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Get Sponsored: A Funding Guide for Explorers, Adventurers, and Would-Be World Travelers
Christopher Columbus needed a sponsor for a dangerous expedition, but the king of Portugal wasn’t interested. He repackaged his proposal for the queen of Spain. She put Columbus on retainer, and the rest is history. Columbus may not have been the first to discover America, but he had a great publicist.That’s where Jeff Blumenfeld comes in. For many years, using a PR specialty called adventure marketing, Jeff has connected explorers and their projects with corporate sponsors looking to demonstrate product performance in extreme conditions. His book takes the reader from Erik Weihenmayer’s expedition to be the first blind man to summit Mount Everest, to the first confirmed dogsled expedition of the North Pole, to Audrey Mestre’s deadly free dive expedition off Bayahibe beach in the Dominican Republic. You Want to Go Where? is the only book that not only takes you behind the scenes of some of the most dangerous adventure expeditions in recent years, but also shows how you can fund and arrange your own trip, including details on everything from grants to sponsorships.For anyone who’s ever had a dream to scale the tallest mountain or cross the largest ocean, You Want to Go Where? is your ticket. Full of fascinating stories and practical advice, it’s ideal for armchair explorers and budding adventurers alike.
266 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 7, 2014
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Jeff Blumenfeld
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Jeff Blumenfeld, author, You Want to Go Where?
Jeff Blumenfeld is founder of Blumenfeld and Associates, Inc., a public relations and special-events firm based in Darien, Connecticut, that has served some of the largest outdoor recreation companies in the U.S. Clients have included Coleman, Duofold, Du Pont, Eddie Bauer, Lands’ End, LEKI USA, Lewmar, Mares, Orvis, Timberland, Timex, W.L. Gore & Associates, and Wacoal Sports Science Corp.
Blumenfeld is also editor and publisher of Expedition News, a newsletter, blog and website (www.expeditionnews.com) he founded in 1994 to cover news about the adventure-marketing field. Excerpts from Expedition News also appear in The Explorers Club Explorers Journal.
A member of The Explorers Club in New York, he also belongs to the American Alpine Club, based in Golden, Colorado, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London, where he has presented talks on adventure marketing.
Blumenfeld has traveled on business to some of the remotest regions on earth. He journeyed to Anadyr, an isolated outpost in the Soviet Far East, and escorted media personnel to an Eskimo village on Canada’s Baffin Island and to Iceland, a long-time client. A media trip to Yellowknife, NWT, for Lands’ End included a dogsled trip for reporters, cross-country skiing on a frozen lake, and a spectacular display of the northern lights.
Blumenfeld journeyed to Santiago, Chile, to organize the first ski race in Antarctica, spent two weeks in Nome and Anchorage during promotion of an expedition across the Bering Strait, enlisted a team of ski instructors to test ski apparel at 12,000 feet in the High Andes of Argentina, and promoted skiing and a midnight golf tournament near the Arctic Circle in Iceland. He’s co-organized media hiking trips to Salzburg, Austria, and to the summit of Snowbird, Utah, on behalf of W.L. Gore & Associates.
In 1996, after tragedy struck Mount Everest and eight people died, LIFE magazine hired Blumenfeld to help research their coverage of the disaster.
Blumenfeld is a former adjunct faculty member of the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies/Marketing and Management Institute. A graduate of Syracuse University, he holds a Bachelor of Science in television and radio from the S.I. Newhouse School of Journalism. He is a board member of Voices of September 11, the leading advocacy group for the friends and families of victims of 9/11 (voicesofsept11.org), and a member of the New Canaan, Connecticut Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). An avid sea kayaker, fly-fishing angler, downhill skier and sailor, he’s also fluent in Morse code, although he’ll be first to admit it doesn’t come up too often in conversation.
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Jeff Blumenfeld, author, You Want to Go Where?
Jeff Blumenfeld is founder of Blumenfeld and Associates, Inc., a public relations and special-events firm based in Darien, Connecticut, that has served some of the largest outdoor recreation companies in the U.S. Clients have included Coleman, Duofold, Du Pont, Eddie Bauer, Lands’ End, LEKI USA, Lewmar, Mares, Orvis, Timberland, Timex, W.L. Gore & Associates, and Wacoal Sports Science Corp.
Blumenfeld is also editor and publisher of Expedition News, a newsletter, blog and website (www.expeditionnews.com) he founded in 1994 to cover news about the adventure-marketing field. Excerpts from Expedition News also appear in The Explorers Club Explorers Journal.
A member of The Explorers Club in New York, he also belongs to the American Alpine Club, based in Golden, Colorado, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London, where he has presented talks on adventure marketing.
Blumenfeld has traveled on business to some of the remotest regions on earth. He journeyed to Anadyr, an isolated outpost in the Soviet Far East, and escorted media personnel to an Eskimo village on Canada’s Baffin Island and to Iceland, a long-time client. A media trip to Yellowknife, NWT, for Lands’ End included a dogsled trip for reporters, cross-country skiing on a frozen lake, and a spectacular display of the northern lights.
Blumenfeld journeyed to Santiago, Chile, to organize the first ski race in Antarctica, spent two weeks in Nome and Anchorage during promotion of an expedition across the Bering Strait, enlisted a team of ski instructors to test ski apparel at 12,000 feet in the High Andes of Argentina, and promoted skiing and a midnight golf tournament near the Arctic Circle in Iceland. He’s co-organized media hiking trips to Salzburg, Austria, and to the summit of Snowbird, Utah, on behalf of W.L. Gore & Associates.
In 1996, after tragedy struck Mount Everest and eight people died, LIFE magazine hired Blumenfeld to help research their coverage of the disaster.
Blumenfeld is a former adjunct faculty member of the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies/Marketing and Management Institute. A graduate of Syracuse University, he holds a Bachelor of Science in television and radio from the S.I. Newhouse School of Journalism. He is a board member of Voices of September 11, the leading advocacy group for the friends and families of victims of 9/11 (voicesofsept11.org), and a member of the New Canaan, Connecticut Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). An avid sea kayaker, fly-fishing angler, downhill skier and sailor, he’s also fluent in Morse code, although he’ll be first to admit it doesn’t come up too often in conversation.
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January 17, 2019
Stumbled on at the library. Better than I had hoped. Fun travel stories that will inspire you to get moving. 🏔
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January 10, 2018I don't really have an opinion on whether this book is good or bad. I won it in some giveaway, started reading, and quickly realized I am not the right audience, as I don't intend to get sponsored. So, I did not continue to read it. From first glance, and as a former PR account executive, the advice seems solid.
December 7, 2018
Not bad
Worth the read, but thought more info on actually planning an expedition was available in the appendices. The bulk of the book was more story and less substance.
Worth the read, but thought more info on actually planning an expedition was available in the appendices. The bulk of the book was more story and less substance.
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