Bring Google Into Your Dive Center

Last night, Google announced their Ocean Showcase, an extra layer for their free Google Earth product.

The Ocean Showcase features a National Geographic tour, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s US West Coast discoveries, Eco-Nova’s Shipwreck Central, dive sites from WannaDive and 3D models of wrecks in the Great Lakes from NOAA.

Integrate Google Into Your SCUBA Store

I envision a modern dive center incorporating a large projection screen with computer attached (you should have this for teaching anyway) with a wireless mouse and keyboard.

As your customers come in asking about diving in new and exotic locations, let them “drive” Google Earth on a tour of the locations they’re interested in.

This is unique, cool, modern and will get people talking about you. And might just make them want to come back to play some more.

Are you using interactive media in your dive center?

Photo via Google LatLong

Similar Posts

A Starter List of SCUBA Blogs

A Starter List of SCUBA Blogs

RSS feeds and Google Reader are the way I’m able to keep up with over 500 different web sites every single day. In a nutshell, RSS removes the formatting of a web site (think the navigation above, the sidebar to the right and the footer at the bottom) and just gives you the fresh content….

SCUBA Email Marketing: Get Your Message Out

So far, we’ve looked at why we should be using email marketing, how to collect addresses and generating content, now we need to look at how to get your message out to your SCUBA customers.

Friday Fun Dive: Tell Me What You Want

It’s time for me to check in with all of you to see what topics you want covered. I’ve been designing, programming and marketing since the interwebz have been around, so sometimes I have a hard time gauging where all of you are in the process. This web site is for me to share with…

How I Can Help SCUBA Marketing

A few people have inquired as to my background and what makes me a qualified individual to discuss the evolution of SCUBA Marketing. The Internet Came First I was sneaking onto the Internet back in the days of BBS’s, Prodigy and Compuserve. I started coding HTML the same year it was ratified.  I almost failed…