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Sponsorship is one way that speakers and keynote presenters can grow their speaking business and revenue.

Sponsorship is not a gift or a handout; rather, a company provides sponsorship for specific return on investment (ROI). Because of this marketing relationship, speakers can helps sponsors highlight their brand, market their business to the audience in front of the speaker, and more.

Some exciting new trends and changes in the sponsorship world are emerging that speakers should be aware of.

There are many reports stating that brands are moving more into sponsorship and replacing traditional philanthropy budgets with sponsorship budgets.

Let’s face it... raising dreams and building a business can be tough and isolating, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Raising big dreams like the ones you have takes a team. But who says you need a huge budget to build a team?

5 Collaborative Ways to Build Teams Without a Budget​

Below are a few ways that we have built teams to raise dreams without a budget (or while the funds are being generated to pay a team).

Corporate sponsors certainly sponsor a lot of movements, but it is important to be clear that what they are sponsoring is the ways in which your movement, cause, message, event, dream, or project solves some of their marketing and brand management needs.

Sponsorship decision-makers measure the value and ROI (return on investment) they received from the sponsorship spend against the results expected or promised.

For example, if your project or movement promised the sponsor very concrete ways to connect them with your audience (which is likely one of the reasons they agreed), you will need to be able to report the results. Such tracking can happen through recording video/photo reach, comment numbers, and engagement metrics, to name a few.

Speakers, trainers, keynote presenters, and seminar leaders... have you started growing your business through collaboration and sponsorship?

If not, now's the time to get started. There are billions of dollars available in corporate sponsorship, and your next presentation, speaking tour, book launch or philanthropic project could be uplevelled in income, impact, and influence through corporate sponsorship.

Recently, Charmaine led a mastermind session with speakers who have a successful speaking business and are committed to now building their speaking business through corporate sponsorship and collaborating with influencers.

Getting paid to speak is often a challenge that we hear about from speakers.

When conference organizers have no or low budgets, speakers feel their expertise is not valued. They often have their fee negotiated to next to nothing.

Thankfully, there are many strategies to overcome this challenge. Speakers CAN be paid to speak!

In this article, we'll explore how collaborating with companies and corporate sponsors can bring you your full speaking fee, plus more.

For speakers, keynoters, and seminar leaders who are serious about growing their speaking business through collaboration, sponsorship funds, and influence, one the first few things you must have clarity around is the value that you bring to the sponsor (and their audience).

Clarifying the Speaker/Sponsor Relationship:

When corporate sponsors invest time, in-kind contributions, and sponsorship funding or dollars into your big dreams and projects, they are looking to get return on investment.

You see, sponsorship is a marketing relationship where the sponsor is helping you (e.g. contributing cash and other resources or products to your projects), but you are also helping them.

• ​Are you a speaker who speaks at events and conferences that have sponsors?
• Are you an event host or event planning professional?
• Do you host events, conferences, mastermind, masterclasses, retreats, or trade shows?
  

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, this article and checklist is for you!