There’s a big question lingering here: are you ready to put in some extra effort and to get bigger returns for your brand than those you would get by using traditional advertising? Then sponsor sports, art, and music. Embrace charity or any other cause that is loved and cared about from your target. Become relevant to your target audience doing something they love.
Go the extra mile?
Aren’t you ready to put in that extra effort? Are you already satisfied with what you get from more traditional media and tools? Stick to the usual advertising then. And if it doesn’t work blame the economic situation, the market, volatility or Donald Trump.
It could seem quite a provocative beginning to the story, but it is simply the truth.
Corporate Sponsorship is possibly the most powerful tool for any marketer, providing, just to give an example, the possibility to gain immediate brand awareness and to build a powerful emotional bond with their customers. Those customers who have already decided to watch, who are already engaged. We are not talking about begging a mere two seconds of attention here.
Don’t you believe me? Check this: www.moreaboutadvertising.com/2017/05/750m-wasted-on-uk-mobile-ads-says-new-report/
A Corporate Sponsorship programme provide an endless possibility to organize promotions, PR Activities, or, why not, to think about co-branded products and limited editions. One can use corporate sponsorship packages with hospitalities to engage internal and external targets or maybe to invite that particularly difficult client you are so desperately trying to build a better relationship with.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of building a corporate sponsorship program and it could already be overwhelming, but if you want to play safe, if you do not want to squeeze too much your brain, if you do not want to navigate in unchartered water…then stick to the traditional tools and do not expect anything different from what you can read at the following link: www.marketingweek.com/2016/07/26/marketers-continue-to-waste-money-as-only-9-of-digital-ads-are-viewed-for-more-than-a-second/
Quite simply sponsorship requires from the team that manages the activities a bigger effort than traditional adv. Ok flexibility can be fantastic and you can create a stunning program that overcomes any fixed objective, but do you really bother? Isn’t it easier to safely brief a good advertising agency and a media buyer and to spread your message on the traditional media and on any social platforms? Be sure that when your ad is on millions of people will be checking their phone notifications, minding their own business, washing dishes or simply skipping it… and as you can read below, someone has already noticed it: www.reuters.com/article/us-procter-gamble-advertising/pg-says-cut-digital-ad-spend-by-200-million-in-2017-idUSKCN1GD654
But if you want to make that little extra effort, as the biggest advertiser of the world is doing at the moment (www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2016/11/14/People-and-Pop-Culture/The-Sit-Down.aspx) then give sponsorship a try and be prepared to reap the rewards, just call a corporate sponsorship company like us. And be ready to push hard.
