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How To Orderto there can be wearing, stressful and an out-and-out waste of time — if you keep doing what you've been doing. If you're like most of us, you know some of the little tricks that can make a difference in the common travel situations that most of us discover. But there's a lot more to know, and if you follow the trails already blazed by others, you can avoid the traps that trapped them.

Business travel is changing fast. Even if you scan the Web for travel tips, much of what you find, though helpful, is out of date or soon-to-be out of date, obsoleted by dramatic developments on the Web itself, or in mobile devices. For business travelers, keeping current isn't just keeping up with the latest fads. It can make the difference between an OK trip and an astonishingly successful one. It can mean that you catch a flight you didn't know existed, shortening your trip by two days. It can mean the difference between a window seat with an actual window, and window seat with a clear view of a wall.

Read 21st Century Business Travel: Tips for the e-Enabled Business Traveler to learn the secrets the travel pros already know. It's packed with tricks and techniques that let you fly through security, or get the best available rental car, or the safest hotel room, and much more. For instance, you'll learn how to configure your email (for free) so that if your address ever changes, all you have to do is tell one organization, instead of dozens of frequent-flyer, hotel, and car rental loyalty programs.

And it's all packaged in a single, compact ebook. Load it onto your mobile devices or laptop and carry it with you on your next trip.

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Be clever about seat selection

Before you reserve your seat, or before you change your seat, visit SeatGuru.com for seat information. If you want a quiet seat, if you need some extra legroom, or if you want to be sure that your seat reclines or has a power outlet, this site is a great reference. They also offer a mobile app for smartphones. It is not yet, unfortunately, tailored to tablets.

You'll need to know the type of aircraft you're flying, which you can usually get from the airline Web site or from the airline's mobile app.

At the airport security checkpoint, load the conveyor belt wisely

Most of us put several items on the conveyor belt for x-ray at security checkpoints: one bin with outerwear, a bin with a laptop, a carry-on, shoes, etc. The screener will have the most difficulty with your computer bag, followed by your carry-on, because of their complex contents. If you put those two items on the conveyor belt first, and your laptop last, then when the screener pauses the belt to study the image, your laptop and other belongings will still be at the entrance to the belt, in plain view, where you can watch them closely. Nothing of yours will be on the far side of the machine out of your view. After all your belongings enter the machine, you can walk through the metal detector and pick up and repack everything. Your laptop will be out of your view for only a few seconds. If you load the belt in some other order, your laptop might get through quickly, and you risk losing it to a thief. This technique also deters collaborative laptop theft by security screeners.

Ask security personnel to change gloves

If you or your carry-on bags are searched at airport security, ask the agent to please change to fresh latex gloves. You have no idea (and you don't want to know) where those gloves have already been.

Carry photos of your luggage

Carrying a hardcopy photo of each item of checked baggage (in your carry-on, of course) could be very helpful if your checked baggage is lost. The lost-baggage clerk will appreciate having an actual photograph instead of a vague verbal description. You can snap the photo once and use it for many trips — until the bag is lost for good, that is. It's also helpful to carry these photos in your smartphone. If necessary, you can then send them in email to the transportation company that lost your luggage.

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This book has an ISBN of 978-1-938932-02-1.

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