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If they are in construction, then offer to work a booth at a trade show if they are involved in those. Look at the products they are using and learn what their applications are. Are they products specialized for that company? If they are unique then offer to speak on their behalf about those products when dealing with the public. An example of that is a company I am in talks with. They sell a specialized item to the wholesale air conditioning industry. If I land the deal, I will be working home shows and such to promote their line of environmentaly safe products to the general public. If the public is made aware of their product, they will specify it when calling a contractor to service their own HVAC system. The whole catch is based on the theme of protecting our environment. BASS and other tournament entities are about conservation, ie: wetlands, catch and release, etc.. There is a coralation between the 2. Also think about starting a website that allows you to further pass on their name and products. Hope these tips help. Take care and good luck!

My God people! How do you ever hope to attract a legitimate SPONSOR if you can not even spell it? It pains me to go look at the resume' post and see all of the mispellings from people looking for sponsors. It is hard enough to get sponsors, so why would these people shoot themselves in the foot before anyone even answers the door? Sponsors judge us by the way we speak, and convey a message. That includes using proper grammar, punctuation, etc..

Keep it Simple By: Joseph Pepper Dedicated to James Pepper, 11/9/1927 to 9/10/2005, the greatest teacher, sportsman, and father! We sometimes seem to over analyze a given situation, causing ourselves to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I have jumped into the tournament scene head first, and with the pressure to perform, I too get overwhelmed by all of the decisions I have to make, which takes me to the point of this article. When you were a kid, did you really need 6 tackle boxes, 5 worm satchels, 7 rods, and 8,000 different styles of spinnerbaits? No you did not. Until I was old enough to mow lawns for my own spending money, I had a choice of 1 rod, and 4 artificial lures. Okay 5 counting the pork trailer. Those were, a floating Rapala in black/silver, Ditto Gator Tail worms in grape/black with red fire tail, Mann's 12 grape straight tail worm in fire tail, and a Johnson Silver Minnow with a #1 Uncle Josh's Pork Frog Trailer. That was it. That is what dad used, so what dad used I used, and I caught fish! Ask yourself this question, What was my favorite lure when I started fishing? Did I catch some fish on it? Recently I have found myself going to those questions, and back to what worked back then in terms of keeping it simple. I remembered as a kid, watching my dad walk that Johnson Silver Minnow through a lily pad field with such subtlety, and finesse. His wrist cocked to the side, and his rod tip in the other direction just to make that spoon flutter the right way. It was so incredibly simple. I watched him wrestle hundreds of bass from those vast lily pad fields, relying on 4 baits in a single tier Plano tackle box. My point to all of this is; Unless you are fishing for a living and absolutely have to have everything under the sun in order to earn a paycheck, keep it simple and remember that so long as your bait is in the water, there is a fish there. Maybe not a congregation of fish, but maybe just that one you need to be a hero in your son or daughters eyes. That one fish that hits your spoon so hard that it darn near rips the rod from your hand. Good luck, good fishing, and keep the lines tight!