I'm also curious to hear other space manager's perspectives on this. We started out with a few sponsors right out of the gate when we opened in June, under a "one-time only" availability, called the Founding Sponsor. These are companies we'd developed relationships with who wanted to support our vision from the get go. We have a special level of acknowledgement for them, the Wall of Fame, where they appear alongside a list of Founding Members. We asked for $500, and some gave that and others gave up to $1500. For those who gave more, we made up benefits as we went along, extra day passes, t-shirts (to be printed, of course), etc. This was not as well thought out as I would have liked, but it's what we did, and our sponsors seem happy with it. I think that's because we try to involved them as much as possible, offering a year of Basic membership with the sponsorship gave us the excuse to have them coworking with us occasionally and be involved with events.
One other sponsorship option we have is the "Internet Sugardaddy" - one of our member companies bought us 6 months of business class internet, they receive acknowledgement on our wifi login page and in a few other spots. So far, involvement has been our guiding principle. I'm in the middle of retooling our sponsorship options, so that's why this comment intrigued me. I'd like to continue the involvement aspect, but I feel like I'm looking for a more robust sponsorship options set, without going into the realm of plastering logos all over our space. Shenoa Lawrence Room to Think http://rm2think.com -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com
