Vendor Information

Welcome TRR Vendors

The TRR Committee welcomes vendors in the rowing community who wish to set up a tent at our regatta.  We provide ample space close to the boathouse where rowers and guests are concentrated.  For those who cannot attend, we also offer advertising on our two web sites and ad space in our Event Program at very affordable rates.

The regatta itself brings over 600 boats to the Merrimac River for a great day of racing and fun.  Accompanying those boats are the over 3,000 competitors that row them, and a few thousand friends and family, all within a short walk of where we locate the vendor area downriver from the boathouse.

If you can't make it to the regatta, or just wish to increase your exposure to the rowing community, we offer the options of advertising on our two rowing web sites and in the TRR Event Program. Our web sites generate high traffic, especially in the days before and after the TRR -- keep this in mind as you consider whether spending some of your advertising money with us is worth your while.

Please review the information below, and if you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to contact us for a fast and thorough response.  Our email address for vendor relations is located at the bottom of this page.

NOTE:  Please note that the TRR has a signed contract with N&D Sports for official TRR merchandise for 2014.  Merchandise may not carry any reference to the Textile River Regatta without prior approval from the TRR and N&D Sports.

Pricing

This year, you can only reserve tent space or place ads by selecting one of the options below and paying online, via PayPal or any major credit card, or via check sent in advance of the event. If you pay by check, please make out check to Textile River Regatta Committee and send to:

Textile River Regatta Committee - VENDORS
P.O. Box 1493
Lowell, MA 01852-1493

The act of paying will reserve you a space. There will be no payments collected at the Regatta; no vendors who have not paid in advance will be permitted. The good news is that our prices have not increased in over 5 years!

Note that online payments using PayPal are processed using our MRRA account and your credit card statement will read from "MRRA" or "Merrimac River Rowing Association". You will receive a receipt via email from PayPal. We do not store any personal or credit card information on our site.

Item	Description	Price	Pay with PayPal or Credit Card
VTENT	Vendor Tent 10'x10' or 10'x20', write to us if you need special accommodations or a larger area.	$175
VWEBAD	Web site ad, small (125x125 max)	$50
VPROGAD	Event Program Ad (we print and distribute 800+ programs on the day of the regatta).	$50
Discount Combo Pricing
VCOMBO1	Tent + web ad, $25 off	$200
VCOMBO2	Tent + web ad + Event Program ad, $25 off	$250

CURRENT VENDOR RESERVATIONS

If your name appears in this list, we have received your request to partipate as a vendor for this year's TRR:

NOTE!

• Web ads must be paid for before the regatta if you expect to see your ad on the web site before the high web site traffic periods.  Allow 5 business days to have your ad placed on the site; less if we already have your artwork.   Web ads run for 365 days begining on the day of purchase or placement, whichever is later.   Ads run on www.textileriverregatta.org and www.merrimackrowing.org (which hosts the Festival Regatta in June).

Details on Tents

• We mark off an area directly downriver of the boat house on the day before the regatta, you can set up your tent usually as early as the Saturday afternoon prior to the regatta.  The tents are all in the final 1000m of the race course and offer a great location near the rowers, guests and normal pedestrian traffic that is popular along this stretch of the boulevard.
• We reserve a stretch of curb for parking during the regatta specifically for vendors and you will be given a dashboard pass when you arrive. Note that this area is very heavily trafficked and spots fill up early.
• Locations will be assigned starting closest to the boathouse, in order of receipt of payment.
• Note that we do NOT provide the tent, only the space.  If you need a space larger than 10'x20', please let us know by e-mail.
• We expect to have a security guard patrolling the boathouse area overnight, but we cannot be responsible for any materials that you leave unattended at any time.

Details on Web Advertising

• Our two websites, www.textileriverregatta.org and www.merrimackriverrowing.org each generate a substantial amount of qualified traffic from the rowing community.  The TRR web site typically has most of its activity in the days surrounding the TRR, while the MRRA web site is spread more evenly during all of the warm weather months.  Our two websites have had over 35,000 visits and 91,000 page views in the past twelve months ending August 2014.   The TRR site alone will have approximately 12,000 visits in the days around the regatta.
• Your web ad will be prominently displayed in the left menu column as shown on this page and all other pages on the web site.  A small ad is considered no larger than 125 pixels square (the size of the LHS Pogies ad shown at left).
• If you have a particular image that should be used, send a link to that image in an email.  If you don't have a preference, we'll take the likeliest image from your web site and create the ad and link for you.  In either case, be sure to specify the URL where you want the click to go -- some people prefer to have a special landing page on their site when a click-thru comes their way.
• If there is significant response to these advertising offers, we will evenly distribute the ads across all of the web pages on both web sites.  So we are not guaranteeing that your ad will appear on every web page, but we are guaranteeing that you will be represented fairly and that we do expect every significant page on our sites to contain ads in the left margin.  We will also alter the order of the ads on each page so that your ad isn't always at the top or the bottom.
• Your ads will run for a full calendar year from starting on the date of payment or deployment, whichever is later.

Event Program Ads

• We have limited space available in our TRR Event Program on a first-come first-served basis.  If you don't specify otherwise, we will use the obvious image from your web site and show that image along with your company name and web site in the ad. 
• We print and distribute at least  800 event programs free of charge to participants and guests.
• No exceptions:  You must let us know if you want an Event Program ad no later than two weeks before the regatta date.

Questions?

Contact us at vendors@textileriverregatta.org