UpLink financing simplifies acquisition process and enables more golf courses to adopt GPS
Austin, Texas – October 3, 2006 – UpLink Corporation, the fastest growing GPS golf business solutions company, announces that more than 90% of customers financed their GPS systems through one of UpLink’s several fast-track financing options. By providing turn-key financing services, UpLink eliminates an extra step for customers and makes it faster and easier for them to get their GPS systems up and running.
"At UpLink we’re dedicated to providing our customers with a complete, affordable turnkey golf business solution, and this includes taking care of their financing needs," comments Mike Cronin, senior vice president of sales and marketing at UpLink.
UpLink customers can choose from a number of financing options from outright purchase to pay-per-play rental and leasing to best suit their needs. The most popular of these options is the flexible U-LSE leasing program. By offering a wide range of leasing alternatives, including true leases, growth payment (step) leases, seasonal leases, master leases and municipal leases, UpLink provides the unique ability to support customers who are unable to fund their entire GPS acquisition upfront.
Continues Cronin, "Forty percent of our customers choose our U-LSE program as opposed to purchasing their GPS systems outright or implementing a rental program. Moreover, of the courses that initially choose our rental program, the majority quickly switch to our acquisition programs once they begin to realize a return on their investment through our GPS advertising and other revenue-generating programs."
In addition to making GPS more affordable by providing flexible financing options, UpLink offers several ways for golf courses to generate new sources of revenue that can completely off-set the cost of their GPS systems. According to general manager of Spring Run Golf Club in Bonita Springs, Florida, Arthur Leach, who recently purchased UpLink’s INOVA dashview system, "By purchasing a GPS system through UpLink, we not only eliminate all supplemental interest rates associated with other financial alternatives, but will completely cover the cost of our system through UpLink’s AdSmart revenue program."
For more information about UpLink’s financing options and revenue generating programs, contact Corrine Perry-Rotan at 512-637-4884 or cperry@uplinkgolf.com.
About UpLink
Since 1998, Austin, Texas based UpLink Corporation has developed innovative GPS-based business solutions to help golf courses, clubs and resorts across North America engage their golfers, secure their fleets and transform their bottom lines. Considered the fastest growing GPS golf solutions provider, UpLink’s solutions are installed at renowned courses across North America including Walt Disney World Resort and Poppy Hills Golf Course. This year, UpLink introduced a completely new point of view on GPS with INOVA, a complete GPS golf business solution offering a number of industry firsts including integrated widescreen dashview or roofview GPS displays, multimedia audio, integrated maintenance vehicle tracking applications and multi-event GPS advertising. Committed to helping courses generate revenue while controlling costs, UpLink offers a turnkey sponsorship program to help courses transform GPS advertising into a long-term profit center. The last 20 courses to use this program averaged over $78,000 in advertising revenue. Moreover, UpLink offers the only GPS solutions with intelligent car control options, addressing the key issues of golfer safety, car theft and course damage. Committed to innovating the GPS golf industry, UpLink owns a number of patents and is the exclusive GPS partner to leading golf car manufacturer, Club Car, Inc. For more information, visit www.uplinkgolf.com.
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