Saturday, November 28, 2009

Sponsorship

Sponsorship- a widely used word in this industry right? But what does it really mean for a sponsor and to a consumer. Everyone is looking for a free handout, but who's really willing to put in the actual work to make sponsorship worth it. We recently posted a listing on pbnation announcing that we were accepting sponsorship requests, as usual we got bombarded. It's great to weed through these because half of the people compile a request in 2-3 minutes, another 10 percent don't fill it out a request right or spell everything right for that matter! SPELLCHECK! The other 30-35 percent are teams that have played 1 or 2 events and are asking for free stuff.

That being said you have about 5-10 percent of all sponsorship emails that are even worth reading through or considering. I just recently read a post similar to this from another clothing company friend in a different industry doing band sponsorships. He made some great points, people wanting to get sponsored say they will offer "exposure" by wearing your stuff. This isn't Nascar, we've had people wear our stuff on TV and our clothing has been "exposed" to millions, and did that really generate a single sale? Who knows maybe, maybe not, most likely not. That being said if your looking to get sponsored lay it out and see if you can offer the company anything that will PROFIT them, they are in business after all. Then ask the question if you were running a company would you sponsor someone like yourself? Remember this money your giving out is your own now?

We sponsor more people then is benefiting us, but our most successful sponsorship case would have to be Greg Siewers. He was originally on the Ironmen when we picked him up, now he's on Aftermath. Greg goes out of his way to push PBRack as a brand, he offers to sell product at events and gets teams and players interested in it and has actually made us sales. He has also come up to Washington and Idaho to host PBRack clinics at minimals costs so we could make a profit. We've been so happy with Greg's performance that we promoted him to Team Manager so that he can help instill this behavior in all our athletes. Remember, sponsorships a 2 way street, it goes both ways.

Take notes kids, and since we talked about Greg check out his website at www.Gsiewers14.com

and if you think our ready to be considered for sponsorship email GregSiewers@pbrack.com

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Steezy G gets the beatdown in Canada

















Crazy little story about our BCPPL trip in Canada, which ended up in Steezy G getting the beat down from 6 cops. The PBRack crew decided Saturday night at any tournament is meant for clubbing so we hit the streets, with a couple of the BCPPL girls and Ronnie from Aftermath. We ended up at a club called Mirage, wasn't our first time going here, its a pretty solid place. Either way Steezy G and Ronnie end up getting kicked out, Steezy G keeps trying to get back in. Some guy ends up calling him a pussy, which lead to him getting taken to the ground by 6 people. We go to help him out and we get a foot away and realize its 6 undercover cops beating the shit out of him. Pepper sprayed and batoned Steezy made it out of Jail and we were able to laugh about it later over some McDonald's, supposedly Vancouver, Canada cops are brutal... I agree

Monday, November 23, 2009

Were heading to Whistler

The Rack Crew is heading to Whistler
next weekend right after Thanksgiving.
We'll be bringing a long a few of our
sponsored snowboarders as well as a very well known pro snowboarder. Should be a great time hopefully we don't get into as much trouble as we did last year in Whistler. We'll def be getting in the early shred session before the Olympics hit though. Keep an eye peeled on our blogspot for all the behind the scenes action of our crazy trips.

Monday, November 16, 2009

BCPPL - Brawl for it All


Bcppl always puts on awesome events, but there Brawl for it All event is always known to be there biggest. It's held in a indoor stadium, there's almost 10 big vendors and around 50, 5 and 7 man teams. This is the size of some of the smaller USPL events and its right in Surrey, British Columbia. We had an awesome time this weekend at there event, we were screen printing at the booth and we had a photo booth at the booth were everyone who bought something got there picture taken and a collage will be made for our next PBX3 Ad. Canada's always fun, things got crazy this year and Steezy G ended up getting a 6 person beat down from the cops. More pics coming.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Mag coverage/ Canada this weekend







Looks like we got some coverage from French magazine Face-full announcing our new line, cool beans!, We'll also be heading to Canada tomorrow- Sunday for the last event of the BCPPL make sure to check out the live webcast PBRack will be playing as Ambush Army in D2 we won last time so we should be solid again

Webcast- BCPPL.TV
Face-Full Article- http://face-full.com/det_latestnews.php?n=103