Thank you to everyone for your candid feedback. My response is kind of long, but I hope you read through it.
Change is never easy, but we do so with your best interests in mind. We have been working with some of you for as long as the past 6 years since we started way back in 2001. As former athletes ourselves, our goal has ALWAYS been to help you guys connect with sponsors. As the site evolved, we gave you more ways to promote yourself and your sponsors.
Loop'd is merely the next step in our evolution and yet another way to help you promote yourself and your sponsors. Social networking has become a powerful way for people to connect and wasn't even a term that anyone used when we launched SponsorHouse in 2001. As the number of people on SponsorHouse grew from just 600 motocross riders in the first year to nearly 200,000 now, you requested more ways to connect with not only sponsors, but each other. Last year, we released a major upgrade to our system to help accomplish this. This year, we returned the focus on SponsorHouse to a sponsorship service and launched Loop’d as a new sports network for athletes, fans and companies to connect and interact about everything other than sponsorship.
No!! We did not sell out! Loop’d is SponsorHouse and SponsorHouse is Loop’d. It’s the same crew working endless hours to innovate ways to help you guys promote yourself and your sponsors.
Lastly, in response to a couple questions out there...
1) We have gotten a lot of requests for the Print Resume feature and have been looking into adding it.
2) There are some issues with the navigation sending you into Loop'd, and no easy way to get back to your SponsorHouse account. We will be taking care of this along with some other fixes this Wednesday (9/24). In the meantime, just hover over the ‘My Communities’ tab on the Loop’d nav bar and SponsorHouse will be there.
3) All of the old results from before 10/15/2006 were not lost, they were added to the results page for your sponsors to see them.
4) If you have sponsors that you got outside of SponsorHouse, you can add them to your profile by going to Add Content ] Text / HTML. If you have a logo, you can place it here. Otherwise, you can add their name with a link to their website.
I hope this helps and again, thank you for all of your feedback!