Corporate Sponsorship... a piece of cake [Archive]

Amanda M

29-09-2003, 16:49

sanddrag

29-09-2003, 19:11

We'd love to get a copy.

Circuit Breakers Team 696
c/o Clark Magnet High School
4747 New York Ave
La Crescenta, CA 91214

rees2001

29-09-2003, 19:14

I wouldn't mind seeing a copy, any info that can make our team better is info I want to see.

Jason Rees
Churchville-Chili HS
5786 Buffalo Road
Churchville, NY 14428

Or e-mail works jrees@cccsd.org

Yan Wang

29-09-2003, 19:24

Why don't you just post it in the white papers for everybody to see? Also saves you the work of having to email it individually.

Amanda M

29-09-2003, 19:46

I'm not going to be e-mailing it. We actually got a company (H&H Printers) to make us copies of it. They are bound and everything. I can't e-mail it at this time, because we do not have it digitalized.

Mandy

Rickertsen2

29-09-2003, 19:47

Send one my way!

James Rickertsen
3555 High Grove Way
Atlanta Ga, 30319

Kevin A

29-09-2003, 20:11

Eric Reed
De Anza High School
5000 Valley View Road
El Sobronte CA 94803

DougHogg

30-09-2003, 00:12

Hi,

We would like one:

Doug Hogg
2019 Beachwood Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90068

Thank you very much.

srjjs

30-09-2003, 00:52

That sounds very helpful. Our team can use all the fundraising tips it can get.

Larry Wang
120 Boothbay Ave
Foster City, CA, 94404

kpugh

30-09-2003, 13:51

A copy of that could be very helpful!!

Kristin Pugh
Syracuse Research Corporation
6225 Running Ridge Road
North Syracuse, NY 13212

Thanks!!!

Nathan Pell

30-09-2003, 14:10

Our Team would LOVE one!!

Please send it to

Nathan A. Pell
425 Sheoah Blvd #23
Winter Springs, FL 32708

computhief263

30-09-2003, 14:10

I'd love a copy.

Tom Bigelow Jr.
Sachem Robotics
28 St. joseph Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779

Thanks!

JP_1163

30-09-2003, 14:11

Please send a copy to:

Joel Price
Team 1163
Faulkton School District
1114 Court St
PO Box 308
Faulkton, SD
57438-0308

Thanks!

:)

Amanda M

30-09-2003, 16:43

Alright, I have sent out the first handbooks. here is a list of the teams that should recieve one. if your team is not on the list, just let me know and I will get one to you.

696
340
1139
481
980
840
549
74
820
345
771
1020
292
891
1083
263
1163
Eric Johnson's team (no number)

Hope that's helpful!

Mandy

Shawn60

30-09-2003, 18:15

Just to give you an idea of how effective it is...

I just received a message from a local company that we mailed out our initial contact letter to (8 days ago). The contact wanted to know who to make the check out to for the donation. We have never had contact with this company before. When one of our marketing students called her back the contact said the she made the check out to the KHS Robotics Team and it should be here in a few days.

I do not know how much the donation is for but one letter, and one phone call... How many candy bars or discount cards is that??

It really works and is very effective. We will be happy to help any of you with your corporate marketing plans.

Shawn Hardina
Advisor/Teacher
Team 60

sanddrag

30-09-2003, 19:11

Thanks a bunch. I'll keep my eyes on the mailbox.;)

mattf

30-09-2003, 20:58

Team 212 would love a copy :)

Lee Sage
1410 County Line Road
Miami, Florida 33179

Steve Yasick

02-10-2003, 15:45

We would love a copy. Thanks for the help.

Steve Yasick
Team 85 B.O.B.
3390 100th Ave.
Zeeland, MI 49464

Sachiel7

02-10-2003, 16:24

RAPTAR would like a copy

RAPTAR Robotics
8289 Jupiter Dr.
Mechanicsville, VA 23116

Thanks!

Greg Young

02-10-2003, 16:45

Team 587 could definitely use a copy. Help with fund-raising is always appreciated.

Greg Young
2214 Western Park Lane
Hillsborough, NC 27278

Thanks.

michael_obrien

02-10-2003, 17:51

Michael O'Brien
16465 Hilow rd
Los Gatos, CA 95032

thanks (team 972)

Amanda Morrison

03-10-2003, 17:00

Got mine today.

