Do you sponsor? Where in the best invested monies?
Little league teams, wine tastings - more my clientele?
We are having a wine festival to celebrate a new vineyard/ development in my county and I would love to sponsor but will it pay off?

Please share your thoughts and experiences!
Im mainly portraiture right now trying to break into weddings ect.

Thanks!

It totally depends on the market you wish to reach. You'll likely attract different markets w/ little league than you will with wine tastings. What best fits your target market?
Sponsorships are probably more useful for name recognition, and less likely to return immediate results, but you never really know until you try.

Mark

Thank you Mark. I want to invest my ad money in the best place and my target market are the wine drinkers. Ill go for it.

i try and sponsor things that would benefit and also things that are just a good reason too. I sponsor a girl for our town pagent. TONS of people come to that pagent like the entire town and so many potential seniors. That is mainly my market, so for weddings i dont that would be a great way to advertise. My name also goes in the brochure with the biggest ad cuz i do the pagent pictures for free, also my name is on the picture in the paper. so it really seems like a win win for my town in advertising just for spending 100.00 and my time for the shoot.

i know some people do the free charity sessions or do a display at them. i havent had the best of luck but then i dont put a big display up.

Look at who you are trying to target and try and go from there.

Thank you Julie!