Marina Blog

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Economic Impact of Harbors on Town Revenue and Local Business Revenue

What happens if the marina in your town doesn't reach its potential as far as visiting boater traffic? Your town and local businesses are missing out on revenue, not just the marina. Whether you're a...

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Dockwa at Four: Mapping Our Journey

Last month, we had the pleasure of celebrating four years since we released Dockwa to the boating public. When we started in 2015, Dockwa was little more than an idea, sparked between friends on a...

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Marina Tech: 5 Ways to Keep Your Marina Passwords Secure

We work in the maritime industry, so we're exempt from high-tech mumbo jumbo, right? Yeah – not so much. Long gone are the days of filing cabinets, writing personal boater information on post-it...

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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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