Balticon Sponsorship Opportunities

By marketing your company’s products or services to Balticon members, you reach a demographic of people of above average intelligence who are tech savvy and are in middle to high income brackets. Balticon members come from all over the United States, Canada and Europe, with about 72% coming from the east of the Mississippi River in the U.S. Balticon Program Participants come from a considerably broader geographic area.

Index to Balticon Sponsorships

Point Of Contact Marketing:
In addition to reaching current year Balticon members, your sponsor ad in our BSFan will reach hundreds of additional people as we give away additional copies of the BSFan when we market Balticon through our fan table presence at many other conventions. Your advertisement  will remain on the Balticon website for six to twelve months (depending on when we receive your ad) and will reach the thousands of viewers who visit the Balticon website over the course of those months.

Balticon print publications include:

The BSFan, our commemorative convention book, printed on high gloss paper in black and white with a full color heavy cover and 8 to 16 full-color center pages

The Balticon Pocket Program, which contains descriptions of all program items, as well as the convention, Anime Room, Art Show, Concert, Dealers Room, and Special Events schedules.

The Balticon Participant Book, which contains a listing of all guests and program participants and their biographical and, in some cases, bibliographical information.

The Rocket Mail, an at-con daily bulletin covering schedule changes, notes from staff, and lists of parties and receptions.

You can support Balticon and your own marketing goals by putting your name in the hands of our members. We can use:

• Reusable plastic, poly, or fabric tote bags with the Balticon 50 logo and your logo or ad imprinted on them. We’ll load each bag up for Balticon 50 members with the BSFan and other convention publications, promotional materials, and miscellaneous goodies.
  Minimum 2,500 pieces.
• Highlighters or pens with your imprint on them. Balticon members will use these to mark up their pocket program and program grid to plan their personal con schedules. We’ll include them in the Registration Bags, and put them at the Registration, Volunteers, LARP, and Masquerade Registration desks.
  Minimum 2,500 pieces (3,000 recommended).
• Your promotional literature and/or item (magnets, key fobs, lanyards, bookmarks, bookplates, mini flashlights, little toys, and 3-D puzzles are always a hit). We’ll include these in the Registration Bags (a.k.a. “swag” bags).
  Fee for this service is ten cents ($.10) per item per bag, Minimum 2,500 pieces ($250.00).
• Your 20%, $2.00 discount, or free item discount coupon (with an expiration no earlier than December 31, 2016) to be placed in our registration bags.
  Fee:  $.07 per item per bag for a minimum of 2,500 pieces ($175.00).

• Balticon 50 General Sponsorship Proposal Cover Letter
• Balticon 50 General Sponsorship Proposal
• Balticon 50 BEB Sponsorship Proposal
• Balticon 50 Sponsor Agreement

Making Balticon 50 Happen — Sponsorships:

As a Balticon Golden Anniversary Sponsor, your donation can be in the form of cash, merchandise, equipment in working order (coffee makers, restaurant chafing dishes, microwave ovens, crock pots, sewing machines or sergers; high resolution projectors or DVD players, audio and video recording equipment, screens), or services. Donations can be untargeted (going into the general Balticon 50 operating fund), or you can request to sponsor a specific event, program track or function.

We offer the following incentives to encourage Balticon sponsorship:

	Friend of Balticon” sponsor donations are valued up to $126. “Friend of Balticon” sponsor names are listed on the BSFan sponsors list and on the Balticon website.
	“We Balticon” sponsor donations are valued from $294. “We Balticon” sponsor names are are included on the Balticon sponsors list on the web, in the BSFan, and in the Balticon Pocket Program.

The following are some areas you can dedicate your Sponsorship to. Amounts are what is budgeted for those items, but we are grateful for anything you can spare to help Make Balticon 50 Happen!:

Sponsored guests, events or function spaces will be listed it in the program book, website and at-con either as [Alumnus name(s), Event or Function] is part of Balticon Golden Anniversay celebration thanks to help from [list of Sponsor Names], or “ [Alumnus name(s), Event or Function] Brought to Balticon through the generosity of: [SPONSOR NAME]”.

	LUNAR Sponsorship, valued from $504, includes these benefits:
•	A business card sized black and white ad in the BSFan
•	Your ad up to 168px X 126px (linked to your website) on the Balticon website
•	Your company name and/or logo included on the Balticon sponsors list on the web and in the BSFan.

