[clue-admin] Re: RFC: Potential Sponsorship Benefits

[Greg Knaddison]

Should i take the lack of Are folks more interested in just looking
for donations from the membership? I've got a list of potential
sponsors to contact if we get agreement on the details here.

Maybe this got swallowed by the spam protection because I used the
wrong sender name?

Greg

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Greg Knaddison
<Greg at growingventuresolutions.com> wrote:
> Hello Clue-admins,
>
> Here are the ideas I can brainstorm to give value to sponsors without
> being overly annoying to members of the group.
>
> 1. Show the sponsors on the "sponsors" page of the website and remove
> any sponsors who haven't given (money, gifts or time) in over a year
> and who are not interested in renewing.
> 2. Include sponsors name in the footer of e-mails, or in a periodic
> (monthly? quarterly? yearly?) mail to the lists.
> 3. Mention the sponsors at the meetings.
> 4. Something else - this is where you folks suggest ideas ;)
>
>
> Potential ways of asking for money:
>
> * We would do "tiers" of sponsorship where different tiers get
> different benefits.  I'm inclined not to do this because it feels
> overly complex.
> * We could ask the cash donors to sponsor the hosting by the month.
> Then we could find some way to highlight the sponsor (footer of
> e-mails and/or in a block on the sidebar of the website) during "their
> month."
> * We could ask for at least X amount of money ($20?) and treat all the
> sponsors the same.
> * Something else
>
> I think we should discuss this as a group first.  Once we're pretty
> happy with the plane we would bring it up to the folks on the -tech or
> -talk mailing list asking them to become a sponsor or to suggest
> sponsorship to companies they know might be interested. I think it
> should be no problem to have this all sorted by mid-January.
>
> Thanks!
> Greg
>
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