 What's going on guys welcome to another video and today I have a pretty cool topic You know this topic right here has probably been the number one topic that everyone's been asking me You know I've had so many people I can't even tell you how many people I've had it asked me about this topic And I'm finally getting to talk about it. I'm not gonna whip out a sheet of paper and start You know Asking that you're talking about all these things. I want to make it really simple on you guys Make it really really really simple. I just posted a video a few days ago and I read a lot of comments You know and a lot of cops were like this, you know, I want to get my first sponsor and bass fishing How do I get sponsors? How do I go about doing that? How do I work my way up to that? and you know, it's really it's really more self-explanatory than you think and That's why I'm going to talk about this today And you know, I could go up to all my sponsors and say what are you looking for but I know what they're looking for and I Mean I could do a video on that as well if you'd like just more little in depth But for the most part, I know when most sponsors are looking for and I know what you could do to definitely benefit Benefit you and your fishing career and get some more sponsors So to start off with everything One question I want you to ask yourself, why do you want to sponsor? And you need to think about that you need to ask yourself. Why do I want to sponsor? Whether it's free bait or you just want to have someone on your jersey or you just want to start off in bass fishing You and you'd like to get a sponsor you know, there's there's many of Reasons why you may want to sponsor and so to go about this on my perspective on what to do social media is The new generation this generation is the best generation that's I'm thankful enough to be in this generation and social media is so Big in this generation. I know all you guys go into high school. You'll see all these kids out on their phones before class I've been there. You'll see people text them while driving and they're scrolling through Instagram while driving You'll see people laying in their bed before the good bed just scrolling all through I know you guys do it too. We know we all do it. I do it myself and Social media is so powerful. There's so many people on there and what I would like you to do There's many different ways. All right Back in the day when I wasn't around There's a lot of you know, there's a lot of pro bass fishermen that had a lot of sponsors They had a lot of big sponsors. They had a lot of big money sponsors, which is awesome You know, that's great. They never had to use social media. They use their results To get sponsors and that is great. You know, that's amazing. But how about you not only use results? But you use social media as well. That's double the killer right there. If not 10 times Social media is so big only so many people are watching All these big tournaments like online and going to them And if you figure out about this term is how are you figuring out who won this tournament? You're figuring out on your phone on social media. It's So big and so this is what I want you to do. I Want you to go create an Instagram a Facebook a Twitter and If you want to do videos a YouTube All right, those right there then you can branch off even more and go to like Periscope and all those other ones So do that I really suggest Instagram I love Instagram, you know, it's starting to get a little weird Instagram How they're doing things are starting to fade towards how Facebook's doing things Weird face. I'm gonna talk about Facebook first Facebook You know is a lot of I guess you could say some of the older crowd in a lot of businesses So that's a whole different audience Instagram's a lot younger kids a lot older people and everyone's on Instagram nowadays And that that's a really good platform YouTube, you know, you're expressing your posting videos But honestly, you don't even have to jump into that right yet I would just start off with Instagram and Facebook Twitter come along You I mean, I do everything from Instagram personally. So Instagram is the main platform So build up start posting or fishing pictures go out fishing, you know post a post a fish Fish picture that you caught that day or if you didn't catch a fish, you know post a picture of your rod and reel or post a picture of the water post a picture of a bait on your deck or your boat or post a picture of You fishing off the bank say I love pomp and who likes pomp fish and engage the audience Once you start to post this picture start using hashtags to start you off with start using bass fishing fishing You're using the chatter baits to hashtag chatter bait fishing Tag those companies. They use a chatter bait to catch that fish tag Z man. If that's the company Start reaching out people who come along the way, you know, people people will start to get on your page Once you build up a decent amount of following to where you feel as if you have a good amount of people watching you You need to create a resume not only stating You know, I want this turn. I want this turn. What else have you done? Have you done some seminars? Have you done some like little charity events put all that in there? What's your grades? Put your grades in there. Put your achievements in there. Put what what you have done that's what you need to put in