Pre-conference workshops, May 18
The two pre-conference workshop are led by American/Australian sponsorship expert and keynote speaker Kim Skildum-Reid.The price for the workshops is SEK 2990 (excl VAT). This also includes Kim's book on sponsorship, electronic course material and a complimentary training session with Kim (value $700, can be used anytime in the ensuing 12 months). Read more about the workshops below!
Half-day workshop for sponsors
This workshop will start with a very short overview of best practice sponsorship, then apply that mindset to the practical management and maximisation of corporate sponsorship. This workshop will be highly interactive and a number of the recommended strategies will be demonstrated live with the participants.
Choosing the right sponsorships
- Assessment techniques that work
- Attracting better proposals
Negotiation and contracts
- How to get exactly the benefits you need
- Right-sizing your sponsorship for maximum impact at the minimum cost
Leverage
- Budgeting for leverage (and why most companies spend way too much)
- Gaining internal buy-in
- Getting to the big idea - two approaches for meaningful, groundbreaking, effective leverage
- Getting big impact from small sponsorships
- Protecting yourself from ambush
Measurement
- Best practice measurement: Measuring what matters
- Getting sponsorship research right
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Half-day workshop for sponsorship seekers / rightsholders
This workshop will start with a very short overview of best practice sponsorship. We will then cover the most important practical skills and tools a sponsorship seeker needs to raise their sponsorship revenues. This workshop will be highly interactive and many of the skills will be demonstrated live with the participants.
Targeting potential sponsors
- Finding the best matches
- Finding the sponsors most likely to say "yes"
- What you need to know about them
Creating the offer
- Building the offer from the sponsor's perspective - a must!
- Taking the constraints off your benefits list
- Customisation vs volume
- Pricing
- Offer development issues
- Formalising the offer in a proposal
The sales process
- Meetings and other communications
- Who should sell your sponsorships
- Negotiation, payments, and contracts
Servicing
- Why good servicing is even more important that good selling
- Three keys to great servicing
