MYTH #1: Only “big names” get sponsored -WRONG!

Some people mistakenly believe that only people who are in the headlines and well know professionals get sponsored. This is simply not true! Sponsors are looking for people at all levels to help promote their products and brands.

MYTH #2: There are very few sponsorship opportunities – WRONG!

That’s definitely not the case. First off, there are literally thousands of opportunities and sometimes all that is required to get sponsored is to get to the right person. However, even more exciting is that many of the sponsorship dollars that are available each year aren’t even claimed! In fact, millions of dollars worth of products are often destroyed or sold at a loss to make room for the next year’s inventory

MYTH #3: Getting sponsorship always takes a lot of work – WRONG!

This is not so. Sometimes getting sponsored is as simple as sending an email or making a phone call. A lot of companies are looking for people who can help spread the word about their products “on the streets.”

There are many different types of sponsorships depending on what exactly you want to have sponsored and what type of sponsorship you are looking for.

Sponsorship falls into 5 main categories:

A. Discount sponsorship

This is where companies give you their products or services at a deeply discounted rate. This can be a discount of anywhere from 10, 20 even 75% off the standard price that you would normally pay.

B. Shop Sponsorship

This is usually a sponsorship where a local store provides its products and services for free along with discounts on other brands the store carries.

C. Flow Sponsorship

This is where you receive free merchandise from a manufacturer or distributor on a regular basis (This is an amazing archive by itself!).

D. Amateur Sponsorship

An amateur sponsorship is similar to a flow sponsorship in that you get free merchandise on a regular basis. The difference is that they will also help you with promotion and also offer you incentives for any exposure you get for their company.

E. Professional Sponsorship

This is the one most people are familiar with. Professional sponsorship involves a paycheck, free “pro model” gear, entrance fees for events and competitions, along with money for travel expenses.

Quite simply, when you add all of this up it becomes millions and millions of sponsorship dollars sitting right under your nose – all free — and all yours for the taking! But the BIG problem is finding sponsors…

Getting sponsored has long been a secret tightly held by the people who have actually gotten sponsored. This was because they were afraid that if they revealed their secrets, there might not be enough sponsorship dollars for them in the future.

This is simply not the case. Every year there are millions and millions of sponsorship dollars along with tens of millions of dollars in free products that are never claimed.

With today’s tough economy, companies are looking for ways to stretch their advertising budgets even further. It can cost millions of dollars to produce and run 30 second television commercial. Radio and print advertising can be costly as well.

Sponsorship on the other hand allows companies to get their products in front of the people who may actually want to buy them without the huge undertaking of traditional advertising. It might seem counter intuitive but the worse the economy gets, the more companies there are looking for alternative ways to promote themselves.

Sponsors love getting their products in front of their “target audience.” This 22 year old college student got a sponsor to pay for a brand new car, insurance and $300 worth of gas per month just for having the sponsor’s website and slogan on the car. If you don’t want to drive around with a website on your car then this type of deal might not be for you but for the rest of us, this is a great opportunity!

Rebecca Tucci, from Seattle, Washington was a single mother with no money and little knowledge of sponsorship. This didn’t stop her from getting brand new bikes for her three kids and herself ABSOLUTELY FREE just for mentioning the manufacturer to her friends and family and it didn’t stop there. They even threw in free helmets, gloves, cycling shoes, jerseys and free lifetime tune-ups.

Every year manufacturers must clear out last years models to make room for the new ones. Many times this gear is sent to storage or even destroyed. A mediocre snowboarder named Rebecca Parris, from Seattle, Washington to advantage of this by becoming sponsored with closeouts. In other words, she gets last years gear which is brand new absolutely free and manufacturers often send more stuff than she can even use.

Needless to say, I know this might seem almost “too good to be true” but I promise you it’s not. Thousands of people around the world that you have never seen or heard of are profiting from sponsorship deals that will never make the news. It’s almost shocking how profitable sponsorship can be…

These are just some examples of actual sponsorships deals:

• $12,000 per year to play video games.
• $25,000 to host a block party
• $4,600 a year in skateboard gear
• $80,000 to host a Freestyle Competition
• $1,300 snowboard every 6 months
• $7,628 in free lessons
• 3 “Pro Model” BMX Bikes Every Year
• $1,800 per Month To Play Poker
• $5,000 worth of Paintball Gear
• $7,500 in Entry Fees Paid Each Year
• and much, much more…

And this doesn’t even count the big dollar sponsorship deals that make the headlines. These are the sponsorship deals that most people don’t even know exist.

Let’s face it. The odds are that you will never get the Tiger Wood’s multiple million dollar sponsorship deal but that doesn’t mean that you can’t take advantage of the millions of dollars that are being given away each year to people just like you.

Think about this for a minute, what if you had the exact step by step instructions to get sponsored for just about anything?  How much easier would it be knowing your travel, your gear or even your living expenses were being completely paid for by your sponsors?  What would it be like to have the comfort of using your sponsor’s dollars to pay your expenses so that you can focus on what really matters?

The best part is that once you know the strategy to get sponsors, you’ll be able to do it again and again. You’ll have an almost unlimited resource to locate and secure sponsors not only for what you are currently doing but also for anything that you can imagine doing in the future.

This isn’t just positive thinking. This can be done and you can do it even if you are a total beginner but you don’t have to “take my word for it.”

Here are just a few people just like you that have gotten corporate sponsorship:

“I didn’t believe that a total amateur like myself could every get a penny in sponsorship. I figure that I have gotten around $4,700 in free gear so far – and I have only been doing this for three months! Thanks for your help in becoming “totally sponsored” – Morgan Pitt, Bakersfield, CA

“I just received an $2,700 check to “cover my expenses” snowboarding this year. I wish I would have been doing this since I started.” – Jack Escobedo, Gary, IN

“Your information provided me with much more useful information than the all day workshop that I paid almost three times as much money for. I would recommend “Get Sponsored Fast” to anyone interested in getting sponsored for whatever they want to do.” – Cambria Lake, Boulder, CO