Don't have time to go spa
shopping? Let Poolandspa.TV do it for you! The
Poolandspa.TV crew visit the International Pool & Spa Expo
at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV to check out What's New In
Hot Tubs for the 2009 season. Shop and compare features with
L.A. Spas, Artesian Spas, Cal Spas, Bullfrog Spas,
Clearwater Spas & Coast Spas.
Hi everyone ! It’s Jeff from Poolandspa.com with
the July Edition of our
brand new Recession Busters Online Newsletter!
At last Summer is finally here !
This has been a very difficult and challenging year for
most people. It is time to take a well deserved break
and enjoy a "stay-cation" in your very own pool or hot tub.
Everyone needs a break from all this bad news hitting us on
a daily basis. Just when you think things can't get
worse....they do. Well, I always say "If you find
yourself in the gutter, there is only one way to go...and
that's up!"
I have lived through five major recessions in my long life,
and while it is tough going through them, the one thing for sure
is that it will end eventually, and we will all survive to enjoy
happy times again.
Here at Poolandspa.com, we actually have some good news to
report about our web site. In the past 6
months we have had over 2,000,000 individual unique visitors to
our web sites, viewing over 10,000,000 web pages and looking at
over 100,000,000 million display ads which produced over 985,000
direct click-thru's to our advertiser's web sites. Our
Poolandspa.TV YouTube videos have had over 500,000 views so far.
Over 18,000 people used our online form to request more
information about pools and spas. We had over 175,000 unique
visitors to our Hot Tub Spa Buyer's Guide page and over 150,000
unique visitors to our Swimming Pool & Swim Spa Buyer's Guide
page.
We want you to know that we are very thankful and grateful to
all of you, our loyal Poolandspa.com visitors and customers, for
making our web site a continuing success over the last 16 years.
We never forget that, and always try our hardest to provide you
with all the most current and interesting pool and spa news and
the hottst new products on our site.
And as always, if you ever need some advice,
feel free to give us a call anytime (800-876-7647). We are there to help.
We look forward to serving all your pool and spa needs. Remember, if you ever wish to stop receiving the email
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great summer season too !
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With the recession in full swing, many companies are
turning to the internet to advertise their products and services.
It is no secret that newspaper, TV and magazine advertising is way
down this year across-the-board.
Luckily,
our Poolandspa.com visitor demographic is one that many advertisers
want to reach. We hope you enjoy their ads and click on any
that are of interest to you.
This month we want to welcome many of HBO's new
summer and fall cable TV shows, especially Entourage, Curb Your
Enthusiasm, Hung, In Treatment and True Blood.
Not to be outdone, we also want to welcome
Showtime's summer lineup of high quality cable TV shows, especially
Dexter, Penn & Teller, Weeds and the new hit show Nurse Jackie
starring Edie Falco.
From the Pool & Spa industry we welcome Master
Spas, Thermo Spas, HotTubDiscounts.com, Spa Manufacturers Inc, Aqua
Products and Skamper Ramp.
From the auto industry we welcome BMW, Jaguar,
Ferrari and from the high-end industry we welcome Rolex, Breitling
and the world's biggest department store, Macy's.
You have the time to clean your pool? Are you kidding me?
With the extremely busy
lives that we all live these days, who has the time to spend hour
after hour vacuuming your swimming pool ? Some
people have the money to hire a pool service to vacuum the pool for
them, but even if you do it once a week, you know that it looks like
crap the day after the vacuuming anyway.
What is a person to do? Why, oh why, have they not invented
something that does the vacuuming for you? Kind of like some
sort of futuristic robot type thing that you simply put in the pool
and it does all the work for you.
Well you are in luck because they have, in fact, invented such a
thing....The Aquabot Fully Automatic Pool Vacuum Cleaner !
These things work g-r-e-a-t ! They clean the pool better than
you can do yourself and work all the time....keeping you pool floor
and walls scrubbed and vacuumed 24/7. You HAVE to get one of
these.
You are thinking....."Oh, those things are way too expensive...they
are only for the rich, right?" Well, actually no. It is
true that any auto vac cleaner will cost from $600 - $1300 bucks,
but look at it this way.....the things have a life expectancy of
about 10 years. So let's take a $1000 unit for
example...that's only $100 a year. And just think of all the
time you will save by not having to vacuum the pool - or even better
- think all the money you will save by not having to pay a pool guy
to do it. They get from $30-$50 a week for vac service in most
parts of the country.
