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SUCCESS STORIES
From Bust to Boom
BY MIMI KMET
Agent@ Home Magazine July
An Internet company finds success as a travel retailer after dot-com fallout
When the dot-com industry went bust a few years ago, Bruce Fisher and his wife, Yaling Yu, went into the travel business out of necessity. Today, their Honolulu-based at-home agency, Hawaii-Aloha.corn, is booming. Last year, the agency did $5.4 million in gross sales, nearly double its 2005 sales, according to Fisher. Moreover, gross sales in the first quarter of 2007 are up 120 percent over the first quarter last year, thanks mainly to their embrace of technology.
“We started out as a dot-com in 2000 and got dot-bombed when the Internet marketing business went bad,” Fisher says, referring to the Internet marketing company they operated from home. But what kept Fisher and Yu afloat was their affiliation with Planet Hawaii, a portal with a hotel booking engine, which was still [...]

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