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Turn a Wrench to Turn a Profit: Equipment Repair Service As a Profit Center and Marketing Machine

Customers seek convenience, which includes being able to have their equipment maintained and fixed where they purchased it. It is a reason why a quality equipment repair service is a must-have for most scuba retailers. A good repair bench builds…

Linda Lee WaldenFebruary 2, 2009

Legal Loss Prevention Management

The State Of Scuba Risk Management: Top 10 Reasons Why Dive Professionals Get Sued

Reason 10: Dive Gear Works Although our firm represents several major equipment manufacturing companies both in recreational and commercial diving, we usually feel like the proverbial Maytag repairman, in that the amount of litigation that arises against a manufacturer…

Richard Lesser Esq.February 2, 2009

Insurance Legal Management Operations

Things That Go Bump in Your Store: a Premises Liability Primer for Dive Store Owners

On a typical Saturday afternoon at your dive store, you're helping a new diver select her first dive computer. Several customers mill about the sales floor, admiring gadgets, pricing equipment, chatting with store staff, and making purchases. These include a…

Barry K. ShusterJanuary 27, 2009

Management Management 101 Travel

Travel Made Easier: Dive Retailers and the Dive Travel Wholesaler

Many people learn to dive so that they can travel to dive. Going places to dive keeps them active, and that activity helps make dive retail work. It also adds the third leg to dive retail's stool, which is in…

Donna AskewJanuary 22, 2009

Insurance 101 Loss Prevention Management Operations Travel

When Trip Plans Get Tripped Up: a Trip Insurance Primer for Dive Centers

If your customers have trip insurance, they may be reimbursed for some or all of their losses. If they are uninsured, an unfortunate event can become even more costly and distressing. As a dive center owner or manager, you want…

Donna AskewJanuary 22, 2009

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Employees, Employees, Everwhere: the Importance Of Good Employees and How to Find Them

Tanks need to be filled, a dozen regulators and BCDs are queued in the repair department waiting for service, classes are filling up, requiring good instructors, and several trips are scheduled and filled. Oh, yeah, and someone has to be…

Donna AskewJanuary 22, 2009

Insurance 101 Legal Loss Prevention Management Operations

Plain English Ain’t Always So Plain: Understanding Your Commercial General Liability Insurance Policy

For more than 30 years my father owned a small business. At least once a year he had to meet with his lawyer, his accountant and his insurance agent. While he knew that the advice these professionals were giving him…

DCB StaffJanuary 22, 2009

Management Management 101

In This Together: the Symbiotic Relationship Of Dive Retailers and Their Reps

When asked to describe his ideal rep, Jonathan Poore of Express Watersports in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, gives this description: "The perfect rep is a person who would come by at the beginning of the season or when the new…

Patricia LuebkeJanuary 22, 2009

Burnout Management Management 101 Owner Life

Dealing out Duties: Effective Delegation in the Dive Store

It's Monday morning. After a rare weekend off, you walk up to unlock the front door of your store and see that the large neon sign in your front window has been left on overnight. Heck, maybe it's been burning…

Melanie PaulJanuary 15, 2009

Legal Management Management 101 Operations

Total Recall: Understanding and Navigating Federal Recall Regulations

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is the federal agency responsible for protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death relating to consumer products. In 2003, the most recent year that such statistics are available, the CPSC initiated…

Tom Shapiro Esq.January 14, 2009

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Turn a Wrench to Turn a Profit: Equipment Repair Service As a Profit Center and Marketing Machine

The State Of Scuba Risk Management: Top 10 Reasons Why Dive Professionals Get Sued

Things That Go Bump in Your Store: a Premises Liability Primer for Dive Store Owners

Travel Made Easier: Dive Retailers and the Dive Travel Wholesaler

When Trip Plans Get Tripped Up: a Trip Insurance Primer for Dive Centers

Employees, Employees, Everwhere: the Importance Of Good Employees and How to Find Them

Plain English Ain’t Always So Plain: Understanding Your Commercial General Liability Insurance Policy

In This Together: the Symbiotic Relationship Of Dive Retailers and Their Reps

Dealing out Duties: Effective Delegation in the Dive Store

Total Recall: Understanding and Navigating Federal Recall Regulations

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