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 – all of you!
In the meantime, ward off the chill with our e-Newsletter, hot off the proverbial presses. foreUP has lots of changes rolling off the line, and they’re all designed to help your course thrive.
Keep reading for an informative foreUP news flash on our featured sister company, software updates and enhancements, Kris’s Quick Tips, a fantastic marketing update from Howie and more!
Last year foreUP acquired 121 Marketing, the leading website provider in the Golf Industry. We focus on providing facilities with the best technology and golf marketing strategies to maximize their revenue. With our collective industry experience, passion for the game of golf, and drive for customer success, you can be confident in your partnership with us.
If your foreUP website is over 2 years old and you’re interested in a redesign, please reach out to your account manager for details.
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Tips from Howie
Utilizing Contact Forms to Grow Your Email List
One of the easiest ways to organically grow your email marketing lists is using contact forms. They invite your customers to reach out quickly and easily. By simply adding contact forms to your website, you have created the opportunity to organically grow your email marketing lists.
Learn more about contact forms
Golf Season is Approaching and Golfers Are Getting Ready to Buy!
If you’ve been looking for an excuse to get a promotion, now’s your chance!
Over the past few years, we have had huge successes with limited time pass sales, 5, 10 or 20 round golf packs, during both one-day sales events and week long promotions. Any way you slice it, golfers will buy a good deal.
We’ve seen all kinds of ways to promote these offers too, and it’s not always using discount pricing (e.g. 10 day advance bookings with a promoted item vs. standard 7 days for regular tee times). Use your imagination, get creative, and get your message out there.
CampaignPilot
Being in the industry for over 16 years, we learned that golf courses have the need to create social media posts, HTML emails, printable flyers, and countersigns, but do not have the resources to make it look professional. If you don’t have image editing software or are uncomfortable using what you have, use CampaignPilot!
Many of you are ramping up for the 2023 golf season. The days are getting longer and the weather is slowly but surely warming up. Here are a few tips as you ready your foreUP accounts:
- Allow singles to book online but only when paired with an existing group
- If you would like to give singles the option to book online but only be allowed to pair themselves with an already booked 2 – 3 player group, go Settings > Online Customer Portal > Online Reservations > In the Online Reservation Groups box, click on one of your online groups > Turn on the setting Limit Singles To Existing Groups
Many of you are ramping up for the 2023 golf season. The days are getting longer and the weather is slowly but surely warming up. Here are a few tips as you ready your foreUP accounts:
- Allow singles to book online but only when paired with an existing group
- If you would like to give singles the option to book online but only be allowed to pair themselves with an already booked 2 – 3 player group, go Settings > Online Customer Portal > Online Reservations > In the Online Reservation Groups box, click on one of your online groups > Turn on the setting Limit Singles To Existing Groups
- Allow back 9 booking online to maximize tee time inventory
- If you are looking for ways to maximize your tee time inventory, back 9 booking is the way to go! Please see this support article for step-by-step instructions on how to configure your tee sheet settings to allow back 9 booking online.
- Add receipt agreements for certain inventory item purchases (e.g.: cart rentals)
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- You may have certain inventory items you sell to your customers that would require a signed agreement (e.g.: Cart or club rentals). Receipt agreements is the way to go! Please see this support article for a tutorial on how to create and utilize receipt agreements.
We’re excited for the new season ahead of us. We have some great features that are coming down the pipeline that we know you will love! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
BlueGolf is now part of the foreUP family! If you’re interested in tournament management that goes above and beyond the competition, check out our new sister company below.
The Safe, Secure and Reliable Tournament Management Software
Over the last 23 years, BlueGolf has always had a focus on performance and availability. We have designed our system using industry best practices and have invested heavily in our infrastructure to achieve this goal. Our entire team takes a great deal of pride in ensuring our systems are fast, efficient and perform at a high level for our customers 24/7.
Discover peace of mind with a safe, secure and reliable TM solution—and save thousands a year when you make the switch to BlueGolf.
Contact BlueGolf for more information!
Do you need help advertising for your golf course? Did you miss our content writer’s favorite blog post of last year? Do you like weird, obscure words like ballyhoo?
Look no further! Straight from the foreUP Caddie, we’ve got a highlighted article just for you. (Reading it is just as much fun as saying “ballyhoo,” we promise.)
Click here to read our featured flashback blog!
Online Booking Updates:
- foreUP is in the process of rolling out a completely new online booking experience which features updated designs and several new features! This will be available to clients using foreUP Payments or Worldpay as their merchant processor.
- Updated Online Tee Sheet designs. Add a “tee sheet logo” to add a splash of branding to online tee times.
- New check out flow which allows golfers to pay with a saved credit card, gift card, or raincheck! Split payments are supported, so golfers can pay for a $100.00 tee time with a $25.00 gift card and put the remaining $75.00 due on their credit card.
Tee Sheet Updates
- We have been hard working on design and experience updates on the tee sheet.
- New calendar navigation for mobile devices on the tee sheet. Click the date on the top of the tee sheet and a calendar modal will pop up and allow you to navigate to a new day on the tee sheet.
- Checked in vs paid status. We added a new status on the tee sheet to show if someone has paid. This will help courses who are taking advantage of our pre-paid features. A golfer will show as paid with a green color then can be checked in when they arrive at the course.
- Moved tee sheet dashboard, settings, and online special buttons to the top right to free up space and for a cleaner look.
- Changes to icons to make seeing details easier. The number of holes will be displayed on the outside of the tile.
foreUP Live! Training will be back in March to assist you in getting the most out of your foreUP course management software. Whether you’re new to foreUP or just need a refresher, we’ll be on the other side of the screen to provide expert software guidance.
foreUP’s Live! Training sessions were designed to help you level UP your marketing, ace your tee sheet, and turn bite-size food and beverage into big successes. Bring your questions – foreUP Implementation Specialists will be leading these trainings live to help you utilize foreUP to the fullest.
Stay tuned for details on the next set of sessions – coming soon in March!
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