On-Line Golf Course Books and Publications.

We have recently launched The Golf Club Directory. This publication enables golf clubs to advertise their course and facilities using a double page spread, on-line to Internet users all over the world.

However, we can extend this unique on-line page turning format to produce an on-line, page turning brochure/publication for your own golf club, featuring photographs of a number of holes and information on your club, course and facilities. In fact, if you have photographs of all 18 holes, this could even be produced as a “hole by hole” guide to your course, with the left hand page being a full page photograph of each hole, and the right hand page being a description of the hole with several thumbnail images. In addition, several pages at the beginning of the publication could be set aside to introduce your club with information on your facilities, and even include a brief history of the club.

There are immense benefits to producing full colour brochures and publications “on-line” as opposed to “off-line”.

1. Everyone now has instant access to the Internet and people are used to obtaining immediate access to information they want to source.
2. People can read them by turning the pages, download them as a PDF or just print the pages that they want to read – which has fantastic environmental benefits.
3. They are far cheaper to produce than conventional print media. There’s no printing costs, no postage costs and vastly reduced origination/production costs.
4. They are innovative – in addition to “turning” the pages using their mouse or keyboard, readers can zoom in, search for specific words and click on hyperlinks.

We handle the entire production process for you. All you have to do is to supply the text and the information for each hole, plus your logo and contact details.

Your on-line publication will be hosted on our servers but we will supply your web designer with html code to embed into your own web site so that it can appear as an integral part of your own site. As a guide, we charge £100 plus VAT per page to put the publication together, so a 10 page publication would only cost £1,000 plus VAT to create. [NB: on-line publications do NOT need to be “printed” in 4, 8 or 16 page formats like conventional publications!].

Of course, you could have a far larger publication consisting of all 18 holes with 2 pages for each hole plus additional pages of information on the club and facilities. You could even subsidise the costs involved by getting local businesses to advertise in the publication – or even to “sponsor” a hole in the publication.

In subsequent years, regardless of the size of publication or the amount of times it is accessed, we only charge £25 plus VAT per annum to host it for you. If you want to make amendments to the publication at any stage, you can do so. There will be a nominal charge for the production work required, plus a one-off cost of £85 plus VAT for re-publishing the publication from the finished PDF to the page turning format.

In addition to our online publishing, we already provide all kinds of on-line services for around 50 golf unions and golf clubs, ranging from web sites with easy to use content management systems, through to spam/virus protection and newsletters systems. You can read more about these services for golf clubs at www.web-marketing.co.uk and can see examples of the golf organizations, unions and clubs we look after at www.web-marketing.co.uk/golf/.

NB: We are producing on-line publications for a number of golf clubs using photos supplied by leading golf course photographer Eric Hepworth, using his extensive library of over 300 courses. If your course has been photographed by Eric we will be able to use a selection of his images to populate your on-line publication.

For more information, contact us or complete our on-line enquiry form.