Here goes – our annual pitch to sponsors for the Online Community Unconference. It’s a huge event and great exposure, so we’re happy telling you why you should sponsor the event!
Forum One’s annual Online Community Unconference takes place on June 9th, 2010 in Mountain View, CA. The Unconference is an open space gathering of online community and social media professionals from the commercial and non profit sectors. We expect over 300 participants to attend this year.
A partial list of attendee organizations includes: Genentech, Panasonic, Linden Lab, Wells Fargo, LinkedIn, Google, Microsoft, Skoll Foundation, NetApp, Autodesk, Jigsaw, Flickr, Rosetta Stone, Care2.com, WellsFargo, SEGA of America, Norton, Symantec, and Intel (to name a few).
Online community professionals come to the event to discuss optimizing their online communities and social media programs. It’s an excellent and engaged audience. If you’d like exposure for your firm or products, here are three reasons to consider sponsoring:
1. Fantastic (but appropriate) Visibility
As a sponsor, you will receive the “normal” event perks – your logo on conference materials, acknowledgment at the event, a sponsor banner. The key to our sponsors’ success is that we don’t oversell our sponsorships, and we limit the number of service providers attending the event so that the ratio of practitioners to service providers is favorable (which also makes for a better attendee experience). You will also have an opportunity to address the full conference for 5 minutes shortly after lunch. In short: Limited competition for attention, you are free to participate as an attendee, and you get the events full attention shortly after lunch.
2. Good Value
Our packages start at $2k, with our premiere package at $5k. (A total steal!) Many events with smaller, less qualified audiences charge twice that, and typically try to cram in as many sponsors in as possible. We also have a handful of underwriting opportunities. Packages exceeding $5k will receive a discount.
3. Attendees are Senior Staff and Have Purchase Power & Influence
Forum One has hosted online community and social media events for nearly 10 years. Over the years, we have built a very senior network of community practitioners and executives. Most of the attendees at our conferences have direct purchase influence, and many have purchase authority. Business *gets done* at our events between sponsors and attendees.
That’s it in a nutshell: great event, great visibility, solid value and an awesome attendee list.
We really do appreciate your time and attention.
If you are interested in discussing terms, please contact me.
Now back to our regularly scheduled community and social media programing. 
