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FED 387 · 01-27-2011, 11:41 AM

Lucas has been MORE than generous when it comes to sponsoring drag racing as well as other forms of motorsports and Sports (stick & ball) in general I personally do not think that we should continually be asking them for more money everytime we need something funded!!! one of these days "You're gonna kill the golden goose" if you keep approaching them !! I cannot think of an individual company right off hand that might be interested in doing something like this but a lot of it is gonna hinge on HOW MUCH MONEY is it gonna cost them ??
Hell ya could have the "Liquid Plumber" series or the "Kleenex" or what ever- there are lots of companies out there that have money to spend for advertising ya just hafta find one that thinks the ROI is worth it.
--Part of the problem is that both HRA'S are continually looking for sponsors to fund the National series and they usually then try to steer that money away from the sportsman to the pro's
---We had a national sandwich chain several years ago that we approached and eventually got money from based on the following numbers---25 cents per day x the number of stores they had for 365 days--that was less than $100 per year--when we explained to them it was less than the cost of ONE tomato that they were probably throwing away or one bun EVERYDAY they then thought OK---I guarantee ya if we had gone in and asked them for $30-50,000 they would of thrown us out the door but when ya put it in perspective to them it was nothing!!! it was a totally insignificant amount of money but when ya added it up over the course of a year it ended up being quite a large chunk of money as far as we were concerned--they got the exposure they needed and everybody was happy--its out there ya just gotta search for it----How much money are we talking about here $1000, 10,000, 100,000???---- FED387

01-27-2011, 11:41 AM	#56
FED 387 VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,423 Likes: 541 Liked 333 Times in 180 Posts	Re: How would you SAVE CLASS RACING ??? Lucas has been MORE than generous when it comes to sponsoring drag racing as well as other forms of motorsports and Sports (stick & ball) in general I personally do not think that we should continually be asking them for more money everytime we need something funded!!! one of these days "You're gonna kill the golden goose" if you keep approaching them !! I cannot think of an individual company right off hand that might be interested in doing something like this but a lot of it is gonna hinge on HOW MUCH MONEY is it gonna cost them ?? Hell ya could have the "Liquid Plumber" series or the "Kleenex" or what ever- there are lots of companies out there that have money to spend for advertising ya just hafta find one that thinks the ROI is worth it. --Part of the problem is that both HRA'S are continually looking for sponsors to fund the National series and they usually then try to steer that money away from the sportsman to the pro's ---We had a national sandwich chain several years ago that we approached and eventually got money from based on the following numbers---25 cents per day x the number of stores they had for 365 days--that was less than $100 per year--when we explained to them it was less than the cost of ONE tomato that they were probably throwing away or one bun EVERYDAY they then thought OK---I guarantee ya if we had gone in and asked them for $30-50,000 they would of thrown us out the door but when ya put it in perspective to them it was nothing!!! it was a totally insignificant amount of money but when ya added it up over the course of a year it ended up being quite a large chunk of money as far as we were concerned--they got the exposure they needed and everybody was happy--its out there ya just gotta search for it----How much money are we talking about here $1000, 10,000, 100,000???---- FED387