Hi, Everyone. I'm Ice Cream Man. Our Ice Cream Crew and I travel the country giving away free ice cream. Our goal is to gift half a million free treats all over the world; we've already given away over 150,000! We're in the midst of our summer tour and we need a sponsor to help us give away 50,000 ice creams by years end. We'll be backstage at most of the major music festivals including Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Pitchfork Festivals, Outside Lands, and a bunch more. We'll also be stopping at children's hospitals, inner city programs, and throwing ice cream socials all over the country. We'll be available to stop at company stores, headquarters, and events as well.

We live in new times. Old forms of advertising and marketing are becoming less effective. What we offer is tying in your company with giving away free ice cream and all the good feeling that come from it. While traveling the country and giving away free ice cream at events and music festivals we'll have four of your companies logos on both of our ice cream trucks that will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people. We also do a ton of press and interviews and try to get the logos seen in there as well as mention your company for being a sponsor and the main reason we're able to give away free ice cream. On our website, www.icecreamman.com, we have over 50,000 photos from concerts and cream slingin' and our sponsors logo's are visible on nearly every page of the site.

Last year we were on Rob and Big on MTV and our sponsors logo's showed up numerous times and were viewed by millions. How much cooler is it to be integrated into a show for helping to give away ice cream than to buy a 30 second ad? The cost of a full page ad in Rolling Stone is over $150,000. For a fraction of that we'll be able to reach a similar demographic yet give them something they want, not just a page they'll flip past or a commercial they'll skip or a flashing banner ad they won't look at. When people ask us how the ice cream is free (which they always do) we'll tell them YOU make it possible.

We've been on the road for over three years giving away free ice cream. We've been working with production companies that put on the best music festivals in the country and have built up a grassroots and street level following by giving away free ice cream. At www.icecreamman.com we document everything we do and hundreds of thousands of people a year visit the site where we integrate our sponsors by featuring their logos and letting people know that, without them, we wouldn't be able to give away free ice cream.

We need as much help as we can get. If you can't bid on a sponsorship here are a few other ways you might be able to help.
1) Send this link to anyone interested.
2) Post something about the auction on your site or blog for a week.
3) We have three different banners you can use on your site or blog too (check them out here)
4) DIGG the story & help get the word out.
5) Help us get some press by telling press/newspaper/magazine/radio/talk show people you know. I'm in New York and available for interviews.

1) Due to the family nature of our company and the sponsors that we, and the festivals we attend, already have on board, we have the right to refuse any bid. PLEASE email me ahead of time to check to make sure this will not be a problem (sorry, no liquor companies). We have been able to showcase all of our sponsors logo's at every festival we've been to so far but can not guarantee exposure at every event listed. We will be adding additional events as well throughout the year.

2) If you are the successful winning bidder, immediate contact via email or telephone is expected. Payment of a $1,000 payment is expected within an hour of the conclusion of the auction, either by PayPal or Direct Bank Deposit. This is to confirm the genuine nature of the buyer. Full payment of a non refundable 50% deposit must be made within seven business days, and settlement in full is expected to take place within a maximum of 30 days.

3) We will need your print quality logos for the ice cream truck and www.icecreamman.com upon payment of the immediate $1,000 so that we can put them on before Pitchfork Festival and Chicago Children's Hospital Stops.
4) A final reminder - DO NOT BID IF YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO SETTLE IMMEDIATELY!! IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO BID.
5) Start price for the auction is one US Dollar. All bids are in US Dollars. There is no reserve price.