My Adventures in Obtaining Sponsorship for my Chevelle – And How You Can Try It Too!
Published: Thu, 05/22/14
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May 22, 2014 |
 It Takes a Village To Build a Chevelle
Well, at long last, I'm finally back in New Mexico with my pal Jeff Allison, Owner of Allison Customs, and builder of my Chevelle. We're working the week together to button everything up on the Chevelle that wasn't completed for SEMA, and by Memorial Day 2014 I'll have the car back home in Iowa. I flew down yesterday, and my great high school buddy Aaron is driving down this weekend to help me load up the trailer and we'll bring her home.I can tell you with 100% certainty, without sponsorship of labor from shops and from nearly every part and component company I obtained parts from, The Chevelle Build wouldn't have had a prayer of happening financially. The reality is that because of all of that we were able to build a 6-figure car on a 5-figure budget. When the dust had settled, there were over 20 full or partial sponsorships that came into play, and I'm proud to say that every one of them were my first choice to work with. What I wasn't counting on was that working with sponsors would have far more value than just getting a deal from them - it would put me in a position to have long term, friendly, and profitable relationships with sponsors for years to come
So why am I sharing this all with you? Well, at the conclusion of my experience of debuting the car at SEMA I was approached by others to learn how I went about doing it, and I realized that the system I had created was fairly generic in nature. I decided to create a simple course to teach others how to do what I'd done that would allow them to leap frog my mistakes. I'm calling the course "Sponsorship Fastlane ", and I'll be previewing it on Thursday May 29 at 1PM EDT in a free online webinar! In this course I'm going to layout the approach and tactics that I took to this whole process, show the system I used time and time again to gain each sponsor, really give the shortcut to teaching something that I put nearly 3 years of my life figuring it out. If you're a shop or individual car builder (or even an aspiring racer), I think this will bring you a lot of value. I'm potentially going to do a few more of the free webinars during the first week of June as well, but right now the only scheduled date is May 29. While I will rebroadcast the webinar for one day after it' happened live, I'll be making something special available only for people that are on the live event. I hope that you'll be able to attend! Sign up via SponsorshipFastlane.com
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