Thank you!

Cory

03-10-2003, 17:05

Team 100 would love a copy.

Cory McBride
514 Oak Park Way
Redwood City, CA 94062

Thanks,

Cory

K. Skontrianos

03-10-2003, 17:33

Since we just lost a sponsor, we could use one.

Kostas Skontrianos
398 E Main St
Somerville, NJ 08876-3123

NTJason

03-10-2003, 19:04

Team 820 would like one as well, if you don't mind sending it to Canada :D

NTCI Robotics
70 Roehampton Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M4P 1R2
Canada

Thanks!

Manoel

03-10-2003, 21:47

Originally posted by Amanda M
Alright, I have sent out the first handbooks. here is a list of the teams that should recieve one. if your team is not on the list, just let me know and I will get one to you.

(...)

Hope that's helpful!

Mandy

Hi,

Our team is missing on the list. I contacted you by e-mail, did you forget about us? ;)

Thanks again for the initiative,

Tytus Gerrish

03-10-2003, 21:51

This sounds great
We would Love one too

Bob Allison
7071 Garden Rd.
Riveria Beach, FL 33404

edomus

03-10-2003, 21:55

team 1218 would also love a copy

rees2001

03-10-2003, 23:11

Thank you
Just today we heard from 2 potential sponsors that they probably won't be ble to help us. Then, this afternoon I got the handbook. This gives me a few new ideas. I am going to spend the weekend working on this & try agin on Monday. You may have just helped save GRR 340. We aren't out of the woods yet, but at least now we have a Bionic Bulldog to help us.
Thanks Again
Jason Rees
Team 340 coach/advisor

Shawn60

03-10-2003, 23:21

Jason

Let me know if you need any input on how to use the manual. Maybe I can give you some in site on how to use each part.

Shawn
Teacher/Advisor

rees2001

04-10-2003, 21:36

With the Buzz that's comming to Rochester this next weekend I am going to be playing...err, working overtime this week. Ah, the definition of FIRST, when what should be work becomes play. The hampsters in my head are going a mile a minute. Your handbook has changed my direction, all these new ideas. Sometimes it's good to look at things from a different perspective.

Thanks again.

FotoPlasma

04-10-2003, 21:46

I would also like to request a copy.
Thanks in advance.

Jim Gold
1537 Shasta Ave.
San Jose, CA, 95126

Jeff Waegelin

04-10-2003, 21:59

I'm sure my team will want one, and given I'm the only one that watches all the forums here... I'll take it for them.

Jeff Waegelin
3621 Lewis House: Bursley Hall
1931 Duffield Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Ricky Q.

05-10-2003, 08:17

We'll take one

Ricky Quinones
Cooney Robotics/Team #269
641 E Forest St.
Oconomowoc, WI 53066

Ryan007

05-10-2003, 11:34

Great Idea! Team 007 would love to have a copy

Parkville FIRST Robotics
Parkville High School
2600 Putty Hill Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21234

Thanks!

Ryan Levin
Team President
Parkville FIRST Robotics

lpramo55

05-10-2003, 11:55

we've been lookin for bigger sponsors, thanks:D

Omar Ghani
1 Shelart St.
Plainview, NY 11803

Allison K

05-10-2003, 20:05

Allison Kneisler
5084 Kellogg Center
Albion College
Albion, MI 49224

We just got permission to start the team (number 1313) last week so we have a lot of work to do. Thanks:)

Ralph Lambert

06-10-2003, 16:39

I would like a copy of your manual.
Thanks

River City Robots
c/o Ralph Lambert
1368 Village View Ct
St. Paul, MO 63366-4623

JP_1163

06-10-2003, 17:04

Thanks for the book it arrived today.

Team 1163

Amanda B.

06-10-2003, 18:21

If you have anymore copies or are still willing to send some out, our team would love to have one.

Thanks, Amanda Bedsaul
B397
1219 Broad Street
Durham, NC 27705

Team 900

BBFIRSTCHICK

06-10-2003, 21:24

hey if you can send me a copy... thanks!!

-adriana bermudez
19701 sw 99ct
miami fl 33157

srjjs

06-10-2003, 21:41

I just received it today, and it looks great. Thank you very much for the support, it came just in time for our annual presentation to our main sponsor, too.

