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One System, No Sprawl: Why Growing Pool & Spa Businesses Are Moving to the Cloud

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One System, No Sprawl: Why Growing Pool & Spa Businesses Are Moving to the Cloud

Listen To Your Customers

In our modern world, there are so many different ways to advertise and market your products or services to consumers. The list gets bigger and bigger by the day. In addition to traditional methods like television, radio and newspaper ads and billboards, now you’ve got options for banner ads on websites and social networking. I could go on for hours. However, there is only one method of marketing that is time-tested and proven to be the most effective — word-of-mouth.

Essential Filtration

Few stop to consider the point, but the technologies we view as a daily matter of doing business in the pool and spa industry are really just smaller versions of some of the most massive, complex and important hydraulic systems ever created. Within this broader framework, there's an opportunity to better understand the past, present and future of water treatment as it applies to pools and spas, and beyond.

Manufacturer News

Hayward Adjusts Aqua Connect Prices

Hayward Pool Products is eliminating the monthly fee for its Aqua Connect Web Remote Pool Management. Aqua Connect Web was designed to help servicers monitor and identify possible problems remotely so diagnostics and adjustments can be made from anywhere. More than 100 pool and spa conditions, parameters and settings can be monitored, controlled and acted on from the office or from the road using any Wi-Fi device such as a laptop, Blackberry, Droid, iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

Professionalism And The Pool Service Technician

Have you ever asked yourself how another pool tech can demand rates so much higher than your own? Have you ever asked yourself how another pool tech can charge so much for repairs or parts? If you have, I can assure you it all begins with professionalism.

New Pool And Spa Products For June 2012

AQUA takes a look at some new and updated spa and pool products from industry suppliers.

YouTube Case Study: How To Open An Inground Pool

Over this past weekend, I decided to put together an informative video using some of the tips I mentioned in my blog post. I scheduled a day, wrote a script, and spent an entire Saturday filming.

The Case of the Mysterious Pool Deposits

The 80,000-gallon resort pool, which had been operating flawlessly for years, had suddenly developed a very expensive, very troubling problem.

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State Of The Industry Survey: Service Sector - The Star of the Recession

“I have tried to get all the local dealers involved in helping each other; most think I am trying to gain their customers; I’m not. We need each other to grow the industry as a whole . . . Plumbers here do this and it works great!”“More aggressive in lead followup.”

The Myth of Filtration Effectiveness

Is proper filtration enough to protect swimmers from the risks caused by dangerous pathogens?

New Pool And Spa Products For May 2012

AQUA takes a look at some new and updated spa and pool products from industry suppliers.

SPEC Kills Bad Tax Bill, But Another Looms

The California Spa And Pool Industry Education Council (SPEC) has prevailed in its efforts to protect the state’s pool service professionals from a law requiring them to collect sales tax for their services.

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