Sponsor Opportunities

Increase Your Company's Visibility With These Sponsorship Opportunities

With your marketing needs in mind, NCRA's Corporate Partners/Sponsorship Program has been designed to give your company the greatest exposure to court reporting and captioning professionals. In a recent report published by IEG, the premier sponsorship consultant, the top three goals of sponsors are:

• Creating awareness/visibility
• Increasing brand loyalty
• Changing/reinforcing image

This program can help you accomplish exactly that. It supports your advertising and marketing activities by increasing your company's visibility and commitment to the profession - with the ultimate goal of increasing your company's revenue and market share.

The demographics of the NCRA membership are ideal for a discriminating market of qualified buyers, decision makers and business owners.

• A total membership of 22,000 - including official reporters, freelance reporters, agency owners, real-time captioners, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) providers, instructors and students.

• 90 percent of the members are female. Among agency owners, 20 percent are male.
  
• California, Florida and Texas have the highest population of membership. 

Gold Level Sponsorships*

The Gold level of sponsorship shows that your company is the exclusive sponsor for a major function or program at an event. This results in a stronger message to a larger group with less competition. This level of sponsorship is geared to the company wanting stronger visibility, a demonstrated commitment to the profession and access to the purchasing power of the membership.

Blue Level Sponsorships*

Sponsors in the Blue category receive primary promotional visibility and a chance to demonstrate their support of the NCRA community and the court reporting profession.

Only one company may claim sponsorship for each opportunity.

* Not all benefits may apply to every sponsorable event. Please call for specific details.

Sponsorship Program Definitions and Benefits

	Gold Level	Blue Level
When applicable at major events that feature audio-visual set-up, your company will receive three (3) minutes of podium time for a sponsor representative to speak.
Your company will receive two complimentary registrations to the conference/convention (excludes Firm Owners Conference).
Your company will receive both pre- and post- attendee mailing lists.
Your company can promote your connection with the conference/convention for three months prior to and three months after the event.
Your company will have the use of the specially created "NCRA Event Sponsor" logo to use with your promotional materials.
Signage or a screen image will signify that the specific function has been brought to the attendees compliments of your company.
Company officials are able to meet and greet attendees of your function.
The final event program will indicate that the function is being delivered compliments of your company.
You may place your company's promo material on the chairs of the function area.
Your company's banner or signage may be hung in the function area. (Banner hanging fee may apply)
Your company's representatives will receive "Event Sponsor" badge ribbons to further identify your company's participation.
Your company will be identified as an official sponsor on all related event materials, on signage and on the NCRA website (with a hyperlink to your company's site).
Your company will receive special recognition in the JCR.
A prominently displayed sign thanking your company for sponsorship.
Your company's flyer (provided by sponsor) to be inserted with registration materials.

Additional Sponsor Information

• To receive the full benefit of each sponsorship package, plan to submit your sponsorship application at least three months prior to the scheduled event.

• Past sponsors are given first right of refusal for the same sponsorship opportunity the following year. All other sponsorships will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Event dates and details are tentative and subject to change.

• NCRA reserves the right to refuse sponsorship as it deems appropriate should there be a conflict of interest or in the best interests of the association.

For more information on any of these opportunities, please contact Marilyn Dent, 703-556-6272 or mdent@ncrahq.org.

 Last Updated: October 27, 2008