BMX - Sponsorships

i have contacted the following companies: odyssey, maxxis, kenda, fbm, fly, haro, mongoose, gt, gsport, dickies, black flys, von zipper, capix, and s&m.

anyone else i could send a sponsorship request to?

your local bike shop

agreed

You don't find a sponsor. Sponsors find you.

once agian agreed sign up for a comp. i almost had a sponsership but fell hard braking my hip

your local bike shop

they don't sponser bmxers...

Um...have you won any contests? If sponsors WANT you, they will FIND you. There are enough poseurs sending them resumes that most of the mail gets thrown out before it's even read.

yeah i won some compos. thats why i figure i'm at a level where i can look. in South Africa, BMX is still growing. in human terms its only a tweenager, so BMXers have to be assertive and make themselves known, cuz here, you have to have drive.

There is a website specifically for people looking to get sponsored. Before you waste your time, and theirs, ask yourself some questions:

Why do I feel I deserve to be sponsored?
What can I offer in return?
What is my level of commitment?

If my shop/company was to sponsor you, what would you expect from us? Money? Completes? Parts? What would we get in return?

Sponsorship is a form of marketing. They're really paying you to be a spokesperson for their product/brand/company. It's not just free money and gear.

yeah i realise that. what is the website?

theres this thing on fuel called unsponsored where you send videos in and companies watch them if you get on tv.



it's a ***** to get sponsored if you ride street like me. I'm not sponsored, but let's just say they hook me up

It's not *that* hard to score 'pro deals' if you've got a bit of a resume. I never have to pay retail for any of my snowboard gear, for example.

Slackers, all of you. Now I've got to wade through a pile of old magazines to find the article and website.

put your cell phone # on bikeforums

post the vid you sent all the companies so we can see your skills.

Go to sponserhouse.com. It costs a little bit of money a year to sign up for the site, but you make a resume on sponserhouse and they send it out to all these different companies. I think it says somewhere on the site that if you dont get at least one sponser off of sponserhouse they will give you your money back.

Go to sponserhouse.com. It costs a little bit of money a year to sign up for the site, but you make a resume on sponserhouse and they send it out to all these different companies. I think it says somewhere on the site that if you dont get at least one sponser off of sponserhouse they will give you your money back.

You've made a fine case for my argument that spelling is important. This may work better (http://www.sponsorhouse.com)

put your cell phone # on bikeforums

what for?

So that we can crank call you from our business lines, that's why.

post the vid you sent all the companies so we can see your skills.

yea, what he said.

For those of you lucky enough to be able to stream video. JMC probably doesn't have high speed internet, though. From what I hear from my bud in South Africa they only have one provider who charges $80 a month for 512k DSL.

So, I paid $80/month for 256k in Australia.

ouch... In Japan You Can Get 10mb connection for 10 US Dollars A Month...
It Costs Me 40 Candian Dollars For 5mb connection a month...

we get 560+ kbps for 35/mo

For those of you lucky enough to be able to stream video. JMC probably doesn't have high speed internet, though. From what I hear from my bud in South Africa they only have one provider who charges $80 a month for 512k DSL.

exactly. i'm not exactly rich. which is why i need a sponsor so i can keep riding.

what for?


...It worked for Mike Jones

ouch... In Japan You Can Get 10mb connection for 10 US Dollars A Month...
It Costs Me 40 Candian Dollars For 5mb connection a month...

There was an 80's hair band from Chilliwack. They had the catchy name of "Chilliwack".

i sorta know what your dealing with, you get to the point where your not a kid, you have bills, and your part time job isn't keeping up with your needs, the need for new parts, ipods, cameras, all that goodness, check fbmbmx.com they're doing a video contest, winner is put on the team, hit that up

post the vid you sent all the companies so we can see your skills.

no vids, due to rubbish net, but check me out on www.capedirectbmx.co.za and click on the SPOTLIGHT button.

I pay $50 a month for 40k Dial-up(second phoneline).

good for you

i don't know a thing about computers. all i know is that i have dsl

DSL+Laptop+Wireless

I can surf from anywhere in my house, yard, or the neighbor's house. I can bring up the Park Tools website in my garage too. (Not that I need to often)

Well JMC i have no advice i just want to wish u good luck and hope you get that sponsor

Um...have you won any contests? If sponsors WANT you, they will FIND you. There are enough poseurs sending them resumes that most of the mail gets thrown out before it's even read.
Right once again.

Snazzy knows.

Well JMC i have no advice i just want to wish u good luck and hope you get that sponsor

thanks mate.

Well JMC i have no advice i just want to wish u good luck and hope you get that sponsor

I'll second that.

Cheers!

yea, why did the conversation go into modems and cost, it was about getting jmc MTV made right?