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Great reads on internet marketing

As a golf center owner or would be owner, marketing your business is a key factor in your success. There are many online and offline sources of marketing. Internet marketing can run the gamut of free to paid services and cover everything from social networking to banner ads to email campaigns. Learning the role each plays and how to determine which are the most successful for you will make your marketing spend that much more effective. Here are a few of my recommended "best read's" on internet marketing:

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Find out what indoor golfers really want! Indoor Golf Player Survey - help us collect responses http://buff.ly/1hwgDuY

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Improve your marketing with Google Trends

Data can be an amazing tool for making decisions and it doesn't have to be complicated to use.  Take Google Trends as an example.  It provides a simple graphical view of how frequently certain terms are used in searches.  This can be incredibly helpful to you in finding out what customers are looking for that you can offer.

I've imbedded a simple chart below of the trends of four search terms.  I was looking for terms related to indoor golf that peak in the summer.  The potential use case here is to find terms that are more frequently searched than indoor golf in warm weather.  In this view, "golf league" and "tee time" are the winners and "golf lesson" doesn't seem to be a frequently searched term.

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What is really cool is that you can take this even further and drill into geographies, related search terms and more.  The map below is an example, you can hover your cursor over the map to see the number of times Indoor Golf was searched.  on the Google trends page, you can even see this over time on the map.  I highly recommend using Google Trends to look for macro trends that can help you improve your marketing efforts.

Use the web to scope out your competition and maybe even learn something you didn't know about your own business. http://buff.ly/1962oe1

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High Definition installed-Golf Center by High Definition Golf

Another great one I found on flickr.  I love the way this is set up to maximize the enjoyment of the experience.  It has a great sitting area with a place to put food and drink, plenty of hitting space, easy access to clubs and the control monitor is accessible to the player and his playing partner.

http://flic.kr/p/7q99LC

Golfing | Indoor Golf Courses | iSHOTGOLF Inc. by iSHOTGOLF

I found this one on Flickr.  I really like the lie board as a way to add realism to indoor golf.  Flicker details are as follows:

Golfing | Indoor Golf Courses | iSHOTGOLF Inc. iSHOT GOLF Inc. 7501 Woodbine Ave Unit #7 Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 2W1 Phone: (905) 752-0168 info@ishotgolf.com www.ishotgolf.com/ http://flic.kr/p/9goc1r