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How to Install and Increase Marina Reservations Using Dockwa on Your WordPress Site
Here’s how to increase your marina’s reservation conversion rate using Dockwa by as much as 50% and make your marina website as easy as “Click. Book. Dock.”
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Why Boat Marinas Should Be Using Marinas.com to Market Their Marina To Boaters
As the world’s most extensive online marine directory, Marinas.com most likely already has your marina listed. However, don’t let your marina listing sit unclaimed, it’s an easy first step to start marketing your marina.
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ActiveCaptain for Marinas: Riding the Waves of Technology to Authority Over Your Waterfront
ActiveCaptain is the free app by Garmin that connects to all of your Garmin devices on any boat and aggregates navigation charts, real-time boat statistics, and a community of knowledge shared by thousands of marinas and boaters.
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How to Set Up and Manage Your Marina’s ActiveCaptain Listing
Give your marina a personality with Garmin’s ActiveCaptain listing – marina’s own social media presence in a niche community of folks who love exactly what you love.
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More From The Marina Marketing Blog
A Storm Is Coming – How to Protect Your Boaters
It’s your marina’s responsibility to have emergency structures in place for the customers who entrust you to safeguard their boats. Here are a few preparations that can make an impactful difference before the arrival of a storm.
The 2024 AMI Conference & Expo announces its opening keynote speaker
AMI released an exciting bit of news that revealed it will build on 2023’s conference theme that focused on team-building and fostering competent marina management structures internally. This year’s opening keynote speaker at the AMI Conference & Expo in Fort Lauderdale, Bill Benjamin, will introduce the conference with an address about the “last 8% culture system.”
The Fall Boat Maintenance Every Marina Manager Should Offer To Increase Slow-Season Revenue
Summer is over. You’re allowed to exhale. What’s next? There’s a pocket here to bolster a seriously undervalued piece of your marina business, and the core of it is routine care. Your service department and boat maintenance.
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Other Articles Penned By The Marketing Marinas Team From Around The Internet

The Ease of Using Digital Marina Management Software
The idea of initiating digital marina management software can seem intimidating. But the good news is that Dockwa has already mastered the process.
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Implementing Airbnb Lodgings: How to Evolve Your Marina’s Perception from Shoreside Storage to a Relaxation Alcove
In recent years, marina owners and operators have been brainstorming ideas to transform their facilities into more than passive locations for boaters to hop on and off their vessels. Now, they need to determine the logistics of becoming the destination.
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How and Why to Digitize Your Marina Operations
“Entering the digital age” is like staying healthy as a human—get your sleep, get some exercise, eat right. The sleep-exercise-nutrition of marina management is grounded in a basic approach: be visible everywhere online and immediately accessible.
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