
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.

Protect your boaters with Fourth of July boater safety tips
As a marina manager, what can I do about boater safety? Here are a few basic boater safety guidelines that will help ensure your clients have a safe holiday with a greater sense of security in calling your marina their home on the water.

The Power of Video for Marina Marketing: Why Every Manager Should be Integrating Short-form Video in 2023
Is video for marina marketing translating to more boaters in your marina? We’ll explore why it’s effective and how you can amplify search traffic, page conversions, and product purchases through the simplicity of a cell phone video.

Strengthening boater communications: How to effectively use direct text messaging
Here are the types of direct messaging available to marina managers, why they’re integral to workflow, and how you can strengthen boater communications and relationships with the ease of a simple text message.

The best Boston Whalers restoration companies renovating wood-hulled classics into modern art
Boston Whaler restoration is as much an art form as a skill, and here’s our list of the best Boston Whaler restoration companies, based upon their commitment to the original design, the quality of their modifications, aesthetic, knowledge, and the love for Boston Whalers.

Tips for marina marketing: Hammer and Nail Marketing to offer insight through AMI webinar on April 5th
Hammer and Nail Marketing will offer their insight into simple marina marketing tips for managers of all marina sizes in a virtual AMI webinar on Wednesday, April 5th.

2023 AMI Conference breaks record for attendance, industry direction continues to point toward electric
The Association of Marina Industries held its annual industry conference from January 30th to February 1st this year at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach. This past weekend AMI released figures showing that 2023 is the year that attendance peaked, with over 1,100 attendees partaking in a packed weekend of education and camaraderie.

Around the industry: AMI Conference underway, boat shows fill the winter schedule, Yamaha donates life jackets
The annual Association of Marina Industries (AMI) Conference, the only institutional conference that offers accredited courses for marina managers, kicked off on January 30th.
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