Saturday Crowds are Fabulous

It's busy and we have had so many of our customers come by to wish us luck and fall in love with the Double Ice Xtreme and the black, sleek World's Supra. What was super cool was the small worlds we all work in. Mr. Altieri... came by to wish us well and wanted me to be sure and blog about how "...great Tim is to deal with." Very small world to see that his son-in-law was one of my favorites that I taught as a high school teacher! Even smaller world is that Mr. Altieri's wife is one of my favorite business teachers in Roanoke County! WOWEE!!!

Ofcoure it was super to see my vets coming through to ask about our babies and finding out they are indeed JC fans. I also got to see a certain Salem football coach and star in the civic center with his gorgeous mom! We had some wonderful family support and met some super new customers. Bob and Mona and all the people who stopped by to meet us and discuss the 256 SSI. LOVED her shoes!!! I know...get back to the boats, but I really did love her shoes.

I'm really saddened to find out that the 2500 mailers to our customers I sent out last fall didn't reach some customers. What a blessing to see them here at the show and realize I need a different mailing company. :) We also heard that our "we've grown and moved" sign on Route 40 is missing from the Magnum sign, so if you see the sign, remember that we are at Indian Pointe Marina! Established in 1986 and around after 2086: 540-719-2427.

I also can's say enough about the emails and calls of support and interest since the "Tim is now famous" article ran and I'm just so proud of him and our guys here. You wouldn't believe the peace of having these associates working with us! Mike is here from Chaparral with boat show ONLY extra deals for buyers, Ray is here from JC and Rob is here from Skier's Choice. It's cool to have our manufacturer's backing us with so much help and incentives.

To be honest this is the best time to buy a boat. Our manufacturers support their dealers and that means the world to us. They want to help and coming to the show to work with us is humoungous. The 2008 deals are by far the best offerings on the market and we are here to serve you. Please come by the booth and take a look at what we have to offer. We will EARN your business!!!!

Wow...It's here again!!

Kicking off the season in 2009 is the Roanoke Boat Show from today, February 27-March 1 at the Roanoke Civic Center. It's exciting and nerve wracking! There is so much to do and so many things to make sure you've done. The winter was cold but we made some new friends and we've tried to catch up on everything to be totally organized for the new season. While we've taken over the dock store, we really haven't opened up anything except the gas. We have been organizing, winterizing, and getting ready for the February show. We had a great article written about all our Internet efforts in the Lake Weekly on page 6 Friday, February 27th edition. What a blessing that all that hard work paid off and someone noticed...

The show is different this year. People are trying to be outside the box and inside the new scope of 2009. We keep trying to do new things to let people know where we are and how much we want to serve them. We sent out over 2500 mailings in the fall to our customers only to find out that a lot didn't receive them...so if you see someone and they ask about Magnum...tell them where we are!!!

Our booth is up and we have worked extremely hard on getting it right for our customers. I cannot tell you how much it meant this morning to get a call from one of our previous customers (we are selling his boat for him) this morning to wish us luck and talk about the article in the paper. Mr. L...thanks so much for the call. We appreciate you!!!!!!!!! Another customer and friend stated he was praying for us...E, we appreciate your thoughts and help. You've been tremendous! Your boat is here! :)

Another thing about the show that I just love. Everybody talks and cheers for everyone. Our friends at the Automatic Boat Covers are the best as one brought the article in the Laker Weekly for Tim to autograph! :) All the dealers say hi and how are you and hope you have a good show. It's a comforting situation. Everyone is doing what they can to work hard and serve customers. Take last night for instance...we were here until 10:30 and there was no one else in the building. Tim and I took one last pass with the vacuum cleaner that now roars like an earthquake, but cleans and Jr. and Karl were jamming to the new Supra Worlds boat remarking on the enormous amount of storage...and we just thanked God for all the blessings we have from our customers who are calling and coming by the show, to the new customers we've added to two new wonder workers that came to us by The Grace. It's not easy being a boat dealership, but nothing worth anything ever was... Come by our booth and see us! We can't wait to serve you!

Chaparral Xtreme Videos

WOWEeee! We are in show get ready mode, and I'm making the Youtube video for the dealership and I find all this footage thats been added by our manufacturers.