Are you looking for ways to expand non-dues or unrestricted revenue through corporate sponsorship? Join Gail Bower in Boston on March 12, 2025.
Let ‘Em Go: 5 Reasons to Part Ways with Corporate Sponsors
For your sponsorship program to evolve, you may need to let certain relationships go. It’s normal. It’s healthy, and it’s more profitable for you. And it also might be causing you a bit of stress just reading this. I get it. Read more, then download the report.
What Gen Z Dating Habits Can Teach Us About Selling Sponsorship
Find out what a new report says how Gen Z feels about dating. Then let’s take a look at how your team—or even you—are feeling about business development and sponsorship. There’s good news, too.
What You Can Learn from Apple Music’s 2023 SuperBowl Sponsorship
Learn the three top takeaways about why one sponsorship of the 2023 SuperBowl was perfectly aligned.
3 Causes of Sponsorship Revenue Stagnation
I’ll bet your organization has a practice or two that is thwarting your ability to secure sponsorship revenue, which will make or break your ability to have an event asset. Find out three causes of sponsorship revenue stagnation.
Gail Bower’s Sponsorship Proposal Workshop
Your corporate sponsorship proposal is one of the most pivotal tools in your sponsorship sales toolbox. If you’re unsure about yours or simply want to know how to write a corporate sponsorship proposal, this workshop is for you.
2021: 10 Reasons To Prioritize Corporate Sponsorship Revenue
If 2020 was your year to stabilize in the face of multiple crises, let 2021 be your year to reset your vision and take back control of your future.
Among your top considerations is your revenue mix.
Based on research my firm co-authored last year, many organizations focused on individual and institutional giving and may have put corporate sponsorship on the backburner, particularly with cancelled in-person events.
Here are ten reasons why now is the time to ramp up your corporate sponsorship engines.
Upgrade Your Sponsorship Program
A big mistake that organizations make with their sponsorship programs is to offer generic levels, such as Gold, Silver, and Bronze levels.
If you ever rode a bike with training wheels, think about generic levels as akin to training wheels. Yes, you’re moving in the direction of generating revenue from corporations. But you’re not getting—or offering—the full experience.
Sponsorship Love in the Time of Coronavirus
Now is absolutely not the time for radio silence. You need to be communicating with your key audiences as personally as possible.
Your sponsors are chief among these audiences. Here’s what to do.
Channel Your #Sponsorship Conversation
Do you channel your business development conversations or amble about aimlessly?

Welcome to my blog SponsorshipStrategist.com!
My name is Gail Bower. I’m the founder and president of Bower & Co. Consulting LLC, a revenue strategy firm that guides nonprofits and associations to become self-sufficient by developing reliable sources of earned and non-dues revenue, including from corporate sponsorship.
Here I share thoughts, ideas, strategies, and perspective gained from my personal experience over 35 years buying, selling, and advising clients on how to improve their corporate sponsorship results.
If your sponsorship program needs a refresh—especially now in these uncertain times—you’re in the right place. I literally wrote the book. I’m the author of How to Jump-start Your Sponsorship Strategy in Tough Times, a guidebook for readers during the Great Recession crisis.
Dive in, poke around, and reach out if you have questions. I want you to become a Sponsorship Strategist, too.
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