Sponsorship Opportunities
Boast your brand through the Bayside Business Network
The Bayside Business Network (BBN) is a platform to showcase
excellence in business, innovation and entrepreneurship. The
Network facilitates exceptional business savvy networking through a
range of events, of which you can be part of.
Bayside City Council invites you to join BBN as a sponsor and
promote your brand at more than forty Bayside Business Network
events throughout 2010 and be exposed through the marketing of the
network to its extensive database of businesses.
Bayside City Council launched the BBN in 2004 to recognise and
embrace marketing and promotion through networking. Our goal is to
draw attention to the outstanding examples of business education,
research and innovation across Bayside and to assist businesses to
progress.
Sponsorship Opportunities
As a sponsor of the Bayside Business Network you can:
- Contribute to networking initiatives that impact on the local
business community.
- Assist in promoting Bayside’s business strengths and successful
partnerships between government and the business industry.
- Have the opportunity to market your company alongside other
successful Bayside innovators and entrepreneurs
- Improve collaborations between Council, industry and the local
business community.
A wide range of partnering and sponsorship arrangements are
available, all of which can be tailored to suit the requirement of
individual organisations. Packages are flexibly structured to
encourage any sized business to take up the offer.
Please contact Robert Wolff, Economic Development Officer on
9599 4458 for further sponsorship information.
About the Bayside Business Network Events and Marketing
The Bayside Business Network offers an exceptional program of
annual events that create attention and discussion on a range of
current business issues from events and seminars to supported rapid
response advertising and building customer relationships /
marketing through the web.
2010 BBN program of events
Business Breakfast Series - three events in March, June
and September
- The Breakfast Business Series presents high profile speakers
and attracts a broad spectrum of businesses with an average of up
to 400 attendees.
Women’s Network Luncheons – three events per year in
April, July and October
- 220 professionals from a diverse demographic attend these
functions that are continually increasing in popularity each year
with registrations growing rapidly. All luncheons in 2009 were sold
out prior to the event.
Bayside Business Seminar Series –18 events (two per month
from March to November)
- 40 -60 professionals attend each seminar gaining an insight
into the latest in business thinking delivered by active BBN
members.
Networking Evenings – nine informal events held monthly
from March to November
- 40 to 50 like-minded local business people meet with other BBN
members and network with the local business community in a relaxed
setting.
- Sponsors are welcome to forward proposals to host an industry
specific network event. In 2009 several of these were conducted and
were very successful.
Website – 22,000 hits per month on www.baysidebusiness.com.au
- Your sponsorship will allow you to cross promote – directing
users back to your site via the click of a button from the Bayside
Business Network website
Email blasts – Thousands of direct emails to members and
non members.
- BBN sponsors are listed on a sponsor’s recognition banner that
is attached on all electronic and printed communications which are
distributed on at least a fortnightly basis to a vast
database.
Local newspaper advertising – minimum 20 advertisements
per year
- The BBN communications campaign includes a minimum of 20 half
or full page local newspaper advertisements in Melbourne Weekly
Bayside with readership of 73,000. Other Fairfax papers such as
Melbourne Weekly and the Emerald Hill Times often publish BBN
advertisements.
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