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Price vs. Quality?

As I was sitting at my desk today, I began to wonder how many potential pool customers really care about quality when they have their pool installed. I wonder how many of them truly prefer the cheapest possible way to get a hole in the ground and swi
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Orlando Pool & Spa Show - Don't miss it

Join us on February 20-21, 2009 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The weather will be great - today we expect a high in the 70's.Anyone who registers for the Show by January 31 will automatically be entered in a drawing to w
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Green, Green or Green. What is the motivation?

This is a question I asked myself a while back.After 18 years in the industry I was trying to figure out, What's next? What am I destined to do in this industry? Am I just going to continue with what I am doing?Let me start with a bit of background.I
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my pool experience

It all started on day, back in the early 00's. It was a quiet day in suburban MN when I ventured to the local pool supply store. The day included hitting things with an electrified bug swatter, and maybe checking out the sweet ass holland grills, and
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"Thank You"

To All Members,I'd like to start off by thanking you all for allowing me the priviledge to be a part of such an amazing network of professionals. A network where a small business owner like myself who feels well versed and educated one day had the pl
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Keeping up with the new Federal Act

With effective dates for certain Federal requirements around the corner (December 19, 2008) it is more important than ever that pool professionals (yes, that means everyone, because that is the who the customer and the rest of the world see you as) a
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Another Hot tub trade association?

The other day I recieved my newest issue of Pool and Spa News and right there on the front cover, "New Hot Tub Association Formed", my first reaction was "What?".As I started to read the article I realized it was an organization that is being support
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