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Topic subjectRE: Where to start??
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257, RE: Where to start??
Posted by Roseb441702, Wed Apr-25-07 12:03 PM
>I am a newly published poet, and am looking to something
>unique to promote my book this summer. I would like to find
>someone to finance a short 3 month tour which should net a 20%
>return on their investment...... due to financial problems, I
>can not seek conventional means of financing. Can anyone give
>me any ideas on where to start looking for private investors
>that might be interested? Thank you, R S Stoner

It sounds like you're talking about sponsorship. In that case you would seek out sponsors that would benefit from your book tour. Think of it in comparison to the sponsors of concert tours. Businesses like Pepsi will sponsor a tour because they will get something out of it like advertising. Another good comparison would be racing where you see those advertisments on the cars.

You have to take a good look at your book and find out who/what business would benefit from your book tour. Then you make a presentation to them to show them why it would be in their best interest to sponsor you.

The same thing would apply if you were seeking investors. I'm starting an investor's bulletin board at:

http://members.aol.com/Roseb441702/invest.htm

so that I can start putting general information about investors and investing on it. I'm doing this to show that there are still legitimate investors out there.