	TERRAN Sponsorship, valued from $840, includes these benefits:
•	A business card sized black and white ad in the BSFan;
•	Web ad up to 210px X 168px (linked to your website) on the Balticon front page
•	Your promotional material in Balticon Registration (a.k.a. “swag”) Bags
•	Your company name and/or logo included on the Balticon sponsors list on the web and in the BSFan

	STELLAR Sponsorship, valued from $1764, includes these benefits:
•	1/8 (eighth) page black and white ad in the BSFan
•	Your ad up to 252px X 210px (linked to your website) on the Balticon website
•	Your promotional material in Balticon Registration (a.k.a. “swag”) Bags
•	Your company name and/or logo included on the Balticon sponsors list on the web and in the BSFan

	GALACTIC Sponsorship, valued from $2,100, includes these benefits:
•	Your company name and/or logo included on the Balticon sponsors list on the web and in the BSFan and Pocket Program
•	Your ad up to 294px X 252px (linked to sponsor website) on the Balticon website
•	Your promotional material in Balticon Registration (a.k.a. “swag”) Bags
•	Your video, photo or graphic advertisement on the Balticon at-con promo loop
•	1/4 (one-quarter) page black and white ad in the BSFan

	WARPSPEEED 100 Sponsorship, valued from $4,200, includes these benefits:
•	A half page color ad in the color pages of the BSFan
•	Your ad up to 336px X 294px (linked to your website) on the Balticon and BSFS websites
•	Your promotional material in Balticon Registration (a.k.a. “swag”) Bags
•	One (1) complimentary Balticon memberships
•	Invitation for one (1) representative to join some of the Balticon 50 Guests of Honor, Very Special Guests, and staff for “Dinner with the Con Chair.”
•	Your company name and/or logo included on the Balticon sponsors list on the web and in the BSFan

	HYPERSPACE Sponsorship, valued from $8,400, includes these benefits:
•	Either a full-page black and white ad on the inside back cover or a half page color ad in the color pages of the BSFan
•	Your ad up to 336px X 294px (linked to your website) on the Balticon and  BSFS websites
•	Your promotional material in Balticon Registration (a.k.a. “swag”) Bags
•	Two (2) Balticon 50 memberships.
•	Invitations for 2 representatives to join some of the Balticon 50 Guests of Honor, Very Special Guests, and staff for “Dinner with the Con Chair.”
•	One Dinner Companion (1) seat at “The Feast of Ice and Fire — An Evening with George R. R. Martin” on Thursday, May 24, 2016
•	Your company name and/or logo included on the Balticon sponsors list on the web and in the BSFan and Pocket Program
•	The option to send a representative to offer a presentation at Balticon. If you choose this option, we will reserve a 50-minute slot in the Balticon schedule for your presentation.

	MULTIVERSE Sponsorship, valued from $12,600, includes these benefits:
•	A full-page color ad in the BSFan and a full-page black and white ad in the Pocket Program.
•	Your ad up to  336px X 294px (linked to sponsor website) on the Balticon  and  BSFS websites
•	Your promotional material in Registration (a.k.a. “swag”) Bags
•	Your promotional video embedded on the Balticon website
•	Three (3) complimentary Balticon 50 memberships
•	Invitations for three representatives to join some of the Balticon 50 Guests of Honor, Very Special Guests, and staff for “Dinner with the Con Chair”
•	Two Dinner Companion (2) seats at “The Feast of Ice and Fire — An Evening with George R. R. Martin” on Thursday, May 24, 2016
•	Your company name and/or logo included on the Balticon sponsors list on the web and in the BSFan and Pocket Program
•	The option to send a representative to offer a presentation at Balticon. If you choose this option, we will reserve an 80-minute (1-1/2 program hours) slot in the Balticon schedule for your presentation

The Bring ‘Em Back Project

This year we’re raising money to bring to the Balticon Golden Anniversary event all of the Guests of Honor from Balticon 1 through 49 who are willing and able to join us! We were thrilled by the responses to our invitation by these former Guests of Honor.

Twenty-one Balticon Guest of Honor Alumni, including 4 SFWA Grand Masters, from Balticon’s 15 to 49, originally accepted our invitation, but several have had to drop out. The Alumni who originally accepted and their current status is as follows:

Thanks to all of the Bring ‘Em Back Patrons and Sponsors, we are ALMOST there. We just need to raise a little more money for Alumni transportation and lodging. Help us get to where we can stick a fork in this project and say “this is DONE!”

You can help us, while marketing to our membership, to Bring ‘Em Back by selecting one of the following “Bring ‘Em Back” Sponsorship Packages.

Bring ‘Em Back Corporate Sponsorships

When you looked at the above list you probably noticed that some year’s Guests of Honor were couples, and some years there were multiple Guests of Honor. For Balticon 26 we had TEN Guests of Honor— the first 10 winners of the Compton Crook Award!

As with General Balticon Sponsorships, Bring ‘Em Back Sponsors wil be acknowledged in Balticon print and web publication:

[Alumnus name(s)] is with us to celebrate Balticon’s Golden Anniversay thanks to help from [your name or your company name].

[Alumnus name(s)] is with us to celebrate Balticon’s Golden Anniversay  thanks to the generosity of [your name or your company name].

SINGLE BERTH Sponsor:

DOUBLE BERTH Sponsor:

MULTI-BERTH Sponsor:

TRANSPORTER Sponsor:

When we take the average of current estimates, here is the way our budgetary needs look:

 GLOBAL TRANSPORTER Sponsor:

We have a couple of GoH Alumni coming from outside the U.S. Their travel expenses will (obviously) be higher, so they are in a separate category!

BRING [Alumnus Name] BACK Sponsor:

BRING [Alumnus Name] BACK to the USA Sponsor:

BRING ‘EM ALL BACK! Sponsor:

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