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i created a profile and did my resume and i have received like 15 sponsorship offers in the past weeks...but they tell me that to accept i need to pay $50 to mxsponsor...
does anyone have any experience with it? is it legit or just another web page that make you pay for nothing?
thanks
(please also explain me how do you contact the companies if you accept.. after paying offcourse)
does anyone have any experience with it? is it legit or just another web page that make you pay for nothing?
thanks
(please also explain me how do you contact the companies if you accept.. after paying offcourse)
The Shop
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
Free shipping: VITALMX
Now more then ever we need to support our local dealers and these services do NOT do that.
Does Joe Golfer call Nike because he plays golf on Sunday and enters the club tourney...and shoots a fabulous 97?
Pit Row
2 things created the "demise of the independent shops", the consumers, YOU, YOU DIRT DUDES, and of course, the Internet. More so in dirt than in street, the consumers are always asking for bigger and better deals. Street guys go into a shop and look at what their budget can afford them and go for it. Whether it is a $169 lid or a $600 one, dirt guys want the $600 at the $169 cost and make a big point of it. This website is the best proof with weekly post on where to get the cheapest Shoei where and on and on.
So you the consumers favored and financed the growth of Internet retailers like BTO, Motosport, Motocross Giant, etc, etc. You guys go there just to save the sales tax and save even only $5 box at times. Why do you buy grips online instead of going to your local dealer?? I get direct emails every day from riders asking for a deal on the products we sell.
Results: YOU THE CONSUMERS, go to your local dealers to try products in order to find the right size before purchasing online.
Consequence: the dealers don't want to stock, cannot stock, don't take risks on products that are not mega mainstream (Leatt entered the market by going direct, straight to the Amateur racing scene at a time when dealers didn't want to take risks and stock some, even 1 - results is dealers were running after Leatt like flies on fresh shit after it exploded through direct marketing and sales, Jason and Geoff going to all races and tracks possible.)
If the dealers don't want to stock products that they are "obligated" to stock through the 3 major distributors that rule the market, then they won't want to invest into a product and get a size run or display samples. We have even had to give FREE samples for display to dealers to generate sales (when a consumer sees a product and tries it, feels it, it's a big step towards a sale). And even then, when sales were happening, some of these dealers didn't stock, just benefiting from the zero investment sales they were getting.
One of the big 3 distributors has even pushed the vice further by taking over some big size dealerships, putting everything on consignment only with products from house-brands. What choice does the consumer have in these dealerships. How do you want to work in such an environment if you don't go direct to the consumer. If dealers don't want to stock and invest in your products, why should it stay in your warehouses, why should your development go nowhere?
Fox are perfect example of successful brands gone direct to the consumers, generate enough sales to generate a descent size marketing budget and advertise it so much that the dealers have no other option but stock some to make the sales. Fox even puts products on sales on their website and leave dealers with no other choice than reduce their margins by doing the same... 5 or 6 months after said dealer has invested in stock.
MXSponsor, Sponsorhouse.com are just direct-marketing/sales channels to reach the consumer and give them the opportunity to afford racing. It's a win-win situation for the brand and the consumer. If brands develop a strong enough stocking-dealer network, and a stronger presence at tracks, they can always reconsider their budget and decide how much they want to sell directly.
In a time when independent dealers had real sales person, instead of the gum-chewing chick that doesn't say hi, has no idea what the product is about and doesn't say bye when you leave because she's texting, they were the best medium to reach and influence consumers and sales.
Today, that thing the Internet, the economical situation (that ain't coming back any time soon so don't keep waiting for it) forcing people in looking for deals 24/7 and dealers trying to survive by spending as little as possible in stock, all these parameters and a few more, are changing the way business is done.
So as much as brands need to support local dealers with all sorts of you-don't-take-any-risk-at-all-let-us-spend-millions-in-development-and-production-and-advertising-and-sponsoring-and-stocking sales program, local dealers need to support brands and don't expect it all at no risk (and really what is the risk when you can fully return/exchange products at no cost?)
Internet retailers are dominating the market right now, be it in dirt or street, why? Because you the consumers decided so. So don't give me the lame b.s. excuse that it's because of sponsorhouse.com or mxsponsor or any other direct-marketing program like that.
As far as sponsoring, come on, stop thinking that it's about winning races and being fast. I guess that Suzuki followed that naive philosophy and.... eeeer, crash! Ain't taken them nowhere! mmmmh me think, will they have a factory team next year or is it that without Rockstar and Makita money there ain't no win on Sunday sell on Monday!!? LMAO!!
Sponsoring is about helping people to afford racing, with all its level, from paying athletes to just a bonus, to free products, to just a discount. What brand need is exposure and visibility in the market, no necessarily race wins and fastest guys. Windham and Wey would be out of the circuit if it was about being the fastest... LOL.
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