It’s possible that I might be able to get the company I work for to sponsor me. If they do and I want to get a kit with their brand on it, how do you go about doing that? Can I get some direction here?
Thanks,
David,
I would say it completely depends on the company you work for. Some companies could never see the benefits, while others either might see a benefit or just have interests along those lines. Some companies think also that you “belong” to the company 24-7 and thus you should do that as a great passionate employee without additional compensation.
You most likely will know f your company is interested along those lines so you now need to ask yourself “will I truly be able to offer my company a benefit?” You then have to sell them the benefit and bring up realistic expectations in return.
Be also aware that within most companies many employees want to sell/pitch ideas from “sponsoring my kid’s softball team” to “selling girlscout cookies” to “advertising in my school’s yearbook.” This is what you’ll compete against and hopefully the people who make the decisions are not yet worn out with this stuff and of course your presentation sounds well more exciting and beneficial.
Cheers,
Herbert
Guerrilla Communication
Call Ed at DPM Sports 201/871-1558 http://www.dpmsports.com/main.html
Ed has great customer service and is very knowledgeable about Spiuk products and how/why you should have them silk screened. Spiuk makes great tri kits, very confortable.
Sent you a PM with my e-mail to discuss options.
If you’re getting a sponsor, and they want their logo on your kit it’s really simple, get whatever tri clothing you like racing in and find comfortable, and get their logo added on at your local printer’s.
If it were for a larger number of items, or a team, then i’d say to order it from a company, but that takes more time and is only worthwhile with larger volume.
Herbert,
I agree. The reality is there is likely a very small percentage of companies that would ever be interested in doing this. Having worked in B2B sales for a number of years - Sales and Marketing Managers, VP’s and senior company offcials are bombarded every day with sales pitches and requests. Any internal request would just ad to that load. It would really all depend on the mind-set of the Manager or Senior company official. Are they themselves interested in sport and fitness? If the answer to that is “no” the slim chances of getting any traction just took a huge drop. The one hook that might work is if what you are doing is linked to a charity, and preferably a charity that the Manager, or Senior offcial is aware of, fond of or already contributes to in some fashion. That might get some traction and action.