there and When you go up to a sponsor, I prefer going up to them in person if you can get to any of these expos I cast a bass masterclass. That's the best places for you to contact these companies or you can just contact them online But you know, most of these people get messages saying could you sponsor me much? I mean I could but why that's gonna be the first point. Why would I that's their first question? I my what I have built isn't just a personal thing. It's a business kicking the rest is a business and so I get what all these businesses say and When you go up to those companies, the first thing they're gonna ask you is what can you do for me? All right, that's why you need to have a resume built with everything you've done You need to have your social media on point say I post five times a day I'll tag you in all my posts. I have this amount of following. This is how many people are getting reached out to each post All these people are calming all my stuff You know, I'm making videos. I could actually do reviews over your products. I can go use your products I could do cool stuff with your products But why would they sponsor you? That's why you got to come to them. You got to be prepared That's the biggest thing you don't ever and there's one thing you don't want to do in the fishing industry one thing is all these companies Are all they all know each other. All right, you never never ever Need to break a bridge or burn a bridge whatever you want to say Never never never burn a bridge or the company Because they all know each other. So just be kind and polite as you can if you go prepared to these You know where you're talking to them or emailing them. Whatever you're doing. If just you have to what All right, say say you have a kuma over here rotten real company say That they're gonna give you 20 rods and reels for free But what are you doing for then I believe truly in my heart and what I've experienced with all these companies if they get I'm just using this as an example if they give you $2,000 a month You need to give them $4,000 in advertisement a month. You need to give them double of what they're giving you they will respect you a lot more your name will get bigger in the industry and You know, that's the best thing that can happen Not only in this is the thing once you get one of those sponsors as I promise you once you get one of those moderate big name sponsors Your name will spread you will you will start you'll notice it's gonna open doors Like I said, never burn bridges. It's gonna open doors into all these other companies You know I'm with this rod company. That's my first sponsor And all of a sudden they start talking that you know the soft plastic company or they start talking to strike king or somebody and then Hey, you should go check out this kid. Boom. You're in the door So put the effort in Before you get your first sponsor or getting some of the bigger sponsors Put the effort in create a resume build a platform that you could promote them on and I know you guys can do it I know you can do it. Don't say you can't don't say no, you know We don't have the platform that you have I don't care if you don't have the platform I know you can and I know you will Do great and create a good platform if you put forth the effort and you do 100% you will do it I know you can I know you can But you know, I could go really into depth with this like I said, I could talk to my sponsors about and say What do you think I should state in one of these videos? but I this is one I just want to keep around 10 minutes, you know short and simple and To the point where this is everything you need to really go get sponsors And that's some of the important tips that I would suggest you use to get sponsors But you know overall, thank you guys so much for watching Seriously, I hope you guys take these tips go apply it And hopefully go get some sponsors. Look, I love seeing the community grow guys Go create, you know Instagram Facebook fishing page and stuff and go. I love that. I love that I love seeing some of the younger guys, you know, you're in this is the perfect time that there's no rush No rush There's one thing is patience to be patient. I've been doing this for six or seven years And it's finally stuff's finally starting to come on Just be patient If you look at all the millionaires they never they didn't wake up one day and become a millionaire It took them, you know, five 10 15 20 maybe even 30 years You just got to wait and this is a perfect generation for it Especially missing young guys watching me 20 year olds 25 year olds 30 year olds even 40 year olds. You're not too young I think if you're 60 you're not too young if you have the drive to do it, you can do it, you know, it's just It's there If you have the drive deep down in your heart to do it You can be 75 years old and if you are able to get out there and do it and you have the drive and you can Get everything done then go do it you can do it. I know you guys can do it But thank you guys so much for watching leave a comment below on what you guys think about stuff that I said And hopefully this can help you out to get some sponsors and everything because this is one of the number one questions I get asked and I'm so glad I can sit down and finally like Express my opinions on this, but thank you guys so much for watching. I love you guys so much I'll catch you guys the next episode