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Tennis legend Billie Jean King is reported to have sent Australian Open winner Maria Sharapova (pic) this text message the morning of the final game: “Champions take chances, and pressure is a privilege.” Maria says that text advice helped her win perfect sets.
My thoughts:
1. Texting can be such a good alternative to email and calls;
2. Champions do take chances, but never thought of pressure as a privilege;
3. I’m slightly annoyed the AP reporter spelled Billie Jean incorrectly;
4. Do we text motivational messages to peers the morning of a big professional challenge?
I believe the quote includes words to live by in pressure-filled professions.
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Pitched as the “YouTube of ideas,” BigThink.com is dedicated to civil discourse. provocative ideas, and intelligent debate, injecting intellectual content into new media. Debuting earlier this month, BigThink.com feels more like YouTube for Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, and…
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Recent idea-sharing included these methods for soliciting sponsor funds:
1. Have companies “host” meetings. Becomes their responsibility to find sponsor(s). They’ll use their own relationships. Always more effective when it’s a customer/friend asking. Plus assures that company will show up.
2. Package a sponsorship program. For example, meeting sponsorship, charitable golf tournament hole sponsorship, trade show space, and/or website ad for one price. The big ask. Better than 4 calls and may expand their willingness to do more.
3. Form a sponsorship task force. Let a group brainstorm ideas on how to get sponsorship funds, and ensure the chairman asks them to each personally commit to finding at least one new sponsor. Many volunteers in our organizations are volunteers of many organizations - and have innovative ideas and contacts- they just haven’t been asked.
4. Asking someone to recommit to same (or more) sponsorship from prior year is one of the few things that may actually work with direct mail request - as long as you have it entirely personalized (include name of contact, amount, event, likely benefit they received or good that was accomplished thanks to them). Or it could take a call.
And 2 things to think about:
1. You can have anything sponsored. When we landscaped our association we put a price tag on every tree and bush; and asked for sponsorships. All sponsored quickly. To save more landscaping money we hired a professional landscaper to design, buy and supervise the planting - but we had members donate their labor. Some wanted to plant the tree or bush they sponsored. It worked great. Five years later I mailed contributors pictures of “their tree” (now of course I’d email it or put on a website.)
2. Ask as early as possible for funds each year - and get the payments. Many organizations have limited budgets for contributions/sponsorships and others likely competing for those same dollars.
Have you done anything unique with sponsorships?
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If you passed the exam, use the comments feature to shout hooray for yourself!
Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive
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A week from today I will be in the air winging my way to our organization’s annual convention. Between now and mid-February, blogging here will be either very light or frantically busy, depending on how much I find myself at odd hours needing to think about something else.
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If you use Web conferencing technology, or even just are thinking about it, Ken Molay of the Webinar Blog has set up a great site for you. Here’s a little of what he has to say about it:
The site is a bulletin board and open forum for anyone with an opinion, story, question, or passion […]
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Yesterday, though I can’t find any news stories about it, I heard on the MeCo listserv that the front desk systems at some Las Vegas hotels went down for several hours, causing some pandemonium among those looking to check in and check out. Then today we heard that the Monte Carlo hotel and casino on […]
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Kevin Holland tagged me.
In the blog world, bloggers sometimes play tag - similar to the game you may have played as a kid.
In this game, I’ve been challened to share eight things you may not know about me.
Given I encourage leaders to play together on the Chapter Leaders Playground, I had no choice but […]
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I just returned home from my annual mandated training by the American National Standards Institute for assessors evaluating conformance with ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024 for accreditation of personnel certification programs. It may not sound exciting, but it was the best certification professional development I’ve engaged in since, well, the same training event last year. As a consultant, I’m most often in the position of educating others - which I love; however, educating others doesn’t often stretch my…
Tennis legend Billie Jean King is reported to have sent Australian Open winner Maria Sharapova (pic) this text message the morning of the final game: “Champions take chances, and pressure is a privilege.” Maria says that text advice helped her win perfect sets.