Recent Quick Tips For Marketing Marinas

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
Hammer & Nail Welcomes Cedar Bayou Marina on Lake Texoma, Texas
Endless stories could be told about a lake that holds a “Burning of the Socks” event each spring, or one that draws anglers to one of the world’s only self-sustaining striped bass populations. These forested shores that hold so much American history are home to Cedar Bayou Marina, which Hammer & Nail has joined with to bring its story to a wider audience.
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.
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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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