Erin Rapacki

06-10-2003, 22:17

125 Would love to have one!

Erin Rapacki
10 Leon St. BOX #6209
Boston, MA 02115

Thanks!

shyra1353

07-10-2003, 10:46

Our team would love a copy as we are a rookie team, and find out our official team number today. So could you please send a copy to me, if you do not mind mailing it out to Canada:

Shyra Khosla
37 Indian Valley Trail
Mississauga, Ontario
L5G 2K3
CANADA

Also, thank you very much for doing this, I am sure that this will be beneficial to everyone....
-shyra

Amanda M

07-10-2003, 13:39

Hey everyone! I have all of the names up to this point put on a list and they should be mailed shortly.

to team 383. I believe that I mailed you a copy, but I checked my records and I had you under a different team number. You will recieve one. Let me know if I really missed you.

Thanks!

Amanda

kpugh

07-10-2003, 13:42

We got ours!! Thank you!!!!!

Hinkel Y.

08-10-2003, 21:44

Amanda M. could you post up all the teams that you're gonna send or sent the booklet to? We don't wanna repeat ourselves and send out two for the same team... THANX!

Gadget470

09-10-2003, 00:08

I'd love to take a look and distribute it [crediting you] to any team I work with this season.

Brandon Joerges
Alpha Omega Robotics
2657 Oakshire
Berkley, MI 48072

Shawn60

09-10-2003, 19:03

Here is a list of teams/people that we have sent or are in the process of sending a marketing manual to:

696 840 549 74 820 383 Eric Johnson
340 771 1020 292 891 1083 263
1139 1163 188 973 384 56 116
481 365 151 710 246 Robert Acosta
980 Ashish Bhumbla 85 1132 587
972 1097 Ken Leung 38 Neil Dantum
Cheryl Miller 250 1011 258 871 217
1151 284 34 212 100 102 179
Jim Gold 201 269 007 353 1313
1094 900 1077 125

We are currently working on getting it made into a pdf file so it can be downloaded. Thanks for your patience. We will get them out as fast as we can. We are waiting on the printers. Any other questions just ask... We are happy to help.

Thanks
Shawn
Teacher/Advisor

generalbrando

12-10-2003, 19:30

Got mine today. Thanks! It's really great - you guys did an awesome job on it.

Sachiel7

12-10-2003, 19:43

Hey thanks a whole lot guys!
We just got word that a new potential sponsor wants us to give them a presentation. This year for us is a big deal when it comes to sponsorship, because all the grants in our area are gone. Most of our major sponsors from last year had a fund that ran out, and our bucket's gettin' dry...
But, not to worry :)
Thanks for the excellent book! I believe it will give us the edge we need to secure our sponsorships!

Ellery

12-10-2003, 20:07

Amanda, If you need help converting it to PDF send me the hardcopy and I can convert it to any format you want.

Ellery Wong - Team#191 X-CATS
XEROX Corporation
800 Phillips Road
111-20N
Webster, NY 14580

I'd love to get a copy to help distribute it for your team as well. You can't get enough of a good thing ya know!

Ellery
Team Leader

Dan 550

12-10-2003, 23:29

Team 550 could really use this paper, as we just lost two sponsors and are having issues finding another. Please mail it to my address. Thanks in advance, Mandy.

Dan Richards
114 Fifth Street
Hackettstown, NJ 07840-1451

Matthew_H

13-10-2003, 11:17

Love to have one.

Matthew Hillis
1275 Jordan rd
Building A
Huntsville, Al 35811

indieFan

13-10-2003, 11:38

599 and 1070 would appreciate receiving one to share.

M. Hager
P.O. Box 2413
Reseda, CA 91337

Let me know if you're shipping in a manner other than USPS. That way I can get you a deliverable address.

Thanks,
indieFan

Amanda M

13-10-2003, 13:51

I'm glad to see all of the positive feedback from everyone. Thank you so much for your interest. To complete the list Shawn posted above, the following will also be recieving a manual shortly:

Dan Richards, Matthew Hillis, M. Hager, Chris Grimes, William Thornbury, Team 237, Ellery Wong/191, Brandon Joerges.

Be looking for them!

Mandy

Ken Delaney

13-10-2003, 14:33

I would appreciate a copy.

