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New
Travel Fund-Raising Book Explains
How
to Secure Sponsors for Expeditions and Adventures
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Get
Sponsored: A Funding Guide for
Explorers,
Adventurers and Would-Be World Travelers
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Stamford,
CT – February 2014 / Newsmaker Alert / Hundreds of explorers and adventurers
raise money each month to travel on world class expeditions to Mt. Everest,
Nepal, the Amazon and Antarctica. Many of these projects are designed to
benefit a worthy cause, retrace an historic expedition of year’s past,
or simply share in an adventure to a far corner of the world. Now the techniques
these travelers use to pay for their projects are available to anyone who
has a dream trip in mind, according to the new book from Skyhorse Publishing
called: “Get Sponsored: A Funding Guide for Explorers, Adventurers
and Would Be World Travelers.”
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 Author
Jeff Blumenfeld, an adventure travel specialist who has represented 3M,
Coleman, Du Pont, Eveready, Konica, Lands’ End, Orvis, Timex, and other
major corporations, shares techniques for securing sponsors for expeditions
and adventures around the world.
Editor
of ExpeditionNews.com and
Fellow of both The Explorers Club and Royal Geographical Society, Blumenfeld
has been involved in some of the most iconic expeditions of the past 40
years. Dogsled expeditions to the North Pole, across Antarctica, through
the Bering Strait and an epic 1,152-mile solo sea voyage have all benefited
from his expertise.
“Is
it easy to get someone to pay for your dream trip? No, not at all,” he
says. “But with the right idea and proper advance preparation, it is possible
to raise thousands of dollars in cash and in-kind products and services
for newsworthy projects.”
One
chapter of the book explains where there are thousands of dollars available
in grants from sponsors such as W.L. Gore & Associates, Land Rover,
National Geographic, Polartec, and Rolex.
Get
Sponsored shares advice based upon a 40-year adventure travel career
spent linking corporations with adventurers and explorers. Blumenfeld’s
book covers polar explorer Will Steger whose foundation focuses on climate
change, polar educator Geoff Green of Students on Ice, and Briton Andy
Pag who traveled the world powered by waste vegetable oil.
Get
Sponsored is the only book that not only goes behind-the-scenes of
some of the most historic and modern-day adventures, but also provides
advice on how individuals can plan and fund their own travel projects.
Blumenfeld’s
book turns to experts to explain how to negotiate sponsorships, provides
advice from a professional photographer about how to take photos that will
thrill sponsors and encourage them to participate in the next adventure,
and lists guide services and adventure schools ready to help aspiring adventurers
obtain the outdoor skills they’ll need to convince sponsors they have what
it takes.
Jeff
Blumenfeld is editor and publisher of Expedition News, an insider’s guide
to the business of adventure marketing. He runs Blumenfeld
and Associates, Inc., a successful public relations firm in Stamford,
Conn., that specializes in travel, adventure, and outdoor-related clients.
For more information, visit www.BlumenfeldPR.com.
Published
by Skyhorse Publishing, Get
Sponsored is available in paperback for $14.95 from Amazon
and Barnes
& Noble.
Media
contact:
Jamie
Gribbon
Blumenfeld
and Assoc. PR
203-655-1600 |
