Information For Potential Sponsors

The Schmooze network offers a wide range of targeted marketing and promotional opportunities. With its three branches of activities (Professional, Social and Young Professional) and several events each month throughout the year venues, services and organisations have the opportunity to engage with their target audience.

Our membership is currently about 350 (as of 30 August 2008) and we gain about 7 members a week with a renewal rate of about 50%. The majority of our members are established professionals over 30 to 50 across a wide range of sectors.

In addition, the website enjoys a 20% growth per month of unique visits (some 350 in August 2008) offering additional profile and the mailing list has some 1500+ direct recipients representing the ACT regions leading companies and government departments.

Some of the options include:

• sponsoring or hosting a Monthly Schmooze- the flagship networking event each month (there is one each for Profesionals and for Young Professionals)
• sponsoring or hosting boutique networking events such as networking dinners or invitation only boardroom lunches
• providing in-kind or cash support to the network as a whole or one of the branches
• participating in the Schmooze Lifestyle Series which provide social opportunities to members
• offering special offers or ongoing benefits to Schmooze members

Our approach is to provide a collaborative and targeting means for our members to enjoy the best events, services and venues the region has to offer and avoid a hard-sell approach.

To get a sense of some of the organisations we worked with in 2007, please see this page, and for a list of recently joined members see here.

We aim for a sophisticated and personalised approach that respects the intelligence and taste of our membership, and to ensure our sponsors receive the recognition and support they deserve. Its a policy that we only use member venues and services for our activities, so we would expect that any sponsor would join the network (which is itself a superb way to source hundreds of new contacts and raise your professional profile)

For a confidential discussion about sponsorship possibilities the Schmooze Network can offer, please contact Phillip Jones.

Finally, we are intending to expand the network's activities to other places in Australia, so if you are outside Canberra, then we would be interested in also hearing from you.