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Featured events provide opportunities for education and networking to build better non-dues revenue sponsorship initiatives.

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PPN provides solutions, best practices, education, and training to improve partnership and sponsorship programs.

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Featured events provide opportunities for education and networking to build better non-dues revenue sponsorship initiatives.

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Data Tells Story about Barriers to Generating Sponsor Revenue

Associations are achieving their non-dues revenue budget goals only half or one-third of the time. Non-dues Meeting Sponsorships achieve budget goals 48% of the time; Non-Dues Exhibits 39% of the...
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Competition for Sponsored Components at Conferences

What to do when three companies want to sponsor the same component at the association’s annual conference? This question was posted on an ASAE listserv with an idea about auctioning off the lanyard...
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Words Have Power When It Comes to Successful Sponsorships

Words matter when it comes to organizations' corporate relationships. I worked for an association CEO; we had a robust corporate partner program. The association CEO never called the companies...
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What to do When Your Sponsors “Go Rogue”

A friend whispered to me, “do you know what some companies are doing? They’re not sponsoring or exhibiting at association conferences and expos. They’re registering as attendees, networking with...
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What does Listening have to do with Sponsorship Success?

“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” – Bryant H. McGill This quote is excellent guidance for successful corporate sponsorships and...
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Do Sponsors Sell, Sell, Sell? Not Necessarily

One of the biggest concerns about corporate sponsors is .... if they’re given a platform, they’ll sell. if we let them present at a conference session or webinar, they’ll sell if we let them do...
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Member Email Addresses for Sponsors?

Hardly a week goes by that I don’t hear “our association’s event sponsors and exhibitors want attendee email addresses, however, our policy is to not share email addresses.” The other scenario is...
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The Tipping Point of Sponsorships

Journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell defines the tipping point as “the moment of CRITICAL MASS, the THRESHOLD, the BOILING POINT”. I believe that 2022 was the tipping point for many organizations’...
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BRUCE ROSENTHAL

Bruce Rosenthal is a strategic advisor and consultant to associations and not-for-profit organizations, creating successful corporate sponsorship and partnership programs that increase revenue and add member/constituent value.

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