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Meet Mark Wilson, Owner of NasCarts in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida A conversation with Mark Wilson Thanks for sharing your story with us Mark. So, let’s start at the beginning and tell our readers about your Familiy Ties. Behind any great business or idea is the need for change in a community. NasCarts was formed under that principle. Like any other story, NasCarts started with a problem that need- ed a solution. The market for purchasing a golf cart seven years ago was not even half of what the industry is today. Families would take to Google or Craigslist and scroll for hours and hours until they found “the perfect cart”. What seemed like a financially sound decision, would soon turn into a nightmare. After purchasing your new toy, it would begin to sputter and cough. Family out- ings would be cut short because charges wouldn’t hold, and no one wants to be stuck on the side of the road. Like a patient at the doctor’s office, families would play the guessing game of “What could it possibly be?” NasCarts knows these struggles and frus- trations because we went through it. When my dad purchased the first official NasCart, it was for our family. What seemed like a fun new mode of transportation, mor- phed into a case of “What did I get myself into?” After weeks of playing with bat- tery cables, terminals (and a few electricity shocks later), we brought in a professional. Jerimi- ah Hudges aka the Cart Professor had the talent and ambition any customer would hope to put their AUGUST 2019 15