Shelley Fasulko Nov 3
If you read my posts often enough, you know I’m constantly waxing poetic about how important integrating the consumer into the sponsorship experience is. So it should be no surprise that upon hearing about Stephen Colbert’s, “Colbert Nation” top sponsorship of the U.S. Speed Skating team (if you haven’t already, check out my colleague Rob Campbell’s blog post here) and FanCar’s unique sponsorship opportunities around Sprint NASCAR cars; that I am ready to hand out two big, fat gold stars for fan integration. more
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Rob Campbell Nov 3
Stephen Colbert, anchor of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, is sponsoring the U.S. Speedskating team.
Colbert stepped in to sponsor the U.S. team after current sponsor Dutch bank DSB declared bankruptcy. The sponsorship is in the name of the show’s fans, dubbed the “Colbert Nation.”
Colbert signed a sponsorship deal with Bob Crowley, Executive Director of U.S. Speedskating on camera during an interview with Olympic speedskating great Dan Jansen on November 2.
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Shelley Fasulko Oct 29
Over the past few months the counsel and speaking engagements I’ve been working on seem to keep coming back to a concept I’ve taken to calling Total Value Proposition. I know, I know, the last thing the marketing world needs is yet another buzzword, right? And if this lingo has been coined already (which I’m sure it has), my apologies. What this whole Total Value Proposition idea (as I’ve been discussing it) gets back to is pretty simple; how can a property who’s out there selling sponsorship work what they’ve got to maximum benefit?
Assuming a property has gone through the process of mapping out what sponsorable assets it has to offer, packaging those assets in a salable fashion and pricing them at fair market value, I believe maximizing one’s TVP comes back to two key things:
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Diane Knoepke Oct 29
I read things every day that I wish I’d written. Usually I keep that information to myself, but today I feel compelled to share such an article with you.
We know that one of the keys to success in any organization’s sponsorship program—whether selling or buying—is to get all parties aligned and working toward the same goals. Lead by gaining commitment, not by command or consensus. Making these ideas tangible is not an easy thing, and this article does a better job than others I’ve seen. While it’s not overtly about sponsorship, it doesn’t matter—the ideas and tools ring very true. Instead of “supply chain,” think of “sales pipeline” or “evaluation process” and so on.
Is Your Team Aligned?
By Gaurav Gupta, Lead Consultant, Stroud Consulting
From IndustryWeek, Oct. 23, 2009 more
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Dan Kowitz Oct 28
I recently read an article on Fortune.com about the success of Google. The article focuses on 10 key areas that have made Google wildly successful. As I was reading the article, it became clear to me that if every sponsorship seller followed the same 10 lessons, they too would become wildly successful.
So, I have taken the liberty of listing out the 10 key areas, but with an idea of how they apply to the business of selling sponsorship. Here are the 10 lessons that may help you:
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Jim Andrews Oct 27
Sometimes the identification of emerging sponsorship categories comes straight out of the headlines. For example, we are seeing more activity from the makers of hand sanitizers in the wake of growing concerns over the spread of the H1N1 virus.
Last month’s Tour of Missouri bike race was sponsored by Germ-X, which also has been the official hand sanitizer of the MLB St. Louis Cardinals, the Cincinnati-area’s Newport Aquarium and Branson, Mo.’s Silver Dollar City.
Vancouver-based ALDA Pharmaceuticals Corp. is the official antiseptic hand sanitizer, disinfectant and disinfectant cleaning products supplier to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Games’ speed skating venue—the Richmond Olympic Oval.
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William Chipps Oct 22
Properties that draw Indo-Americans, Hispanics and other multicultural and general market audiences that make frequent international phone calls should put Vonage Holdings Corp. on their prospect list.
The Internet phone service provider last year hired former Cingular Wireless CMO Marc Lefar as its new CEO. At Cingular, Lefar oversaw the telco’s massive sponsorship portfolio that included everything from pro sports teams to festivals, fairs and performing arts organizations. more
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Shelley Fasulko Oct 21
Something was recently brought to my attention by one of my loyal blog readers (who has no problem shooting me straight): I am a perpetual Negative Nelly in my posts. Yep, just one cynical, critical consultant throwing stones at just about everyone and everything. Thing is, when you make your living spotting potential sponsorship red flags and helping people improve their sponsorship program, you become trained to look for problems and admittedly, can overlook the good stuff.
Being a big-time believer in karma, I’d like to put something good out there too. So, this post is a step in the direction of setting my sponsorship karma right, I am actually going to talk about someone doing something well.
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William Chipps Oct 19
In today’s “flat is the new up” sponsorship marketplace, properties that have maintained or increased sponsorship revenue deserve credit.
Such is the case with last month’s Toronto International Film Festival, which managed to offset losses in the financial services and other categories to post a 1 percent increase in sponsorship revenue. New partners for the Sept. 10-19 event included Research in Motion’s BlackBerry; the Procter & Gamble Co. and shoe and apparel marketer The Timberland Co.
Anette Larsson, TIFF’s vice president of sponsorship and development, attributes the festival’s ability to maintain and slightly grow sponsorship revenue to the following three steps:
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Dan Kowitz Oct 19
Most corporations spend the late spring through early fall setting the next year’s sponsorship budget and roster. As a property, if you don’t get on their radar screen over the summer, you don’t usually stand a great chance of having them become a sponsor for next year. This is especially true of larger deals.
However, there is one caveat to that general timeline. When I worked at Ameritech, we did spend most of the summer setting the following year’s budget. If you tried to pitch me a deal of any significance in October (say $100,000-plus), you were not going to have a lot of luck getting that deal done. But every year in the November-December time frame, I would get a note from my boss that said “pick two or three deals that were not in our finalized budget and get them to me by the end of the week.”
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