Davenport East Little League: Become a Sponsor

DEast Sponsorship: More than just anice thing to do

DavenportEast Little League is currently soliciting team sponsors for the 2009 season.But if you think “sponsorship” is a glorified word for “donation”, think again. Many local businesses have realized the business enhancement benefits ofsponsoring a Davenport East Little League team in past years. And 2009 promisesto have even more opportunities for exposure for those local area businesseswho say “yes” to Davenport East.

Here is whatyou get when you sponsor a team.

1.    UNIFORM HATS: Your business logo printed on the12 or 13 hats of the team you sponsor and the golf shirts of the three primarycoaches of that team. Many players and coaches wear these hats or shirtsoutside of games or even after the end of the season.

2.     EXPOSURE:If each player has at least two fans, that means at least 36 people with yourbusiness name on their lips and minds for the entire baseball season. Inaddition, opposing teams will associate your business with each game, which bringsyour exposure to 288 (36x8) for a Minors baseball team, 216 (36x6) for a Majorsbaseball team and comparable numbers for a coach pitch or softball team.

3.    ADVERTISEMENT: While the players and coaches serveas walking advertisements for your business, your business will be featured inother materials as well.

a.    INTERNET: Davenport East Little League has itsown unique web site address www.davenporteastll.com.On this site, we will feature your business logo with link (if applicable) allduring the preseason through the end of All-Stars. Our site gets thousands ofhits each season from players and fans looking for scores, standings and othernews. We will have a featured vendor at various times of the year and would beglad to work with you with the creation of reasonable promotional messages onour Sponsors page and other high-traffic pages.

b.    ROSTER BOOK: After not producing a roster book in2008, we will be revisiting this practice in 2009. We will have the logos and abrief description of the business of all of our sponsors in this year’s book,which will be distributed to players and fans alike at all games.

4.     GOODWILL: Many advertisers have found a great deal of benefit from the goodwill created by sponsoring a team. Players and fans become very loyal to theirteams and in turn their sponsors. They’re quick to refer their business andreferral business to their sponsor or other sponsors.

5.    COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Nothing beats the image of smilingkids in baseball or softball uniforms lined up with pride for their teampicture. Your sponsorship will be rewarded with an image of your team in apersonalized display case that can be displayed in your place of business.

Whether you’re a new business or an established business, you can take advantage ofthese and other benefits of sponsorship for Davenport East. The price is just$450 per year.  If you don’t wantto sponsor a team, we also have other options for you to get involved, such assponsoring an outfield sign. If you’re interested in these opportunities orwould like more information, feel free to contact DEast President Greg Redigerat 940-5050.

Click on the link below for a one-page handout of this information.