Sponsorship where/how to find one?
 

I'm one of the people who want discounts or even free stuff, of course! Now since I'm being impatient about saving money for my mods, I've been thinking of sponsorship.

I haven't made a lot of searches about it so I have multiple questions:
How to start finding one?
What do I get for sponsoring for most company?
How hard is it to get into one?

Most of all, do you know one that's looking for a sponsor?


please skip the 'angry comments', I'm only interested in informations

be fast

So far with your stellar post history I would say you don't have a hope in hell!
I think you need to concentrate on graduating high school before you try to move up.
Not an "angry comment" as I am more amused then perturbed by your arrogance so within your reply requirements!


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What if I can only give 1 information?

Must be plurals!

Those are good ideas.

First, you need money.





(Also would like to mention that I was almost partially sponsored for a certain widebody kit about a year ago. I'm glad I ended up not doing it, would have needed to spend a ton of cash!!!:cry:)

Also enter a lot of big car shows and be local to the place you want to sponsor you. Be at the right place at the right time. Is this guy serious?

You have to give them a reason on why they should invest in you. Free isnt free. Write reviews for products you buy. make DIY threads and/or videos. Build a fan base on social media, be active on the forums. And then step 2 like others have said, be fast. When a company is about to release a product your too late.

Have all of your friends create LLCs.

Then have them make a ****ton of stickers.

And finally, allow them to paste said stickers on your car.

SHAZAM! Sponsored.

It's been a few years since I had any sort of sponsorship for my minitruck, but going about it was like getting a job. You need a resume for your car/truck, and you have to sell it to them. Show how you can give them a good ROI (return on investment). Essentially you are selling them advertising space on your car, so a history of large show or race wins, magazine, and now internet coverage.

Research sponsorship on google, or reach out to companies and contact them.


If you want your money for nothing and car parts for free, you gotta learn the play the google on the HTTP

If I were you, I'd write this guy....
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There's this principle in life where if you work, you get this paper-looking thing. And you can exchange that paper-looking thing for car parts.

Works out pretty well for me.

I see some consistency in this OP's apparent command of the English language and some other posters here who also live in English speaking countries. They are/want to be baller with their cars but perhaps need to focus on their literacy as a higher priority.
Just ask you parents to sponsor you. And while you're at it, learn English.

Ill be nice and assume you really have no clue. So here it goes:

You have to earn them. You have to build relationships and need to give something back to the sponsor. This can be done by social media and show exposure or be very competative in a sanctioned motosport series. This gets them publicity. But the thing is nobody is going to give you anything until you can prove you can win/be competative on your own.

But the biggest thing is what can you do for them in return? If everyone just handed out free stuff nobody would stay in business

How about product development and testing?
I have 4 cars and my FRS is a garage queen I wouldn't mind some discounts if my car was used for testing.

If this was May 2012 you'd be in luck maybe. But now there isnt really much to develop.

Troll here and there is fine. Cuz this is very entertaining lol BUT plz leave gov, religion, name calling or anything that's out of forum rule out.

Thanks

ichi

Dear Santa, please can I have a nice supercharger for my FR-S? Oh, and while you're at it, a night with Christie Brinkley would be nice (that's a nod to all the vintage FR-S owners out there). If you can think of a better looking 61 year old, I'll eat a bug.
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How about a damn fine 73 year old!
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A body by Pininfarina...

So, Assuming the OP is being serious, and touching base on some of the other poster comments, I would like to state it's true.... Nothing comes for free. Now, When A company is "Developing new parts" The do R & D on people's vehicles in exchange for a free part or discounted part. This can end badly or well for the owner of said vehicle. For me... Only piece of exhaust I have is an overpipe. I paid DIRT cheap for one through XYZ company and then wrote a review for the part on this board under their group buy product page. Did it work? Yes. Did I get the part? Yes. Why wasn't it free? Well, The first part had poor welds, the second part was solid but the gaskets failed, so I bought new gaskets which ultimately led to snapped header to overpipe studs, and recently that was all fixed. Pay to play.

There are people who are known tuners in this community. They get discounted / free parts in exchange for word of mouth sales for the hundreds of people they work with.

There are racer drivers in this community who get discounted / free parts. That's because they win and paid all upfront to play, plus have the company name in giant font on the side of their vehicles.


Now, I've had vehicles sponsored for racing, I've have a part which was "semi-sponsored" on my FRS (Overpipe) and I have called and spoke with companies such as Rally Direct, Jonmotoring, and they are all not sponsoring anyone at this time, but also have been a complete joy to work with, though I couldn't keep my end of the deal with Jonmotoring due to financial obligations I had outside of this.

So call around, check the HTTPs, get to racing, and don't expect this is an easy or free process. It's a business transaction in which they are investing in your car for one reason or another and you have to return on that investment one way or another.

im sponsored by me.

Want a sponsorship? Very simple.

Know the company whose parts you want to represent.
Know the target audience you want to represent these parts to.
Know how to present the product to the target audience.
Put this all in a simple PDF or business presentation.

Or, just pick up a simple book about marketing and go from there. Sponsorship is no different than buying out a magazine advertisement or placing a billboard ad. The more views you can guarantee, the better your chances are of getting free parts, assuming that's your goal.

-alex

a lot of places will sponsor you for parts in exchange for money.


But seriously though, it tough...very tough actually. And since there are about a billion of our cars out, and its been several years, companies aren't too desperate to get their hands on a car to prototype new parts-because tons of stuff has been made already. They still exist, but they're harder and harder to find.

