in the words of our clients…
Dave Stewart
Founder, Wet Fly Swing Podcast
Christine Thompson
Gifts Manager, rare Charitable Research Reserve
Kevin Grothe
Memphis in May International Festival
Rush Olson– Creative & Marketing Consultant- Vertical Challenge LLC
Director, Operations
SynBioBeta
Co-Owner, DUSK Music Festival
Director, Business Development and Members Rewards – Quarter Century Club (QCC)
Manager, Operations and Marketing, Zachery Tinkle #53 Race Team
Founder- LivABLE Environment Inc.
President, Afro Caribbean B
Founder / Director at Spontza
Chief Executive Officer, Free To Live Management Services
Morgan Rolfes
Senior Program Director at FOCUS
Wins from inside the community...
Here's What People Are Saying...
The Sponsorship Accelerator program has been a game changer for me. Not only did it boost my confidence in my ability to valuate my property and speak to prospects, but it also provided clear guidance on how to effectively secure sponsorships. The training modules and coaching support were instrumental in helping me transform from someone seeking sponsorship to someone who knows how to successfully acquire them. I highly recommend the Sponsorship Accelerator program to anyone looking to level up their sponsorship skills.
The Sponsorship Collective helped me organize my project, set up a plan, and set the plan in motion. It also gave me a VERY different approach which actually makes more business sense than the way I was approaching it. Excellent training!
The Sponsorship Accelerator was hands down the best investment I have ever made in my professional career. I gained so much knowledge about sponsorship and was able to put it to practice and leave the program with 8 sponsors in 90 days! The modules, coaches, and feedback are all top notch!
As someone who was brand new to sponsorships, I was helped tremendously by The Sponsorship Collective. I was able to create a solid foundation for building a program and have grown our sponsorship revenue by 5x since taking the course. Thank you Chris Baylis!!!
Working with The Sponsorship Collective has allowed us to enhance our partnership program by instituting a “partner first” approach. We have implemented proper valuation techniques and continue to build out activations that put our sponsors interests first. Using The Sponsorship Collective’s methodology throughout process has been invaluable.
The whole team at The Sponsorship Collective has relevant and insightful experience that will set you on a path for success when engaging in the world that is sponsorship. The tools, the team, the access to resources was incredible and I am still using them everyday! Thank you Chris for making this daunting part of event management less daunting.
Chris is a genius! Him and his team have single handily helped me systematize my business and scale. From start to finish, their program breaks down the step-by-step process for identifying an audience, creating a viable valuation for an offer, target the right sponsors for my audience, create a system for reaching out to these sponsors and coach through the closing. There is no other service like TSC out there and I can't speak enough about how great they are. I highly recommend these guys.
Making the decision to work with The Sponsorship Collective is the most impactful decision we have made this year. Building the organizational capacity to approach sponsorship properly and effectively is essential to our financial viability.
The methodology and tools provided by The Sponsorship Collective have completely changed our mindset, confidence level, and ability to define and put a value to what we have to offer prospective sponsors. We can identify prospective sponsors that are a good fit, providing benefit to our membership, and who will want to work with us because we can offer custom solutions to help them achieve their goals.
Chris and his team are truly responsive and dedicated to helping us every step of the way, and we increased our sponsorship revenue just a short time into the program.
Highly effective program.
Great team.
Highly recommended!
If you haven’t yet engaged The Sponsorship Collective in a project, I encourage you to make that call – you won’t regret it.
As a newcomer to the world of sponsorship, I was amazed at the depth of experiential knowledge and training methodology used to walk me step-by-step through the process. The combination of instructive videos, assignments, feedback and coaching provided every opportunity for customizing to suit my needs.
I especially enjoyed the group coaching calls which Chris facilitated with complete candour and humour. I am a true fan of The Sponsorship Collective.
Working with the Sponsorship Collective has been invaluable to us. We now not only have market tested valuations for our sponsorship properties, we have learned how to continue to build and refine our sponsorship strategies and approaches independently. They break down every step of the sponsorship process so that even a true beginner can employ their strategies and tools.
Engaging The Sponsorship Collective has been a game changer for us.
The tools, resources and the way in which Chris encourages you to approach sponsorship, is from a mutually beneficial, conversational standpoint. This turns the old school style of “asking for money” to a conversation between two partners that have like-minded goals and want to work together, making the term corporate partnership much more understandable and attainable.
Chris’s teaching methods are based off years of experience and learning from his stories of successes and tribulations resonates so deeply for anyone who has experience working with sponsors. He is approachable and always takes the time to dive into any questions our team has had. Chris genuinely wants you to succeed in securing partnerships that are meaningful for your organization and you end up feeling like he truly is a member of your team.
My associate and I took a whole new approach to sponsorships for our annual event this year based on the suggestions of The Sponsorship Collective. It was overwhelmingly well received! We’ve done much more advertising and public acknowledgement of donors, reduced the number of people sponsors have to strong-arm into attending yet another of the dozens of events that happen in our community at this time of year, and we increased sponsorship revenue.”
Chris Baylis and The Sponsorship collective were a huge help to our organization in figuring out corporate sponsorship. Their program was very well defined and enabled us to train a number of people. We ended up with multiple ideas and tools to take forward and Chris remained available even after for a couple follow up support questions. I would definitely recommend this program.
I’ve been fundraising & selling sponsorships for almost 20 years and what I love MOST about Chris is his kindness in being thorough and straightforward with a no-fluff approach to teaching and coaching to help you get RESULTS!
If you want to learn from a true professional & expert in sponsorships, Chris is the man!
