Questions about sponsorship.

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At the end of the day, its what you can bring in for your sponsor Scott.
Strike your deal, preferably on paper, due your commitment, and go racing.
Negoiation is never the fun part but you have to look after A: their interest and B: yours, they are your sponsors after all. It's all workable on paper or not. You get a happy medium with it. You don't win, but you don't lose.
BUT, if you breakup, be nice about it. Nothing worse to drag other potential sponsors away than a public fight.
It's like having a wife, LOL
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CWE, great post! Excellent! Thank you!

cuda20 said:
I use to have a dodge dealership sponser my car. My deal was I put their name on my car and they sold me parts at there cost. At the time it was a great deal and a good experiance for me.The owner of the dodge dealership was a muscle car guy and really the deal cost him nothing.
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If I was reading this, LOL, I'd probably skip it and call the B.S. Card loudly. But read on.

I had a similar thing in the past. By way of our MoPar only car club, our PR guy got a great deal like yours, except, we do not race. Now your like, "Awe, come on now" or "WTF?!?!"

But here is how it worked. Like CWE said, it's about exposure for the dealer we had. He asked a few of questions about membership size, amount of meets, where we meet and general size of the meet. He must have liked the numbers. We had weekly meets, covered a boro of NYC, the 2 counties of Long Island and 1 central monthly meeting. Did parades and all the shows.

For this, we ran his dealership's stickers in out rear / 1/4 windows and he gave us cost pricing on everything except clothing. In turn, being so delighted at this, many of us would run small billboards of the dealers parts on our car. "Help & Equipment from *** Dodge includes....." and the list of MP parts would be run. Ending in a big thanks to them.

We had a few show cars, a few resto cars and a hand full of racers and street machines (Red Light Bandits) at every place we met. We as a club would meet once a month centrally, and every weekend club members that lived on the ends of the club's area would meet in an area by them. A min. of 3 meet spots every weekend were happening.

We saved a few bucks, he had advertisement in 3 spots every weekend while it was nice outside. Not to mention the track and car shows. Good exposure I think.
 
Just some FYI, My brother-in-law runs a super comp car and gets a break on tires and some parts. For me it was a independent that supplied the trailer,Decals,and paid for fuel costs and entry fees for races all over the country.I just turned in receipts and got paid back.The rest was up to me.I don't remember seeing that anyone posted that if you list your sponsor name(s) on the back of your tech card they usually anounce them when you come up to the line.Just was skimming over the posts.
 
Talk about Girl appeal.
Look no farther than R2B2.
Pro Mods.
Melanie Troxel-Fastest Pass ever.
Last 2 or 3 races of the year won by R2B2 team.
Leah pruett won the last 2 events.
Was At the Vegas NHRA event with MAcmillen and went to there pits and asked how they picked there drivers and they responded girl appeal,not that they don't have the skills.
There are a lot of skilled drivers out there but it's what you can bring to the table.
 
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