last year i picked up sponsorships from Katzkin, Optima, Bostwick, and Batcap. What Tracy said is exactly true. Optima was probably the easiest, just a lengthly process of filling out forms, sending pics and talking to a few people.katzkin was a partial sponsorship so it was sorta easy as well just alot of correspondence with the rep. batcap was alot of telephone correspondence. bostwick was the hardest. i had to go thru randy at sound proof, it probably took about 2 months of going back and forth using randy as the middle man. after nopi 2004 i went home and began writing my resume. i had only done one show which was nopi that year with an unfinsihed car.
i had probably sent out over 100 emails or letters from september to january. i got real lucky with what i got. but in my resume i explained everything i planned on doing, what shows i plan on attending for the 2005 season, and pretty much just talked up a real big game. funny thing is is that the 4 sponsors i had required me to send them photos of all the events i went to and to keep in touch, but i didnt recieve one email back from them the entire year.so if i had to give someone advice on how to get a sponsor, it would have to be dont give up, dont let rejection after rejection get you down. keep doing shows and be seen. when u go to a showfind the nicest car and park next to it, everyone will be going by to see it and they will look at yours since it is right there. talk to everyone and anyone, pay attention to peoples shirts, look for logos on their shirts, more than likely if they are wearing a polo shirt with a logo they have some imprtance. and like tracy said, just keep sending emails with updates and when u see that the company is accepting applications for sonsorships be the first to send it off.good luck, hope this helps some.