Hi LetsRun,
My name is Eli Asch, and I am currently completing a capstone project for a Sports Business MBA from San Diego State University. The subject of my project is trends in sponsorship in mass-participation endurance sports events, and as a part of my research process I have created a survey for race directors and sponsorship directors:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/trendsinendurancesponsorship
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I am in the process of posting this link on several endurance sports websites in hopes of collecting a substantial amount of data. It is 45 questions long and should take 20-30 minutes to complete. It is focused on determining what changes have taken place in the market for sponsorship of endurance sports events over the past three years, and responses from races of any size are welcome.
All results will be kept completely anonymous, and any question may be skipped (although survey results will obviously be more robust if survey-takers answer all questions).
A copy of the raw results will be made available to any survey participant who leaves an email address in the blank at the survey's end. I suspect that an event would find these results greatly helpful as it attempted to formulate its sponsorship development plan.
Any questions may be directed to me at the email address hyper-linked in my screen name. Thanks in advance for your time and assistance, LetsRunners. Your responses are greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Elias Asch
SDSU Sports MBA Candidate
Class of '10