By Shelli Hendricks
In lower than six weeks, skilled members of the dive trade will converge on Las Vegas for DEMA Present 2024. Attending, talking and exhibiting at DEMA is an annual custom in my enterprise calendar, and I invite you to think about these 5 Causes for New Dive Professionals to Attend DEMA.
- ACCELERATE YOUR DIVE CAREER
Whether or not you may have been a dive professional for 5 minutes or fifty years, you may have each the chance and accountability to navigate your profession improvement plan. The DEMA Present is a perfect platform for onboarding and accelerating your dive professional journey. With representatives from your entire provide chain onsite, from producers to certifying businesses, to world journey operators and each type of new tools and merchandise in between, it is possible for you to to find out about rising profession paths, uncover distinctive job alternatives in places you won’t have even recognized about, not to mention thought of, and converse on to hiring managers. As well as, new dive professionals can put together for achievement by studying from others who’ve gone earlier than them.
- LEARN FROM INDUSTRY EXPERTS
You’ll want to take a look at the DEMA-Sponsored Training and Exhibitor-Sponsored workshops for the most recent analysis and trade greatest practices out there. Attendees can be hard-pressed to attend each session. One 12 months my group utilized a “divide and conquer” method, splitting up the agenda to cowl as a lot territory as attainable, after which sharing the knowledge gleaned with different group members, within the spirit of cross-training. Considered one of my favourite classes to attend addresses the most recent analysis on dive drugs. Each session gives sensible info and insider perspective on dive enterprise operations. Useful resource Middle Snapshot Classes supply knowledgeable suggestions and strategies for enhancing underwater images and videography. World marine conservation organizations share their initiatives and methods so that you can become involved.
BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY PROS
No matter your private causes for changing into a dive skilled, constructing relationships with trade professionals isn’t solely good for enterprise, it’s enjoyable! Divers love an opportunity to come back collectively, share their newest experiences and pictures, and plan for the subsequent journey. DEMA Present gives numerous alternatives to fulfill new mates and reconnect with longtime colleagues from all over the world, uncover your subsequent dive journey, and develop lifelong friendships with different trade professionals. You may end up sitting subsequent to considered one of your dive heroes in a workshop or standing along with your favourite photographer at one of many socials.
- GET INSPIRED
As you uncover rising traits or perceive new approaches to your market phase, DEMA Present is a good supply for info and inspiration that will help you suppose strategically about subsequent 12 months’s marketing strategy. Just by being locally of fellow dive professionals, it is possible for you to to recollect why you turned a dive professional, and picture a contemporary imaginative and prescient for what success means for what you are promoting. Collaborate with trade companions to make that imaginative and prescient a actuality. And choose up some new suggestions for maximizing buyer satisfaction in your dive operation.
WALK THE SHOW FLOOR
My second favourite a part of the DEMA Present, after all of the training classes, is strolling the present ground contained in the Expo Corridor. You’ll want to take a look at the New Product Showcase to see all the most recent tools and different merchandise out there to your college students and prospects. Meet the producers to grasp what new merchandise are of their pipeline. Check out new attire and tools earlier than making your buy. Journey Operators can be readily available to reply all of your questions on diving in essentially the most lovely and distant elements of our planet. Study how group journeys can add to your buyer expertise, and your backside line. Don’t miss the DEMA Specials supplied by almost all the exhibitors for further financial savings on merchandise and experiences. You’ll want to cease by and see me in Sales space #9130 to your complimentary dive enterprise checkup or dive professional profession improvement plan.
We sit up for seeing you in Vegas, Child! What are your favourite causes for attending the DEMA Present? Drop me a word!
