IGAT - Wednesday July 14, 11:28 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
IGALinks.com Begins Affiliate Program for Its Interactive Golf Tournament Site
Company Signs Agreement With OfficialStuff.com To Provide Reciprocal Links
DANA POINT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1999--Internet Golf Association Inc. (OTC BB:IGAT) Wednesday announced that it has launched its affiliate links program on its Web site, www.IGALinks.com.
Subsequently, the company announced that it has signed with OfficialStuff.com to participate in the affiliate program.
Internet Golf Association will have promotional links throughout its Web site that will allow browsers to proceed to OfficialStuff.com site. In addition, there will be reciprocal links on OfficialStuff.com that will lead browsers to IGALinks.com. Through that link, customers will have access to official programs of major PGA events, the ability to place orders and purchase these items online. For each product sold to customers as a result of a link from IGAlinks.com, OfficialStuff.com will pay Internet Golf Association a percentage of the gross revenues.
''Launching our affiliate program is key to several areas of our company. First, it is our goal to provide the golf community with a full informational, e-commerce, interactive golf tournament site. In effect, we want to see IGALinks.com become the defacto golf portal site on the Internet. An affiliate program is a great way to bring our browsers and tournament players new and unique content for them to explore. Second, our program allows for IGALinks.com to have reciprocal links on affiliates' sites, thus generating more traffic to our site and contributing to our product awareness campaign,'' stated Vince Castagnola, president & chief executive officer of Internet Golf Association.
''OfficialStuff.com has joined our affiliate program as a source for golf enthusiasts to purchase official programs from past, present and future PGA events. We have royalty-free, exclusive use of OfficialStuff.com's promotional logo and link. In addition, our agreement has been structured so that we are participating in a revenue sharing program with OfficialStuff.com. So, we are not only going to generate traffic both to and from the OfficialStuff.com site, we are also going to be generating revenues for the company. We are pleased to have entered into this agreement with OfficialStuff.com and anticipate many more agreements such as this in the future,'' continued Castagnola.
About OfficialStuff.com
OfficialStuff.com is an innovative e-commerce company that markets and sells the official magazine programs from major sports and entertainment events worldwide and guarantees their delivery to consumers before game time (kick-off, tip-off, face-off, etc.) In addition, consumers (sports fans) can also request back issues of any program in print in the ''Raiders of the Lost Archives'' (i.e. Back Issues) section of OfficialStuff.com, as well as make special requests for hard-to-find programs.
OfficialStuff.com was founded in October 1998 by Eric D. Douglass. OfficialStuff.com has contracts with the NFL, NHL, Major League Baseball, all New Year's Weekend college bowl games, the NCAA, the PGA, All England Lawn and Tennis Club, USTA, the French Open, and Churchill Downs, just to name a few.
About Internet Golf Association
Internet Golf Association has launched a proprietary interactive golf tournament Web site, www.IGALinks.com, which hosts virtual golf tournaments with minimum cash purses of $10,000 per tournament. Participants will be utilizing the company's proprietary process of online golf simulations to play in the tournament. Internet Golf Association has secured a strategic alliance with Access Software Inc., a subsidiary of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT - news), to utilize the award winning Links LS software for all tournament play.
Players will participate off-line at their own pace and scores will be uploaded through Internet Golf Association's own proprietary software, where they will be posted on IGATour.com. In addition, IGALinks.com will also host Internet Golf Association's e-commerce section, displaying an extensive offering of golf equipment, accessories and memorabilia.
Included in this release are ''forward-looking statements'' within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements will prove to have been correct. The company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors including sales levels, distribution and competition trends and other market factors.
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Contact:
Internet Golf Association Inc., Dana Point
Vince Castagnola, 949/493-9546, ext. 222
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