If you don't already have connections in the industry, you're gonna have to turn your car into a show car, and THEN you can approach companies about sponsorship...its easier after you've built a car, because then you can show companies what you can do/following you have etc.

This is when building a car is no longer fun. Build it for yourself, not for some company that only looks at you as $$$.

First create a kickstarter page about why you would like to be sponsored and how good you can do the driftuh.

OP: Dear Roger Penske,


I've just driven my dad's Camry from Chicago to L.A. in under 18 hours. Can I drive one of your cars in either the Indy 500 or Daytona 500?


Thanks in advance,


OP

I was interested in sponsorships when I was younger for paintball. Most of the people are correct, it depends on presentation. However, if you don't deliver, you won't get certain aspects from the sponsor.


Say you want an exhaust from HKS. They're not just going to give it to you for posting a review on the item. Anyone can do that. The best way is to use it practically. Do some semi-pro races, place in a show, etc. GET NOTICED.


Another way is to start small (I mean with small companies/businesses). Contact local sponsors or shops, build reputations. This will help open doors to the bigger names.


In the end, it would be more of a life decision than a side hobby if you really want to see any huge results. If you want to slowly upgrade your car, you can see results in a couple years. I don't know if this helped you, but I would hope it provided a little bit of clarity. If anyone wants to elaborate or counter my thoughts, please do. I would like to know for myself.

You're going to have to put money into the car before you can start to get sponsors. You're going to have to be able to win shows and races. Show them what your car is capable of. Your plans for the car.

Most companies will need a proposal of some type, so present your build like a resume. Keep in mind all companies will ask you to do things, so make sure you're up for it. Some will ask you to attend a certain amount of shows and send quarterly updated high res pictures of the build.

Almost all will ask if you are being featured in a magazine any time soon.

Also, if you're not a shop or race team, forget about getting anything for free. They'll give you a discount though.. Just depends on what level of sponsorship they think you would fall into.

Wow some ppl were taking my comment way too serious, they had to post it on Facebook group page. Thank you, it was very entertaining read.

Anyways, this vid explains it well for sponsorship.

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I can't believe you post this reply that is all I have to say.

Why's that?

So far reading through everything Mav's post has certainly been the most accurate. I get emails all the time from guys who write four sentences saying "Hey I have a 2013 blah blah, and I think you guys are really cool, so if I put a sticker on my car can you give me free parts?" No, doesn't work like that, nor do vendors normally sponsor cars, 99% of the time it's manufacturers.

I've been lucky enough to now pick up four sponsors on my build, not including one deal which technically wasn't a sponsorship it was a developmental deal on the car for testing that I got a deal on but that doesn't really count since there's no real contract that was signed. For the sponsorships the #1 thing they want to see is how may car shows you are registered for and plan on going to. If you're not going to compete in car shows, then there's no intensive for them to invest in you. If you can show them that you can be a brand ambassador at these car shows when showing your car, then there's no benefit that you will give to these manufacturers.

If you can show these companies that what you can do will improve their sales, which is what they expect, and if this is your FIRST time modifying a car in this way to try to attract sponsors, you'll likely only pick up a partial sponsorship which is what happens 99% of the time. Partial sponsorships usually will cover a certain percentage of the cost of the item, but not all of it. Once you wow these manufacturers, usually a contract is signed which states you need to go to x amount of shows, or x amount of press events.

Good luck out there, but the best thing I can really say to try to get sponsored is to have a vision for the entire car first before you decide to start emailing every company out there. A lot of these manufacturers despite being competitors do talk to each other, so if someone gets a whiff that you have a want to just get free parts and you don't care from where, they likely wont touch it.

This is suppost to be a forum with posting rules. How can a moderator allow trolling?

Really you not helping a member if your trolling them that's part of the forums rules right?

I quote the FT86Club: Respect. By far the most important rule here.


http://www.ft86club.com/forums/announcement.php?f=2

Then after making you post #20 come back on the forum and talk about what's been said on facebook.





You should be setting the example as one of the forum's leaders.

If it was just so easy, everyone would be doing it. Like seriously...we'd ALL be sponsored!!! I'm kinda hoping for Budweiser or Red Bull money, but hey...keep the dream alive ;)

Where did I break forum rule? Where in the forum rule states "No trolling"? I understand that "respect" is most important part of forum. I didn't say, it's okay to full on insult the members, did I?

I'm not helping members out? You're right, I'm not. That's why I've posted that comment AFTER warning members actually broke the rules.

If you really like, I can go on hardcore deleting ANY troll that happens here. Do you want me to do that? I gonna be a bit busy cleaning up member classified section for an hr or so, but after that, I can spent rest of the night reading at least 500 pages to find, delete, yellow/red cards all the members that posted trolls.

...but reality is, some ppl can handle troll. Some ppl can't. If they can't, they report saying that post is offense/rude post. We, mods look at those reports & delete it if necessary. Til then, we try not to get in the middle of it, well at least I don't. If you believe, What I'm saying is total BS & I should be better example, sorry, I'm still a human & sometimes bad side gets to me. I try to abide the forum rules & have a fun at the same time, that's all.

As for the FB comment, next day, scrolling through my FB page & saw that post. Did I take it to the heart? Nope! Why? They're there to troll here & there, I can take it. It gave me good giggle out of it, laugh it off and moved on. Btw if you don't mind, I wanna quote on one guy posted there (not gonna name it here). Stating "That moderator can't even english correctly." I wanna reply to that, "CUZ I DON'T SPEAK 'ENGLISH'! I SPEAK 'ENGRISH'!" rofl

Anyways, I don't wanna go off-topic too much, so if you still disagree with my post, plz pm me. I always get back any pm sent to me.

ichi