R Northbound Dogs
"The journey of a thousand miles begins
with a single sleddog"
Eric O. Rogers, Owner / Driver
2006/2007 Season Sponsorship Invitation
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2007 IDITAROD MUSHER - ERIC ROGERS SPONSOR DONATIONS
CAN NOW BE MADE THROUGH PAYPAL

Business or Team
SPONSORSHIP PLAN for 2006/2007 Season:

• Sponsor a Dog: $300 – Membership in Rogers Rangers and a either a team photograph or an individual photograph of your dog. Note there is no guarantee that any individual dog will make the team.
  
• Team Dog: $1000 – Name on dog box, listed as a musher sponsor on RNorthboundDogs website, signed certificate of appreciation and signed team photograph.
  
• Swing Dog: $2,500 – All of the team dog benefits, plus patch or logo (you provide) on my sled bag. I am willing to spend up to 6 hours greeting your customers / clients / fans and / or telling stories at one event of your choosing (your open house / customer appreciations day?) after the 2006 Iditarod race and before intensive training for 2007 (roughly September 2007). Sponsor to pay all travel expenses if event is not in the Anchorage area..
  
• Lead Dog: $5,000 or more – Major Corporate Sponsor – What can I do to help you promote your business / product. Examples are: Affiliation of your business / product with my kennel, Kennel participation in your advertising, Kennel endorses your product / business, Musher speaks at your event, Musher participates in your open house / customer / client appreciation day. Participation and rates are all negotiable. Call me and let’s talk about the possibilities.
  
  All sponsors will have the first right to continue their sponsorship at the same level for succeeding years.

CONTACT:
Eric O. Rogers - R Northbound Dogs
13914 Savage Dr. Eagle River, AK 99577

Ph 907 696-3133 or e-mail me at eorogers@gci.net

Being a part of the Last Great Race is a dream shared by tens of thousands of race fans, volunteers, mushers, and sponsors. For businesses, sponsoring a team in the Iditarod gives your firm exposure to this audience. It associates you directly with the classic Alaskan challenge of man and dog to build a team that can travel 1,100 miles through the northern wilderness to achieve their goal. It espouses the virtues of patience, persistence, faith, maintaining a positive outlook in the face of difficulties, and plain old fashioned hard work.

For individuals, sponsoring a team gives you a personal stake in the Iditarod. It takes your involvement to the next level allowing you to focus on how “Your Team” is doing. As a part of that team you can rightly share the pride of our accomplishments as we overcome the challenges necessary to earn a place in Iditarod history.

I have dreamt about doing Iditarod since 1995. I invite you to share in that dream and join us in the journey as the dogs and I prepare for our rookie run in the 2006 Iditarod.

GOAL:
To build a team capable of finishing in the top 20 in the 2008 Iditarod.

RACE PLAN:

• 2004-2005: Qualify for Iditarod 2006. DONE!
• 2006: Learning year #1. The goal is to finish with a strong happy dog team and driver and learn what it takes to run 100 miles a day, day in and day out. To do that I plan to run a very conservative 14 day race modeled after Dallas Seavey’s 2005 rookie year. I believe most rookies start too fast and dig themselves and their dogs into a hole early in the race. They must then try to battle out of that hole for the rest of the race. My goal is to start slow, get lots of rest early, ease into the race, and by pacing myself and the team, have a strong happy dog team when we get to the coast.
  Consistent with this philosophy I plan to start the race with 14 dogs, including up to 4 yearlings. I will thus be running my own yearling team and building the team I’ll need for the 2008 race. DONE!!!!!
• 2007: Learning year #2. The goal is to continue to learn and build on the 2006 race. Again I plan to start slowly, getting lot’s of extra rest in the early days of the race, but if the team looks strong cutting to an equal run / rest schedule on the coast. For 2007 I would like to finish in 12 to 13 days. For 2007 I will run a 16 dog team, but again may well have several (1-4) yearlings, building the 2008 dog team.
• 2008: Racing year #1. Building on the 2006 and 2007 races and now having a veteran driver and dogs I hope to cut 48 hours of rest from the schedule and finish in 10 ½ days. In 2005 a 10 day 12 hour finish would have put me in 18th place. My racing philosophy is built on starting slow, being patient, easing into the race, constantly building strength and maintaining speed and attitude in the dogs and finally passing less patient teams on the coast. There is a saying among Iditarod drivers that if you have a 15th place dog team and drive them like a 10th place team you’ll probably finish 20th. But if you drive them like a 20th place team you’ll likely finish 10th. That is where I want to be.
  
  For 2008 I don’t plan to add any dogs to the kennel, but to train and race the proven dog team (including spares) from 2007.
  
  
  2006 Budget
  (expenses for the Iditarod ONLY)