Meet Ken Ungar, President & Founder of the sponsorship consulting agency Charge. 

Ken believes that the essence of a successful sponsorship is a truly genuine relationship, and he’d be the ideal guest to share his insight into how your listeners can best choose corporate sponsors that will elevate their nonprofits!

Ken came into sponsorship consulting completely by accident. His unique career path brought him from lawyer to government official and from league representative and events promoter to business leader at the highest levels in professional sports. Through this experience, Ken came to understand the power that truly great sponsorships have to form strong mutually beneficial relationships. Through his work with Charge, Ken has had the opportunity to collaborate with corporations like Honda, Coca-Cola, and Disney, as well as more than fifty professional athletes in the NFL, NASCAR, and IndyCar. He is the author of Sponsorship Strategy: Practical Approaches to Powerful Sponsorships.

ABOUT CHARGE:
As the leading source of sponsorship advice for brands and properties, we will help you achieve your best results.

Our mission is to help clients unlock the power of sponsorship to enhance their brands and grow their business.

BUY THE BOOK:
From neighborhood youth sports to major festivals to the Olympic Games, sponsorship is big business, generating an estimated $62 billion worldwide. It is now one of the most valuable tools to enhance a brand’s image and promote sales. However, “strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory,” and organizations risk wasting valuable resources without the right approach.

Combining decades of sponsorship experience with the insights of industry insiders, Ken Ungar, president and founder of CHARGE, developed Sponsorship Strategy: Practical Approaches to Powerful Sponsorships as a resource for anyone wanting to up their sponsorship game. This book blends research-based strategies with real-world experiences to help sports organizations, nonprofits, and corporate brands achieve the best results.

Sponsorship Strategy offers straightforward advice, including how to:

Identify the shared target audience for sponsorshipEvaluate the potential impact of a sponsorship propertyLeverage the “superpower” of image transferEmploy B2B sponsorships, corporate social responsibility, and the first-mover advantage

It provides the reader with a strategic toolbox to improve sponsorship’s return-on-investment.

For the professional starting out in sponsorship, this book teaches the fundamentals of effective strategy. For the sponsorship veteran, Sponsorship Strategy offers a checklist of issues vital to making every sponsorship work better. Every marketer who wants powerful sponsorships needs to read this book.

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