Did you try to get your money back? If you have a credit card receipt and your account is gone, and they won't give you your money back, isn't that theft?Originally posted by HGR Frucci
Sent $50, account created, resume posted to foes, didn't get a response (either + or -), account got reset, couldn't even log back on, lost $50...
That's my opinion.
I have access to broform and other sponsorship accounts which have personally provided me with better service than sponsor house. You're experience has obviously been better than mine.
Originally posted by HGR Frucci
Sent $50, account created, resume posted to foes, didn't get a response (either + or -), account got reset, couldn't even log back on, lost $50...
That's my experience.
Save your $50. That's my opinion.
I have access to broform and other sponsorship accounts which have personally provided me with better service than sponsor house did.
You're experience has obviously been better than mine, so this guy can judge for himself if sponsor house can meet his needs.
Bibbs -Who uses Sponsorhouse.com in here? Know anyone that does? Have any feedback?
Originally posted by HGR Frucci
The only reason I went through SH was to try to work a deal with Foes, since it was the only way to work with them.
Never pursued getting my money back, and nothing else on sponsor house (at that time) interested me, or was as good a deal as what I was already getting. So that's my lack of responsibility in pursuing a refund.
Ended up I got hooked up with Santa Cruz and am very happy with the outcome.
My thought is, if you REALLY want a Foes or IH and this is the only way to get a deal, then do it and take your chances. I didn't think there was anything else really worth pursuing at that time, to try and recoup my $50.
I considered it a $50 lesson learned. In most cases, I think a well written proposal and solid results will get you further for a just few bucks in postage.
ok, fair enoughOriginally posted by HGR Frucci
Bibbs -
You had a different experience that was more positive then mine.
If I wanted to bash them I would have said "SH F#$@ING SUCKS!!!"
The guy wants feedback. That's what I gave based on my experience. End of story.
I worked on a proposal with my girlfriend. I worked on the "business" end b/c I worked in a shop for many years, and she is the racer. It ended up being a lot longer than it need to/should have been at 10 pages. But it looked VERY good. Pictures of her were used as a background to every page. I would say that took a good 6+ hours. Probably a lot more. While I was working on the graphics, she would be doing text. Then she'd email it to me and I'd put it in, so the time is a little hard to estimate.Originally posted by casagrande
How many of you have written a nice proposal, sent it out, and got no response?
How much did the proposal cost you? Paper,supplies, postage, etc.?
Thanks.
This is a very professional approach (and well thought out). I highly doubt that you could get the same results relying on a third party (SH, or whomever else offers that type of service). So while it may be cheaper and maybe less of a headache, I would expect less results than what you achieved. I'm a team mate of HGR Frucci, so well aware of our lack of success with SH and would reiterate - save your $50 and do something more along the lines of what you did last year and you should get great results. Our approach (after SH didn't work out) was like yours and we couldn't be happier with the support we're getting now.Originally posted by Repack
I worked on a proposal with my girlfriend. I worked on the "business" end b/c I worked in a shop for many years, and she is the racer. It ended up being a lot longer than it need to/should have been at 10 pages. But it looked VERY good. Pictures of her were used as a background to every page. I would say that took a good 6+ hours. Probably a lot more. While I was working on the graphics, she would be doing text. Then she'd email it to me and I'd put it in, so the time is a little hard to estimate.
Printing was another long process. She ended up with a list of ~40 companies to send stuff to. Each cover letter had to be adjusted to the respective co's name. Sometimes it was just the name of the company, other times we had to change a couple of sentences when the co's were different enough. We did all that at my dad's office b/c he has a color laser printer. The thing was SLOW, but the quality was what we needed. I would say that it took ~4 hours to customize and print all the proposals, maybe more time.
Then we put all of the presentations into slipcovers. That didn't take very long, and we bought a 50 pacl of covers at Office Depot (I think Staples is better quality) for ~$11.
I forget what the manilla mailing envelopes cost us.
I believe that the postage was $1.06 (1st class, less than 4oz.) per proposal.
Then, once you get some offers, you have to worry about how to represent them. That usually means jersies. For a small team (1 or just a few riders), I think your best jersey bet is to get a plain off-the-shelf jersey and see which companies sell patches. Not the best solution, but it is the cheapest and will look better than monchromatic silkscreening.
So yeah, its a hell of a lot of work.
Was it worth it? I would say yes, but I don't want to go through it again. We learned a TON of good stuff.
You can add it up!
About the same price both ways.Originally posted by casagrande
How many of you have written a nice proposal, sent it out, and got no response?
How much did the proposal cost you? Paper,supplies, postage, etc.?
Thanks.
For $50 a year you could set up your own website, including hosting, and then do whatever you want with it....Originally posted by casagrande
For $50 a year, having a updateable resume for results, images, and Bio Information, is a steal.
You can also print the resume straight off of SH.
It's a great way to keep your information current and fresh.
Thanks for the Feedback.
If you're good enough to be getting free products from sponsors, at least higher priced items, you don't need SH to make it happen. Most sponsorship deals for amatures and semi-pros generally mean discounted products, support, etc...Originally posted by casagrande
With your sponsors that you have, do you pay for the product?
Do you spend more than $50 a year on product?