Current opportunities

  •  DeskDemon.com has an ambitious schedule of online and offline initiatives, with opportunities to develop long-term strategic partnerships across a wide range of activities including conferences and events, dinners, trade shows, road shows, awards, business webcasts, surveys and research and one-off projects.

  •  The DeskDemon Development Network is a membership based online and offline initiative to offer social and business networking, practical training and attractive offers on products and services to the DeskDemon user base. Networking and training events will take place at high quality venues across the UK, with sponsorship opportunities for individual events and ongoing partnerships.

  •  DeskDemon.com's Management Support Fellowship Awards programme is an annual event. Corporate partnership packages include branding of the award, banner advertising, dedicated webcasts, interviews, product promotions, focus groups and other benefits designed to engage and interact with the executive PA, secretarial and office management community. DeskDemon.com aims to attract long-term strategic partners able to add value to the website's online and offline activities for office professionals.

ideasUK
There is a way round the expensive boardroom/consultant tussles on how to get the best out of a valuable workforce: listen to the "Professionals from the Workface" - ideasUK is an association of suggestion scheme managers who work to share their expertise to help others use colleague ideas to the advantage of the business at next to no cost. The association's members have saved thousands of pounds on consultancy fees by using the practical experience of existing suggestion scheme managers within ideasUK. "We are the only non-commercial, not for profit association in the UK dedicated to employee suggestion schemes/reward and recognition processes. ideasUK will host its twenty-fourth annual International Conference at the Mecure Holland House Hotel, Cardiff from the 10th to 11th November, 2010. The conference will provide a forum where experts in Suggestion and Innovation Schemes from all over the world will attend and speak and share best practice. ideasUK also organises the Idea of the Year competition in recognition of the most significant ideas implemented by organisations throughout the calendar year. This competition seeks to recognise employees and organisations for their outstanding ideas. Not only does this competition provide an opportunity for participating organisations to benchmark against other leading organisations, but it also acts as a motivational tool for employees. For the first time we are opening up sponsorship opportunities to the wider business community and have a limited number of packages available. Please see the attached breakdown to find out what each package can offer your organisation". Contact: Anthony Denatale, Operations Manager. Address: ideasUK, Williams House, 11-15 Columbus Walk, Cardiff CF10 4BZ. Tel.: 0844 330 4905. E-mail: anthony@ideasuk.com
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Sponsorship Opportunities

  •   Main Sponsor - £5,000.00
  •   Platinum Sponsor - £1,500.00
  •   Gold Sponsor - £1,000.00
  •   Silver Sponsor - £500.00

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VARIETY EVENTS
Local exhibitions, seminars and clinics organised by Variety Events encourage local businesses to do business in the local community where they live or work. An independent company, working in support of the FSB - Keep Trade Local campaign (Keeping Business Local - Creating Connections That Count), Variety Events has already organised shows in Reading and Newbury and now have six events planned for 2010 in the Thames Valley in Slough, Basingstoke, Aylesbury, Reading, Newbury and Oxford. They have already started to generate substantial numbers of hits on Google and have a large list of followers, exhibitors and attendees for the events. The shows seem sure to grow not just in recognition, but in brand awareness and indeed the company's five year plan is to have an event in each major town in the UK. Clearly there is scope to make these events global with the right sponsor on board and Variety Events has a comprehensive list of sponsorship opportunities on offer. "We're looking for a sponsor to come in at the beginning and see this grow, and with great branding, best practice and customer service sponsors will see their ROI in no time. The events take the form of seminars, advice panels, speed networking and B2B exhibitions locally: in local venues, with local speakers and with local businesses. The Keeping Business Local events are organised by a business team with experience of running successful events in the Thames Valley and beyond". Contact: Ms Debra Mann. Address: 207 Halls Road, Tilehurst, Reading RG30 4PT. Tel.: 0118 008 0074. E-mail: sales@varietyevents.co.uk
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Sponsorship opportunities

Main Sponsor

  •   Sponsoring a key feature at the Keeping Business Local Show provides an excellent opportunity for sponsors to stand out from their competition
  •   Available to a single company, this is an all-encompassing package that provides the sponsor with an excellent marketing opportunity to maximise their brand exposure before and during the Show
  •   The Headline Sponsor package offers sponsors the ultimate high profile association with, and endorsement of the Show - if it is taken up at the outset of the event campaign, sponsors are ensured the maximum associated exposure

Benefits
    : advertising and association with Keeping Business Local and FSB from the onset
    : involvement with marketing plans to build brand
    : PR releases from Variety Events for radio and press
    : Premier Stand at each event
    : another six strategic positions for the sponsor to place banners at each event, reception, main entrance, services, advice panels and speed networking area
    : brand awareness on marketing to attendees for future events
    : online campaigns, links to and from websites
    : £30,000 + VAT for six events and first refusal for year 2, plus franchise opportunities

Seminars Sponsor - £20,000 + VAT

  •   The Seminar Sponsor will be one of the main focal points, directly associated with an exciting range of speakers who will keep visitors inspired and motivated throughout the Show
  •   The seminar programme will include a complete range of expert presentations
  •   Videos of all seminars will be posted online with various links to YouTube and a website for future events
  •   Sponsor will be included in pre-Show marketing and have their brand prominently displayed on the stage; they will be included in the show's marketing for the seminars

The Advice Panel - £2,000 + VAT per show

  •   Sponsoring the Advice Clinic provides the sponsor with a highly targeted branding opportunity: their company name or brand will be displayed prominently with the wording "Sponsored by" appearing above their logo

Show Bag Sponsorship - £1,500 + VAT per show

  •   Bag sponsorship offers multiple branding exposure with the added benefit that visitors leave with them; the sponsor's bags will be available for visitors at the entrance to the show and will be packed full of goodies

Show Bag inserts/promotional samples - £40 per thousand for inserts/promotional samples

  •   Insert a sample or leaflet into the show bag, which is distributed to every visitor

Show Website Banners and Links - £50 + VAT per month

  •   Adverts will give sponsors an eye-catching and long-lasting way to engage with customers as they use the site in the months and weeks leading up to the shows

Sponsorship packages

1. Lead Sponsor's funding will help to underpin the service's admin., site management and PR programme. The sponsor will benefit from prominent branding both throughout the site and on all PR materials.

2. Career-Specific Sponsors benefit from targeted, bespoke, career-related PR campaigns for their particular sector; for example, an engineering/science based company sponsoring a PR/publicity campaign to promote the study of physics or engineering at 'A' level or degree level. Many sectors need an effective means of encouraging entry into their sector and, in this, Growing Ambitions has a valuable role to play. This sponsorship is part in-kind and part financial.