Sponsor and PR DataBase Scrub
Steve Swazee
David B,
I spent yesterday updating the sponsorship database and then creating a hit list from it based on categories (attached). The hit list is intended to be used as a worksheet for follow-up email contact with potential sponsors, with significant changes posted to the online spreadsheet. To facilitate targeted pitches, there are four categories on the hit list:
1. Companies with speakers that are currently not sponsors. I need help here. Is it possible to get the speaker contact information for these companies so there is at least a starting point in finding the right person with sponsor purse strings in these companies?
2. Companies that sponsored FOSS4G Denver, but are currently not NA sponsors. Contact information for Digital Globe and Mapquest is needed. I’ll see if Libby can help with the contact information for these two.
3. Potential sponsors who have not been contacted. I’m not going to waste a lot of time here, since the priority in my mind are the companies in categories 1 and 2 (those two should be friendly territory that is mostly untapped). Anyway, I’ll also be bouncing these off Libby to see if she has leads.
4. Previously contacted, but have not yet committed to sponsorship. If you and David Fawcett could provide the contact information for Couchbase, Eclipse, and Nice Ride, that would be great.
The last three pages of the attachment are the email addresses that Blaine and I put together for general outreach to the quasi-public sector in the Mid-West region. My intent would be to send out a personal note from SharedGeo inviting the recipients attention to the existence of the event. That way if there is a bozo-dumb-dumb in the message, I get the black-eye and not FOSS4G-NA.
Anyway, any address help you can provide per items 1-4 above would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Steve
Stephen D. Swazee, Sr.
Executive Director
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