SwordStrong KC - Sponsorship profile | Sponsoo

Summary

Both seasoned and novice fighters have a space in this tournament, bringing fighters, speakers, experts, sponsors and vendors together.

Description

SwordStrong KC is the largest swordfighting tournament in the Kansas City and surrounding area. Attracting both athletes and spectators from all over the country and in the surrounding KC area (even some internationally), this tournament gets larger every year.  Celebrating the growing in popularity sport of HEMA (historical european martial arts), SwordStrong KC can help you reach an audience of excited, engaged and interested individuals.  This is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the sport in this area.

We'd Love to Help You Reach Your 2024 Goals: Your Audience Is Our Audience

Reach Thousands Through Our Social Media Presence on: Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, YouTube

And through our web traffic, organic media and paid media

Our Audience is Responsive and Poised to Receive Your Message.

For Example:

80% Open rate on emails alone

90% Would change a purchase based on Sponsorship

 

All Sponsors Receive the Following Benefits as a Starting Point:

Sampling rights with an activation space

Category exclusivity

Logo placements on assets including promotional material, website, staff clothing, entrance sign, field of play

Social media posts leading up to the event

 

Some of the Ways We Can Work Together

Branding and Naming Rights

Onsite Activations

Brand Recognition

Experiential Marketing

We want to hear about your goals and then build something just for you and your budget.

 

Example Activation Ideas:  Tournament sponsorship, event sponsorship, celebrity speaker sponsorship, trading card mingle sponsorship, award presentation and more….we can get creative to make sure your brand is top of mind throughout the entire event!

Our preferred sponsor

Our ideal sponsor is one that sees our audience as one that helps them achieve their goals while supporting a growing sport in a major metropolitan area.  A brand that enjoys fun and creativity in their marketing and isn't afraid to challenge the norm.

Athletic apparel, sports drinks and powders, health food stores, cologne brands, and more have an audience that we are also serving at this event.

Sponsorship Usage

Sponsorship usage would be towards the agreed upon activation(s), production of promotional materials, administrative fees and media.

Greatest successes

Our greatest success was with Digital Dragon Systems, LLC, a local SAAS provider at the 2023 tournament.  This brand enjoyed peak visibility in all social media, website, apparel, etc. and a 3:1 ROI for sponsoring the tournament.

Key figures for sponsors

This event will attract ~120 athletes in 2024, making it the largest event of it's kind in the area.

Our audience:

56% - 25 to 44 years of age

66% male

56% - Bachelors degree or above

54%enjoy a household income of $75,000 or above

59% own their own home

 

Our Social Media and Digital Presence:

Over 3000 Facebook followers

Over 300 Instagram followers

500 database members (organic)

Over 5300 website visits per year

A branded mobile app with over 150 active users

 

Media Partnerships:

Radio:  98.9 TheRock, Q104/Mix 93.3 460,600 impressions in 2024 (spots for SwordStrong KC 2024 have been aligned as well)

Billboards:  750,000 digital impressions in 2023

On-Site radio broadcast from Q104/Mix 93.3 on the Saturday of the 2024 SwordStrong KC tournament

Access to a database of 40,000 database members for email blasts with a 18.40% view percentage and 7,358 views on average

 

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