how many people receive sponsorship requests from musicians/DJs/athletes/etc? What to do about them?
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how many people receive sponsorship requests from musicians/DJs/athletes/etc? What to do about them?
how many people receive sponsorship requests from musicians/DJs/athletes/etc? What to do about them?
Just curious on how many people receive sponsorship requests from musicians/DJs/athletes/etc.
I get at least a few people a day that hit me up saying "yo man ur shirts is tight send me some an ill wear em when i play". One guy even hit me up, didn't say much except "send me some shirts, I wear an XL" followed by his address.
I've have a few decent requests for sponsorship from people/labels who could actually benefit me but mainly it's dudes thinkin' they should get freebies because they are one of a billion people with a MySpace music page and 300 friends.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Anyone have a way to convert these beggars into buyers?
great question... i personally dont have an answer BUT i do recall reading that "Dirt Bag Clothing" would sponsor bands but that meant that the band would get 40% off or something and have to mention Dirt Bag during their show... the band could also sell the products at the show....
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I have a few that do that, well quite a few. Especially with another line I m launching. I ve mentioned before that I m the webdesigner for a large bodybuilding company as well and a partner in it. Since this is show season, I see a lot of athletes daily and they for the most part are looking for some sponsorship. I ve signed 3, 2 females, 1 male and this weekend, the one lady wore my new fitness yoga suit and ended giving out my card to 35 other fitness competitors. So far in two days, that has translated into 3 other competitors buying 12 of the suits and wanting me to design 300 custom shirts for them as well.
Long as you are smart and know who is approaching you, it could be very lucrative at some point.
I definitely plan on doing it in the future. But right now it's really gettin' on my nerves that nobodies think that I'm going give them free shirts. I don't go to their job and ask for free fries.
It's incredibly rude. It even says on my website and MySpace profile that I'm not sponsoring.
i sponsor my little brother, he is a skateboarder and all his friends want sponsorships so i give them %15 off shirts. it gave me a little boost in business and gets my name out there
lol nice one. And I don t blame you. I guess the difference is in my case, although I may not know them really personally, I know of them or they know me to a degree.
Funny story, back in June, I was doing a run of shirts for a fitness show. Incredibly detailed work and I was swamped, short notice order too but I was trying to help an organization out. Anyways he decides to try and help me out,by sending out a message to his members that after the show, a well known fitness magazine would be doing a photoshoot with 6 models in my clothing, he was trying but man, he had 18000 members in his organization. I had to turn my email off, as every 5 minutes, I had another round of 20 emails coming in. Interesting set of pictures I received though lol
Yes, I know what you mean. This can be irritating some times, but what if you try to take some advantage of this situation.
For example, you could tell them, all right, I'll design a Tee for your group, but in exchange, you link to me from your website and add a news about my company.
Fans will be then directed to your web page and buy the same T-Shirt that their idol!!!!
This is what we did not so long ago and it worked! You might want to give it a try.
I get at least a few people a day that hit me up saying "yo man ur shirts is tight send me some an ill wear em when i play".
Anyone have a way to convert these beggars into buyers?
Considering the genre of stuff you do, and the types of people you are intentionally attracting to you, you have to expect a larger amount of welfare-mentality type behavior than other companies. But even given that, you should research "street teams, " start one and invite the beggars to join it. Make them earn their goodies.
miloumlx:
Yeah I always keep in mind that giving out freebies could earn me tons of exposure, but 99% of the people that want free stuff from me, don't have a real following. They don't have a blog or website. They don't have YouTube videos. I'd just be giving my money away.
b-ron:
Street Teams are mostly for the younger crowd. When I think Street Teams I think 14-17 year-old-girls handing out stickers of some band with cool hair.
Right now my main marketing focus is trying to get Google to stop being a-holes and give me a PageRank. I swear one day I finally had a PageRank and it was 10/10, the next day it was gone.
I also signed up for AdWords but haven't gotten the hang of it yet.
Re: how many people receive sponsorship requests from musicians/DJs/athletes/etc? What to do about them?
You're one lucky guy..
I mean maybe a lot of them are just beggars, but the still you can try to filter the valueable ones.
I think giving out 2-3 shirts to 10-20 people that would wear it in clubs in front of a lot of people sounds like a good investions.
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Re: how many people receive sponsorship requests from musicians/DJs/athletes/etc? What to do about them?
marc: I wouldn't say I'm lucky. I get a lot more beggars than customers. A lot more.
miloumlx:
My website is optimized and I haven't engaged in any shady link exchanges or anything. I think the day when I was ranked for a while was just some sort of fluke or bug in the FireFox add-on I'm using. I probably just need to stop being so impatient and give it time.
Re: how many people receive sponsorship requests from musicians/DJs/athletes/etc? What to do about them?
well maybe it'd be better the other way around, but it's still a good opportunity imao.
I'd give it a shot. you could give out individual coupon-codes with your sponsor-shirts and tell them to recommend you and occasionally give away their coupon-code if someone asks where they'd got the shirt from. then you'd see if it pays off or not.
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