Meet Your New Best Boating Friend!!
Why You Need Us To Help Sell Your Boat
These days, buying or selling a boat in any market can be a confusing and frustrating experience, but even more so in the “Buyer’s Market” we have been experiencing since late 2000.
Prior to selling your present boat, careful attention needs to be given when selecting the right broker to trust and work with.
Sellers involved in this buyers’ market need to have their boat promoted effectively throughout the entire marketplace, not to just a limited local audience, in order to ensure their boat attracts the greatest number of serious buyers. Due to ease of travel and the proliferation of the Internet, today’s marketplace has expanded all the way to the national, and sometimes international, level. Boats over 30’ long and priced at over $100,000 are often sold to national and international buyers! It makes sense to position your boat to reach these markets.
Therefore, one of the most important things to consider when selecting the right individual or brokerage firm is their ability to easily access the entire market and to be able to promote your boat to it. They need to be able to work for you in such a way that information is obtained and distributed quickly and accurately. Your “local” broker simply cannot afford to promote his business, and your boat, that effectively. Many so-called “national” brokerages can’t do it either.
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Sunshine Yacht Sales has become a very effective brokerage firm. The reasons for this growth and overall influence are the same reasons why you as a buyer or seller should want to choose to do business with someone affiliated with them:
• Listings entered in 11 internationally accessed Internet databases exposing them for the whole world to easily see.
• Participation in major boat shows with in-water boats on display.
• Each affiliate broker is an independent contractor who owns his own business and therefore makes his own decisions. While advice and mentorship is just a phone call away, independent decisions are rendered locally.
• Although we represent a number of new boat manufacturers, we focus on the priorities and wishes of our clients rather than feeling any pressure from a “boss” to promote a particular brand of boat, whether new or used.
• Sunshine Yacht Sales maintains its corporate office in Miami, Florida, with satellite affiliate offices in Daytona Beach and Naples.
Can another broker that you might consider working with match what we have to offer?
INTERNET DATABASES
Each listing is carefully prepared and entered into the Sunshine Yacht Sales database. An Adobe Acrobat PDF file is created for each listing, and is subsequently available for viewing, downloading, printing or emailing from the company’s database. Links can also be created to the PDF file and included in other means of promotion. All in all, our listings are some of the most complete and graphically pleasing in the new and used boat business. We use not just one or two Internet Databases, but 11! Not because they are the least expensive, but because they produce the best results. To promote your boat on all of these would no-doubt cost you more than you would be willing to spend:
www.360boating.com
www.boat-world.com
www.boatbrowser.com
www.boatinglinks.com
www.boatvideoadverts.com
www.newrboats.com
www.powerboatnet.com
www.rubyyachts.com
www.secondhandboats.com
www.yachts.com
www.yachtworld.com
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NEW & USED BOATS
We have access to thousands of boats for sale through multiple listing Internet databases.
In addition, we also act as agents for the following custom and semi-custom builders:
Defender Yachts Commercial Division -- 39' - 80' Comercial Fishing Vessels, Work Boats & and Small Cargo Ships
GHI Yachts -- 41' - 125' Motoryachts & Passagemakers
Ruby Yachts – 39’ - 80’ Motoryachts & Passagemakers~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meet Your New Best Boating Friend!
Russ Thomas
Russ’ passion for boating began in Wisconsin during the summer of 1996 when he and his family purchased a 26’ Sea Ray Sundancer. Weekends that year were spent traveling up and down the Mississippi River from the marina in Dubuque, Iowa.
As dreamers often go, and dreams often grow, they upgraded to a 30’ Carver Aft Cabin Motoryacht in November of the same year. It was a long winter, what with the newer, bigger boat sitting on blocks on the family’s 11 acres. Memorial Day weekend 1997 was a happy time as the new boat was launched for the season. That summer was even more fun than the previous. A 2 week family cruise to Fulton, Mississippi in September resulted in not only a new home for the Carver that winter, but also for her sale the following February.
Boat-less withdrawal set in immediately, forcing Russ and his wife Ruby to drive to Miami, Florida for the 1998 Miami Boat Show in search of yet a larger vessel. But, little did they know that it would also lead to a family move to Daytona Beach 3 ½ months later! Their next boat, a 44’ Gulfstar Widebody Motoryacht, was purchased in August.
The purpose of the preceding narrative is to depict how otherwise seemingly normal people can so easily get caught up in the pleasures of the family boating lifestyle, and how it is a very natural and common experience for boaters to not only expand the size of their boats, but sometimes their boating territory as well. The kids are both grown, but the memories of the fun had together on the water are still fondly talked about…
Although Russ may be fairly new to boating and the Marine Industry he is an entrepreneur at heart and has been in the business world for over 35 years, having owned and operated small high-tech businesses in the computer, electronics and Internet industries. Seeking a career change, he founded Ruby Yachts in early 2001 in order to offer American-made semi-custom boats from 39’ to 80’ in length. He became an affiliate broker with Sunshine Yacht Sales in order to make use of their expertise and professionalism in the boat brokerage business. While this affiliation provides Russ with a mentor relationship when it comes to used boat sales, it also opens many doors of opportunity to list and market used boats for his clients on a very large scale using a variety of effective media as promotional tools.
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Ruby Yachts PowerBoatNet
Daytona Beach - Miami
Phone 386-562-0098
by FloridaComNet
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