{"id":5123,"date":"2009-03-19T17:52:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5123"},"modified":"2009-03-26T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T20:06:47","slug":"bmx-mt-bike-skateboard-sailboard-fmx-extreme-sponsors-looks-to-connect-riders-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5123","title":{"rendered":"BMX Mt Bike Skateboard Sailboard FMX &#8211; Extreme Sponsors looks to connect riders &#038; companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From an early age Mike Douglass had always had an interest in extreme sports and started out riding and racing BMX. He developed a passion for all things related with extreme sports &amp; motorsports and knew he wanted to be involved in the industry in some way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He came up with the initial concept for ExtremeSponsors.com in 2000 when looking for a way to streamline the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsponsorship\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 process. Ask any serious athlete what their goal is in their career and they will say &#8216;sponsorship&#8217;. At the time to find a sponsorship deal usually meant being in the right place at the right time, spending hours creating a rider CV and posting hundreds of letters out to potential sponsors. This is when he got the idea for ExtremeSponsors.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With a strong background in IT &amp; Internet Management Mike developed a system to assist &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsurfnews.com\/news.asp?Id_news=39568\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div><script src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=3619&amp;p=12689&amp;pw=15937\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an early age Mike Douglass had always had an interest in extreme sports and started out riding and racing BMX. He developed a passion for all things related with extreme sports &amp; motorsports and knew he wanted to be involved in the industry in some way. He came up with the initial concept for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5,54,6,42,71,33,43,8,39,49,59,51,4,52,48,18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding","category-cycling","category-fmx","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-kiteboard","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-mt-bike","category-skate-roller-inline-ice","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard","category-stunting","category-surf","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6085,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions\/6085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}