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• Top 10 tips for Sponsorship Hunters
• There's no such thing as free money.
• Sponsors don't have to love you.
• Look for a good fit.
• brands that
  seem a natural fit with your event
• It's a job for a team.
• prepared to treat your sponsors like marketing
  partners.
• No logos.
• . While you can
  offer to put logos where you want, also offer your sponsors far more
  substance.
• Get in early.
• start at least twelve months
  before an event
• Get in writing.
• 
  Firm up all details of your arrangement in writing.
• Aim big.
• get a couple of big sponsors than lots of small ones,
• Service the sponsors.
• If
  you don't service sponsors properly, they will never give you another
  cent
• Check it out.
• and start networking with people in the business.