB Singapore) to find new suitable worldwide suppliers and negotiate new deals with current suppliers.- Working closely with the marketing team for products to advertise onFacebook, Instagram and mailers.- Assisting with the building of five WordPress websites (Not from the development stage, from building pages, packages, editing design, flow and structure)- Working closely with the website developers for any website issues and amendments needed.- Training of consultants on products, quoting software (Travelyst), websites, Wetu & general technical computer functionality.- Worked closely with Wetu to set up Perfect Destinations as the first international company to work with them as well as assisting with getting our quoting system (Travelyst) and websites to integrate with Wetu.- Set up the cruise division of Travel Dreams – Suppliers, online booking systems, website page, costing packages.- Set up a concerts packages page for the site – Suppliers, booking systems, website page and costing packages. Show less

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  Web Reboot

  Jul 2020 - now

  Owner of Web Reboot

  When Covid hit, I developed my basic WordPress skills and learnt to build and develop websites and started Web Reboot. www.webreboot.co.za.I brought together a team of people to assist with marketing, graphic design and social media. My focus in the business is to develop websites and run all admin roles in the company.- Building and developing websites, from simple "coming soon" pages to complex eCommerce sites.- Fluent in all things WordPress and use Oxygen Builder or Elementor.- Proficient in WooCommerce, payment gateway setup, etc.- Extensive Xneelo hosting and email knowledge and worked with numerous other hosting companies for clients.- Set up of Google Analytics and console accounts.- Basic social media skills with Canva designs and posting to various platforms with Business suite.- Extensive knowledge of HubSpot setup and management.- MailChimp setup and newsletter subscriptions and creation- SEO setup with RankMath, Yoast, etc- Sending of monthly invoices and statements Show less

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  Travel By Investec

  Feb 2023 - now

  Travelyst CRM analysist, trainer, administrator and support