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| Pool & Hot Tub Legislation Heats Up
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To help you better understand what proposed legislation and regulations mean for you and your business, APSP reports on bills that affect the pool, spa and hot tub industry as they are filed. Members also receive email alerts on any proposed rules affecting the pool, spa and hot tub industry in their area. These five states and two Federal issues need your immediate attention.
| The Southeast Pool & Spa Show hosts course on ISPSC tomorrow
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APSP
The Southeast Pool & Spa Show will hold a course on Georgia’s new residential building code. This course, The New Residential Building Code: The ISPSC, will be part of the show education line up and will be held on Feb. 2 in Nashville at the Music City Center. Taught by Shawn Still, APSP Georgia Chapter Director of Government Affairs, attendees will learn all of the major aspects of the new code and will participate in an extensive Q&A to discuss scenarios of code interpretation. For more information about the course, click here or call 630.308.1363.
| Earn 24 CEUs in Arizona this March
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APSP
Join us this March in Tempe, Arizona, for the in-person CST or CBP Prep Course. It's a great way to get the personalized instruction you want with the prep courses you need to pass the exam. We've reserved a block of rooms for attendees at a special rate. Take advantage of this rate by booking your room at DoubleTree Hilton Hotel by Feb. 10. For more information, click here, email the APSP University or call 703.838.0083 ext. 274.
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| Sweet deals on February Live Virtual Education
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APSP
Are you looking to put a little spark back in your career this February? Take 20 percent off all February live virtual courses using code 2017SAVE. Click here to take advantage of this sweet deal and enhance your career and your business.
February Live-Virtual Courses:
February Regional Courses:
If you can't make these courses, check out our other live virtual, self-paced online and upcoming regional courses. For more information, email APSP University or call 703.838.0083 ext. 274.
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The new ®ease Floating Sanitizing System from FROG puts consumers at ease with Fresh Mineral Water® benefits and SmartChlor® Technology that reduces chlorine use by 75% with shocking only once a month. The best part is the ®ease repeat business model with strong profits for retailers.
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APSP
We're now accepting submissions for the 2017 International Awards of Excellence program and nominations for the APSP Awards program and Dr. R. Neil Lowry Grant. It's a great way to earn the recognition you deserve for your hard work and industry dedication.
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| Member Perks — Office Depot
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APSP
Make sure that you take advantage of member savings by using our Office Depot discount partner. APSP members can receive up to 80 percent off on office and school supplies from Office Depot and Office Max. All online orders are delivered next day with free shipping on orders over $50. Click here to order online. For more information, email info@itppurchasingpower.com or call 866.598.9320.
CPSA
After five long years of drought, this winter has delivered a bit of a break to a rain-starved California. A series of powerful winter storms has buffeted the state with more rain and snow than has come from previous winters in many years, filling up many major reservoirs and re-building a snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This is a welcome relief to many throughout the state, but it is also the time to remind ourselves that not all of California's problems will be solved in one winter.
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Resort quality Pacific pool chaise lounge is now available for quick delivery. Adjustable to 5 positions and folds flat for more comfortable sun bathing. Recessed wheels make it easy to move around. Sun lounger stacks for easy storage. High quality marine grade sling dries quick and doesn't stick to bare skin. Frame made of marine grade resin. Contact us for reselling information.
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The borate technology in ProTeam’s multi-performance High Tech Tabs will keep your customers’ pools in balance.
The consumer rebates will keep their checkbooks in balance too.
High Tech Tabs are the key to the ProTeam four-step program. Check out the entire line at www.proteampoolcare.com or email marketing@havilandusa.com.
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| Zodiac to host California APSP Training Event this March
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APSP
On March 3, Zodiac Pool Systems, Inc. will host an APSP training event at their headquarters in Vista, California. Attendees will get a behind-the-scenes look at a successful industry business while learning business concepts they can apply to their own business.
Event Highlights Include:
- Gain insight into the innovation process from concept to design to production
- Tour Zodiac's manufacturing plan to see how products are assembled.
- See quality control processes firsthand
- Learn how to use social media to market your business
- Discover the value of defining corporate mission, vision and value statements
- Learn the latest in customer support best practices
- Cover basic financial principles essential to managing your business
- Networking happy hour at a local brewery
This is a free event but we do ask that you RSVP to Susan Kregar at skregar@apsp.org or call 602.631.4083.
Spa Retailer
Why choose to renovate? Renovations are expensive, time-consuming and there's no guarantee they will improve business. But renovations talk to your customers and to your staff. When management chooses to renovate a store, it shows faith in its future.
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Business 2 Community
Retailers are now looking at the supply chain in a new way. Instead of only focusing on the life cycle of a product until it is delivered to the consumer's hands, many retailers are working toward creating a "closed-loop" supply chain that maximizes the value of resources and produces less waste. Let's take a look at what that entails.
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By Bob Kowalski
 As the Super Bowl has grown in its significance as a sporting event, it has emerged even more as a national and cultural attraction. Where you draw a crowd, you can draw business. The NFL has learned this lesson well, as have its television partners. But they're not the only parties making money off what has become America's biggest undeclared national holiday. The return on investment might not always add up, but that doesn't prevent firms from attaching themselves to the big game.
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By Emma Fitzpatrick
 One of the absolute best aspects of social media is that it has drastically reduced our guesswork. You don't have to wonder what's working to bring customers in anymore. You look at your analytics and see exactly where they're coming from. Now, the latest social media study from Nielsen helps shed light on how (and how much) people use social media. Read on to learn the five most surprising insights from the study and how you can use it to market your company better.
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Business 2 Community
Plenty has been written on the subject, and some of the latest research on goal setting and deliberate practice is now starting to establish how goal setting leads to skill progression and goal attainment. In short, goal setting is increasingly being broken down to a science. It is a powerful set of tools that can help you get where you want to go.
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By Katherine Radin
 When I wrote about the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in November of 2015, I concluded by asking where we would be in a year. At the time, the Canadian political landscape had seen the election of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau to replace Conservative leader Stephen Harper as the prime minister of Canada. A year later, the political landscape has changed once again, this time with the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States of America.
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Wisconsin Public Radio
The loss of manufacturing jobs was a key issue in the presidential campaign, with a lot of the blame going to free trade and outsourcing, but technology and automation are an even bigger part of the story, says a reporter covering jobs and the economy.
Claire Cain Miller has written a series of pieces about the impact of automation on manufacturing and other jobs in the United States, and she found technology is having a much greater impact than outsourcing. As she put it in one of her headlines: "The long-term jobs killer is not China. It's automation."
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