Sailing Footprint Accelerator
ACCELERATED GROWTH
The Pensacola Sailing Footprint Accelerator is designed to recruit new businesses into the Pensacola Bay Sailing Ecosystem by providing:
- affordable and flexible showrooms,
- pre-primed sailing ambassador personnel for use in their B2C brand promotions;
- affordable social media access to the North American sailing market;
- integration into an engineering and design hub that includes deep integration from University of West Florida Business College and Engineering Colleges and with Pensacola State College technician programs;
- Preferential positioning in the North American epicenter of emerging sailing and marine technology; and,
- Entrepreneurship assistance for launching a storefront in Pensacola
Why Pensacola?
Sail Pensacola aims to answer that question decisively over the next decade.
Pensacola and the Pensacola Bay have the endorsement of American Magic, the only U.S. contender to win back the 37th Americas Cup. This endorsement means American Magic is moving its base of operations, design, training, and fabrication from Rhode Island to Pensacola!
Why An Accelerator?
The majority of foiling boats, sails, and related electronics systems are produced in Europe, particularly France and Italy.
The U.S. engineering industry has not launched in a visible way in this new marine tech sector. Overseas companies look at the U.S. as both an opportunity for a manufacturing footprint and as a consumer market for their innovations. Facilitating market access by expediting a presence in the U.S. can be achieved through a novel design: Sailing Footprint Accelerator.
What Is The Accelerator?
This novel solution provides:
1. A physical footprint for merchandise;
2. A trained, pre-selected, and oriented professional sailor for subcontract as a demo pilot, brand ambassador;
3. Brand promotion through production and distribution of product presentations through Sail Pensacola social media and web channels
4. A office footprint for positioning of corporate personnel.
5. Entrepreneurship assistance for moving to the next level – a store-front.
Advantages:
The Sail Pensacola solution relieves each brand of recruiting a skilled ambassador since Sail Pensacola would identify and supply skilled sailors, with marine technology skills and aptitude to act as brand ambassadors for companies new to the U.S.
Identified companies would pay Sail Pensacola Inc for the percentage of each ambassador’s time devoted to their brand, and further, would provide bonus incentives for sales that follow the ambassador demo.
Sail Pensacola’s solution delivers frictionless physical integration of new product onto a showroom floor with limited financial risk and commitment, into a sailing ecosystem that is arguably the hottest real estate in high performance sailing in the World.
Inquire Today!
Get your foil on the floor, in the door, and if not a foil, a boat, electronic system, sail, or other novel product for the North American (and World) sailing and marine tech market. Let’s get you the push your brand needs for a successful launch!
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