Well, well, well – here at the inner sanctum of the Golden Tee marketing universe – we are hip.  We are with it. And yes, bro – we can hang with you wiki-tubey-tweety hip cats too!  But damn it – we do it with some common sense and style.

Ya know, the Golden Tee marketing team is small, but we are MIGHTY!  And you’ve probably noticed an equal amount of Golden Tee Goodness on and off the game this past year.  We kicked it off with YouTube Great Shot Replays in last year’s 2009 update.  The simple idea of replaying holes-in-one has always been around, but when our team first eyed YouTube the drool starting forming.  It was a way to make everyone happy – YOU, the player, are happy because you can show off your off-the-ubrella-stick-nothin-but-cup.  And I, the marketing geek, am happy because we’ve uploaded 30,000 videos and are approaching 1,000,000 advertisements, errr, views!  User generated content at it’s best, baby.

Here's My Incredible Stat Card, Where's Yours?!

But we didn’t stop there.  And likely by now you’ve seen our killer new Facebook Applications.  The addition of dynamic stats cards for Golden Tee and Silver Strike Bowling, along with our new “Dress Your Golfer” app for Goldentee.com/Facebook – this stuff’s just the tip of your 2.0 iceberg.

Yesterday, we launched a fun  project for those millions of iGoogle users out there – our very first Golden Tee iGoogle theme! (insert applause here)  So whether searching for important items like dogs on skateboards, celebrity smut or, aaaa , “private entertainment” – we here at Golden Tee Central hope you git’r done within your fun Golden Tee frame!

So, are you left wondering, “Duffer, how is this any different than those big-time-poser corporate fat cats you speak of?” Well, my friends, I can proudly say that social media is only as good as the community that’s powering it and YOU GUYS ROCK!  Whether it’s through our presence on Twitter, Facebook or YouTube, you – THOUSANDS OF YOU – were there first and greased the IT social media marketing machine.  We came along merely to add a little more insight and legitimacy into your already existing communities and thanks dudes – we’ve learned a ton along the way.

To end this post, I propose the challenge for you to challenge us…

HOW CAN INCREDIBLE TECHNOLOGIES HELP FURTHER YOUR ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA?

An easy question, with no right or wrong answers.  We’ve already heard many great suggestions like “blog about course creation” or ” exclusive contests for Facebook and Twitter users” – whatever your suggestion is, now is your chance to voice it!  And maybe, just maybe, your suggestion will help shape the future of Golden Tee Golf!  And that, my friends, if anything else, would be an AWESOME acheivment on your ol’ resume…

Good times,

- DD

Really, every company and their mother has been setting up social media applications to better communicate their messages with their users.  And we here in marketing land at Golden Tee – well – we just think that’s LAME.  Why would I want my podiatrist tweeting to me about cool new fungus creams? Come on, MAN!

GT is more like Conky. That Chairy was a whiny SOB!

NO! We feel that Golden Tee is just different!  We think that if Golden Tee were a dude, it’d be the type of dude you could talk sports with over a cold bucket of Coronas.  Or a know-it-all talking robot that’s here to serve your every need, like Conky from Pee Wee’s Playhouse!

(Yeah, that’s a Pee Wee’s Playhouse reference – so what of it, pal!?)

Anyway, Adam Kramer – our newer marketing guy and GTB blogger – and I took it upon ourselves to start up these fun feeds on Twitter.  And I gotta tell you, it’s a blast talking Tee, SSB, TTP out there in Twitterverse.  People are shocked to hear “voices” coming from the games they love and I just think that’s cool.

So if you’re on Twitter, follow us – we’ll follow you back.  You’ll like what you see, it’s fun!  Let’s take this relationship to the next level.  And if you’re not a Twitterer, don’t worry.  Just say something nice to your friendly Golden Tee machine next time you feel like kicking me, er, I mean it.

Good times,

- DD