Both MRAA and IDSI understand the pressures of dealership profitability in the wake of increasingly competitive margins. To combat this industry reality, MRAA is proud to bring dealerships a new source of income development: Platinum Protection Systems, IDSI’s groundbreaking product that tackles boat purchase worries head-on. Customers demand the peace of mind IDSI’s five-year warranty […]
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Sebrite Financial Finalizes MRAA Partnership
Sebrite offers a wide variety of boat financing programs and works directly with dealerships of all sizes to help marine retailers sell more boats. Loans offered by the Sebrite team range from $5,000 to $4 million and encompass both older model financing and extended service contracts. Any MRAA member can enroll in Sebrite’s customer financing […]
April MDCE Registrations Break Record
A total of 169 retailers registered for the 2016 Marine Dealer Conference & Expo during the month of April, two more than the high water mark set last year. Those taking advantage of the month’s special pricing enjoyed a $50 instant savings over the full price ticket — with members of the Marine Retailers Association […]
Sebrite Financial Finalizes MRAA Partnership
Sebrite offers a wide variety of boat financing programs and works directly with dealerships of all sizes to help marine retailers sell more boats. Loans offered by the Sebrite team range from $5,000 to $4 million and encompass both older model financing and extended service contracts. Any MRAA member can enroll in Sebrite’s customer financing […]
MyTaskit, MRAA Team Up on Retail Education
New partnership includes webinar and blog post series on using mobile devices to drive productivity MyTaskit, a leading comprehensive software service for connecting service professionals to technicians and customers, has joined the Marine Retailers Association of the Americas as a Partner Member. “We welcome the opportunity to partner with a company like […]
No Monkey Business: How Bridge Marina Uses Surveys to Enhance CSI
Tuesday mornings bring an extra buzz to Bridge Marina in Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey. Finding out what people really think of you can have that sort of effect. Distributing post-sale surveys to their customers has been a policy at Bridge Marina for the last decade, and in recent years have been completed digitally via […]
Case Study: How MICD Program Keeps Oak Hill Marina ‘On Track’
Tim Sather and Jake Jostand, co-owners of Oak Hill Marina in Arnolds Park, Iowa, are two of the newest — and youngest — marine dealership principals in the U.S. Jake says working at Oak Hill has been the only job he’s ever really known, advancing his way from teenaged gas dock attendant to showroom […]
Wanted: Marine Retail Case Studies to Showcase at MDCE
Are you a marine retailer with a recent strategy or best practice that is delivering outstanding results? If so, organizers of the annual Marine Dealer Conference & Expo invite you to respond to their Call for Dealer Case Studies, which will close on Friday, April 29. Each Dealer Case Study will take the form of […]
Member Spotlight: Old Friends, New Business Partners Forecast Robust ’16
After assuming joint ownership of Oak Hill Marina in Arnolds Park, Iowa, at the beginning of 2015, Jake Jostand and Tim Sather are two of North America’s newest — and youngest — marine dealership principals. Both quickly point out they are friends as well as business partners and say they will never tire of coming […]
News from West Marine: April 2016
West Marine’s BlueFuture Program Launches World Oceans Day Bag Design Contest West Marine, the world’s premier Waterlife Outfitter, has announced the launch of an exciting new competition for fledgling young artists through its BlueFuture Program, aimed at supporting youth-based initiatives on and around the water. It’s called the World Oceans Day Bag Design Contest, and not […]
