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Dramatic increase in temporarily closed dealerships

Over the course of the last three weeks, your MRAA team has been in contact with thousands of dealerships, including hundreds of one-to-one phone conversations and hundreds more email conversations. Additionally, we’ve been keeping a pulse on dealership operations as the government imposes more and more “shelter-at-home” orders and businesses scramble for “essential” status to […]

Take Control of Your Future

Remember The Great Recession? How out of control things felt at that time? Can we agree that nothing has ever felt as out of control for our businesses as things do today? Forced shutdowns. Unfathomable spike in unemployment filings. The tenuous outlook of cash flow projections. It’s crazy. And that’s to speak nothing about the […]

Time to Reduce Your Repair Cycle Time

As people start practicing social distancing by getting out on their boats, they’re going to need service. I talked to one dealer in Florida yesterday who said her service business is booming because people want their boats prepped; they need their 100-hour service; and they’re using their boats enough to need some other repairs and […]

Now is the Time to Promote Boating as a Getaway

People are stressed. People are worried. People are concerned. Now is a great time to showcase the benefits that come with boating. It might be hard to remember this, as we’re all just as stressed as everyone else. But think about all of the ways boating can cure those quarantine ills. Boating is a stress […]

How to Market During the Coronavirus Pandemic Recap

Marketing (and frankly, everything else) during a pandemic is something that businesses have never had to navigate before. A million questions run through my mind when I think about what could be and should be said in times like now. In MRAA’s recent Ask the Expert webinar “How to Marketing During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Danny […]

How to Adjust Your Service Business Webinar Recap

Expert trainer Valerie Ziebron joined MRAA for a special service-focused webinar in response to the COVID-19 virus. During the webinar, Ziebron offered advice on how to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic as a dealership and as a service business. Ziebron noted that we are operating in a stressful environment and we need to both be […]