by Chris Baylis | Feb 3, 2020 | Sponsorship, Sponsorship Packages, Sponsorship Recruiting, Sponsorship Sales
Sponsorship marketing is hard work! Nothing is more frustrating than spending countless hours crafting a sponsorship proposal, sending it out to your prospects and hearing…nothing in return. I see a lot of sponsorship proposals, good ones and bad ones (and some REALLY...
by Chris Baylis | Jul 7, 2019 | Corporate Sponsorship, Sponsorship, Sponsorship Recruiting
In today’s post, I am going to share a case study with you about one of the biggest corporate sponsorship deals I’ve worked on. This is an example of how I closed a major, multi-year corporate sponsor in a way that will surprise you. It didn’t include any fancy...
by Chris Baylis | Jun 26, 2019 | Sponsor Summit, Sponsorship Prospecting, Sponsorship Recruiting, Sponsorship Sales
Let me start by saying that I hate the term “sponsor summit.” When people hear it they think of a hugely expensive, over the top, highly formal, high-pressure sales event. Sponsor summits are NEVER high-pressure sales events and they are only as formal as you want...
by Chris Baylis | May 14, 2019 | Sponsorship, Sponsorship Fulfillment, Sponsorship Prospecting, Sponsorship Recruiting
I know what you’re thinking “another post about how we should stop using the term ‘sponsor’ in favor of something like ‘partner.’” Nope. In fact, there is no word for “sponsors” because sponsors simply don’t exist. Wait…what? Let’s start with the working definition of...
by Chris Baylis | Apr 9, 2019 | Sponsorship, Sponsorship Activation, Sponsorship Fulfillment, Sponsorship Recruiting
Five stages of sponsorship? But isn’t sponsorship about setting a budget goal, creating a package with three levels (Gold, Silver, Bronze) and then dividing that budget goal across those three levels and e-blasting your stock proposal to every company you can think...
by Chris Baylis | Mar 7, 2019 | Discovery Sessions, Event Sponsorship, How To Ask For Sponsorship, Sponsorship, Sponsorship Prospecting, Sponsorship Recruiting, Sponsorship Sales
Asking For Sponsorship Is Easy! As Long As You Don’t Ask For Money (Yet!) Prospecting is arguably the most important part of the sponsorship sales process. It is through the process of discovery meetings, geared towards information gathering rather than sales, that...
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