Ken Delaney
Upper Darby High School
601 N.Lansdowne Ave.
Drexel Hill, PA 19026

Dan 550

13-10-2003, 16:08

Originally posted by Amanda M
I'm glad to see all of the positive feedback from everyone. Thank you so much for your interest. To complete the list Shawn posted above, the following will also be recieving a manual shortly:

Dan Richards, Matthew Hillis, M. Hager, Chris Grimes, William Thornbury, Team 237, Ellery Wong/191, Brandon Joerges.

Be looking for them!

Mandy

Thank you Mandy! I look forward to recieving it to share with Team 550.

Rickertsen2

13-10-2003, 16:49

Thnaks! Helpful Stuff!

Specialagentjim

13-10-2003, 17:09

Hey, this sounds great. I'd love to get a look at it for team 108.

6362 NW 80th Terrace
Parkland, Florida
33067

Thanks!

link871

15-10-2003, 10:40

Team 871 would love to recieve one. please send asap

Jill Calderone
101 McCall Ave.
West Islip N.Y. 11795

thanks for your help!

Joe Matt

15-10-2003, 10:49

We got our copy, but I/we haven't looked at it yet.

RogerR

15-10-2003, 11:09

this'll pro'lly help out my new team....

Roger Riquelme
4200 Fletcher Ave., Box 816
Tampa, FL 33613

Ralph Lambert

15-10-2003, 12:47

Just got our copy - Thanks Very Much

Cory

15-10-2003, 18:53

We got ours yesterday. Thanks a lot, its great!!!!

Cory

FotoPlasma

15-10-2003, 20:59

We got ours, too!

Very awesome of you. Thank you much.

Jeff Waegelin

15-10-2003, 21:03

Picked up ours today. Thanks!

dez250

15-10-2003, 21:11

got mine yesterday, it looks great, found a few small spelling errors, but thats expected, were all humans. Going to bring to my team meeting tomorrow, thanks allot Mandy!
~Mike

Amanda M

16-10-2003, 13:37

Here is the next list of people I have mailed it to!

Greg Kilpatrick, Diane Carson, Luis Gutierrez, Kenton Swartley, Roger Riquelme, team 108, and Jill Calderone.

Thanks,

Mandy

MissDaisyGirl

16-10-2003, 15:09

I e-mailed you for a copy. Thanks for your generosity! ;)

Allison K

16-10-2003, 19:04

I just got it. Thanks. I already have ideas.

Allison

Jean McAuliffe

16-10-2003, 19:47

I also e-mailed a request to you - Team 1157. Thanks for doing this!

Chris Masten

17-10-2003, 01:10

If you are still mailing them out, team 668 Pioneer HS would love to have one.

Michael Masten
2434 Lansford Ave.
San Jose, Ca. 95125

Thanks

Amanda M

17-10-2003, 13:45

Alright, I hate to do this, but we have reached the end of our supply. We gave out about 100.

However, there is a solution coming, thanks to Ken Krieger, it is going to be put into a .pdf file and we'll be able to post it on our website and email it.

I will let you know as soon as it is finished, and as soon as I have time (right now I am at school) I will post a completel list of people that should be getting one.

Thanks for your interest!

Mandy

Chris Masten

17-10-2003, 22:41

Mandy,

Thanks for the reply. I know that this has been a big effort on your team's part and I want to thank you for the effort that you have put out to support First!

I look forward to the pdf version when available.

Thanks,

Chris Masten
team 668

Gadget470

18-10-2003, 20:43

Got mine in the mail today, thanks a ton. It looks great.

(I did see one typographical error that really stood out at me. You'd probably want to correct it before mass-producing these and sending to companies [For Kingman that is, others should be making their own anyway].. If you want to know where, PM me).

Robb Gerber

18-10-2003, 21:13

wow...sounds impressive..

we'd love to have a copy.
Please send me one as soon as possible.

mail to:
Rob Gerber, Team 783 Team Leader
Mowat C.I.
5400 Lawrence Ave.
Toronto, Ont
Canada
M1C 2C6

many thx!

