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I need help finding corporate sponsors...any suggestions?Views: 758
Jan 14, 2009 2:49 pmI need help finding corporate sponsors...any suggestions?#

Rebbekah White

For our Boston Radio show HYTR does have to pay for the air time, I am currently looking for sponsors to cover the costs of the air time.

However this area is very new to me and I am feeling way out of my own element in this area.

Does anyone have any experience in this area?

How to write to companies with proposals for sponsorships?

How to find companies that fit with our mission and our show theme?

Has anyone written a grant or talked to angel investors?

Thanks in advance :)


Rebbekah White
http://www.healyourselftalk.com
http://www.healyourselfmagazine.com

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Jan 14, 2009 3:42 pmre: I need help finding corporate sponsors...any suggestions?#

Dave Jackson
For me I look at who is my audience. What do they use, where do they eat, where do they shop. This is your potential advertiser.

For me on my "Logical weight loss" podcast I found someone who had a CD "Skinny songs" it was an obvious fit. If you can't find a sponsor, check out affiliate marketing where you can recommend products with a special link. There are places like Commission Junction and Share a Sale If someone purchases that product, you get a commission.

I also track all of my clicks to the advertiser so I can show them the traffic they received because of me. I use a program called "cloak and tracker" from Jay Jennings Obviously affiliate marketing only works if someone buys, and that's a bit of a gamble. I often will purchase a domain name ($7 bucks a year at godaddy.com using the coupon code cooler3 ) and point that to my affiliate link. For example the URL www.trydlg.com is a website I put up with a video about the product "Download Guard." I also have the URL www.podcastvoicemail.com where people can get a toll free voicemail number for 2 bucks a month. That URL points directly at the company.

You can put up a website for $2 a month at www.coolerwebsites.com and make that site (using wordpress which is free and installs in about 5 mouse clicks) all about that ONE product. More and more Internet marketers are doing this. They make a site about one product.

I know I'm slightly off the topic now, but if you can't find a sponsor, some times you have to make one up.

Dave Jackson
School of Podcasting
Podcast Fast Pass

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Jan 14, 2009 3:52 pmre: re: I need help finding corporate sponsors...any suggestions?#

Penny Haynes
Fabulous answers, Dave. I love the option of creating your own sponsorship as well. Nice job!

Penny Haynes, http://www.CommercialCreationCenter.com
Download the FREE EXCERPT of "101 Things To Do With Audio And Video
(To Promote Your Business)" at http://101ThingsAudioVideo.com

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Jan 14, 2009 4:17 pmre: re: I need help finding corporate sponsors...any suggestions?#

Rebbekah White

Thank you Dave I do have a lot of affliate programs. The costs to run the radio show right now WAY out weigh what I bring in with the advertisers etc.


I will try out the tracker information however as that will help as well.

Basically I need on air sponsors for the LIVE AM Boston and Plymouth area, for on air commercials. The site ads etc are not hard to get I need companies who want their 30 second to 1 minute on air commercials heard in the Boston and MA target market :)but we are also streamed LIVE online during our show times and all shows are up for at least 9 months so their commercials will be heard over and over again for 9 months, so it is not just a 4 week sponsorship...the value of what sponsors receive when advertising on LIVE Radio is so low cost to what most radio stations charge that I shouldn't have a problem getting them but I have never had to contact corporations or big businesses before so am a little out of my enviroment there :)


I am gathering businesses in that area right now to contact them.

Thanks for the information.


Rebbekah White
http://www.healyourselftalk.com

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