So if have a pool guy vac your pool once a week at, let's say $40
per visit...and you have the pool vacuumed 15 times per season,
that's $600 bucks in savings right there....in one year
You may say "Yeah, but I just do it myself, so your numbers mean
nothing to me?' Oh really? Well, certainly your time is
worth something. As much as your spouse may think so, you are
not "totally worthless"! So let's say you went to get a job at
MacDonald's and they paid you $10 / hour. It takes anywhere
from 1-2 hours to vac a pool. So let's say that's $15 worth of
your time, and that is assuming your time is only worth a fraction
over minimum wage. So if you vac the pool once a week for the same
15 week average pool season, that adds up to $225. That is
still $125 a year more than the Aquabot costs over time.
Now you may feel that the whole money analogy is not for you.
OK, but you are forgetting one other MAIN BENEFIT of the
Aquabots.....your pool is always clean - not just on the one day a
week you vacuum it...but ALWAYS. You can keep the Aquabot in
the pool most of the time and run it everyday or every other day for
a few hours and your pool walls and floor will ALWAYS be clean.
No amount of home vacuuming or pool service guy vacuuming can even
come close to that!
Now let's talk green. The Aquabots are a totally green
product. As a matter of fact they have earned the coveted
"Certified Green Product" seal. They work on low voltage DC
current, so as well as being totally safe, they are very, very
inexpensive to operate. They vacuum the pool AND filter the
water at the same time, so you save money on running your pool
filter. They also do not waste ANY WATER, like the vacuuming and
backwashing process usually does. You do not lose one drop of
water when vacuuming with your Aquabot - and in many parts of the
country, drought conditions are making water very expensive as well.
So you save money, you save time, and you save the environment with
the Aquabot Automatic Pool Vacuum Cleaner - AND your pool walls and
floor are ALWAYS clean....not just on your "vacuuming day", but ALL
WEEK LONG.
You owe it to your self to check out these wonderful inventions and
start enjoying all the benefits of a crystal clean pool without all
the work, expense and hassles !
If you are over 30 years
old, you may not know who "Fred" is, or why he has been so
instrumental in the continued popularity of YouTube. If you
are under 30, you most likely are familiar with Fred's antics on
YouTube and either love him or hate him.
It is hard to explain Fred, other than that he is a comedian.
This particular Fred video, "Fred Goes Swimming", is certainly one
of the most viewed YouTube videos, and since it has to do with
swimming pools, we felt we should feature it here in our Newsletter.
This video has gotten over 28 million views so far. Happy
viewing....you probably wont understand it, but give it a try and
see what "the youth of today" is doing/watching :o)
This is it ! Are
you looking for low cost bargains ? Then you should take a look
at our current Pool & Spa Product Clearance
items. Many of these are leftovers, overstocks or
return items and they are DIRT CHEAP.
Priced to move
IMMEDIATELY - up to 90% off! Many of the photos you'll see were
just taken recently and are the actual boxes and/or products you
will receive. Many of these items are returns - people buying
the wrong thing.
This stuff is CHEAP and all are GREAT
BARGAINS. All items are guaranteed to work. Keep checking back to that page over the next
few days because new items are being added constantly.
If you open your pool and the water is green, you can watch our new
video, "How To
Clear A Green Pool" to learn all the best tips and tricks! Also
included is the new "How To Backwash A Filter" video instructions as
well.
So you think you might want a
swimming pool, but it costs too much money. So you thought
about getting a hot tub spa instead, but they seem to be just too
small. Don't you wish that someone would invent something that
had all the best features of a pool and a spa combined, but at a
really reasonable cost ? Well, your wish has come true because
although Swim Spas have actually been around for a few years, they
are just now becoming much more popular and much more available
throughout most of the USA - and the rest of the world too !
Quite
simply, a Swim Spa is a machine that allows you to swim
continuously against a water current. You never "hit the
wall" or have to turn around to continue to swim laps
like in a regular pool or a lap pool. Swim Spas
provide the absolute best swimming exercise work out,
using the least amount of space in your home or yard.
Swim Spas also act as smaller swimming
pools in the sense that you can play around in them, or
with some of the split-models, you actually have a hot
tub spa in one end of it and a swimming area in the
other end.
One of the hottest areas of our web site has always been
the Cool Pool & Spa pictures area. We have recently updated these
pages of our site and added all new 2009 pool & hot tub spa photos as
well as continued to offer our Photo Archives with pix dating back to
1995. See how pools and spas have changed over the past decade and
get some great design ideas for your own backyard project as well!
