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Matt Jones
7 min read
Houston, We Have a Problem.
What if I told you that as an owner of a slip at Oriental Harbor Marina for the last five years you lost $5,292 -- ten times what you would
Matt Jones
7 min read
Problem 1: Our Hurricane Evacuation Policy
Make no mistake… our hurricane policy was really born in October 2018 because it was from that point on that we began enforcing the new...
Matt Jones
4 min read
Problem 2: Our Insurance
Our insurance -- one single expense item -- is over 54% of total revenues (that’s more than ten times the national average for marinas)....
Matt Jones
4 min read
Problem 3: Our Owner Fees
If we have an expense problem (like our outrageous insurance) we need to solve that problem and not just compensate for it by raising...
Matt Jones
4 min read
Problem 4: Our Image
“Image is everything. You don’t spare any expense to create the right image. Word of mouth is critical. Once you get a good reputation,...
Matt Jones
7 min read
Problem 5: Our Management Structure
All of our key metrics are trending in the wrong direction and the last three years have been an utter disaster! If we never hear from...
Matt Jones
10 min read
A New Dawn Over Oriental Harbor Marina.
Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called whining." I promised you I’d give you...
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