Your Guide To The New SponsorPitch

Over the last year SponsorPitch has talked to brand side marketers, sponsorship sales professionals, and both buy and sell side agency representatives. We heard the same concern many times over. There are fiercely protected fiefdoms of stale insight in every corner of the market, hoarding information that would have much more value if unleashed to the masses. The result, to our industry's det...

PBR Days in New York

Haven't seen too many bulls around Manhattan for the better part of the past year or so (tags: nyse, nasdaq) so when we got the invite to attend a sponsor reception prior to Pro Bull Riding's Built Ford Tough Series event at the "world's most famous arena," it was hard to take a pass. First off.. If you haven't seen the opening pyrotechnics at one of these things, you've got to check it out....

Two Important Feature Updates

At SponsorPitch, we take privacy very seriously. We believe that it's important that you have full control over every aspect -- with whom you interact and how you interact with them -- always. We put it into action with two updates to the application last Friday. - Users now have the ability to hide their profiles from search so that if you're a sponsor or a property and you don't want to be...

Beta Tester Appreciation Day - This Friday!!

Well, it's been over a month since we launched our beta. We've gotten a ton of helpful and very insightful feedback on SponsorPitch. Now it's our turn to thank you so we're instituting 'Beta Tester Appreciation Day' this Friday, January 17th. If you haven't signed-up for an account (either property or sponsor), you'll want to by then. Friday, we'll draw and announce winners for various pr...

SponsorPitch in KillerStartups.com

Good morning!! For some crazy reason, yesterday was our best day yet, in terms of beta sign-ups. A few notes for Tuesday.. 1. Killerstartups.com reviewed SponsorPitch this morning. Despite a few grammar issues, this seems to be a good review: SponsorPitch - Let Marketers Find You 2. It seems SponsorPitch has made it across the pond. EDP sports marketing, a sports marketing agency in L...

6 Tips for Sponsorship Sellers

We recently came across Gail Bower's 6 Tips for Sponsorship Selling in Turbulent Times. Here's an oversimplified summary for brevity's sake, but check out the full posting if you're interested at Bower & Co's blog: 1. Offer value. 2. Be a true partner. 3. Explore alternate markets. 4. Don't whine. Don't procrastinate. 5. Create the conditions for success. 6. Being flexible is OK; givin...

Happy Snowy Thursday from NY

We had a great day yesterday with a lot of new sign-ups. It appears this thing may be catching on! Folks, be sure to attach a location to your profile. How do you do this? Once you've created a new property in your "MySponsorPitch" dashboard, click on "specific locations" then add a city name and any dates that may be applicable to that specific location. Why is this sooo important? Her...

Meet... the Bahamas Snowboard Team

If there is a Jamaican Bobsled team, why not a Bahamas Snowboard team? When it comes down to it, SponsorPitch, is about telling stories around sponsorship opportunities. Among many of the unique new stories we've recently come across is Korath Wright, who is set to be the first-ever Winter Olympian from the Bahamas by competing in the halfpipe in 2010! Korathwright.com The twenty-two yea...

Perfect Pitch Fridays II & BTAD!!

First off, it's been a pretty crazy week in New York - hats off to an amazing, amazing pilot. We figured we'd wind things up on a Friday with a few prizes to show our gratitude for stopping by our fair little site and dropping feedback during the beta stage. Today's the first, of which we hope will be many, Beta Tester Appreciation Days! Stay tuned to our blog throughout the day, where ...

Beta Tester Appreciation Day Drawing Announcement

We just held two drawings for our inaugural BTAD .. one for our general pool of beta users and the other for those that have given feedback thus far. Drumroll.... First prize ($100 apple gift card) goes to Lauren Rinkey, National Events Manager at Pernod-Ricard (Absolut Vodka). Lauren's at Sundance Film Festival implementing their sponsorship, but tells us she's excited to get back and pick ...