Need some information, how-to advice or tips about pools
or spas ? Then you should definitely explore this area of our web site.
We have totally re-designed our popular Info / Tips web pages and now
offer hundreds of articles about pool & spa maintenance as well as
information about planning for a new pool or spa. We have also
included many popular links to instruction manuals for a lot of the most
popular pool & spa products. There are also handy troubleshooting
articles in case you need to fix your pool or spa.
We have spent the last
few months totally renovating our pool & spa parts sections of our
web site. We now have very extensive listings of hot tub spa &
swimming pool parts. We stock over 130,000 individual parts for all
makes & models of pools & tubs - all at the guaranteed lowest
discount prices on the Web. We have gone to great lengths to provide
you with clear and legible hot tub spa part exploded views and
equipment photos and drawings in order to make it easy to match up
the parts you need. You can even Ask The Pool Guy or Spa Guy a
question right on the parts pages.
We have spent the last few weeks totally updating our
Swimming Pool, Swim Spa & Hot Tub Spa Buyer's Guide pages featuring all
new formats and expanded information on the most popular
manufacturers. Take a look at them here:
This season, Poolandspa.com has started to sell above
ground pool kits online.
With the economy the way it is, many
folks are looking for low cost alternatives to expensive inground
pools. If you are a do-it-yourselfer, you should check out
some of these high quality above ground pools kits.
SAVE HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS ON IN-STOCK CLEARANCE COVERS !
Many Loop Loc Covers and winterizing items are on
Clearance right now! Here is the link to our
Winter
Cover Clearance Center. We just LOWERED our price by hundreds of dollars on all stock
Loop Loc Covers too !
One of our most popular sections of our web site used to
be the Clearance Spa Cover page. Unfortunately,
this whole system broke down about a year ago and we
were unable to track and post any overstock or returned
spa covers. Of course this lead to a huge pile of
spa covers in our warehouse that we have to sell off
cheap.
Take a look at the new list on this page to see if any
of these covers happen to match the size of your spa.
You can usually save about a $100 bucks off if you can
find a match. We include shipping and handling on all
clearance spa covers. Good luck in finding yours.
All our Spa Covers now include
FREE SHIPPING to anywhere in the contiguous USA states.
While other sites are raising the prices of their covers and the shipping,
our prices are actually GOING DOWN! So order your spa cover now to get in on these
great prices!
Plus, we just released our new How-To video, How To Measure
A Spa Cover For Replacement . Take a look at it and hopefully it
will make ordering and measuring for a new cover easy! We also
just did a 10 minute Product Review of Prestige Spas Covers that
shows, in detail, all the quality features of their covers in
comparison to others (see below).
Check out our newly redesigned
Spa Cover Center.
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A few months ago, we unveiled a new News section on our web site. We call
it Poolandspa.com Headline News - we hope CNN does not mind !
The page is updated daily and has all the current top headline news
stories, swimming news, diving news, sports news
and physical fitness news. We feel these are topics that will
be of interest to our web site visitors - pool and spa enthusiasts -
and we are already getting about 2000 visitors per day who are
reading those new articles.
Take a look by
clicking here.
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"What's New In Hot Tubs ?"
- New Video Now Showing
Don't have time to go spa shopping ? Let Dan do
it for you ! Host Dan Harrison and the Poolandspa.TV crew visit
the International Pool & Spa Expo at Mandalay Bay in
Las Vegas, NV on November 18, 2008 to check out
What's New In Hot Tubs for the 2009 season.
Dan visits the Expo booths of L.A.
Spas, Artesian Spas, Sterling Leisure Products,
Clearwater Spas, Coast Spas, Bullfrog Spas, Cal Spas
and King Technology. He talks to the various company
reps. and explores all the new things that are
available in hot tubs nowadays. This six part, 50
minute Mini-Series is part of the Hot Tub Spa
Buyer's Guide Series produced by Poolandspa.TV and
is broken up into 6 segments for easy YouTube
viewing.
Complete DVD being produced too !
In an effort to keep promoting hot
tubs to consumers, Poolandspa.com is producing a DVD
called the 'Hot Tub Buyers Series' which will
include 4 separate shows designed to educate the spa
buying public. The DVD will include shows covering
such topics as 'How Do They Build A Hot Tub?', 'How
To Shop For A Hot Tub', 'Where Do People Put Hot
Tubs?' and 'What's New In Hot Tubs?', which was just
recently shot last November at the International Pool & Spa Expo
trade show in Las Vegas.
