Author: MRAA

Join Us in D.C. and Educate Your Representatives

You are the industry’s most effective advocate. No lobbyist is as influential as an employer or employee from a Congress member’s district or state. Attending ABC and participating in Capitol Hill visits with others from your state is the best way to educate your representatives on issues that impact your business. It’s your opportunity to […]

New Year, New Political Action. Contribute to BoatPAC.

BoatPAC is the recreational boating industry’s political action committee. It works by bringing all industry segments together to support candidates running for Congress who will represent and protect the interests of the recreational boating industry on Capitol Hill. But we need your help. Each year, we update our compliance records to ensure that we have […]

Mike Davin To Direct MRAA Education Team

The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas has announced the hiring of Mike Davin as the association’s new Director of Education. Prior to joining MRAA, Mike served as Director of Marketing and Communications at The Event Group, where he partnered with clients on marketing, strategic planning and event management. In his role, he helped produce […]

Gary Briggs named MRAA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient

The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas named Gary Briggs of Wayzata Marine as its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Recognizing Briggs at the MRAA Opening Awards Ceremony at its annual conference last month, MRAA celebrated his numerous accomplishments in the marine industry over the last 51 years. Briggs opened a start-up selling and servicing […]

Volvo Penta named first MRAA, Dealer Week Strategic Partner

Volvo Penta, other Strategic Partners, will participate in dialog to help set MRAA initiatives and priorities. Volvo Penta has signed on as the Marine Retailers Association of the Americas’ first Strategic Partner, the highest level of MRAA Partner Membership and support for Dealer Week, MRAA’s Annual Conference & Expo.   Celebrating its 43rd annual conference […]

Recreation Leaders Meet with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Highlight Recreation Opportunities

Recreation Leaders, including MRAA’s Board President Joe Hoffmaster, met with Secretary Sonny Perdue, Under Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment Jim Hubbard and other key officials in order to highlight recreation opportunities for 2019. The group noted the importance of national forests to many recreational activities, and highlighted the world-class experiences provided to anglers […]

How the Shutdown is Hurting Recreational Boating and the Outdoor Economy

In a recent Op-Ed published by The Hill, Outdoor Recreation Roundtable’s Executive Director Jessica Wahl described the impact that the partial government shutdown is having on the outdoor recreation community. The outdoor recreation community is unified in its message to Congress and the administration to end this shutdown immediately so federal workers, small businesses, rural […]

Busting a Few Myths

In my last blog, I wrote about the premise of Brad Staat’s book, Never Stop Learning. Because the knowledge we need to successfully run our businesses keeps changing, he argues, we need to keep learning. We now operate in a learning economy, not a knowledge economy. If we need to be continuously learning, then it’s […]

Priority One’s Growing Equipment Finance Division Increases Staff

Priority One Financial Services, Inc., the industry’s oldest and largest F&I outsourcing provider, adds Kristopher Dobrowski and Mark Schiller to its equipment finance division. This division is dedicated to helping both dealers’ and their customers with their commercial finance and leasing needs. These include financing of dealership equipment (service trucks, forklifts, repair lifts), heavy marina […]