Tamara Kline Brings Impressive Contacts, Achievements to Golf GPS Leader
(CHANDLER, Ariz.) – ProLink Solutions – a wholly-owned subsidiary of ProLink Holdings Corp. (OTC BB: PLKH.OB) and the world’s leading provider of Global Positioning Satellite ("GPS") golf course management systems and on-course advertising – announced today the hiring of Regional Sales Executive Tamara Kline handling the Western Region, including the key Southern California territory.
Based in Los Angeles, Kline will partner ProLink with national, regional and local businesses to advertise on ProLink’s 10.4" high-resolution monitors affixed to GPS-equipped golf carts. Brands that currently appear on or have used ProLink’s more than 600 advertising-ready systems worldwide include Aquafina, Jaguar, Lexus, British Airways, HBO, Red Bull, Cadillac and Visa.
Kline comes to ProLink from Weaver Multimedia Group, where she was Director of Sales for the publisher of travel and planning guides for destinations like Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Diego Los Angeles, and New York. She initiated and maintained relationships with key accounts throughout the United States and Canada in diverse categories including golf, hotels, finance and airlines. Kline oversaw a staff of 20 sales executives while directing the top-performing office in the company.
Previously, Kline was Publisher of New Orleans-based At Home Magazine, directing ad-sales programs and consistently exceeding revenue expectations. Kline’s extensive publishing background also includes Associate Publisher of The Wine Journal, where she had substantial success in annual sales, and Director of Advertising for all titles of the Las Vegas-based Greenspun Media, which realized a 200-percent gain in sales during Kline’s first five months.
"Tamara possesses a truly strategic skill set that will not only help us from a national perspective, but also on a regional and local platform as well", said Chris Wightman, President of ProLink Media. "Through her previous experience, Tamara has cultivated an extensive network of contacts at major corporations. Her background makes her an ideal fit for ProLink, which advertisers have discovered to be an unbeatable medium to reach the affluent golf audience."
Southern California ranks among the nation’s most fertile golf markets, and many of its premier properties – Aviara Four Seasons Resort (Carlsbad), Marriott’s Desert Springs Resort (Palm Desert), Angeles National Golf Club (Sunland) and more – feature the ProLink GPS system. The region helped spur ProLink’s impressive growth in 2006 as the company added 153 course installations to its worldwide roster.
With its ProFit program, ProLink manages all ad sales for golf courses, allowing owners and operators to do what they do best – run their assets efficiently, effectively and profitably. Through this revenue-sharing model, courses can significantly reduce the cost of leasing the ProLink system and, in some cases, generate revenues exceeding those expenses.
About the ProLink System
Innovators of golf GPS technology, ProLink Solutions’ core philosophy is to be a "Trusted Partner" in golf course management. From enhancing golfers’ overall experience and improving pace-of-play, to bolstering revenue streams and creating new profit centers, ProLink Solutions products and services have captured markets both nationally and globally.
Installed at more than double the courses of its competitors, combined, ProLink is featured at more than 500 resorts, private and public courses worldwide; including 2006 Ryder Cup host the K Club in Straffan, Ireland; Valderrama Golf Club in Spain; Dal-Takararazuka in Osaka, Japan; and Kapalua Resort in Maui, Hawaii. The world’s most respected golf management companies have also adopted the innovative technology and marketing richness: Billy Casper Golf, Evergreen Alliance Group, Kemper Sports, and Pacific Golf Management all engage with ProLink.
Golf cart fleets are custom fit with 10.4" high-resolution color monitors that broadcast vibrant, easy-to-read graphics of each hole. Throughout their rounds, golfers continually refer to the screen to pinpoint distances, locate hazards, navigate the golf course and to place food and beverage orders with the touch of a button. The ability to relay medical emergencies and receive dangerous weather condition warnings from the pro shop provides golfers with a full suite of communication tools.
From the pro shop, management utilizes the ProLink system to monitor golf cart fleets and optimize operations using fully integrated, Windows-based workstations. The precise locations of golf carts, color-coded pace-of-play status for each cart, as well as cart battery levels and other wear and tear indicators are readily available. Robust back-end reporting through user-friendly software yields a multitude of course statistics, all designed to raise the bottom line. Courses engaging with ProLink report pace-of-play improvements of up to 30 minutes per round, resulting in four additional rounds per day.
Food and beverage managers are able to post daily lunch specials and/or high margin items on the ProLink units, boosting sales by up to 30 percent. Event planners are able to maximize tournament and corporate outing revenue via the ProLink system. Through its ScoreCast and ScoreMaster software suites, ProLink units offer a simplified-yet-comprehensive tournament set-up that allows for any format and for any number of tournaments to be carried out simultaneously.
ProLink Solutions also offers financial solutions through ProLink Capital for leasing the system, fleet expansions, or course improvements. The ProFit program is another alternative for courses to leverage financing options and generate substantial advertising revenues to substantially reduce or eliminate the system cost.
Risks and uncertainties are described in reports filed by ProLink Holdings, Corp with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information about ProLink, visit www.goprolink.com, call 480.753.2337 or email info@goprolink.com.
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This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 about ProLink Holdings Corp. (PLKH). Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. Such forward-looking statements, based upon the current beliefs and expectations of ProLink’s management, are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from the forward looking statements. The information set forth herein should be read in light of such risks. ProLink Solutions does not assume any obligation to update the information contained in this press release.
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