Many thanks go to all the very dedicated folks who
have contributed their time, effort and knowledge to
this industry promoting effort.
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How To
Clear A Green Pool - Our most viewed YouTube video with over
40,000 views of Part 1 & 2.
If you open your pool and the water is green, you can watch this new
video. Learn all the best tips and tricks! Also
included is the new "How To Backwash A Filter" video instructions as
well.
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How To
Install A Spa Cover Mural
- Check out the new Spa Scenes cover murals that are very easy to
add to your existing spa cover.
If you have any educational or funny pool or spa videos,
we would love to see them for possible inclusion on our
site. Email the YouTube link (not the whole video, just the
link) to Betty Carter at
betty@poolandspa.com.
This is a new section of our Online Newsletter
where they let me, Dan Harrison, actually pick
some of the products that I think will be the hottest selling items
for this season. These products are ones that I have
researched and added to our web site because I feel that they
deserve special mention and attention. Some of these items are
for sale through Poolandspa.com, and some you need to contact the
manufacturer in order purchase. Either way, my 30 years
experience in the pool and spa industry tells me that these items
will be HOT sellers this year and will be products you really should check out
for your pool or spa !
This is a MUST HAVE for all spa owners. I have one of these
on my personal spa and I could not live without it. This cover
lifter is the highest quality available on the market and is not
flimsy, like many of the other ones. We sell these at Poolandspa.com
and I would definitely recommend this product !
View the
Cover Valet
- Product Review and Installation Video
These Spa Covers are great. They are my favorite. We
have sold thousands and thousands of their covers since the
mid-1980's. They are very heavy duty and last a long time. Delivery
is normally in about 2-3 weeks. Take a look at this video
to see all of the quality features they offer!
View the Prestige Spa Covers
- Hot Tub Spa Cover Product Review Video
This is a really great idea. Placing your spa is sometimes
troublesome because you may not have a deck or patio, or you may not
be sure where you want to place your spa. These folks have
invented a heavy duty portable spa decking system that allows you to
make a spot for your spa - and then move it in the future.
Kind of hard to explain, but go to the link and take a look at the
pictures and you will understand. This product is great for
people that are renting houses or who do not want to permanently
build a deck or pour a concrete slab to put their spa on.
Check it out !
OK, this has to be THE BEST spa product I have
ever seen. I spotted this at a spa convention last November
and I was so impressed with this that we are now heavily promoting
it. It is a heavy duty automatic spa cover system that raises
up and down by itself. You have to click on the link to see it
in action. We gave it a Best Of Class Award for new product
innovation!
Don’t you hate it when you have a bug ? Oooh
there is a spider on the wall. Who let that fly in here ? Will you
look at the size of that thing crawling on the carpet ! WHO IS GONNA
GO OVER THERE AND KILL IT ? No one wants to ! Well, these problems
are a thing of the past with the brand new
Bug Zapper & Bug Slugger.
It is a small tennis-racquet looking swatter that
is powered by 2 AA batteries. Comes complete with batteries and
features a two button safety control switch to deter use by small
children. Makes a great gift.
This handy
Aquachek TruTest test strip reader was developed specifically for
the pool and spa owner. Accurately reads Free Chlorine, Bromine,
pH, and Total Alkalinity on test strips in 15 seconds without
visual color matching. Takes the guesswork out of visually
reading test strips – Great if you are colorblind! Lightweight
strip reader is handheld, water resistant, and the large LCD
screen is easy to read. Comes with Test strips too!
Want to improve your spa water
filtration, then see these brand new
Micro Pure
High Density Spa Filters. These have proven to be
one of our hottest selling new items in 2008.
Eco One Spa Chemicals are our #1 Best Selling Item.
Learn more about these great Eco-Friendly, Non-Toxic Spa Chemicals
that will keep your spa crystal clear with little to no effort!
Feel free to give us a call if you have any questions or if you
would rather order by phone at 800-876-7647 or 702-437-4343. Our
customer service phone hours are 11AM–5PM PST.
We are the best online resource for all your pool and spa
needs! Remember, there is no Pool or Spa Store bigger or
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and parts! All at Discount Prices. We bring the world of Pools and Spas right to your
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Online advertising in 2008 had broken all
records. With the economic slowdown, many
companies are turning to niche marketing on the internet to increase
sales. Internet advertising is expected to hit $16 billion dollars
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