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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
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.
Is 2023 the year electric hydrofoils find footing in the recreational mainstream?
The boating industry loves to speculate on upcoming trends each year, but it’s all talk until these innovations burst into the public eye and play out in real-time. In 2023, the technology of electric hydrofoil boats may have finally caught up to the appeal.
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.
What is MarketingMarinas.com?
A website for marina professionals to use as a free resource to help learn about marketing. It’s full of reviews, case studies, and how-to guides specifically tailored for the marina industry. If you’d like to see a specific topic covered, please let us know in the comments.
Full disclosure, MarketingMarinas.com is run by the team at Hammer & Nail Marketing. Hammer & Nail Marketing is a boutique marketing firm that helps marinas get noticed by boaters.
We’re boaters ourselves from a background of operating a family-run marina. So if you’d like a “hands-off” approach to your marketing, and you rather someone else do it for you, we’re happy to help.
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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