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At the Helm: Keeping a foot on the gas
By Adam Quandt Things are shifting. Not just in the recreational boating industry, but across a multitude of industries, platforms,…
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At the Helm: Not just a buzz word
By Adam Quandt It seems as if every few years – or sometimes even every few months – there’s a…
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At the Helm: A new era of Top 100
By Adam Quandt In 2004, Boating Industry unveiled the Top 100 Dealers program as an effort to independently rank and…
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At the Helm: The dare to be different
By Adam Quandt It’s time for some truth. The recreational boating industry is one that is often slightly slow to…
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Refocusing on relationships
By Matt Sellhorst Have your sales become more transactional in the past several years? For many dealers that has become…
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The SkillsUSA Reveille
By Margaret Podlich Thousands of polite, pulled-together, 16-22 year olds descended on Atlanta during a sweltering week in June. They…
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Education must be the culture
By Matt Edmundson We all know of the skills gap, but is it different for us in the marine industry?…
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Making the most of your online dealership profile
By Matt Sellhorst What is one of the first things people do when they are shopping for a new boat?…
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At the Helm: Change is constant and that’s ok
By Adam Quandt If you’ve thumbed through the pages of recent issues of Boating Industry lately, you may have noticed…
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At the Helm: Following seas, happy trails and I’ll see you when I see you
By David Gee After three eventful years as the editorial captain of Boating Industry, I am turning the helm over…
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August/September 2021
A few random thoughts as fall approaches
By Matt Sellhorst With summer winding down, school back in session and so on many of us are getting back…
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At the Helm: Rock piles ahead!
By David Gee Whether we’re on the lake, or simply navigating through life, some of the obstacles in our path…
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What month is it?
By Jonathan Sweet What a difference a month makes. The last time I wrote a column for the magazine, the…
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At the Helm: A whole new world
By David Gee “Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they…
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No end in sight for labor shortage
By Jonathan Sweet A recent study from The Conference Board paints a disturbing picture of the future of blue-collar labor.…
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The 2020 Top 100
By Jonathan Sweet The most important question on the Top 100 application is what dealers have done to get better…
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At the Helm: Marina memories
By David Gee Take a look at that photo. It’s me standing underneath the SE 17th Street Causeway Bridge in…
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Managing customer communication
By Jonathan Sweet From landing sales to managing expectations in the service department, communication is essential to keeping customers happy.…
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Do you have a sales prevention department?
By Matt Sellhorst The other day I was researching some Facebook boating groups to keep up to date with the…
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Trends from the 2018 Top 100
As some of the best boat dealers in North America, the Boating Industry Top 100 dealers – and those who…
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