How do you pick your sponsors?

[jayeff]

Originally Posted by Simon IA Cash

do you contact the sponsor anyway and see what they can do to accomodate your needs?

No. Sponsors don't appear to realize how many of them there are. It simply isn't practical to talk to 990 who may or may not be interested in catering for specific needs, when you can go right to work for 10 based on what they are offering to everyone. And frankly, it's such a hellish frustrating experience too, since most won't even bother replying.

Talking to sponsors with whom you already work is something else. But if sponsors choose not to put the best of what they have to offer in their "shop windows", why deal with them?