This document summarizes Patricia Martin's presentation on sponsorship. It provides an overview of sponsorship basics, including how sponsorship differs from philanthropy in being value-based rather than need-based. It also discusses how the top sponsoring categories have changed over time, with technology, telecom, healthcare and energy rising. Additionally, it outlines the intangible and tangible value sponsors can gain through access to targeted audiences, goodwill, and showcasing products. Finally, it offers tips for getting sponsorship deals, including conducting a self-assessment, developing proposals, negotiating contracts, fulfillment, and measurement.
3. Sponsorship Basics
Sponsorship is a marketing strategy
used to communicate about a product
or service by affiliating with an event,
experience, or organization that is
valued by the sponsor’s customers.
6. Sponsorship re-boots
• Social responsibility
• Hybrid spending
• Volunteer management/employee
experiences
• Web 2.0 features
7. That Was Then
Top 5 sponsoring categories:
• Beverage
• Automotive
• Food—sampling/retail traffic
• Financial services
• Retail
8. This is Now
Top sponsoring categories:
• Beverage
• Automotive
• Technology
• Telecom
• Health care
• Energy
9. What Sponsor’s Value
Access to targeted audience
Drive sales
Good will
Employee/customer relations
Showcase product attributes
Influence influentials
Imagery/context
15. Biggest Barrier?
Not Enough Time to Sell
Entire sales cycle represents 9 to 18 month effort
Your work
begins here
Set campaign focus
and sponsorship
policies. Sales effort
starts here
Prioritize
Note objections; prospects
Refine; Tailor proposals by industry
Close
Create
awareness;
Prepare
Get meetings
sales
materials
16. Solicitation
Drive Warm Leads
1. Create a sampling program.
2. Offer B2B hospitality to existing sponsors.
3. Raise profile with PR.
4. Join/form a business group.
5. Help sponsor be “super hero”
Which super hero would you be?
18. Go!
Cold calling:
Polish your elevator speech
• Do your research
• Practice the script
• Expect rejection
• Have a next step.
19. Selling
What is an elevator pitch:
1) What we do
2) What difference we make
3) For instance….
20. Selling
“We are e-Learning experts who have
discovered which kind of online
learning actually changes behavior. We
help McDonald’s make a perfectly
consistent fry around the world and
Mayo Clinics outpatients take their
meds.”
21. Selling
First meeting -To Pitch or Probe?
• Ask permission to pitch: Would it help…
• Elevator + broad brush strokes
• Ask probing questions
22. Go!
Prepare proposal
• Develop detailed proposals based on:
– Information gathered at the first meeting.
– Answer the needs of the business
24. Selling
Negotiation
• Deal with objections — unanswered
questions
• Establish next steps.
• Negotiations begin.
• Contract is prepared.
• Contract is signed and circulated.
25. Selling
Tips for a down economy:
• Get a meeting – go where you are
known and loved
• Voice mail – leave it, briefly, gleefully
• Be a collaborator—Container Store,
Volvo, State Farm and Hospital
26. Aftermath
Fulfillment
• Celebrate and acknowledge.
• Internal team meeting “Here is what
we agreed to.”
27. Measurement
Tips:
• Use radio with phone-in give-aways
• Develop web downloads
• Use ticket bounce-backs or envelopes
• Create sweeps and raffles for product give-
aways
• Encourage test drives.