Stephanie

18-10-2003, 21:36

mandy
wanted to let you know i recieved 258's copy in the mail a couple of days ago. thanks so much!
i will be emailing you soon for clarification on a couple of points.
this is what FIRST is all about :)
stephanie

Amanda M

19-10-2003, 02:00

Originally posted by Gadget470
Got mine in the mail today, thanks a ton. It looks great.

(I did see one typographical error that really stood out at me. You'd probably want to correct it before mass-producing these and sending to companies [For Kingman that is, others should be making their own anyway].. If you want to know where, PM me).

I know there are a lot of errors. But we don't use this manual to send to companies. The only part our sponsors see is the Power Point (which, believe me, has been thoroughly edited again and again since this was sent out). This manual is used specifically to train the marketing team, and to teach our marketing vision. Our sponsors don't even know the existence of such a book.

Thank you, though, and if you could PM me to tell me anyway, I would appreciate it!

Mandy

Winged Globe

19-10-2003, 02:19

Team 1151 got ours a few days ago. It's very nice and being put to good use. Thanks a bunch!

charlie_grr

20-10-2003, 02:03

I agree. We got our packet a few weeks ago and trust me, it's goign to be put into some very good use. Thanks a bundle to you guys for sharing the skills on getting a serious sponsorships.

Ricky Q.

20-10-2003, 13:57

We got ours! Thanks!

Redhead Jokes

20-10-2003, 14:42

Originally posted by Amanda M
Recently I have been getting e-mails about our team's marketing manual. It is about twenty pages long, and it gives a very detailed description of how we market ourselves to our corporate sponsors, other teams in our school, other teams in FIRST, etc.

Love the manual. Awesome job! Gave me inspiration in more ways than one.

When I realized you paid shipping charges, and weren't asking for payment, I realized I could send the someone on Delphi something without asking for payment and asked him to "pay it forward".

Thanks again.

Kautz

20-10-2003, 20:25

Please sent a copy of the manual.

Thanks
Team 1008

William Kautz
4405 Scenic Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43214

djcapelis

20-10-2003, 22:35

How're the PDFs comming along? I missed the printed batch... :(

Amanda M

22-10-2003, 01:01

I have no idea as to the progression of the pdf. Hopefully it will be done soon.

If any of you have any questions to ask (I have been getting e-mails about our manual) feel free to post them here and I will do my best to help you.

Mandy

Ravi U

23-10-2003, 16:09

Team 820 in Canada has received the hand book. Thank you!

RogerR

23-10-2003, 16:13

recieved mine yesterday.
thanks!!

Argoth

23-10-2003, 18:40

oh oh oh oh boy oh boy oh boy could i get a copy of that PLEASE happy joy!!!!

Morgan Page
7203 Shoshone Dr.
Baytown, TX 77521

I am from team 1255(a rookie team) we would really appreciate a book

djcapelis

23-10-2003, 22:02

Read above, they're out unless I'm mistaken...

Shawn60

23-10-2003, 22:37

We are working on the PDF we hope it will be done in a week or so. Check back to find out where to download it

shawn

Argoth

23-10-2003, 22:42

oh oh oh oh boy oh boy oh boy could i get a copy of that PLEASE happy joy!!!!

I am from team 1255(a rookie team) we would really appreciate a book

Gadget470

24-10-2003, 15:45

Please read responses to your post before posting again, Argoth.

They do not have any more to send via Postal Mail to you. They will be putting up an Internet Download of the book soon.

shyra1353

25-10-2003, 01:58

just got mine today in the mail today ... thank you so much ... have scanned through it and it seems to be very helpful

Shawn60

29-10-2003, 23:26

We are currently working on the pdf version. For those of you who received the manual already any feedback that you could give would be greatly appreciated (other than typos and such).
This was our first attempt and we want to make the next second version even better. Give the good and the not so good.

Thanks
Shawn
Teacher-Advisor

Ricky Q.

31-10-2003, 09:35

I think just having this book in our possesion makes people want to sponsor us, :p We have started looking at it but really haven't integrated any of the handbook into our current approach, but the money is coming in faster than ever this year, our running total since last week is: $12,561.40 Keep it coming! :D

shyra1353

13-11-2003, 15:23

any update on the pdf file??

Amanda M

13-11-2003, 15:53

The pdf file is almost ready. We are having one of our adult members edit it and make it ready for final publication.

We hope to have it available within a week!

