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No Affiliate Fees With Professional Scuba Schools
It has become almost routine in the dive industry, each year you are asked to pay for the right to have access to training products and materials through affiliate fees. While every agency takes a different approach to these fees, and the “swag” provided to make the fees seem more palatable varies, one thing is certain – you are paying the agency to promote its brand. Since its launch nearly 30 years ago, Professional Scuba Schools (PSS) Worldwide has never charged a fee for dive centers, dive clubs, or dive charters to affiliate with and promote its brand.
PSS affiliates are considered part of the sales force, and it views added fees as simply a method to gain profits from what should be a partnership. While affiliation fees may offer some benefits, like promotional marketing products or reduced material costs, in most cases businesses are simply paying upfront for a promotional kit or courses they would not have purchased on their own. PSS feels the best approach is to offer the promotional products and materials at an economical price and then let the affiliates decide how they will support the brand.
To become a PSS affiliate a dive center, club, or charter, only requires an active status PSS Instructor on staff. After the instructor affiliates the business with PSS, then they have full access to the PSS EVO dive training management system. This allows them to order materials, manage courses, assign PSS staff to academic, confined water, or open water training, and view analytics associated with their training.
PSS has been training and developing divers and dive leaders around the world since the mid-1990s and has been growing rapidly in North America since 2019. It is renowned for providing flexible, innovative, cost effective, and collaborative training in more than 18 languages.
To take advantage of the remarkable incentives offered by PSS simply register for an instructor crossover at https://www.pssworldwide.org/en/registrazionexOver.aspx?lang=en and select “other”. After registration, a PSS Course Director will contact you to discuss the process and next steps.
If you own or manage a dive center, club, or charter and wish to find out more about joining the PSS Evolution email pssnorthamerica@pssmail.org or call 813-344-2868.
Photo: Jure Daić
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
Free Octopus with every purchase of a SCUBAPRO regulator system
Just in time for the spring season, divers can save money with the FREE OCTOPUS SPRING PROMOTION! Until July 31st SCUBAPRO offers an Octopus for free
with every purchase of a regulator system!
Get a free S270 OCTOPUS with purchase of these combinations:
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with A700
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with S620Ti
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with D420
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MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with G260
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SCUBAPRO offers a 30-year first owner warranty on all regulators, with a revision period of two years or 100 dives. All SCUBAPRO regulators are of course certified according to the new European test standard EN250-2014.
Available at participating SCUBAPRO dealers. Promotion may not be available in all regions. Find an authorized SCUBAPRO Dealer at scubapro.com.
More information available on www.scubapro.com.
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