Poker Run Sponsorship??
 

Any thoughts on trying to get a company to sponsor your boat to do the poker run circiut?? Maybe enough to cover entry fees, travel expenses, lodging, and fuel. More importantly to cover any repairs from running hard.

What do you think??

good luck trying

Better chance selling rides at runs to help with costs.

Hey, your stealing my idea. :evilb:

I think it could be worked out, after seeing Tanks awsome boat taking shape in Powerboat. Vinyl graphics make this not only possible rather in-expensive.

Purely for example. Met the people behind Ice Age bottled water and XLC, X*24*7 flavoured water drinks. They had a booth beside mine at an Anaheim trade show. I also have a connection with our local major softdrink distributor company with them they let us give out samples at events they sponsor.

If I was not writing up a proposal to do simular with my own company. I would write a prop. to those people above. Part of mine currently is not only the potential numbers of people at these events, helicopter photo shoots, magazine exposure potential, etc.

Events I've done locally:

Apple Blossom Festival: http://www.appleblossom.org/

Ridge to River relay race: http://www.r2r.org/

Tiny Fest: only ran one year and is no longer

So getting more invovled with Poker Runs like those events above really is almost a no brainer for me. My next step is emailing SCOPE and other clubs to see how much it will take to hand out samples at their events.

I if you, would even contact Sobe's, companies like that.......I'm sure they will also see that sponsoring you maybe a no brainer for them; as long as you offer them good exposure for the money. Heck this might even be a good business to build a sports marketing company around....

Find a powerboat enthusiast with no boat and a business. Tell him he can ride with you in a poker run if he pays for everything - as long as you have a vinal sticker advertising his business he should be able to write it off. So he would basically get a tax deduction (adverstising) and get to ride in a poker run.

Better have a cool boat, like 2000 HP +++ with killer paint and a matching tow rig. :D

if you buy a beak from me i'll see if i can do just that!!!!

MUAH!!

Don't laugh, some jackazz had the same idea 30-40 years ago to have sponsors on the side of his car so he could afford to race on Sundays !! NASCAR

One word.

Insurance, Insurance, Insurance...

I had it worked out late last year with an on-line gambling site. The day the first check was going to be sent out was the day they shut them down here in the U.S.. I think that all got worked out in a couple of days, but like I said it was late in the season and I never really pursued it again.

Actually, I was thinking about telling the old owner I would leave Massapequa Mercedes on the new MTI if he kicks in money for the poker runs. If he says no, I still leave it on and drive like a complete a-hole and get him in trouble. Then I will charge him to take it off. I think I may have something here!:evilb:

I'm cheap enough that if I was you would put that out there as an option. Any poker run you enter just because of her being the Mercedes MTI, she is going to make it in any magazine that covers that run. At least thats a safe bet! Does'nt hurt to ask.......

Thats a great idea! Don't people have to ask for your permission before they publish your picture in a magazine - kind of like a model - they don't look that good for free.

A marketing partnership is getting harder to come by these days for the small fish that have not "proven" themselves in the market area. There are companys that you can pay to go out and do your presentation and set it up. Fees are a little steep but that is whet they do for a living.

Think for news items like public events is pretty much free for the media to take your picture. I made our local papers front page last year and even told the reporter not to take my picture, he did it anyway. News worthy like celebs at a charity event.

Mercedes MTI is much like Pammy, the latter I dont even need to mention what style or make, bet everyone knows what boat I'm talking about.

My first post in this thread, our Apple Blossom to have a display cost us $3K for the week just for the booth, I've also forked over the same for industry trade show's.

From SCOPE siteSCOPE corp membership is a bargain at $250 for the above.