Are there more types of boat clubs? What are the benefits of boat clubs for a marina? Here are a few types of boat club arrangements and how they can attract boaters to your marina.
Grow Revenue and Community: The Benefits of Boat Clubs
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Marina Management
The Value of Marina Safety Policies and Literature
Today, we cover how seemingly “afterthought” marina safety structures can help a marina ensure an ongoing culture of safety for its guests and staff.
Down-season: How to Audit and Strengthen Your Marina’s Fine Points
As we move deeper into fall, a helpful exercise can be to assess where your marina has weak points in the little things and take action to strengthen them. Here are a few of the “fine points” a marina manager can address in the fall down-season to self-assess and strengthen their marina’s brand credibility.
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 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.
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.
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.
The power of digital marina marketing for small marinas: The astronomical one-year leap of Lake Marion’s Marker 79 Marina
Marker 79 Marina is the definition of a small family-oriented marina, and in one year, its business has more than quadrupled, after choosing the team with the right digital marketing strategy for small marinas.