Q Sport Athletes...
 

• ...have appeared on/ in just about every major TV station, magazine and newspaper you can imagine, and many your can't.  Here's a sample listing:
• Television:
• The Today Show
• The Early Show
• Good Morning America
• Fox and Friends
• The Tonight Show
• The Late Show with David Letterman
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien
• Rosie O'Donnell
• Dateline
• MSNBC
• CNN
• sports - ABC Wide World of Sports, NBC Sports, CBS Sports, ESPN, ESPN2, Outdoor Life Network, TNT, US Olympic Gold

• Magazine:
• Newsweek
• Time
• Us Magazine
• People
• Teen People
• Sports Illustrated
• ESPN Magazine
• Self Magazine
• Sports Illustrated and Sports Illustrated for Kids
• Women's Sport and Fitness
• NY Times, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, USA Today and  hundreds of other regional and local newspapers

• ...have provided significant logo exposure at these athletic competitions:

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• The Olympic Games
• The World Allround Championships, The World Sprint Championships, The World Single Distance Championships
• World Cup competitions throughout Europe, Asia, and North America
• National Championships
• America's Cup Series and other US based competitions
• ESPN X Games
• numerous inline skating competitions throughout the US

• ...have been utilized in marketing and advertising materials...

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• ...have been pictured on billboards.

• Appeared in television commercials
• Featured on corporate web sites
• Appeared at trade shows at sponsor booths
• Performed numerous speaking engagements
• Included their sponsors logo on their own marketing materials, resumes, and web pages

 First and foremost, our athletes immediately provide your company, product or service an association with the Olympic Games and the endorsement of an Olympic athlete (except our skysurfers).

In addition to their endorsement of your products, the athletes can also provide the following:

• Logo Exposure: Note the various logos on the athletes pictured on this page. The skaters can provide logo exposure on:
• uniforms
• training clothing
• equipment
• travel bags
• casual clothing
• athlete posters and marketing materials
• Personal Appearances - Your athlete can be scheduled to make appearances on your behalf at:
• corporate functions - trade shows, conventions, sales meeting
• charity events
• other events your company may sponsor
• skating clinics
• Use in Marketing
• print, television and radio advertising
• sales brochures and promotional literature
• posted on your website
• commercials, infomercials and custom video productions
• Internet Exposure - sponsoring one of our athletes entitles your company to additional logo exposure and hot links on the Q Sports website and your athlete's personal home page.
• Public Speaking - your athletes can also be scheduled to perform appropriate public speaking engagements

     Sponsorship agreements typically contain three sections: general terms, sponsor needs and athlete compensation.

• General Terms - includes specifications such as
• Agreement length - typically two years with the sponsor granted the "right of first refusal" for renewal of the agreement.
• Exclusivity- in most cases your product will be defined as the only of its kind that the athlete will endorse during the term of the agreement.
• Definitions of your product or services.
• Sponsor Needs - includes details such as:
• logo placement
• how you plan to utilize the athlete in marketing or advertising campaigns
• personal appearances you'd like the athlete to make
• any other way you'd like to utilize the athlete
• Athlete Compensation - generally includes:
• product support - what product(s) you will provide to the athlete and how they order/receive the product
• retainer fee - athletes are typically compensated from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per month
• media incentive - Unlike sponsoring an event, where television and media coverage can largely be predetermined, individual athlete sponsorship is much more dynamic. A combination of the athlete's competitive accomplishments and their personality / media appeal largely determines their media exposure. Therefore, to minimize your risk of prepaying for "unknown" media coverage, and to incentives the athletes to seek media exposure, most Q Sports agreements include bonuses to the athlete when he or she appears on TV or in print with your logo. The larger the circulation exposure the larger the bonus. It is the responsibility of Q Sports to track the media appearances.
• performance bonus - most agreements also include some form of bonus when the athlete performs well at important competitions.

We're not at liberty to discuss the details of specific contracts, nor would we discuss the details of your arrangement with anyone else. However, here are some of the companies we have structured sponsorship arrangements with:
 

 Great, and thanks for your interest. Give us a call or send an email. Let us know which athlete or athletes you're interested in and how you might like to utilize them. Once we've had a chance to discuss it Q Sports will draft a proposal for your review.

Generally our proposals address three broad categories of sponsorship objectives for businesses considering our athletes:

• broad corporate objectives - image based
• marketing objectives - brand promotion, increase sales
• media objectives - cost effectiveness, reaching target markets

 Give us a call or send an email. We look forward to hearing from you.