Thank you,
Mandy

Dan 550

14-11-2003, 14:25

I got the paper in the mail last week, very nice. Thanks again, Mandy!

ErichKeane

15-11-2003, 08:31

Team 219 would adore a copy of this (either emailed or snailed)

just send it to me if you have the time, and thanks in advance.

Erich.Keane@verizon.net
Erich Keane
25 St andrews Dr
washington, NJ 07882

THanks Again!

Shawn60

15-11-2003, 23:03

The pdf files are in the white pages. They are in 4 sections: Large Businesses, Small Businesses, Power Point, and the Arizona Tax Credit System. If you have any questions please post here. If you have any positive comments please post here also. Any suggestions on how we can make it better let us
know. I hope this helps.

They are in the white pages under Team Organization

Shawn
Teacher/Advisor
Team 60

Pat Fairbank

15-11-2003, 23:33

Thanks so much for sharing this with the FIRST community, and for taking the time to convert it to pdf. It's a great resource, and I tell you that it will come in handy for us, since we lost one of our sponsors this year.

LD8

10-12-2003, 19:04

thatd be awesome if you could send one our way.

Young Bui (team 599)
18739 Lassen St.
Northridge, CA 91324

thanks again

Leon Machado IV

10-12-2003, 20:01

If someone could email me, I'd love to look over it. lmachadoiv@inspirationinc.org . Thanks.

djcapelis

15-12-2003, 14:56

Alright, allow me to reiterate what amanda and others have said for those who appearently missed the thread.

There are no more hard copies available, the PDFs are available in the papers section on this site just go get them.

Amanda M

16-12-2003, 00:14

yes, thanks for that. Like it says above, the pdf files are available, and we are currently working on making them better. Sorry about not having more..
Mandy

Leon Machado IV

16-12-2003, 11:05

Is there anywhere else we can get the pdf as the papers section of this site is down for the time being. Thanks.

Amanda M

16-12-2003, 12:35

Er... yeah.. sorry bout that. I will talk to our webmaster about posting them on the team 60 website. Check it out! They will be there soon, I'll keep you posted.

mandy

djcapelis

16-12-2003, 14:09

If you have trouble with getting them on your website let me know, I may be able to put them elsewhere, I have access to webspace if needed...

shyra1353

17-12-2003, 13:58

i have the files downloaded on my computer at home .. so if you are in a desperate need for them you can contact me and i can send them to you ...

Amanda M

17-12-2003, 17:49

Thanks a lot guys for your efforts to help. Fortunately, we have webspace and the files, It's just a matter of getting out webmaster to actually post stuff. I'll get him to do it ASAP!

Shawn60

19-11-2004, 22:09

I know this link is a little old but we could use your help. We are trying to find out if our team's manual has been effective or not. We are making a report to our school district and sponsors and feedback on the success of the manual would be helpful. If anyone has had success using the ideas from the manual would you please post the success stories here or e-mail me so we can put them in our report. My e-mail is shardina@team60.com

Thanks for the feed back.

Shawn
Team 60

lilirose

08-01-2005, 19:16

We could use all the help we can get. This year our sponsors are gone. We need to raise all the funds we can.

Thank you in advance for your help.
Cyria Mysliwiec
Schuylkill Technology Center North
101 Technology Drive
Frackville, PA 17931
Team 651

sabrina752

10-01-2005, 00:26

half geek

10-01-2005, 00:37

BCR/ Team 294
1417 12th Street #6
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

This thread has been out there for a while, but I have not seen it before. Thanks for the information, it sounds like it should help tremendously!

Bharat Nain

10-01-2005, 00:38

Hey, I was wondering if you still have copies... If so, Team 752 will love to have a copy! I think it's awesome that you're willing to share, and seeing as how my team is not doing so good with figuring out how to get sponsors, I'm def. interested! Again, thank you. :)

Address:
Team 752 c/o Brian Holton
40 Rector Street
Newark, NJ
07102

http://www.team60.com/?page=resources
Download it off there. Your team is located in NJ, contact our team(25) if you really need help either with sponsorship or robot building, we might be of some help.

Thanks a million Team 60 for sharing such a valuable document. This is one of the most important documents which will help keep FIRST teams alive(atleast financially)

Crash&Burn

07-02-2005, 15:06

GEE... my team has some problems raising money... what can i say... *sigh* boys...

