Austin, Texas - UpLink Corporation, the industry leader in golf course management applications, helping courses realize increased profitability from integrated tournament management support, revolutionary golf car monitoring and management systems, and innovative sponsorship programs has installed its Course Management System (CMS) at Canadian Golf and Country Club in Ontario, CN. This prestigious course found that UpLink could provide additional value to their course by creating a consistent revenue stream with AdSmart, and by attracting golfers with the tournament management capabilities.
Already familiar and fully deploying Vision Perfect tournament management software, Mark Seabrook, NGCOA president and owner of the Canadian Golf and Country Club, has had great success efficiently managing tournaments and looks forward to the addition of UpLink working collectively and says, "Vision Perfect, plays a huge role in setting up tournaments from printing bag tags, to scorecards and cart signs. However, with Vision Perfect integrated with UpLink, we will be able to provide added value to the course. The 2005 NGCOA golf outing gave me the opportunity to experience first hand the system in action. The combination of UpLink and Vision Perfect tournament management is phenomenal; the leader board and scorecard, and the sponsors on the system, was all a great success."
"Many of our customers with the Vision Perfect/UpLink tournament management have been able to experience great success with the system by dramatically reducing tournament and outing costs, and set-up time to allow them to have more available marketing time to sell new tournaments and outing to customers. In fact, a survey taken at the 2005 NGCOA golf outing indicated that 93% of owners, GMs and golf professionals could see how UpLink's on-car scoring can improve the value of an outing tournament and 63% said that they could charge more for an outing or tournament using UpLink's system integrated with Vision Perfect." says Glenn A. Pierce Jr., president and CEO of UpLink.
"We continue to prove to courses that UpLink contributes to their profitability; particularly with our proprietary sponsorship program, AdSmart. AdSmart gives courses a new way to generate significant amount of additional revenues by creating sponsorship opportunities for local businesses that are looking for a new and unique media outlet. The same survey also indicated that 70% of the participants viewed the sponsorships that appear on the system positive in that it can provide UpLink at no cost to the course," continues Glenn.
According to Seabrook, " I have been waiting for a program that could bring incremental revenue to my course and now with UpLink's AdSmart program, I can establish new business relationships with the community. As a result, I have raised $70,000 in incremental revenue all before the installation of the system." Continues Seabrook, "We are excited to be partnered with such a great company that provides courses with such a great tool to manage course operations more efficiently while improving the bottom line."
About UpLink
UpLink is headquartered in Austin, Texas with regional offices throughout the U.S. UpLink's GPS-based Course Management System (CMS) is designed to lower acquisition costs by providing the tools that can increase revenue, reduce costs and improve customer service (attract and retain golfers). In particular, advertising and sponsorships on the golf car mounted GPS display units (Caddy), is considered the largest single untapped source of revenue available to courses today. UpLink enables courses to take full advantage of this revenue stream through the advertising and promotional power built into the system. UpLink's founders developed the patent that enables GPS on golf courses and UpLink owns the exclusive rights to the patents that permit advertising and sponsorships on all GPS systems used on golf courses and golf facilities.
UpLink is a member of Club Car's Solutions Network, an alliance of leading providers of value-added products and services offered to Club Car customers. For more information on UpLink, visit www.uplinkgolf.com or call 1-877-787-5465.
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