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  • Episode #118, Water by Design Celebrates 40 Years

    Episode #118, Water by Design Celebrates 40 Years
    2024/11/20
    Oops — missed last weeks release due to the Pool | Spa | Patio Expo. Paul Madden Sr. and Paul Madden Jr. of Water By Design join the podcast to talk about their company’s 40th anniversary. The father-son duo bring an admirable respect and deference to the family business.
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  • Episode #117, Hot Tub History with Don Elkington of Coast Spas

    Episode #117, Hot Tub History with Don Elkington of Coast Spas
    2024/10/30
    Don Elkington, the now retired founder of Coast Spas, joins the podcast to tell his hot tub history. Elkington shares how he got the business started and the unique challenges he faced being a hot tub manufacturer in Canada.
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  • Episode #116, Patio Pleasures Converts to an ESOP with Rene Huston

    Episode #116, Patio Pleasures Converts to an ESOP with Rene Huston
    2024/10/16
    Patio Pleasures in Madison, Wisconsin, is the latest hot tub retailer to convert to an employee stock ownership plan. One of the former owners, Rene Huston, joins us on the podcast to talk through their ESOP process.
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  • Episode #115, Selling a Family Business with Elle Hansen

    Episode #115, Selling a Family Business with Elle Hansen
    2024/10/02
    As the managing partner and successor president at REGENERATION, Elle Hansen has worked with 100s of companies as they work through their succession plans. Hansen joins the podcast to talk about her experiences and some of the common pitfalls she sees. Hansen joined us on several succession planning webinars, which you can watch here. Join Hansen in Dallas November 11, 2024, for an in-person succession planning workshop.
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  • Episode #114, Selling to Watson’s with Craig Ecelbarger

    Episode #114, Selling to Watson’s with Craig Ecelbarger
    2024/09/18
    After 49 years in the hot tub industry, Craig Ecelbarger sold his The Recreational Warehouse to Watson’s in March. With a pathway to retirement, Ecelbarger shares how he started the business and grew it to the spa sales behemoth it is today.
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  • Episode #113, Energize Your Sales Team with Steve Hasenmueller

    Episode #113, Energize Your Sales Team with Steve Hasenmueller
    2024/09/04
    You may have heard that SpaRetailer has launched a sales training program for the industry. Today on the podcast, Steve Hasenmueller joins us to talk about that program. He explains why sales training doesn’t often doesn’t improve results and how this program breaks that narrative.
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  • Episode #112, Two Power Women Share the Hot Tub History of Ultra Modern Pool & Patio

    Episode #112, Two Power Women Share the Hot Tub History of Ultra Modern Pool & Patio
    2024/06/12
    Listen to the amazing history of a 70-year-old family business with current mother-daughter business partners Kara Weed and Rita Rowlen. Sponsored by Watkins Wellness
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  • Episode #111, Building a Creative Succession Plan from Within with Ron Perkins

    Episode #111, Building a Creative Succession Plan from Within with Ron Perkins
    2024/05/29
    Ron Perkins joined Seven Seas Pools and Spas intending to own the business eventually. COVID fast-forwarded that plan and Perkins outlines how he and his boss developed a purchase plan that benefited them both. Read more > Brought to you by:
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