Ballroom Sponsorship

As far as I remember, Larinda is sponsored by Freed.

Twilight Elena

nope don't have that....

I almost have a sponsor

I buy dancing shoes for the price my retailer give for them. And I wear their T-shirt with their logotype when I take classes. Sometimes I get shoes for free. Last month I got 3 pairs :lol:
(must be prepared for the salsacongress next week)

I think that this type of sponsoring is quite easy to fix. Wear their logotype and buy their stuff very very cheap.

/Luc

But how did you go about doing that though? I mean did you have to talk with them or how did you work that out?

You have a great dress sponsor? How did you go about this?

That's the hard thing....

First of all ...I'm not any great dancer. I do not compete. I do not show off in front of a lot of people. I am no "commercial advertisment" at all

In my case I was first a customer. I knew a lot about shoes that the shop owner didn't knew (I have some problems with legs and feet). She knew things I didn't know. I helped her....she helped me...I helped her...she helped me until we had some kind of mutual exchange of "service & knowledge".

I have given her a some ideas of to develop her business. I have told her about the salsaevents where she can sell shoes. I have given her contacts that might help her grow her business.

When I told her that I wanted to start up dancing at a new school she said " I pay the bill if you wear my T-shirt". When I wanted to pay the shoes I already had been using for a month she said I already paid them.

I guess we became friends....we always have fun together And we have the same core values about building relations and business. It worked so well that I almost wasgetting a full time work at her shop but things changed...

I guess we made some kind of "winn-winn" arrangement.

Cant you get any ideas yourself how you can promote your sponsors and make a "winn winn agreement"?
It might take some while before you can pursuade any one to help you. But you have to start to build good relations with those people who might help you. Prove they can count on you. Prove you have something to give!


/Luc

Larinda became a US Champion.... and see, that's all you have to do...

Whoops. Yeah, right, I remembered seeing your picture in some major site and thought it was Freed's site. My bad.

Twilight Elena

Thanks everyone! The funny thing is that now that I'm older I do have a lot of friends that have started their own businesses etc., but of course they aren't really things that I'm interested in lol. However, I do have one friend that owns an accessory shop for women. You know the kind that sells scarves and necklaces etc. My sister works there. I could get some cool dance accessories from there now that I think about it like hair things etc. But I may have to figure out the rest! Thanks for the advice everyone, and if you can think of anything else please let me know!

If someone were to pay me so that I can take more lessons and classes I'd go naked and body paint myself in their name/logo.

I guess the trick is to get really really really good well known first.

either that, or have a body like Demi Moore

I'm one of the few people that don't think Demi is all that. I never thought that she was pretty even back in the day. But that's just me though lol.

That's very true! I guess that's why Paris Hilton is still strong lol. Maybe she's onto something lol.

Same.

Paris is anorexic, blonde and has done amateur porn. Yup, target audience works.

T_E

It's like what the one poster said, it doesn't matter what we think of them, it's what the target audience likes!