Arizona Busness Magazine - MPI Supplement Advertising
The Arizona Sunbelt Chapter of MPI is proud to partner with Arizona Business Magazine for the 19th year in a row. Arizona Business Magazine will publish a special supplement within its September/October 2011 issue dedicated to MPI.
This year Arizona Business Magazine is adding a web component to advertise on their new Website AZ NOW.BIZ! If you secure your insertion before the end of May they will BONUS your business a Web Ad for the two months at no extra charge ($960 Value). We need your advertising support to continue to receive this valuable marketing and membership tool.
We encourage your support of this special feature in any way that you can. This is a great opportunity to create exposure for your business while showing your support of MPI and the event planning community as a whole. To learn more and to sign-up today, please click here or contact Cathy Vix at Cathy.Vix@azbigmedia.com.
Website Advertising
The AZMPI.org Web site is one of our chapter's most important portals for sharing information. Learn about the numerous opportunities to advantage of staying connected with members of our industry. Sign up today to gain exposure to over 500 MPI members, as well as over 1,000 monthly targeted visitors to our Web site. Our site also has a link from MPI's International site www.mpiweb.org providing additional exposure to more than 85,000 visitors monthly.
Click here for our website advertising rates.
For more information, contact our website sales agent, Nick Manis at nmanis@naylor.com.
CVENT Advertising
AZMPI reaches over 1,200 meeting professionals monthly through our monthly programs, special events, surveys, and eMarketing campaigns. Utilizing CVENT as our online event registration software, we are able to give our members a way to sell and market their services via this technology medium. Our members receive roughly 195 emails annually. Our chapter creates 15 event websites, 4 quarterly publications, 2 chapter surveys, and 42 eMarketing campaigns annually. Our events are forwarded about 45,120 times a year. Don't let another day go by, without taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity to expose your services via our CVENT technology medium. To learn more and to sign-up today, please click here.
Membership Directory
The chapter directory, published in September of each year, has a circulation of over 500. This publication opens the door to premier industry resources and connection with valuable customers. The directory is a time-saving tool, linking members to the very best of industry colleagues, including meeting and event management professionals, suppliers and vendors.
For more information on advertising in our directory and on our website, click here.
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Program/Event Sponsorship Opportunities
$1,500.00 for regular monthly educational meetings
$2,000.00 for special Events
(June Annual Awards Gala and December Holiday Party)
Our chapter offers CVBs, National Hotel Sales Offices and other vendors the opportunity to sponsor an Arizona Sunbelt Chapter meeting or event.
Exposure and that is exactly what you receive when you sponsor one of our Monthly Meetings or Special Events! Our chapter holds monthly meetings in the Phoenix Metropolitan area.
These meetings provide outstanding educational and networking opportunities for planners and suppliers. Over the course of a year, we have approximately nine meetings generally held on the second Thursday of the month.
Purpose and Impact of Partnership: Patterned after similar, successful programs in other chapters, the Arizona Sunbelt Chapter is actively soliciting potential CVB's, National Hotel Sales Offices and other vendors who are interested in receiving exposure to 150 meeting planners in the state of Arizona. We are encouraging the local CVB/National Sales Offices to gather support from representatives of their featured venues to share in the cost of the partnership and directly participate in the event. Ultimately, we aim to be able to bring your representatives face to face with planners in an interactive environment where they may see all the benefits of placing business in your locale or properties.
Benefits: The goal of each partnership is to provide you the maximum amount of exposure possible to later translate into business and sales opportunities. The benefits offered to monthly meeting sponsors include:
- Sponsor name(s) and/or logo(s) included on all marketing for the event:
- Meeting flyer
- E-Newsletter
- Press Releases
- Signage
- Program
- Opportunity to set up a display with materials from the sponsoring venues(s) or destination(s) in the space reserved for event registration and networking reception. Planners can interact with representatives from these venues or destinations on a one-on-one basis to pick up information.
- Ten minutes at the lectern dedicated to your organization.
- Member mailing labels (for follow up with attending members)
- Opportunity to decorate tables at the event or place collateral at place settings
- Exposure on the MPI Arizona Sunbelt Chapter website
- Up to four registrations for the sponsored event.
2011/2012 months are booking quickly! Please contact Penny Allphin at pallphin@destinationhotels.com to reserve your partnership month. We look forward to learning more about what your organization has to offer our members!
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Additional Sponsorship Opportunities in Cash Donations or In-Kind
| Bowling Tournament | $550.00 Event Sponsor |
| Networking Reception | $1,050.00 (1) Event Sponsor |
| Décor | $1,000.00 (1) Special Events |
| Décor | $500.00 (1) Monthly Meeting |
| Membership List | $75.00 Members (1) Time
$300.00 Non Members (1) Time |
| Trade Show Bags | $350.00 (1) Buy MPI Tradeshow |
| Photography | $500.00 (1) Monthly/Special Event |
| Speaker & Property Gifts | $ 700.00 (9) Events |
| Speaker | $1,500.00 (1) Monthly Meeting |
| Mini Tradeshow/Monthly Meetings | $100.00 Members, (1) Monthly Meeting
$200.00 Non-Members/ $30. additional person in booth |
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Raffle Prize Donations
The Arizona Sunbelt Chapter of Meeting Professionals International offers sponsorship opportunities to capitalize on your membership! The Raffle/Sponsorship Committee collects raffle prizes to be used at:
"Fun"draising at Monthly Meetings and Special Events though out the Year.
What does this mean for you and your organization? EXPOSURE! OPPORTUNITY! What does this mean for our chapter? The ability to continue offering first-class educational functions, networking opportunities, and additional benefits. It is the hope of the committee to obtain enough contributions at the beginning of the year to accommodate all event needs. We want to eliminate going to our members over and over again, so please dig deeply.
All donations will be announced prior to and during the event, and signage will list sponsors for each meeting. In addition, the MPI newsletter dedicates a section listing the generous donations of each sponsor.
On behalf of MPI, thank you in advance for you generosity. Please click here for a raffle sponsor form. The majority of our donations come from suppliers. As planners, please give serious consideration to anything you may be able to offer. Perhaps your organization is in a position to buy or sponsor something, or maybe you even have some leftover amenities or apparel items. The strong partnership between planners and suppliers is what has made our chapter so successful please complete form and return to Penny Allphin at pallphin@destinationhotels.com.
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Membership List "Rental"
Membership Mailing Label Rental is $75.00 for MPI members and $300.00 for non-members. These labels are for a one-time use. To order, contact Joanne Winter at jojowin@aol.com or click here for order form.
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Monthly Mini-Tradeshow
Mini-Tradeshow Booths are available at each monthly meeting. The cost is $100.00 for members and $200.00 for non-members. One meal is included in tradeshow fee. For additional participants, there will be an additional charge of $30 per person.
Benefits Include:
- Includes Scavenger Hunt to increase member visitation of booths
- Tabletop sponsors will offer a raffle prize for program
- Raffle drawing for those that complete the scavenger hunt - helps increase visitation of booths and more recognition for booth
- "Most Creative Booth" contest ~ the attendees will vote at each meeting or via the survey. The winner will have their picture on Website & MPI Facebook page.
- Prize at Gala for the Most Creative Booth of the Year
- Additional Offer: Buy 4 months get 1 complimentary
To register online, click here. For a mailable/faxable tradeshow registration form, click here. For more information, contact Joanne Winter, 602-277-1494 or jojowin@aol.com.
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