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How To Get Sponsorship To Go To A Blog Conference

By Melissa 5 Comments - The content of this website often contains affiliate links and I may be compensated if you buy through those links (at no cost to you!). Learn more about how we make money. Last edited February 10, 2014.

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Conferences can be a great way to network, learn new information, and even earn more money.  But they are often pricy, and if you are just beginning or don’t have a lot of cash, the cost can keep you from attending.  However, several bloggers have found their way around the obstacle of the expense by seeking sponsorship from a company.

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  • What Is Conference Sponsorship?
  • How To Find Sponsors
  • Tools You Need When Approaching Sponsors
  • How To Help The Sponsor Advertise
  • Drawbacks of Sponsorship

What Is Conference Sponsorship?

Sponsorship offers a reciprocal relationship between a blogger and a company.  The company pays a portion or all of your expenses, and in return, the blogger helps them advertise their company and ideally get new clients.

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In a sense, sponsored bloggers are being paid to help the brand have a presence at the conference. I have attended four blog conferences, with two of them being sponsored.  With the first one, I was sponsored by a cookbook company, and my job was to find other interested bloggers who may want to try out the cookbook and write about it on their blog.  The second one I was sponsored by an Internet company, and my job was to find other bloggers who would like to try out the company and write about it.  For each conference, the sponsors paid all of my expenses, which were just under $1,000 each.

How To Find Sponsors

Look for sponsors you have worked with before.  Have you had a review and giveaway of a company’s product on your blog that was a success?  Do you already work with a company and have a good relationship?  Do you know of a company that sponsored someone else’s attendance at a conference?  Might they be interested in sponsoring yours, too?

You are most likely to find success when you approach a company that you already have a relationship with.  However, if you pursue all of those avenues and don’t have luck, you may want to start contacting companies you have not worked with before.  The key is to have a blog that is a good fit for the company.  For instance, if you have a blog that covers frugality, you probably don’t want to contact a gourmet food company.  Choose companies that fit with your blog.

Tools You Need When Approaching Sponsors

The most important item you need when you request sponsorship is a media kit.  A media kit includes such information as your elevator pitch (a one or two sentence synopsis of the purpose of your blog), as well as your statistics (such as how many visitors you have per month and how many repeat visitors you have, etc), your readers’ demographic, and your advertising rate.  (You can see more details about a media kit here.)

While you can have a general media kit, try to have the one you send to a particular sponsor highlight information that your sponsor is likely to care about.  For instance, the cookbook company that I worked with specialized in once a month cooking, so I included details about the once a month cooking posts I do and how many of my readers also participate in once a month cooking.

When you first approach your sponsor, send them an e-mail stating who you are, why you would like to work with them, and what they can expect from you if they decide to sponsor you.  You might send the media kit after they respond, though some people send the media kit with the initial inquiry.

How To Help The Sponsor Advertise

You will need to work out with your sponsor the best way to advertise at the conference, but some ideas include:

  • mentioning the sponsor in every blog post where you write about the conference
  • tweeting or posting on Facebook about the sponsor a certain number of times
  • wearing the sponsor’s t-shirt
  • handing out materials for the sponsor

Of course, these are just a few ideas; you will likely come up with many more.

Drawbacks of Sponsorship

While sponsorship can save you hundreds of dollars, there are drawbacks.

Instead of networking for yourself and your brand, you may be networking for your sponsor, essentially robbing yourself of potential opportunities.

Also, if you are not extroverted, approaching multiple people to pitch the brand that is sponsoring you can be draining.  You may have to put more energy into pitching the brand than learning at the conference.

Lastly, some conferences are strict about sponsorship.  I attended one conference where the organizer gave permission to openly share with other bloggers anywhere.  However, I attended another conference where talking about your sponsor was only allowed in the hallways, outside of waiting for sessions to begin or end.  This made pitching for the sponsor very difficult.

Sponsorship can make an unaffordable conference affordable, but just make sure that you know what you are getting into before you agree.

Have you received sponsorship before?  If not, is it something you would like to look into?

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Last Edited: 10th February 2014 The content of biblemoneymatters.com is for general information purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Visitors to biblemoneymatters.com should not act upon the content or information without first seeking appropriate professional advice. In accordance with the latest FTC guidelines, we declare that we have a financial relationship with every company mentioned on this site.

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About Melissa

Melissa, a mom to three (ages 15, 10, and 9), blogs at Mom's Plans where she writes about homeschooling, health eating, frugal living, and paying down debt. She works as a freelance writer and virtual assistant.

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  1. Jonathan says

    Aside from the typical monetization strategies like adsense, I didn’t know that avenues like this existed as another option for bloggers. Albeit, I’ve only been an online publisher myself for a month or so. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

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  2. Jason @ WSL says

    I’ve never attended a conference but if I had a sponsorship agreement in place before FinCon this year then it’s likely I would have accepted it! Ultimately it will depend on funds; I can see how there might be a drawback if you have a sponsor, but it’s still something I would look strongly at depending on the company.

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  3. DC @ Young Adult Money says

    I haven’t attended a conference, but I would personally rather foot my own bill and write it off as an expense. I don’t want to be representing a sponsor at my first conference. Maybe down the road if I started to attend multiple conferences a year.

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  4. Peter Anderson says

    I’ve only attended the one conference, the Financial Blogger Conference in 2011, and I didn’t have a sponsorship to attend, it was all paid out of my own pocket. I would consider being sponsored to attend as long as the requirements were something less stringent like wearing the sponsor’s gear, mentioning them in a few posts, or something along those lines. Otherwise, I prefer to use the conference in order to make connections with companies and other bloggers, and use those connections in order to make more money.

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  5. Sylvia @ Miss PF says

    Thank you for this idea. I had not thought about this before! :)

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