The first step is realizing why pool in America is at its current status. One word GREED. Greed from the pool manufactures and promoters have diminished the desire for a single combined entity. Competition between promoters have given the opportunity for a segregated venue within players compete. Opportunities for players to choose which organization to compete each weekend is the final outcome. Unity can never be realized by competing markets(aka the promoters) within this sport if cross contamination of rivaling regional tours exist.
Pool manufactures have no desire for sponsorship when it deals with actual monetary dispersement. Manufacturers would rather give product as they can use it at full manufacturers suggested retail price and use it as a tax write-off under advertising expenses. Now the manufacturers have pennies on the dollar into the product they are manufacturing. Manufacturers greed is holding back the expansion of our sport. Mike please don't use any of your tour endorsers as examples since they all provide you with product and not capital.
Professional(and i use this term loosely) pool players desire the same end result any pro football/soccer/tennis/golf/baseball player desires and that is MONEY. How do you get monetary sponsorship to have payouts for the players? First you must get organization(preferably a non-corrupt one). No manufacturer will sponsor an unorganized or corrupt venture.
Now to get sponsorship. Where to go? You have to start with billiard related manufacturers to monetarily sponsor the organization. Get the organization a strong structure based on these monetary sponsors. If you can not get inside billiard sponsors you will never get outside billiards sponsorship. Once everything is growning and has a great financial structure you can now look to expand by going to outside sponsorship. You get the first outside sponsor hooked hopefully it will begin the domino effect.
I will let you roll with that. There's more that can be done but this is just a rough outline of suggestions.
Pool manufactures have no desire for sponsorship when it deals with actual monetary dispersement. Manufacturers would rather give product as they can use it at full manufacturers suggested retail price and use it as a tax write-off under advertising expenses. Now the manufacturers have pennies on the dollar into the product they are manufacturing. Manufacturers greed is holding back the expansion of our sport. Mike please don't use any of your tour endorsers as examples since they all provide you with product and not capital.
Professional(and i use this term loosely) pool players desire the same end result any pro football/soccer/tennis/golf/baseball player desires and that is MONEY. How do you get monetary sponsorship to have payouts for the players? First you must get organization(preferably a non-corrupt one). No manufacturer will sponsor an unorganized or corrupt venture.
Now to get sponsorship. Where to go? You have to start with billiard related manufacturers to monetarily sponsor the organization. Get the organization a strong structure based on these monetary sponsors. If you can not get inside billiard sponsors you will never get outside billiards sponsorship. Once everything is growning and has a great financial structure you can now look to expand by going to outside sponsorship. You get the first outside sponsor hooked hopefully it will begin the domino effect.
I will let you roll with that. There's more that can be done but this is just a rough outline of suggestions.
but THE CODE OF CONDUCT For Professional Pool Players is completed (Beta Version). It was a collaboration between Doug Gordon and myself. It is in a word document format attachment. If some of you can't view the document attached I will change it to text in another post in the thread "CODE OF CONDUCT". Let me know in that thread. Thanks.