Corporate Sponsorship... a piece of cake
 

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

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

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

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.

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

Send one my way!

James Rickertsen
3555 High Grove Way
Atlanta Ga, 30319

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

Hi,

We would like one:

Doug Hogg
2019 Beachwood Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90068

Thank you very much.

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

Larry Wang
120 Boothbay Ave
Foster City, CA, 94404

A copy of that could be very helpful!!

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

Thanks!!!

Interest
 

Our Team would LOVE one!!

Please send it to

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

I'd love a copy.

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

Thanks!

Please send a copy to:

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


Thanks!

:)

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

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

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

Team 212 would love a copy :)

Lee Sage
1410 County Line Road
Miami, Florida 33179

We would love a copy. Thanks for the help.

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

RAPTAR would like a copy

RAPTAR Robotics
8289 Jupiter Dr.
Mechanicsville, VA 23116

Thanks!

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 O'Brien
16465 Hilow rd
Los Gatos, CA 95032

thanks (team 972)

Got mine today.

Thank you!

Team 100 would love a copy.

Cory McBride
514 Oak Park Way
Redwood City, CA 94062

Thanks,

Cory

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

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

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!

Hi,

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

Thanks again for the initiative,

This sounds great
We would Love one too


Bob Allison
7071 Garden Rd.
Riveria Beach, FL 33404

team 1218 would also love a copy

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

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

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.

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

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

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

We'll take one

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

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

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

Omar Ghani
1 Shelart St.
Plainview, NY 11803

Send one my way
 

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:)

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

Thanks for the book it arrived today.

Team 1163

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

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

-adriana bermudez
19701 sw 99ct
miami fl 33157

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.

125 Would love to have one!

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


Thanks!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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!

PDF Conversion
 

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

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

Love to have one.


Matthew Hillis
1275 Jordan rd
Building A
Huntsville, Al 35811

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

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

I would appreciate a copy.

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

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

Thnaks! Helpful Stuff!

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


6362 NW 80th Terrace
Parkland, Florida
33067

Thanks!

interested!
 

Team 871 would love to recieve one. please send asap

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

thanks for your help!

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

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

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

Just got our copy - Thanks Very Much

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

Cory

We got ours, too!

Very awesome of you. Thank you much.

Picked up ours today. Thanks!

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

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

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

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

Allison

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

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

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

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

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).

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!

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

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

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

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.

We got ours! Thanks!

Re: Corporate Sponsorship... a piece of cake
 

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.

Please sent a copy of the manual.


Thanks
Team 1008

William Kautz
4405 Scenic Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43214

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

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

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

recieved mine yesterday.
thanks!!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

any update on the pdf file??

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

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

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!