Send it to my teacher

Mr. Martin Rothwell (Academy)
Chantilly High School
4201 Stringfellow Rd.
Chantilly, Virginia 20151

Michele_980

11-02-2005, 01:51

Recently I have been getting e-mails about our team's marketing manual. It is about twenty pages long, and it gives a very detailed description of how we market ourselves to our corporate sponsors, other teams in our school, other teams in FIRST, etc.

So far I have recieved very positive feedback on the handbook, and if anyone is interested in recieving a copy, please post your school address, or a personal address of a member of your team (if you don't want anyone to know where you live, e-mail me at mandy@team60.com and it'll be confidential) and I will send you a copy.

Also, we offer mentorship (both financial and technical) for teams that would like help.

Thanks,
Mandy
Team 60 Marketing Director

Hi Amanda,

I'm from Team 980. I don't know you personally, but I know Team 60 are our good Buds! I would like to have your marketing manual, as I'm working on getting corporate sponsorship for our team. I've put out a number of proposals in a "cold-call" sort of way, but am wondering how much a personal contact in the company has to do with success. In other words, did you guys know someone personally in the company who helped you get the Ford sponsorship of last year or the year before, or any other large corporate sponsorship you've had in the past? What is the largest amount you've received in one year from one sponsor? Did you ever get a major corporate sponsor from a cold-call kind of approach, where you didn't know anyone and you just sent a proposal out of the blue?

I'd also like to hear from other teams who've gotten major corporate sponsorship. Can you give me some answers to my questions above and any other information about your successful actions in getting your major (about 15K or more) sponsor?

In the meantime, Mandy, I would really appreciate your materials. Possibly you already gave a manual to Doug Hogg or Gary Hedge, but I would appreciate my own copy as I'm working on sending proposals daily and I'd like to see what you've done as soon as possible. Let me know if you'd like some reimbursement for mailing cost. Send to: Michele Kirkland
Shuttleworth Academy
1334 L. Ron Hubbard Way
Los Angeles, CA 90029

Thanks so much!
Hope you guys will come to the Chatsworth Scrimmage!

Best, Michele

Michele_980

11-02-2005, 02:09

Er... yeah.. sorry bout that. I will talk to our webmaster about posting them on the team 60 website. Check it out! They will be there soon, I'll keep you posted.

mandy

Hello again,
I'm new to Chief Delphi and I didn't read the entire thread before sending you an e-mail moments ago, asking for a copy of your manual. I then noticed the date and also saw that you'd run out and that it was on your website... yada, yada, yada. So I've just downloaded it from your website. Thank you.

I'm still interested in hearing from you and anyone else:
1) What role prior personal association had to do with successfully gaining a major sponsorship (if it did)?
2) What has been the largest sponsorship in one year from one sponsor?
3) Any other successful actions in procuring major sponsorship. (When I say "major", I'm thinking about 15K or more).

Thanks again for the manual.

Michele

Cauê

03-03-2005, 11:09

We are students from Liberato Team #1603 (Brazil), a public institution that is participating of First Robotics Competition.

Despite of difficulties with the conclusion of the project, we did it!
Our Robot is ready rock. It was very hard to construct the robot, inspite of, we had just one teacher helping us, and the FIRST kit of parts came 3 weeks later.

Last week, we come across a huge problem: we have no resources to travel to U.S.. It puts all our knowledge and hard work in slite edge.

We have enough money to send just one single student! If we keep going this way, we will not participate of the FIRST spirit, taking our hands off the oportunity to trade knowledge and experience with other team members.

Every help is usefull.

greetings

Liberato Team #1603

Koji Suzuki

Yuri Reichert

E-mail: first@liberato.com.br

Michele_980

09-03-2005, 10:39

Greetings Liberato!

Do not give up; all things are possible when you are a FIRST robotics team! You've done a great job so far. Please tell me when and where your regional is to be.

Visit every business owner in your area and show them photos of what you do and get them to help sponsor you. Also have the students write their successes and what they gotten out of being on the robotics team. Show the most inspiring successes to the business owner.

Our team will try to help. We are checking into some possibilities, but do not wait. Take action. We're not sure what we will be able to do. I need to know when and where your regional competition is.

Best wishes,
Michele