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12. Is it easier or harder to get sponser money these days for the players ball?
It's always been hard. These days it's harder, bigger players don't have the money they used to have. And lot's of those bigger players only want their names on the party with a bunch of other names. So I had to come up with a formula to raise the amount needed by only giving 3 main sponsors with a bunch of other sponsors helping to offset the costs of these huge budgets. It's really a great deal for the main sponsors, in my opinion. They get to be a main sponsor on an event that is sure to be the big event of January for only a fraction of the costs. And I do all of the work. The smaller sponsors have gotten much better with helping us all promote this event. This last Players Ball was the most successfull in that regard. The sponsors now understand that it's THEIR party, so they can promote it on the boards as much as they'd like. As a matter of fact, I didn't even give myself a sponsorship because I don't like when sponsors accuse me of giveing myself most of the exposure, I've never done that. It's very hard for me to promote my own stuff while I'm on the mic. It just seems weird to thank myself while thanking the sponsors. I realize that I get out of these parties what I've set out for in the beginning. Branding. People know it's "D-Money Presents The Players Ball". That's good enough with me. I like to keep an underground vibe about what I do. It makes people approach me when they know I'm out there, they see me everywhere, but what do I do? The ones that approach me find out while the rest think I just throw a kick ass party. It's best that way because I don't need to waste my time speaking with hundreds of bullshitters thinking about using my services. The ones that approach me are usually hip to what I do or know that I can in some way do some biz with them.
So in a nutshell, it's hard to raise the money and I give the sponsors 100% of the exposure in return.
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