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How courses are achieving 27x ROI
Marketing tips and tricks that drive golfers to the greens – guaranteed. You could have the greatest course on the block, but without advertising to bring in new golfers, growth will stagnate… or worse, dissipate. Marketing and advertising seem to have a million different paths courses can choose, all with differing definitions of success. So […]
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foreUP Quarterly e-Newsletter – Supreme Summer And Webinar Wonders
As summer continues its relentless march forward, foreUP is diving headfirst into enhancements, marketing tips, and stellar new content. (Too bad we’re not diving into a pool too. It’s way too hot out there.) We’re exploring the reasons your website should be ADA compliant, virtually visiting with partner Supreme Golf, and sharing our incredibly popular […]
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10DLC – New vetting requirements and how they affect your marketing
If you regularly reach your customers with text marketing, you’re likely aware of the 10-Digit Long Code, a kind of phone number intended specifically to enable businesses to send high-volume texts and/or make phone calls. With a higher send capacity and throughput, 10DLCs are designed for business use. The 10DLC is not to be confused […]
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foreUP June e-Newsletter – Summer Success
The busy season is here, and it’s full of opportunities for your course to flourish under the summer sun. Our featured CampaignPilot client Chaska Town Course ran a successful flash sale recently that pulled in $108k worth of registrations in under an hour. Learn more about CampaignPilot and similar possibilities for your course below! Read […]
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Tournament Management Must-Haves
Creating an ecosystem of ease in your tournament space Tournaments are challenging enough. Weather worries, player potential, operational observations, budgetary blockers… there’s a litany of labor with your name already on it. So, if you’re a professional with “tournament” anything on your list of responsibilities, this blog post is for you. Thanks to our friends […]
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The foreUP Review Hall of Fame
Show Me the Infographic If you don’t have FOMO yet about foreUP, you should – and here’s why. Don’t worry. We’re not going to spend this entire blog post talking about ourselves. (Unless you’re into that.) Instead we want to highlight a special type of person – the kind that writes product reviews online. We […]
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Callaway Golf and foreUP Announce Partnership Program in Inventory Tracking
Callaway Golf, one of the golf industry’s leaders in equipment design, performance, and innovation, has announced a new partnership with foreUP, the leading provider of software and marketing solutions for golf courses. The two companies have developed a data-driven program designed to optimize retail shop inventory. With guidance from foreUP’s industry-leading tracking analytics, Callaway […]
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foreUP Q1 Newsletter – 6 More Weeks of Winter?
The famous Punxsutawney Phil, America’s favorite groundhog, saw his shadow on February 2nd – predicting six more weeks of winter for the country. Don’t worry – Phil only has an accuracy rating of 39% when it comes to meteorological predictions. We’ve got our fingers crossed that spring comes early this year for our favorite courses […]
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Golf Course Marketing – Golf Hashtags
The holidays are over, and with them, most of the more straightforward opportunities we have as marketers to drive traffic to our businesses. We all dream of an unimpeachable, permanently-effective social media strategy that’s more than simply capitalizing seasonal themes as they roll by. So where to start? How do we achieve long-term social media […]
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Visit foreUP at the 2023 PGA Show!
We’ll be in Orlando at the PGA Merchandising Show January 24th-27th! January is here, and the 2023 PGA Show is right behind it. foreUP will be there! If you’re planning on attending PGA, make sure to visit us at Booth 3901. We’ve got an excellent lineup of daily contests waiting for you – fun, free-to-enter […]
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Advertising for Golf Courses – A Brief Look at Ballyhoo
Insert advertising buzzwords here. Pitch, promotion, online presence, marketing, advertising… That’s a load of ballyhoo. And we don’t mean that word metaphorically, or onomatopoeically… That’s literally what ballyhoo is: Ballyhoo Noun, plural bal·ly·hoos. a clamorous and vigorous attempt to win customers or advance any cause; blatant advertising or publicity. So often we associate negative connotations […]
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Online Booking | Customer Checkout
Interview with a Product Manager Are you losing more than $100,000 a year from no-shows? Golf courses that require prepayment have a show rate up to 98% – while golf courses that don’t require prepayment have average show rates that are 16% lower. That’s why foreUP Customer Checkout was designed – to make online prepayment […]
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foreUP November Newsletter – New foreUP Live! Training and More
As November draws to a close, foreUP has exciting updates, enhancements, and stories to share with you! Welcome the holiday season with a look at fascinating industry statistics from 2022 that might change how you think about your marketing efforts. Enjoy first-look insights into new product enhancements and check out our customer and partner highlights […]
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Best Golf Technology for Your Course in 2023
What does innovation mean to golf? Some things feel almost impervious to the sands of time – for instance, public speaking (curse it!) hasn’t changed much in the last few hundred years. Sure, we’ve added visual aids, and music, and various gimmicks to make it more engaging, but the core skills of a great orator […]
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Hiring for Your Course’s Future – Without Wanting to Quit Yourself!
How to solve the puzzle of today’s labor climate. If anyone thinks it’s a fun time to work in Human Resources, they’re probably not paying much attention to, well, anything. It’s a great time to be a skilled candidate, but not so great if you’re the one seeking out those applicants. 2023 is rapidly approaching […]
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Clubessential Holdings Announces Acquisition of BlueGolf
Golf and Club Technology business adds industry leading tournament registration & management software platform to its golf course and club solutions Cincinnati, OH (September 28, 2022) — Clubessential Holdings, the leading provider of club membership management and payment solutions, today announced the formation of its Golf and Club Technology business unit in conjunction with its […]
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