WSI Net Advantage - Online Business Marketing Blog

One of our long time clients, World Golf Tour, (WGT) received a great spread in the most recent issue of Forbes magazine.  Since starting with an idea for an interactive online golf game, WGT has expanded and created lifelike representations of some of the world’s great golf courses including St. Andrews, Kiawah, Congressional and more.  If you like to spend a little time on the golf course but can’t find the time, or you like online golf games that challenge your sports skills, sign up!  It is free, and there are tournaments and challenges all the time!

Here is the article to learn more:  WGT in Forbes Magazine.

Some of the highlights:

• “WGT has the number one online golf game and golf website in the world, with more than 5 million registered users and 2.5 million unique monthly visitors (more than Golf.com and PGA.com).”
• “The idea of taking on EA Sports and its bestselling title was nuts, but Nelson figured there was an opportunity if he
  did something completely different.”
• “WGT’s golf-game success is in large part the result of its painstaking attention to the look and feel of each course. Sun
  dapples the fairways, and wind rustles the trees in each of the 15 courses it has captured so far.”
• “The process of turning 18 holes into an immersive digital experience begins by shooting up to 300,000 photos with
  high-definition and laser cameras, on land and from a helicopter and plane, each picture attached to an exact location using GPS. Imaging can take two to three weeks and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per course.”
• “By offering the best visuals from day one and releasing the game as a free-to-play online experience, WGT avoids
  Electronic Arts’ annual ritual of updating the game’s software engine, revisiting each course to improve the visuals and charging another $60 to gamers.
• “WGT Baseball: MLB, their Facebook game produced in partnership with Major League Baseball, attracted more than 300,000 monthly active users and 1 million-plus registered players in its first four months.”
• “In the future we’ll have all major sports covered with Internet and mobile titles and a strong Web presence for
  each.” – YuChiang Cheng, founder and CEO, WGT
• “WGT is really the only thing going now.” – Michael Pachter, videogame analyst, Wedbush Morgan Securities

Congratulations to YuChiang and the entire team at WGT!

We are proud to announce that A1 Sliding Door of Campbell, CA repair launched a new site with us (http://www.slidingdoorrepair.com/), replacing their old site they had for many years.  A1 provides repair and replacement for just about any door that slides – shower doors, screen doors, accordion doors, pocket doors….and even pet doors!  A1 Sliding Door Repair serves the San Francisco Bay Area as well as Santa Cruz County and has been repairing sliding doors for more than 20 years.

The new site is built on WSI’s Genesis platform, with easy to use editors, image sliders, a multi-page flexible photo-gallery and full SEO capabilities.

Visit A1 Sliding Door Repair, and call WSI Net Advantage if you’d like to freshen up your site!

WSI helped Forward Push Media design and implement a new website for their San Francisco Marketing company.  With a unique design with motion, unique navigation, links to blogs, videos and SEO friendly pages, the site will be able to support Forward Push Media’s branding and creative goals.  Visit http://www.forwardpushmedia.com/ to see it.