Want to run your own GolfInvestors stock markets on your own servers?

Then you can license the GolfInvestors technology. Our professional services team will install the GolfInvestors software directly onto your server - allowing you to retain total ownership and control of your GolfInvestors infrastructure. This will enable you to create and run your own GolfInvestor stock markets, setup prize structures for each market, manage users, manage advertisers, manage sponsors, view reports, and more.

• Benefits
• Key Features
• System Requirements
• Rates
• Downloads
• Get Started

Note: Licensing of the GolfInvestors system is only for the simulation version of GolfInvestors at this time. It is not for the real version of GolfInvestors.

Benefits of the GolfInvestors Licensing Program

• "Stickiness": GolfInvestors' stock markets encourage greater usage of your site with its interactive nature. 2 of the top 3 most visited types of web sites are game sites and online brokerage sites. GolfInvestors is a combination of both.
• Increased Subscriber Loyalty: Once subscribers experience the addicting nature of owning shares of their favorite golfer, they will never want to give it up.
• Control All Aspects of the Technology: Through our technology you can manage users, markets, prizes, forums, advertisements, sponsorships, and more. You decide the criteria for each market. You decide the prize structure for each market.
• Add Value to Your Current Services: You can seamlessly integrate the GolfInvestors market into your current array of services provided on your web site. The design will take on the same look and feel of your current web site design, as GolfInvestors will build a specific template to fit your web site as part of the licensing program.
• Increase Revenues: You have the potential to increase your revenue by charging users to setup an account and/or trade on the GolfInvestor stock markets and by selling additional advertising and sponsorship inventory.
• Quick to Market: GolfInvestors can deliver a customized solution in a fraction of the time it would take a company to develop a similar substitute in house. Once a contract is signed and payment details worked out, a site visit is scheduled and your licensed Gi site can be up and running in a matter of days.

In addition, the GolfInvestors technology allows companies to drive e-commerce by associating golf products with a professional golfer. For example, on GolfInvestors, where ever Ernie Els is mentioned, he has one of his sponsor's logos shown with his picture. Clicking on that logo will take the user to the sponsor's product catalog and possibly purchase a product from a licensed Gi vendor or the sponsor themself. Associating a product with a professional golfer has been known to increase the purchase rate of a company's product. For golf-related equipment companies this is highlighted even more so through the Player's Profile - Equipment-in-Bag section (for example, see Ernie Els' equipment in bag page). This shows each piece of equipment the player uses for a specific tournament. It is possible to show the player using that piece of equipment in a picture or a video. Again the user can click on the equipment item to purchase the product the player is using at the time of viewing that picture or video of the player using that specific piece of equipment.

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Key Features

• Integration with other services (web based e-mail, content, etc.)
• Detailed administration and reporting tools via a web-based interface (users, news, markets, prizes, forums, advertisers, GI Hosting accounts, and more).
• Multiple custom interfaces with GUI deployment tools (Site Format module).
• Development of a customized template to have the graphical user interface (GUI) look very similar to your web site design.
• Monitor the usage of the site by investor users, advertisers, and sponsors.
• Add, edit, and delete stock markets.
• Create player offerings to the market through an offering process. Also additional shares of a professional golfer can be offerings in secondary public offerings or the player can buy back their shares off the market.
• Build the prize structure for each market.
• Add, edit, delete market news items, offering news, analyst reports, offsite articles, and important news announcements.
• Add, edit, delete forums for players and markets.
• Add, edit, delete player's and information associated with them. Includes background, pictures, offerings, tournament results, equipment-in-bag, sponsorships, and more.
• Manage advertisers, sponsors, and your users.
• Can hook into the global stock markets, and pull news, player profiles, and tournament results from the central Gi server.

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System Requirements for Server

• Operating System: Linux (web site)
• Web Server: Apache 1.33 or greater (web site)
• Database: MySQL 3.32 or greater (web site)
• Additional Server Installs: PHP 4.3.8 or greater (web site)

You will need to have these items installed on your machine prior to installing the GolfInvestors code. These items do not come with the GolfInvestors code download. You have to download and install them separately.

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Rates

Below is the rate schedule for private labeling GolfInvestors. Click on each plan to see the details.

Plan Cost View Data Feeds, Code Updates, Technical Support $396 per year Copy of Compiled Code $950 per server

If these plans are too expensive for you, think about the Private Label - Hosting option.

Bills are generated during the first week of each month for the previous month. Payment is due within 15 days of receipt of the invoice.

The licensing plans are for compiled versions of the GolfInvestors code. It is not for access to the source code of the GolfInvestors system. If you would like to inquiry about a license for the GolfInvestors source code, please contact us directly.

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Downloads

To get the GolfInvestors system on your machine, download one of the following files:

Latest Release

• Code | Documentation | Installation Guide (release date: 2006-06-01 - projected)

Previous Releases

• None

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Get Started

To install the GolfInvestors system, follow the steps below.

1. Download the latest copy of the GolfInvestors code
   
   See download section on this page to get the latest code, documentation and full installation guide.


2. Uncompress the downloaded file
   
   On a Linux machine, use the following command to uncompress the file:
   
   
   tar -xvvzf gi_<release date>.tar.gz
   
   On a Windows machine, use Winzip or Winrar to uncompress the file.


3. Set permissions for the 'gi' directory
   
   On a Linux machine:
   
   
   chmod 755 -R gi
   
   On a Windows machine, do nothing.


4. Set owner of the 'gi' directory
   
   If using Apache as the web server, set the owner of the 'gi' folder to be the user which the Apache web server runs as (i.e. apache, nobody, etc.):
   
   On a Linux machine:
   
   
   chown nobody.nobody -R gi
   
   On a Windows machine, do nothing.


5. Configure web server so a domain points to the 'gi' directory
   
   In Apache, modify the httpd.conf file so a host or virtualhost points to the 'gi' directory.


6. Open a browser and go to the install.php script
   
   Point your browser to http://<domain name>/install/install.php.
   
   For example:
   
   
   http://localhost/install/install.php
   
   - or -
   
   http://exampledomain.com/install/install.php
   
   Go through the steps on this page, which will create the database for the GolfInvestors system, create the tables in that database, create the necessary user in the MySQL database to allow the PHP scripts to access the database, and populate the tables with default data.


7. DONE!
   
   The GolfInvestors system should be setup and running on your system now. Log into the admin section with the newly create admin user login and start managing your own GolfInvestors system.

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