Why craft an award winning description, a gorgeous video and a brilliant logo if no sponsor ever gets to know about your event? This would be nothing but a terrible waste of resources! Many organizers ask us: how to promote my event? The answer: you need to shout it out. And you need to shout it […]
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Welcome to our new series of podcasts. Enjoy listening. #1 Inbound Sponsorship: The way sponsorship is made today is changing fundamentally. Most of the time inbound marketing means writing blog-posts or doing other content driven online-activities. Sponsorship is usually considered as only being a part of outbound-marketing. We believe that this perception is fundamentally wrong. (you can also […]
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More and more of us travel for business purposes. Where flying is pure fun for holiday flyers, business people often see it as a necessary evil. There are some hints that can make flying more comfortable and relax. My recommendations are based on my personal experience (nope, I don’t get any money for the links…) […]
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Would you spend $5000 on a social-media campaign without really thinking about how to generate the highest ROI possible and to get clients? Surprisingly many companies don’t put the same efforts when it comes to event sponsorships. Sponsoring an event is a tremendous opportunity to get new clients. Most people love to go to events […]
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Event sponsorships are a tremendous opportunity to get new clients. Yet it requires a good preparation. Following these 5 steps will make your sponsorship a sales booster.
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I admit that I love to go to events. I recently went to a series of amazing event in San Francisco and I couldn’t help sharing with other attendees a common feeling: hunger and thirst! Luckily these events provided amazing food – otherwise the ranks would probably have been considerably emptier. Now comes the tricky part: food doesn’t come for […]
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Since a few years there’s a magical word that electrifies marketing professionals: inbound marketing. “Inbound marketing refers to marketing activities that bring visitors in, rather than marketers having to go out to get prospects’ attention. Inbound marketing earns the attention of customers, makes the company easy to be found, and draws customers to the website by producing interesting […]
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It’s the typical love-hate relationship that companies have with sponsorships: many of them simply hate to sponsor. But now open your eyes: globally in 2015 not less than $57BB will be spent on sponsorships. That’s a huge amount and still it’s surprising that this incredibly efficient marketing channel is not mentioned everywhere where people are […]
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Why sponsors should pay attention to smaller events… When organizations are looking to sponsor events, it’s easy to overlook smaller opportunities to chase the larger events. In doing so, organizations run the risk of being a small fish in a very big pond, not to mention investing much larger sums of resources while not actually […]
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Congrats! You’re a store owner or manager. Are you of that kind to say “Nah, sponsorship is not for me!” Wait a second! Why are you not proactive? Here are 3 sponsorship strategies that will grow your customer database.
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Let’s be honest: far to often corporate sponsorship is done completely wrong which results in a disappointing experience both for the organizer and the sponsor – and last but not least also for the attendees. We have left behind the times where it was sufficient to put a logo somewhere to catch the attention of the […]
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“Join us for an afternoon of ‘Chocolat’ and chocolate with a matinee showing of the film Chocolat, when we will be raising money for Diabetes UK, while introducing an elite group of chocolatiers and chocolate makers to the audience in Oxted Everyman Cinema.” When we read this at first, we thought, hmm … diabetes and […]
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It has been a popular request on SponsorMyEvent mostly by Charity events, Fundraisers and Community events. And now it’s ready. SponsorMyEvent can handle donations and micro-sponsorships.
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Fostering relationships with sponsors is tough. Providing them with clever ways to gain visibility is even harder. Are you out of ideas? SponsorMyEvent has collected 3 funny ideas that will certainly help you with your next event: The Social Drink Machine Getting drunk using Social Media ! Robofun have built a robotic bartender called The Social […]
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Jon Douglas is a restless entrepreneurial strategist. Within only a few years he has been able to assist in building iBid in order to establish it as a constant for fundraisers in Europe and North America. Organizing fundraisers is a tough business. Making sure that the whole bidding process during the fundraiser works smoothly is way […]
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Very proud being featured in EntrepreneurCountry Global. How to find sponsors is indeed a $54 Billion industry: Anyone who has organised an event knows how difficult it can be to find the right sponsoring partner. However, corporates are also struggling to find sponsorship opportunities. Being a serial entrepreneur, Peter Poehle (to the left) saw an opportunity to […]
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Great team-work. In cooperation with SponsorMyEvent, Event Magazine published an article about Salaries in the Event-Industry: New research has shown the average event co-ordinator in the UK earns a salary of USD $30,204 (£19,860), making the country the fourth-worst paying for the job out of the 11 surveyed.
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Events should be fun, right? That’s what Josiah Purss understood very well when he and his team started to organize a whole series of events that are pure fun for all participants. Being himself a natural-born sportsman (and besides that an Aussie who found his home in the USA), it was a natural choice to […]
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Did you ever wonder how much an event planner earns? And how important the difference between cities and countries is? We collected the data and created an infographic that gives a good overview over even-industry salaries.
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Finally, we have released our first EBook with the title “How to find sponsors”. The book is a guide for all event organizers how to prepare their quest for sponsorships. It covers the following topics: Description first: Dress to impress A video for your event: a movie says more then … The power of sponsor-packages […]
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Find & Manage Sponsors with SponsorMyEvent With events in over 1.100 cities, SponsorMyEvent, the leading marketplace for sponsorships, launches a 360° solution for sponsorships. Every event organizer knows the situation: the concept for the event is ready. The only thing missing now is MONEY. The solution for this is obvious: sponsors need to be found, contacted […]
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SponsorMyEvent launches “SponsorNow!” in April Every event organizer knows the situation: the concept for the event is ready. The only thing missing now is MONEY. The solution for this is obvious: sponsors need to be found, contacted, convinced and heck yes, the whole paperwork needs to be done. And if finally a sponsor is convinced, an […]
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“This is the end of sponsorship as we know it!”. This might sum up quite well what’s going on right now in the sponsorship-industry: the way sponsoring is done is radically changing with the raise of new technologies and also new mindsets of sponsors. For many years, sponsorship has been seen as a pure way to generate […]
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EventManagerBlog reviewed SponsorMyEvent: SponsorMyEvent is a no brainer. If you need sponsors for your event, this is an extra revenue opportunity that cannot be ignored.
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