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'I was spending crazy amounts on Facebook!': Agent ditches homeworking and makes jump onto high street

Agents
Harry Kemble
29 August 2025

A homeworker of nine years has opened her first retail shop after deciding to use the “crazy amounts” of money she was paying Facebook to promote holidays to launch a bricks-and-mortar operation instead.

Rod and Clare Stege outside the first CLS Travel shop in Littleover

Rod and Clare Stege outside the first CLS Travel shop in Littleover, a suburb of Derby (Credit: CLS Travel)

After doing around £1 million in sales last year, CLS Travel owner Clare Stege thought it would be “a better investment” to open a shop so began hunting for a premises.

She also factored into her decision how many InteleTravel homeworkers there are now, how much support she gets from her consortium The Travel Network Group (TTNG) and how car manufacturer Rolls-Royce’s main UK office is around a mile away from her shop in a suburb of Derby called Littleover.  

Stege told TTG: “Last year, I did around the £1 million mark in sales, but I started to find Facebook really tricky because it charges a crazy amount of money for advertising.