I had the privilege to be part of the 90 day accelerator group! It was 1 of the best investments I could have made as an entrepreneur. I had a clear vision, but with little knowledge of the industry, The Sponsorship Collective coaches really helped me connect the missing dots! I learned so much about my audience, and how to make my company more appealing to sponsors. Since being a part of the collective, I have met with 4 major global corporations who are interested in partnering! Thank you Chris, Mark, Maria, Chris Norwood, and all of my accelerator team mates! -Shea, NYC
I have found so much value in the Sponsorship Collective from day one, I did a lot of research about sponsorships and worked for months before finding Chris Baylis & his amazing team - I was able to learn & understand more about it in a few days from the SC than I had gathered in those 3+ months of work on my own. I highly value the way things are organized and explained, with clear insight from experience offered around every corner, in every step of the videos, assignments, interactions with coaches, and FB community, I honestly feel I cannot fail. We have no choice but to succeed as long as we use these many incredible resources! I couldn't be more excited to have found them, I've seen a lot of things in my research & experiences, so I try to express my appreciation properly for Chris and his dedicated team for providing such comprehensive resources along with the insight they've gained through their experience! Thanks guys, cheers!!!
I cannot stress how instrumental Chris and his entire team have been in supporting our and our client’s events. They are without a doubt the GO TO resource for anyone even remotely serious about engaging sponsors for their events.
After 20 years in the events industry I haven’t come across another team more knowledgeable, well connected and supportive. Do their programs. Hire them. Your events will never be the same again 🙂
The Sponsorship Collective is hands down the most important program I have implemented for my business! Chris and his team set me for success through a step x step program and information that just isn't available anywhere else. I have not only launched my program higher than ever this year but now have a baseline for scaling things over time. You won't regret working with Chris and the Sponsorship Collective Team
I highly recommend working with The Sponsorship Collective. They are the go-to resource for all things sponsorship and have consistently exceeded my expectations.
Hi Chris,
I just want to tell you how amazing that The Sponsorship Collective is and I'm not one to sign up for paid conferences or training online very often. I reached out to 18 people on Sunday with your email template and already got 11 meetings booked!
What an eye-opener it is to simply change your mindset and truly focus on what matters to the prospect! One prospect, who advised me that sponsorship has been cut back, said that our phone call today was the most fun he had all week!
He's now looking forward to receiving a custom sponsorship proposal draft which won't have any tiers!
Thank you!
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend your work to anyone else who has to solicit sponsorship!
I absolutely loved taking part in the Sponsorship Collective’s Accelerator program! I was looking for a way to create financial win-wins with sponsors/ funders as a filmmaker. And Chris, Mark, Chris N., and the team showed me in so many ways how to be and do that. What surprised and thrilled me is how much the philosophy Chris and his team teach lines up with my own story and my approach to business and life: I highly value and always want to learn more about really listening to understand the needs and wants of others. With the skills and the understanding of sponsorship development I gained, I know that my business and the impact I have on the lives of others is going to soar higher than ever before.
Thank you for seeing me, hearing me, and greatly encouraging my creative properties and ideas! I was truly blessed by the team and the community!
Working with The Sponsorship Collective has allowed us to enhance our partnership program by instituting a “partner first” approach. We have implemented proper valuation techniques and continue to build out activations that put our sponsors interests first. Using The Sponsorship Collective’s methodology throughout process has been invaluable.
Chris challenges the status quo of sponsorship where we all create a logo soup of gold, silver and bronze and occasionally dare to reach for a platinum sponsorship! When we ask why sponsors aren't buying our packages, Chris helps change the conversation to finding out what the sponsor wants and matching those with our organization so that both of us leave happy from the party.
Chris also challenges us to look at our 'products' and look for unconventional sponsors. It's not about us, it's about the customers we have at our event that businesses want to reach and if that aligns there's an ROI you can capitalize on to build a better relationship with your sponsors
Most of my sales experience comes from Corporate America. I was asked constantly to sponsor events but no one ever asked me what I wanted, what my goals were, very frustrating!
The Sponsorship Collective’s approach is a game changer!
THIS is what I had been looking for and I have already seen great success!
Toss everything you thought you knew about sponsorships out the window. Seriously.
The Sponsorship Collective has NAILED the sponsorship approach for our current fundraising climate!
Chris is someone you would want alongside you in a sponsorship royal rumble. He is sharp, creative and provides solid advice based on years of experience.
Working with the Sponsorship Collective team was amazing. TSC gave us the confidence, all the tools and skills that we needed to be successful in approaching and presenting to sponsors. The program is fun to follow, the documents that we need to present to the coaching team are logical and well-thought. The coaches are there to follow up and you will feel supported 100% of the time. The coaching calls are motivating and really helpful. TSC was a great investment for the upscaling of our business. It was challenging at some point, and the constant support of the team made us succesful. We are now confident in approaching sponsors (and big ones!).
I have been in Advertising and Marketing for over 33 years working with over 5000 clients. I recently decided to branch out into sponsorship sales to help a friend. Thinking that would be an easy addition but I knew I needed help right after my first few sponsorship calls.
Sponsorship was not the same as advertising selling.
I researched for sponsorship help and went through about 80-100 sites and read their reviews etc. and in the end, the number one on my list was The sponsorship Collective. I called directly and spoke with them about what I wanted to accomplish and long story short: The best decision made. These tools and advice are a MUST for sponsorship success.
The Sponsorship Collective helped me build a complete foundation, not a house of cards, and we are having overwhelming success. I very strongly recommend this complete solution for anyone looking to close sponsorship deals in today's real time markets.
Not to mention it was actually fun meeting weekly with others doing the same thing as we all helped each other with brainstorming and sharing experiences etc..
Worth every penny!