Wethersfield, CT (March, 2007) – Golfing Magazine, The Nation’s #1 Regional Golf Magazine announces the addition of Associate Publisher Dick Gillespie who will publish the Carolinas edition of Golfing Magazine.
Dick Gillespie is a seasoned media seller and sales leader with expertise in print, outdoor, digital, and broadcast. In print, he led sales in New England for Golf Digest and Tennis Magazine, for Playboy and later for Newsweek where he led new business sales and personally contributed $22 million in new business in one year.
Dick led corporate sales for the Gannett Company and created cross platform media and promotion sales for USA TODAY, USA WEEKEND, 136 Newspapers, 11 radio stations, 14 network television affiliates, and 400,000 billboards.
Dick then began creating his own media, and launched GOLF+, an out of home media located at golf courses with static ads on golf carts and at driving ranges. He has sold GPS cart screen media on golf carts, and golf related content on mobile smart phones to national, regional, and local advertisers. He has worked with hundreds of golf courses nationally to provide great service and to fulfill all media and promotional campaigns.
Dick has now taken on the launch of Golfing Magazine for North Carolina and South Carolina.
Dick is happily married to his wife Dianne, has three grown and beautiful daughters, and resides in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He is an avid UCONN basketball fan, and lettered on the men’s varsity basketball team there. Hopelessly hooked on golf, he plans to improve his game, have some fun playing more golf, and deliver the next generation of Golfing Magazine to the Carolinas with print, online, and digital media opportunities.
Dick Gillespie may be contacted at 336-486-3338, or by email at golfingmagazinencsc@gmail.com
“We are very excited to have Dick join our network of Associate Publishers,” said Tom Landers, President of Golfing Magazine. “He brings knowledge, publishing experience and energy to our network that will only serve to help our business model grow. His input will be invaluable in the coming years. We could not be happier to have Dick join us as we grow this publication both in print and online.”
If you would like information about joining our growing network of Associate Publishers and becoming a “player in the Golf industry”, please contact Tom Landers at tlanders@GolfingMagazine.net or 860-563-1633. Golfing Magazine offers exclusive local and regional publishing rights in key golf markets across America for the fastest growing golf magazine in America.
Golfing Magazine is the only national golf magazine containing a regional section that speaks to avid golfers in more than twelve of the country’s most active “hot beds” of golf. Golfing Magazine is distributed nationally by way of controlled and audited distribution. Golfing Magazine finds its audience of Active Golfers through our unique and innovative network of Associate Publishers. We reach our readership on a national and regional level through public, daily-fee, resort and municipal golf facilities within our Associate Publisher’s region. We also reach our audience through newsstands, subscriptions, off-course golf shops and a network of hotels & resorts, airlines & airports, packages & tours, specials & promotions, and trade shows & charity events within our Associate Publisher’s region.
No other magazine of this kind exists in this country, and no other national golf publication reaches the same audience that Golfing Magazine reaches. Golfing Magazine is available at your local golf shop or by subscription.
Contact:
Tom Landers
Golfing Magazine
449 Silas Deane Hwy
Wethersfield, Ct 06109
860-563-1633
tlanders@GolfingMagazine.net
