Marina Blog

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Six Ways to Increase Your Marina’s Revenue

As Director of Strategy and Operations at Dockwa, I spend my days focused on how we align our resources to best enhance the boater community and marina industry while simultaneously securing Dockwa’s...

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Introducing Requests for long-term dockage: All of your marina’s dockage requests in one place

Just as the transient dockage requests you receive from Dockwa sync with your Dockwa dashboard, now long-term dockage requests do as well. Introducing: custom Long-term Dockage Request pages. This...

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Marinas Are Using Dockwa Boat Charges in 3 Major Ways

Watch Hill Marina Fire Island now can charge boaters for their metered electric through Boat Charges. Since this summer's release of Dockwa Boat Charges, marinas have been using the feature to:...

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Never Miss a Dockage Request with an Online Booking Form

As a service provider in the restaurant industry, you wouldn't forgo 35% of your tips. So why, as a service provider in the marine industry, would you forgo 35% of your dockage requests?

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3 Ways Marinas Can Approach "First-Come, First-Served" With Dockwa

As a marina reservation request and management software, Dockwa may seem in opposition to marinas that fill slips on a first-come, first-served basis. This opposition is, in part, true. Many of our...

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Your Marina's Voicemail Greeting Is More Important Than You Think. Here's Why.

Business Hours are between the hours of 9am and 5pm. Data taken from 2017 and 2018 Dockwa Reservations. Over a third of all marina reservations are requested outside your marina's office hours. This...

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The Best Starting Point for Optimizing Your Marina's Marketing Funnel

If you're familiar with marketing concepts and jargon, you probably know that when we talk about the Marina Marketing Funnel we're not talking about a baking tool that can whip up an ad campaign for...

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Social Media Basics: 7 Things Marinas Get Wrong

Sometimes when I'm chatting with a marina manager and we get on the topic of marketing, there's a sense of shame: I should be doing more, I don't know what I'm doing, I don't have enough time. You...

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Why Reducing Your Customer Response Time Should Be A Top Priority at Your Marina

Lyft, Amazon, Airbnb: All wildly successful enterprises, all serving seemingly different purposes in separate industries. These three tech giants do, however, deliver a common entity that has...

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