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[tommo256]

why sponsor a 5 year old?

[espocrespo]

cuz he is quality

[tommo256]

how can you telll that a 5 year old is amazing?

[gramw]

why sponsor a 5 year old?

Because, this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFIV0T6lycQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JVjS_yCRWw&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuBaesueTG4&feature=channel

and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBxuc1ehahE&feature=channel (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
is exposure, basically

[tommo256]

yes i agree he is very good but he doesnt play any games so may not be able to play in situation

[slogger02]

haha see in the second video lekka tried to grab him as well!
if hes playing those shots at that age i think its a reasonable bet on behalf of mongoose.

[Tom]

From a business point of view you don't sponsor players for the amount of games they play or the quality of their batting necessarily, it's all about the amount of exposure they give the company.

[tommo256]

yes and he is a young talent and all over youtube so now i see why you sponsor him....apologies if i offended anyone with this

[Tom]

Just shows that I really ought to get a link up to his YouTube as I'm sure there's other people out there thinking the same.

[Washington]

They that little fella is amazing . . .i couldn't even walk when i was 5! haha

Tom i was thinking the same as Tommo when i saw him on your website . . .but after seeing him I have a totally different view! If he continues to develop and eventually becomes a test match player, the mongoose brand will be synonmous with the 'little master' . . .so its a great marketing ploy!

[raymond]

Must say tom the updated website is very nice, the rotating bats bit is especially good.

The profile on the cor3 looks much better aswell, very tempting.

[Apple]

ye thats the first company with a revolving bat, on the  website that actually looks any good.

[lovers99]

The amount of exposure?? He's only 5 and if he gets in the paper and Wisden a couple of times, you'll be lucky and that will be it until he gets a few big scores. A bit desperate I reckon, keep to sponsoring proper players.

[Tom]

Having had 200,000 views on his videos it's certainly worth a couple of bats isn't it? Videos such as that of Krishna have potential to go viral particularly around cricket clubs and circles.

[gramw]

The amount of exposure?? He's only 5 and if he gets in the paper and Wisden a couple of times, you'll be lucky and that will be it until he gets a few big scores. A bit desperate I reckon, keep to sponsoring proper players.

Yes but think about it like this, the kid generates exposure yes? theres the reason straight away and also how demanding is a five year old going to be? give him a free bat and he will be chuffed. So your getting exposure for next to nothing. Good marketing imo