WANDA KENTON SMITH Published December, 2018, Soundings Trade Only Anyone involved in marketing today understands that the changes to our craft are both exponential and exceptional. We’re inundated daily with revolutionary technologies and app launches, platform breakthroughs and changes, not to mention the latest findings… Continue Reading “Six Trends for Marine Marketers in 2019”
MICHAEL SCIULLA Published September, 2018, Soundings Trade Only For a brief moment this past summer, the news media was fascinated by unknown and longshot candidates for public office winning primaries against entrenched congressional incumbents. In New York, 28-year-old political novice Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knocked off a… Continue Reading “Emotion and Authenticity: The Keys to Going Viral”
Long-time industry sales and marketing executive Jim Krueger has retired after 46 years of continued industry service. Krueger was recognized at a special retirement celebration and luncheon by Regal Boats, where he spent the final seven years of his career as the Midwest/Central US… Continue Reading “Jim Krueger Recognized for 46 Year Sales & Marketing Career”
An enthusiastic crowd of 100 gathered for the annual MMA meeting and luncheon at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show on November 1, 2019 sponsored by FLIBS/Informa, Sea Tow and MarineMax. As usual, it was an opportunity to meet, mix and mingle with fellow marketers… Continue Reading “FLIBS MMA Meeting and Experts Marketing Panel Share Best Practices, Score High Marks”
TRADE ONLY TODAY EDITORS Soundings Trade Only, November, 2018 One hundred marketers and industry leaders gathered yesterday afternoon at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show for the annual meeting of Marine Marketers of America. The discussion focused on the topic of CX and the… Continue Reading “FLIBS 2018: ‘Customer Experience’ is the buzzword at Marine Marketers’ gathering”
WANDA KENTON SMITH Published October, 2018, Soundings Trade Only Being at the recent Grow Boating Marketing Summit at IBEX was like the proverbial kid in a candy store. Regular readers know I’m always lusting after marketing insights to share. The summit satisfied my cravings, serving… Continue Reading “Video Revolution and the Invisible Sale”
MICHAEL SCIULLA Published September, 2018, Soundings Trade Only With Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the new year just over the horizon, forward-thinking marketers should set their sights on what Santa has in store for us in 2019. At the top of my list is 5G, the… Continue Reading “One small step to 5G, one giant leap for boating”
WANDA KENTON SMITH Published August, 2018, Soundings Trade Only In 2013, a global study of executives concluded that brands were at risk of losing up to 20 percent of their revenues to poor CX. It brought the financial impact of the customer experience into sharper… Continue Reading “Why CX should be your marketing RX”
Michael Sciulla Published July, 2018, Soundings Trade Only Something clearly was in the water a decade ago when the e-commerce marketer Groupon offered a marketing platform linking small business directly to consumers. As an inveterate bargain hunter, I recall being thrilled at being able to… Continue Reading “Why the Digital Age customer is always right”
We Encourage All Industry Marketers to Attend the Grow Boating Summit! Marine Marketers of America is a proud co-sponsor of this year’s Grow Boating Summit. We invite and encourage all industry marketers to attend this outstanding professional development event. Invest in yourself and your… Continue Reading “Attend the Grow Boating Summit!”