Bob Bense, of Superior Boat Repair & Sales, was the 100th individual to register for Dealer Week! With the help of his wife, Kathy, the couple compiled a list of 50 reasons why they continue to support the MRAA and, now, Dealer Week.
We signed up for the Dealer Week because the MRAA team continues to deliver information and resources that help us to prosper and grow as a marine dealer. Here are half of one-hundred reasons why we love attending and how participating has been a really good thing for us as the owners of Superior Boat Repair & Sales, Inc.
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1. We get excited about the coming year and helping our boating community.
2. We share quality time with other dealers.
3. We enjoy time spent meeting dealers from all over the country and the world.
4. We get ideas, fresh ideas, to implement at the dealership.
5. We find solutions to problems we are facing at the office.
6. We really enjoy being with so many other people that do the same thing for a living.
7. We get to hear really entertaining and thought provoking speakers that inspire us to be better and do better.
8. We are taught by marine industry experts in the educational work-shops.
9. We get to get away and get a break from the dealership, which helps us to relax and unwind with our staff.
10. We bond with our employees and get quality time to talk to each other.
11. We have the opportunity to win scholarships, which our dealership has won.
12. We keep up with up marine industry news.
13. We are able to meet with new vendors and learn about new products that we can purchase to help our business grow, like software.
14. We rekindle relationships with old friends that work at the boat manufacturers’, some that are decades old.
15. We get a chance to stop and think about our dealership, what we have done right and where we can improve.
16. We learn from dealers that have been doing this so much longer than we have.
17. We learn how to ride the wave through the good years and how to hold on to what we have created, during the bad.
18. We pick up great ideas from new dealers that we meet over lunch.
19. We get to see sunny Florida and get some vitamin D.
20. We break out and each person from our dealership goes to a different workshops so we come back with so much more useful information to help us prosper.
21. We make new contacts and network.
22. We get the opportunity to enjoy our success with others.
23. We get to hear what the financial experts at the lending institutions predict the economy will do in the coming year(s), which helps us when ordering our inventory for the coming year.
24. We get to visit the manufacturers for the boat lines that we carry, when we’re there in Florida.
25. We get the opportunity to visit with our dear friends in our Parker Twenty Group.
26. We get the privilege of meeting other husband and wife dealership owners and we share what makes it all work.
27. We can win prizes.
28. We are given delicious food, like key lime pie, which we don’t get in California.
29. We get SO excited again about owning a dealership and providing families with the joy that boat ownership brings.
30. We learn tricks of the trade, like how to bring up and train your own mechanics, since there is such a huge shortage of technicians across the country.
31. We get to wear shorts during the winter.
32. We build up our sales-team and motivate them to sell more.
33. We learn strategies on how to sell our business to others and market our business wisely.
34. We can ask so many questions, questions regarding all aspects of owning a dealership.
35. We hear how other dealers found solutions and what those solutions were, regarding the same problems we are facing at our boat dealership.
36. We are reminded of important practices we must have in place to have a secure and healthy dealership… like having at least two lines of credit to get through the downturns.
37. We learn vital lessons on how to make more money and get higher margins.
38. We hear how to sell smarter and to close faster.
39. We were able to get expert advice and helpful guidance when we were a brand new dealer, especially during a severe drought and terrible recession.
40. We learned so much, all the while earning the respect of other dealers, because after implementing what we learned we grew by leaps and bounds.
41. We are reminded that we sell JOY, memories and a great quality of life.
42. We hear about other dealers that have gone out of business, why they closed shop and how we can learn from their mistakes, if we can.
43. We are able to take a much needed cruise vacation, before we get slammed in the busy months, by taking a short drive to the Atlantic and hoping on one of many ships.
44. We are challenged to think and grow in our roles at the dealership, through the many workshops.
45. We are given the opportunity to purchase things, like insurance and flooring, at a much better rate, which saves us money and helps us stay in business.
46. We really enjoy the whole experience.
47. We are proud to be a dealer, when we realize there aren’t very many people selling boats across the country.
48. We hear in the seminars what we are doing right and that is uplifting.
49. We exchange contact information with other dealers selling the same lines, which helps us to be able to call them in the future, if we can ever sell each other inventory.
50. We really, truly see the value of all that encompasses attending the Dealer Week and what we take away from that experience.
Take advantage of the lowest prices of the year by registering for Dealer Week before March 31, 2019.
